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Ref. Ares(2018)857400 - 14/02/2018
 
 
 
 
Commissioner Carlos Moedas 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
Meeting with Mr Gomes da Silva,  
Executive President of Galp Energia 
 
 
BERL 09/099 
Thursday, 17/09/2015 
17:00 - 17:30 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Main contact person: 
,  Cabinet Member: CARVALHO Maria Da 
 
, RTD-G.2, CDMA 
 
Graca 
 
 
Contributor(s):  
RTD colleague at meeting: Name,  , RTD-
,   
, RTD-G.1,  unit, office 
CDMA 
 
Back up (in case of absence): 
 
,   
, RTD-G.2, CDMA 
 
 
 
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TABLE OF CONTENTS 
 
 
KEY 
MESSAGES 
AND 
FIGURES 
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1. 
STEERING 
BRIEF 
 
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1.1 
Scene 
setter         Page 
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1.2 
Objectives 
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1.3 
Line 
to 
take         Page 
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2. SPEAKING POINTS 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Page No 5 
 
3. DEFENSIVE POINTS 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Page No 8 
 
4. 
CURRICULUM 
VITAE 
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5. 
BACKGROUND 
INFORMATION 
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No 
10 
 
5.1 
Galp 
Energia's 
activities 
in 
energy      Page 
No 
10 
 
5.2 
KIC 
InnoEnergy 
        Page 
No 
10 
 
5.3 Galp Energia's innovation, research and technological development activities  Page No 11 
 
6. 
FACTS 
AND 
FIGURES 
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No 
12 
 
6.1 Galp Energia's participation in FP7 and Horizon 2020   
 
 
Page No 12 
 
6.2 
Galp 
Energia 
facts 
and 
figures 
      Page 
No 
12 
 
7. 
SOCIAL 
MEDIA 
 
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No 
13 
 
8. 

ANNEX 
 
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No 
14 
 
Company Profile (PDF) 
 
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KEY MESSAGES 
•  Horizon 2020 does not support 'classical' oil and gas R&I (on exploration 
and production). Our only involvement in this field is addressing the 
environmental aspects of unconventional hydrocarbons development (i.e. 
shale gas).  
•  Our main focus in the fossil fuel areas remains Carbon Capture and 
Storage (CCS). Galp Energia, with their strong subsurface expertise, is 
well-placed to contribute to R&I under Horizon 2020. 
•  In addition, the involvement of Galp Energia in renewables (biofuels, 
wind, solar) is very relevant to the objectives of the Energy Union and the 
new SET Plan. 
•  Galp Energia is encouraged to contribute to the implementation of the 
new SET Plan, through normal Calls for Proposals and through their 
involvement in KIC Innoenergy. 
 
 
 
 
KEY FIGURES 

FP7 
Horizon 2020 
Total number of participations 
3 - 
 
Total number of signed grant 3 - 
agreements 
ERC – Number of grantees 
 
 
 
Marie Sklodowska-Curie  – 
 
 
Number of grantees 
 
EU total financial contribution to  EUR 251,721 
-  
participation 
 
 
 
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1. STEERING BRIEF 
 
1.1 Scene setter 
 
You will be meeting Mr. Carlos Gomes da Silva, Executive President of Galp Energia, in 
your office on 17/09/2015 from 17:00 to 17:30 at his request. The purpose of the meeting is to 
discuss R&I activities in the area of oil and gas and how Horizon 2020 covers these areas, and 
KIC Innoenergy in which Galp is a participant. 
 
 
1.2 Objectives 
1.  Clarify our R&I activities in the field of fossil fuels. 
2.   Inform GALP Energia about the newly launched SET Plan Communication. 
3.  To confirm Galp Energia's commitment to cooperate in the context of the updated 
SET Plan including their participation in KIC Innoenergy. 
 
 
1.3 Line to take 
Explain the history and rationale of the (limited) activities we have in the field of fossil fuels. 
 
Clarify the SET Plan objectives in the context of the Energy Union, in particular those 
supporting to become 'No1 in renewables'. 
 
