There is something of the artist about Carlos Gomes da Silva. The chief executive of Portuguese player Galp Energia, who describes the oil industry as being akin to a “first love”, regularly leaves the executive’s chair for the drummer’s stool or a berth sailing the open ocean.
“My passion is architecture and design. That is what I breathe and what relaxes,” the Porto native says as he talks of a career that has seen him complete a stint at a subsidiary of Danish brewing giant Carlsberg in between more than two decades in oil and gas.
