Southern North Sea Decommissioning ConferenceBringing the Experiences of the Gulf of Mexico and Southern North Sea Together

Tuesday 26 and Wednesday 27 May 2009

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Welcome to the Oil & Gas UK Southern North Sea Decommissioning Conference, kindly sponsored by DECC

While further investments are deferring decommissioning in many Southern North Sea fields, some projects are already going ahead and it is likely that a critical mass of decommissioning activity will be upon us within the next five years.

In ensuring smarter, quicker and more cost effective decommissioning, collaboration between asset owners and effective communication with the supply chain is key. Building on Oil & Gas UK’s events held in partnership with the Industry Technology Facilitator (ITF) in 2008, this highly interactive conference now provides the opportunity for you to share information and put in place the foundations for that collaboration. The Southern area of the province exhibits a different market from other areas of the North Sea with its smaller platforms in large numbers and more benign environment. It does however share many characteristics with decommissioning in shallow water Gulf of Mexico and you will benefit from examining the well-developed market there.

One aspect of this learning process is finding technical solutions, whether relating to salvage, wells, facilities cleaning, removal and transport or re-use. You will hear about the technologies employed in the Gulf of Mexico and consider the potential for their use in the Southern North Sea.

The other aspect of the learning process is exploring the contracting strategy and model utilised. For example, you will examine the benefits of a portfolio approach, whereby crews skilled in a particular aspect of decommissioning focus on that area only and carry out similar projects for many asset owners, allowing greater efficiency and cost savings.

The conference will then turn to exploring the plans of large and small asset owners alike for decommissioning their infrastructure. Crucially, this ‘share fair’ experience will inform contractors of the requirements and likely timing of asset owners’ forthcoming projects, enabling them to consider investment in new capacity.

This conference will be of most value in sharing knowledge and experience if all parties freely contribute their questions, ideas and perspectives. Therefore, we encourage you to participate fully in the sessions and play your part in mobilising the Southern North Sea decommissioning market - a market which has the potential to provide strong business opportunities for efficient and inventive supply chain companies.

Enjoy the conference!

Paul Dymond, Operations & Supply Chain Director, Oil & Gas UK

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Day 1

9.00am REGISTRATION

9.30am Chairman’s Welcome Paul Dymond, Operations & Supply Chain Director, Oil & Gas UK

SESSION 1 SETTING THE SCENE – THE GULF OF MEXICO AND THE SOUTHERN NORTH SEA

9.40am Decommissioning, Base Business in the Gulf of Mexico Win Thornton, Manager International Decommissioning Chevron Environmental Management Company

10.10am Collaboration and Innovation Gunther Newcombe, Head of Decommissioning BP Exploration Operating Company Limited

10.40am COFFEE AND NETWORKING

11.10am Gulf of Mexico Case Study Project Management for Unconventional Decommissioning Pat Campbell, Executive Vice President, Superior Energy Services, Inc.

11.50am Southern North Sea Case Study Indefatigable Field Decommissioning Project Overview Herman Zant, Inde Project Manager, NAM as part of Shell EP Europe

12.30pm LUNCH AND NETWORKING

SESSION 2 THE NORTH SEA PORTFOLIO – WHAT IS THE MARKET? 1.30pm An Overview of the Installations to be Decommissioned in the North Sea with Danish Examples Kai Birger Olson, Regional UK Director, Ramboll Oil & Gas

2.00pm The Dutch Sector Portfolio Peter Valkenier, Engineering & Construction Manager, Wintershall Noordzee B.V.

2.30pm Questions and Answers for Sessions 1 and 2 2.45pm COFFEE AND NETWORKING

SESSION 3 DECOMMISSIONING STRATEGIES

3.15pm Onshore Disposal – Providing the Best Practicable Environmental Option Peter Stephenson, Executive Chairman, Able UK Ltd 3.45pm Decommissioning – Break Down Activities Kåre Kristing, Decommissioning Consultant, Design Alpha AS

4.15pm A Case Study in Risk Sharing: A Lump-sum Decommissioning and Debris Removal Project Robert Byrd, Senior Vice President, Proserv Offshore

4.45pm Question and Answers for Session 3

5.00pm Thanks and Close of Day Paul Dymond, Operations & Supply Chain Director, Oil & Gas UK

7.00pm Pre-Dinner Drinks

7.30pm Dinner After Dinner Speaker – Tom McClean

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8.30am Introduction and Welcome to Day 2 Paul Dymond, Operations & Supply Chain Director, Oil & Gas UK