Enquire about Galp Energia's R&I activities in the SET Plan priority areas, and seek their 
commitment to the new SET Plan's objectives and priorities.  
 
Explain the role KIC InnoEnergy has in the SET Plan process, including on R&I priority 
setting, bringing innovation to the market, development and implementation of Inducement 
Prizes for Energy, Education and Training activities. 
 
Invite Galp Energia to take part in the forthcoming debates on the SET Plan. 
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2. SPEAKING POINTS 
 
 
On Research & Innovation in the area of fossil fuels: 

•  Explain that EU funding for fossil fuels has decreased steadily throughout 
different Framework Programmes (from 38% of the energy research 
budget in FP2 to 0% in FP6) as a result of changing political agendas: 
o  FP4 supported the development of technologies for hydrocarbons 
exploration and production to ensure security of supply
o  In FP5 and FP6, the objective for fossil fuels R&D was to comply 
with the Kyoto Protocol on the reduction of greenhouse gases
o  Under FP6 and FP7, the focus was exclusively on Carbon Capture 
and Storage (CCS)
•  Explain that Horizon 2020 still has a focus on CCS (and CO2 re-use, 
CCU), but also includes R&I on flexible conventional thermal power 
plants and unconventional hydrocarbons (in particular shale gas and oil). 
•  Stress that for unconventional hydrocarbons (UH), we do not support 
technology development, but only address the possible environmental 
aspects of UH development.  
On the role that Galp Energia can play in European collaborative R&I: 
•  Explain that the Energy Union is a top priority for President Juncker and 
that R&I is a crucial dimension of this strategy.  
•  Define the 4 core priorities - renewables, consumer, energy efficiency, 
and transport. On top of these, 2 research priorities - CCS and nuclear – 
could be added.  
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•  Acknowledge that Galp Energia's expertise could contribute to these 
priorities, in particular in the field of biofuels and CCS.  
•  Explore Galp Energia's current interest in R&I in the field of CCS and 
renewable energy technologies. 
On the new SET Plan: 
•  Inform Mr. Gomes da Silva that the Integrated SET Plan Communication 
was adopted by the College on 15 September. It is the first R&I 
deliverable under the Energy Union. 
•  Inform that ad hoc thematic discussions on the new SET Plan are to be 
organised very soon with industry and research stakeholders in order to 
develop specific targets and programmes at European and national level. 
•  Seek Mr. Gomes da Silva's view on how Galp Energia can contribute to 
the implementation of the new SET Plan, both in terms of sustainability 
and of boosting innovation. 
•  Inform that the new Integrated SET-Plan will be presented next week in 
Luxembourg in a conference, and invite Galp Energia to take part in the 
debate and provide critical and constructive comments. 
On KIC Innoenergy: 
•  Acknowledge that KIC InnoEnergy can contribute in the advancement of 
the SET Plan through services which support the uptake of new solutions 
and enable further investments in the sector, and education and training. 
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•  Acknowledge that KIC InnoEnergy plays an important role by selecting 
promising scientific developments from the research community and 
channelling them to industrial players, thus facilitating their market 
uptake.  
•  Highlight that in the new SET Plan Communication, we go a step further, 
proposing a closer engagement of KIC InnoEnergy with the SET Plan 
Community, to identify innovative projects and bring them to the 
attention of investors or companies that can turn these innovations into 
successful businesses. 
 
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3. DEFENSIVE POINTS 
 
Horizon 2020 does not support any activities in oil and gas, but we will use these energy 
sources for decades to come. Will this be considered in future calls?  
 
EU funded research in the field of oil and gas was supported in earlier Framework Programmes, when 
energy security of supply after the oil crisis was a key political priority. In FP5, as environmental 
stewardship became more and more important as a driver for energy research, our activities in oil and 
gas were limited to technologies to reduce the environmental impact of oil and gas development. In 
FP6, oil and gas R&D was excluded completely, and both FP6 and FP7 focused on CCS instead. 
 
