• CERAWEEK 2025 | March 10-14, 2025
  • CERAWEEK
  • March 10 - 14, 2025

Theo Pannekeet

VARO Energy Group

EVP New Energies & Innovation

Since the merger of VARO Energy and Argos in 2015 Theo Pannekeet has been Product Trading director and in 2018 switched over to lead the Renewables activities of the group. He started working in the oil business in 1998, initially at Petroplus Tankstorage and later on for physical oil broker company Starsupply. In the role of Product trader Theo joined Van der Sluijs, a precursor company of VARO, in 2008, which after several mergers (North Sea Group and Argos) became VARO Energy. As from 2014 he changed his role as Product trader for a position in the Management Team to lead the Wholesale, Product Trading, Biofuels and Logistic activities/teams of Argos in the Benelux, Germany and France. His background of exposure management, (international) oil market expertise and renewables, linked to his extensive knowledge of several other key business areas/assets make him a major contributor to the success of VARO Energy.

Sessions With Theo Pannekeet

Wednesday, 20 March

  • 12:30pm - 01:00pm (CST) / 20/mar/2024 05:30 pm - 20/mar/2024 06:00 pm

    Scaling Agricultural Waste and Biomass to Fuel Businesses
    Agribusiness & Biofuels

    Waste-to-fuel solutions, such as using agricultural and other biomass waste to generate renewable natural gas, offer great potential to reduce the carbon footprint in the agriculture sector and reduce methane emissions. However, these solutions globally would require plants to be dispersed across many locations, often at small scale. What learnings from waste-to-energy projects to date inform a roadmap to scaling these solutions? What are the business drivers that make these solutions attractive and widely scalable?