SESSION 4 THE UK AND GULF OF MEXICO – TECHNICAL CAPABILITIES AND OPPORTUNITIES

8.40am Pipeline Decommissioning – Addressing the Challenges Allan Browne, Manager of SureStream Flow Assurance Services, Halliburton

9.10am Explosives Technology for Decommissioning Applications Mike Freak, Business Segment Manager, Halliburton

9.40am Gulf of Mexico Well Decommissioning Jules Schoenmakers, Planning Lead Well Abandonments, NAM as part of Shell EP Europe

10.10am COFFEE AND NETWORKING

10.40am Well Abandonment Innovation - Rigless Abandonment of Platform and Subsea Wells in the Southern North Sea Phil Chandler, Senior Petroleum Engineer, InterAct Activity Management Ltd

11.10am Experiences From Crossing the Pond - A Contractor’s View of Working in the Gulf of Mexico and the Southern North Sea Per Lund, Norse Cutting & Abandonment

11.40am Lessons Learnt in the Removal of Southern North Sea Platforms and Possible Contracting Strategies for the Future Aart Ligterink, Manager Marketing and Business Development, Seaway Heavy Lifting eng. BV

12.10pm Question and Answers for Session 4

12.30pm LUNCH AND NETWORKING

SESSION 5 NORTH SEA PORTFOLIOS – INTERACTIVE SHARE FAIR SESSION

1.30pm Introduction to the Interactive Session Chris Gray, UK Decommissioning Manager, ConocoPhillips and Chair of Oil & Gas UK Decommissioning Workgroup 4

Room 1 – St Leger Room BP ENI Hewett Ltd

Room 2 – Oaks Room ConocoPhillips Perenco UK Ltd

Room 3 – Derby Room Shell Venture Production

1.40pm Session 11.55pm Session 22.10pm Session �2.25pm Session �2.40pm Session �2.55pm Session 6

SESSION 6 CONFERENCE LEARNINGS

3.10pm Facilitated Discussions

4.20pm Thanks and Close Paul Dymond, Operations & Supply Chain Director, Oil & Gas UK

Delegates will be allocated an initial company to commence the Share Fair Session with. Following the completion of each 15 minute session, delegates will be asked to move to visit the next company. Each delegate will have the opportunity to visit all of our six presenting companies.

The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) was created in October 2008, bringing together energy policy to help combat the unprecedented challenges to our environment, our economy, and the future security of our energy supplies.

DECC is now challenged to tackle these issues. Our creation reflects the fact that climate change and energy policies are inextricably linked – two thirds of our emissions come from the energy we use. Decisions in one area cannot be made without considering the impacts in the other.

Our three overall objectives are:

Ensuring our energy is secure, affordable and efficient;Bringing about the transition to a low-carbon Britain;Achieving an international agreement on climate change at Copenhagen in December 2009.

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Oil and gas remains the most important component in our energy economy (around 60% of that total will still be hydrocarbon dependant). So it is vital for energy security that we make the most of our indigenous reserves. DECC’s Energy Development Unit promotes and regulates all aspects of the UK’s oil and gas exploration and production industry across the entire upstream life cycle from exploration to decommissioning. We also endeavour to promote the UK Supply chain capability and facilitate the development of new and emerging markets.

DECC is responsible for all aspects of UK energy policy, and for tackling global climate change. Our four policy areas are:

Global Climate Change and EnergyUK Energy SupplySupporting ConsumersA Low Carbon UK

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As the UKCS matures it is inevitable that decommissioning will become a growing market, presenting huge opportunities for the supply chain. The value of this market is estimated at £23 billion, and will provide new and lucrative prospects for the contracting community. Whilst we have a competent and competitive supply chain in relation to exploration, production and operations, the decommissioning sector is still somewhat immature in terms of innovative techniques for abandonment, removal and onshore recycling. With strong competition emerging from other countries this conference is an excellent vehicle to raise awareness of the size of this opportunity and the technological challenge which this work offers. By helping make this event happen, DECC aim to stimulate the supply chain into action. There are now real projects to go after and the window of opportunity to establish the UK as a centre of decommissioning excellence must not be missed. Decommissioning is

more mature in the Gulf of Mexico and we should have an open mind to learn from their experience and absorb the knowledge and expertise they have built up.

This conference arranged and presented by industry is aimed at providing a more detailed level of market intelligence than previous events. In doing so it should send strong signals of the value and opportunities to participate in this emerging sector and give confidence for the creation of a UK based supply chain to share in the next phase of valuable North Sea work.