Horizon 2020 includes again a link to fossil fuel exploration and production, but only in the sense that 
the environmental aspects of unconventional hydrocarbons (mainly shale gas and shale oil) can now 
be addressed; For anything else, we do not have a mandate from either the European parliament or 
other Commission services (in particular DG ENER, ENV and CLIMA). 
 
Since the oil and gas industry is a mature industry with a lot of revenues, the actual technology 
development (bot for conventional and unconventional hydrocarbons) is left to the industry. 
 
 
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4. CURRICULUM VITAE 
 
 
Carlos Gomes da Silva  
Chief executive officer (CEO) 
 
 
 

 
 
 
Carlos Gomes da Silva is a professional with 27 years of experience in different industries, in 
particular oil & gas, energy and beverages. Carlos Gomes holds a Degree in Electrical 
Engineering and Computer Science by FEUP at the Oporto University and an MBA by 
ESADE / IEP (Barcelona). With more than 20 years in the oil & gas industry, he joined Galp 
Energia / Petrogal early in the 90’s, where he played several managerial roles leading refining 
operations, supply and trading, planning & control and strategy. From 2001 and during 6 
years he served in the beverages industry (at Unicer, a Carlsberg Group company) as Head of 
M&A and Strategy and subsequently as Chief Operating Officer (for the supply chain, retail 
and human resources). He returned to the Oil & Gas industry in 2007 to serve as Board 
Member in Galp Energia, undertaking several executive roles since 2008 as Chief Operating 
Officer, namely for Marketing Oil, Gas & Power, Trading Oil & Gas and corporate divisions 
(Procurement, Marketing, Human Resources, Legal, Corporate Governance and Compliance).  
 
 
 
 
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5. BACKGROUND INFORMATION 
 
 
5.1 Galp Energia's activities in energy  
Galp Energia is present throughout the entire biofuels value chain, operating both in upstream 
and downstream biofuel activities.  
At the upstream level, the Company has a palm oil plantation project in Brazil, and should 
start producing from 2017 onwards. At the downstream level, there is a unit producing 
second-generation biofuel in Portugal, with an installed capacity of 27 mton of biofuel per 
year, dedicated to transforming waste oils and waste animal fats into biodiesel. In addition, 
engineering and logistics studies are being carried out to build production plants for 
hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO). 
With regard to wind power generation, Galp Energia currently has an operational wind farm 
with an installed capacity of 12 MW, which produced 36 GWh in 2014. Four additional wind 
farms are also under construction and will have an installed capacity of 171.6 MW. 
With regard to solar power generation, Galp Energia is developing several projects in 
Portugal to promote greater energy efficiency with its clients and business partners. 
5.2 KIC InnoEnergy 
KIC InnoEnergy was established under the EIT in 2009 as the Knowledge and Innovation 
Community in the field of energy. It is run as a commercial company, incorporated as 
Societas Europea with headquarters in the Netherlands, with 27 shareholders and additional 
200 partners - companies, research institutes, universities and business schools covering the 
whole energy mix. KIC InnoEnergy's partners are organised around six regional units, the Co-
Location Centres.  
Galp Energia is member of the Spanish center of operations, known as Co-Location Center 
Iberia, which is based in Barcelona. The Center brings together Spanish and Portuguese 
partners and coordinates all the InnoEnergy projects that focus on renewable energies (wind, 
solar photovoltaic, solar thermal, and marine energy). It also coordinates a large-scale project 
on industrial energy efficiency. 
KIC InnoEnergy refers strongly to the SET Plan as its overarching strategy. It has been 
involved through its experts in the development of a number of activities under the SET Plan: 
a)  SET Plan Education and Training Roadmap 
KIC InnoEnergy was part of the core group that contributed to the development of the SET 
Plan Education and Training Roadmap document in 2012-2013. 
b)  Implementation strategy for the Materials Roadmap Enabling Low-Carbon Energy 
Technologies (SET Plan) 
KIC InnoEnergy contributed to the development of a Strategy Paper identifying the best 
options to implement the SET Plan Materials Roadmap.  
c)  SET Plan Integrated Roadmap 
KIC InnoEnergy contributed to the development of the strategic document 'Towards an 
Integrated Roadmap1. 
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d)  Inducement Prizes for Energy 
KIC InnoEnergy contributes to the development and implementation of the Inducement Prizes 
for Energy under Horizon 2020. 
5.3 Galp Energia's innovation, research and technological development activities 
•  What Galp has already done: 
Created innovative projects for Galp Energia, for their clients and with their other business 
partners: refining (Ginseng project); E&P (seismic imaging); clients (SMART Galp); other 
business partners (COMET programme).  
Established R&D partnerships with the technological and scientific community: creating the 
Institute of Oil and Gas (ISPG); Doctorate and Master’s in Oil Engineering (ISPG & UHW); 
Galp 20-20-20; Fuels R&D Unit (partnership with the University of Coimbra); EngIQ 
business doctorate programme; Galp Innovation network. 
•  What Galp plans to do (2015-2020): 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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6. FACTS AND FIGURES 
 
