26/05/2014
“The Philippine Mining Luncheon”
(a Luncheon Forum & Networking Event)
Events will be held at the Manila Polo Club Main Ballroom.
For your Diary, 2014 Proposed event dates. Feb 21st - 11th April – 20th June – 8th August – 10th October – 21st Nov.
The Philippine Mining Club is proud to present for the June 20th, luncheon.
Topic: “The State of the Philippine Coal Mining Industry”
Mr. Rufino Bomasang.
Chairman, Otto Energy-Philippines & Chairman of the Board, Philippine Chamber of Coal Mines Inc.
Mr. Bomasang has had a 50-year career as professional engineer/manager in the mining and energy business (in both the private and public sectors) after successfully going through a one-year management training program at Procter and Gamble Philippines soon after finishing mining engineering at UP in 1963.
From 1964 to 1976, he successively occupied the following senior field management positions in the Philippine mining industry: Mill Superintendent, Palawan Quicksilver Mines; Head of Planning, Research, and Safety, Suyoc Mine to Project Superintendent, Boneng Project, Itogon-Suyoc Mines; Chief Engineer, Benguet Exploration; Project Engineer to Special Projects/Underground Manager, Western Minolco Corporation; Diamond Drilling Manager, Frontino, Inc.; and Resident Manager, Falcon Rare Metals/Industrial Minerals.
Since joining the public sector in 1976, Mr. Bomasang has served under all six administrations from Marcos to Noynoy Aquino. From 1976 to 1996, he successively served as Manager for Development and Production of the Energy Development Board; Chief of the Coal and Uranium Division of the Bureau of Energy Development, Ministry of Energy; General Manager, PNOC Coal Corporation; Deputy Executive Director and later Executive Director of the Office of Energy Affairs; Undersecretary of the Department of Energy; and finally Senior Adviser to Philippine Gas Office. From 1996 to 2004, he was President/CEO of PNOC Exploration Corporation (PNOC-EC), the upstream petroleum subsidiary of PNOC. He successfully turned around PNOC-EC from a losing company to one of the country’s top 100 corporations and currently PNOC’s most profitable subsidiary by participating in the $4.5 billion Malampaya gas-to-power project, where he had been involved since gas discovery in 1989. In 2011, President Noynoy Aquino recalled him from retirement to serve as Director of PNOC-EC.