For more details on DECC please visit our website

www.decc.gov.uk

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SESSION 1 Setting the Scene: The Gulf of Mexico and The Southern North Sea

Win ThorntonManager International DecommissioningChevron Environmental Management Company

Win Thornton has over thirty years experience in offshore construction and decommissioning projects working as an operator (Chevron and Occidental Petroleum Corporation), contractor (Brown & Root) and consultant (WINMAR). A graduate of both, Georgia Tech and the University of Houston, Win is recognised as an expert in offshore decommissioning and reuse, with recent work completed in the Gulf of Mexico, West Africa, California, Alaska, Southeast Asia and South America. He has championed the environmentally sound and cost effective disposal of obsolete platforms through placement in state sanctioned “rigs-to-reefs” programmes.

Gunther NewcombeBP North Sea Decommissioning ManagerBP Exploration Operating Company Limited

Gunther graduated from Manchester University with a BSc and MSc in Geology and joined BP in London as a geologist in 1980 after working for three years as a well-site engineer and geologist.

Assignments followed in Germany, China, Aberdeen, Norway, Indonesia, Houston and Venezuela where Gunther worked in all aspects of geology ranging from frontier exploration using satellite and field geology to the reactivation of oilfields in the Orinoco delta of Venezuela.

In 1996 Gunther returned to the North Sea taking on a number of business management roles in the Central North Sea, West of Shetland and finally running BP’s onshore terminals and pipeline business. In 2004 Gunther was posted to Baku as HSSE VP supporting BP’s operations in Azerbaijan, Georgia and Eastern Turkey. In October 2007 Gunther returned to the North Sea to lead a newly established team accountable for BP’s North Sea decommissioning programme which includes North West Hutton, Miller and Don field projects.

Patrick CampbellExecutive Vice PresidentSuperior Energy Services, Inc.

Pat Campbell is Executive Vice President of Superior Energy Services, Inc. with a career in the energy industry spanning more than 40 years. His focus has been on well control and blow out response and prevention, decommissioning, subsea completions, subsea well intervention as well as engineering studies for oil companies worldwide. He is particularly well known for his work in Kuwait in 1991 where he lead Superior’s subsidiary Wild Well Control’s fire fighting teams in the successful – and safe – capping of 137 oil wells. Formerly President and Chief Operating Officer of Wild Well Control from 2000 until April this year, Pat Campbell will in his new role at Superior oversee the company’s global subsea well intervention expansion as well as its decommissioning and well control business.

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s Herman ZantProject Manager Inde DecommissioningNAM as part of Shell EP Europe Herman Zant currently works for Shell EP Europe (NAM) as Project Manager responsible for leading the Indefatigable decommissioning project team. He was born in the Netherlands in 1960. After graduating in Energy Technology from HTS Groningen, he worked for six years as a sales engineer in the refrigeration industry after which he joined Shell in 1990. Herman has worked for Shell E&P companies in the Netherlands (Schoonebeek and Assen) in all project lifecycle phases in mechanical, process, front-end, project engineering and corporate/business capacities. He worked abroad in Brunei from 1997 to 2003 as head of front-end engineering for offshore east.

SESSION 2 The North Sea Portfolio – What is the market?

Kai Birger OlsonRegional UK DirectorRamboll Oil & Gas

Kai Olsen graduated as a structural engineer in 1975 and has been working in offshore oil and gas ever since. After an initial eight years in Norway his career has subsequently taken him to Denmark and Qatar.

Kai was Head of Structures in Ramboll Oil & Gas from 1983 until he was appointed Director for Business Development in 2003. He has been responsible for the development of the small monotower platforms which have been widely used in the Danish North Sea and in offshore Qatar, in the Persian Gulf.

Kai is now responsible for the Ramboll Oil & Gas activities in the UK.

Peter ValkenierEngineering & Construction ManagerWintershall Noordzee B.V.

Peter Valkenier has been working in the offshore industry for more than 20 years.

After his study, he joined a construction company in the Netherlands and worked in the Project Management department. He was responsible for new-built platforms and major offshore modifications for Dutch operators. Peter than changed over to the Commercial department where he was responsible for the marketing and sales activities within the oil and gas Industry. He joined Wintershall Noordzee B.V. in 2007 as Project Manager for a compression project and for the abandonment of a satellite platform project.

His current position is that of Engineering and Construction Manager.