6.1 Galp Energia's participation in FP7 and Horizon 2020 

Galp Energia participated in COMET, an FP7 project aimed at identifying a CO2 transport 
and storage infrastructure serving the West Mediterranean area, namely Portugal, Spain and 
Morocco 
 
 
6.2  Galp Energia facts and figure 
 
See Company Profile in Annex 
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7. SOCIAL MEDIA 
 
Galp Energia  is present in the following social media: 
 
TWITTER:  https://twitter.com/galpenergia  
Only one tweet from 2009. 
 
LINKEDIN: https://www.linkedin.com/company/galp-energia 
Company information, achievements and recruitment opportunities in English and 
Portuguese. 
 
FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/galp-energia-243723985665494/timeline/  
Facebook page with a focus on the Galp racing team, with lots if pictures but very little 
information. 
 
YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/user/COSTOffice 
The Galp Youtube site is well populated with short videos on exploration & production, 
corporate profile and on natural gas & electricity for consumers.  
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8. Annex:  
 
Company Profile (PDF) 
Galp Energia is an energy company – their activities span from exploration and production of oil and natural gas 
to refining and marketing oil products, natural gas marketing and sales and power generation. 
 
Market capitalisation:     €6,991 million 
Turnover:     
 €17,904 million 
Net profit RCA:     
 €373 million 
Number of employees:    6,855 
Active presence in:   
 14 countries 
Reserves 3P:  
 833 mmboe 
Average working 
30.5 kboepd 
interest production: 
Refineries:  
 
Service stations: 
 1,449 
Sales of natural gas:  
 7,472 mm³  
   
data from the end of 2014  
Business segments 
 
 
 
 
 
> Around 45 projects in portfolio 
> 1,449 service stations 
> 7,472 mm³ sales of natural gas 
 
 
Galp Energia's activity is growing 
The main activities of this business 
We process oil into refined oil 
fast, especially in Brazil, Angola and 
segment are import, distribution and 
products, mainly marketed by our 
Mozambique with the recent 
 
sale of natural gas and production of 
own network in Portugal and Spain;    
discoveries;  
electricity;  
Production of oil is concentrated in 
Natural gas is sold in Portugal and 
Angola and in Brazil, with a WI 
We are the only refining company in 
Spain to around 1.3 million 
production of 30.5 kboepd in 2014; 
Portugal, and we currently have a 
customers; 
  refining capacity of 330 kbopd; 
 
  
  
At the end of 2014, 3P 
We plan to exploit current 
Refined products are primarily 
reserves NE stood at 833 mmboe; 
developments in our power business 
marketed in the Iberian Peninsula but 
3C contingent resources WI at 3,496 
to increase our sales of natural gas; 
also in Africa, with sales to direct 
mmboe and exploration resources 
 
 
clients hitting 9 mton in 2014; 
(unrisked) at  1,605 mmboe; 
  
In the power business, our aim is to 
The development of existing 
In 2014, the marketing network 
position ourselves in the electricity 
resources, will allow Galp Energia to 
reached 1,449 service stations. 
supply sector in the Portuguese 
significantly increase its production.   
 
 
market. 
 
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