• CERAWEEK
  • March 10 - 14, 2025

Daniel González

YPF

Chief Executive Officer

Daniel Gonzalez was appointed Chief Executive Officer at YPF, Argentina’s leading energy company, in April 2018. Prior to his appointment as CEO, he was the Chief Financial Officer at YPF for six years, responsible for finance, accounting, tax, planning, risk management, and investor relations. He also served on the company’s Board of Directors from 2014 to 2016. He was President of AESA, an engineering, construction, and oil services company controlled by YPF. Before joining YPF, Mr. Gonzalez served for 14 years in the investment bank Merrill Lynch & Co. in Buenos Aires and New York, holding positions of Head of Mergers and Acquisitions for Latin America and President for the Southern Cone (Argentina, Chile, Peru, and Uruguay) among others. While at Merrill Lynch, Mr. Gonzalez played a leading role in several of the most important investment banking transactions in the region and was an active member of the firm’s global fairness opinion committee. Previously, he was Head of Financial Planning and Investor Relations in Transportadora de Gas del Sur S.A. He currently serves at the Board of Adecoagro S.A., one of the region’s largest agribusiness companies. Mr. Gonzalez holds a degree in business administration from the Argentine Catholic University.

Sessions With Daniel González

Tuesday, 10 March

  • 03:00pm - 03:45pm (CST) / -

    Plenary - Competitive Sources of Supply

    Upstream Oil & Gas

    The future for global crude oil supply faces the most challenges and uncertainty since the mid-1980s. Competitive oil and gas supplies are influenced by volume, quality, and cost of supply of remaining resources; investment behavior; and concerns about demand destruction or “peak oil” in a policy environment focused on promoting renewable technologies. In a lower oil or gas demand scenario, not all “barrels” will attract investment or find a market. The most competitive “barrels” will be those that offer the lowest cost, lowest emission, shortest cycle time, and most capital commitment flexibility. What other factors will influence supply competitiveness? Are there enough competitive E&P industry investment opportunities? Will the focus on project design, applications of digital and other technologies, efficiencies in the supply chain, and concentrated portfolios create more competitive supply?