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

Rick Klop

VARO Energy Group

EVP and Chief Operating Officer, Markets and Commercial

Rick Klop joined VARO in 2015 as part of the merger with Argos, where he had been on the Board of Directors since 2009. Rick brings 17 years of experience in the mid- and downstream oil business, where he has held different leading and directing roles in Supply Trading & Bunkering, Strategy & Investments and Finance (CFO). His main areas of expertise are within oil, trading, commodities, oil logistics, oil marketing, retail, M&A, finance, risk management and general management. After his role as Country Manager, where Rick was leading VARO’s activities in Benelux and France, as well as looking after the Retail Strategy for the Group, he took on the role as Chief Financial Officer in June 2020. In this role he oversaw the company's financial operations. As of December 2023, Rick has been appointed EVP and Chief Operating Officer, Markets and Commercial, where he continues to drive the company's growth and operational excellence in its commercial activities.

Sessions With Rick Klop

Tuesday, 19 March

  • 07:15am - 08:20am (CST) / 19/mar/2024 12:15 pm - 19/mar/2024 01:20 pm

    “Seed to Pump”: The new business of biofuels
    Agribusiness & Biofuels

    The biofuels business is on the cusp of a potential boom. Integrated oil and refining companies have embraced biofuels as an investable low-carbon solution to serve hard-to-decarbonize sectors including aviation and heavy transport. These suppliers, spurred by policy incentives, have ambitious growth objectives—but scaling up the right feedstocks remains a challenge. Airlines and other large consumers are also transforming the demand profile with emissions targets based around biofuels commitments. The changing competitive landscape and economies of scale are driving integration from seeds to the end-user of liquid fuels. But how fast, in which markets and at what scale?