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Peter StephensonExecutive ChairmanAble UK Ltd

Peter Stephenson is the Executive Chairman of the Able Group of Companies, which he founded over 40 years ago and developed into a significant force for the dismantling/demolition industry. Today Able specialises in the decommissioning of major redundant facilities such as power stations, oil, gas, petrochem and chemical plants.Able’s unequalled experience has been further advanced by its offshore involvement in the disposal of over 60 offshore oil and gas modules.

Kåre KristingDecommissioning ConsultantDesign Alpha as Kåre Kristing’s career in the Norwegian oil and gas industry stretches back to its infancy. His first four years of work were spent in offshore supply and logistics in West Norway, then in 1978 he began working as Superintendent on Statfjord “A” during hook up and commissioning and in 1981 he saw the start up of the first Statoil production company (Gullfaks Production Company).

Following a number of years in South East Asia setting up contracting operations for Aker Kvaerner, he worked with Phillips UK for four years as Project Director responsible for overseeing the decommissioning of the Maureen Alpha gravity based steel platform. In 2001 he became Vice President for decommissioning at Aker Solutions and since 2008 has been running his own decommissioning consultancy Design Alpha.

Robert ByrdSenior Vice PresidentProserv Offshore

Dr. Byrd is a Senior Vice President at Proserv Offshore (formerly Twachtman, Snyder & Byrd, Inc.) of Houston, Texas. He has over 30 years experience in the offshore oil and gas industry and for the past 15 years has focused on offshore oil and gas platform decommissioning.

Robert received his BS in Marine Engineering from the US Coast Guard Academy, M.S. in Ocean Engineering from the University of Alaska, and PhD in Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley. He is a registered Professional Engineer and member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, and the Marine Technology Society.

SESSION 4 The UK and the Gulf of Mexico – Technical Capabilities and Opportunities

Allan BrowneBusiness Unit Manager for Halliburton’s SureStream Flow Assurance ServicesHalliburton – Pipeline & Process Services

Allan Browne is the Business Unit Manager for Halliburton’s SureStream Flow Assurance Services within the Pipelines Division. SureStream® concerns itself primarily with the remediation of problem pipelines which have experienced lost throughput due to the deposition of either waxes, scales, asphaltenes, corrosion products, hydrates and emulsions or combination of these.

For the last six years, Allan has worked for Halliburton Pipeline and Process Services where he coordinated the integration of products, specialist services and technologies under the SureStream® umbrella. His responsibilities also included overseeing the marketing of SureStream® to both employees and customers.

Before joining Halliburton, Allan was with ConocoPhillips for over 10 years in several technical and business development roles. Before that, he worked in the industrial water treatment industry for seven years in technical and commercial roles.

Allan holds an Honours degree in Biological Sciences and a Master’s degree in Marketing from The Robert Gordon University.

Mike FreakBusiness Segment ManagerHalliburton

Mike Freak graduated with a BSc Honours in Aeronautical Engineering in 1983 from the University of Manchester before obtaining an MSc in Petroleum Engineering at Strathclyde University a year later.

Mike joined Halliburton in 1984 following completion of his MSc where he started within the Jet Research Center (JRC) division which specialises in explosives products and services. He has been involved in hands on explosives operations in UK, Norway, Malaysia, Indonesia, South Africa, Morocco, Mozambique, Ivory Coast and UAE. Mike has extensive experience in the design and development of explosive charges for decommissioning and subsea salvage projects.

Currently Business Segment Manager for Halliburton UK Wireline and Perforating Services, Mike is responsible for explosives services and cased hole logging and perforating operations.

Jules SchoenmakersPlanning Lead Well AbandonmentsNAM as part of Shell EP Europe

Jules Schoenmakers works for Shell EP Europe. He is the lead for well abandonment planning for Shell in Europe and is the principal technical expert on well abandonments for Shell globally. Jules graduated from Eindhoven Technical University, Netherlands, in 1982. After a short assignment at the Royal Dutch Navy he joined Shell. As a well engineer he has been involved in a large variety of projects. Jules is the chairman of the Oil & Gas UK workgroup on well abandonments and the NOGEPA workgroup on best practices.

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s Phil ChandlerSenior Petroleum EngineerInterAct Activity Management Ltd

Phil Chandler has over 25 years experience in both operator and service sectors. As a petroleum engineer for Amoco he gained well operations experience before transferring to drilling. For the past 12 years Phil has worked with various organisations within the Acteon Group, (UWG, Claxtons, Team and InterAct), and gained wide experience of operational project management.

In the past three years in particular Phil has focused on the well decommissioning market; from well categorisation work in support of UWG’s vessel based ‘Suspended Well Abandonment Tool’ (SWAT) operations to preparing well decommissioning studies for Oil & Gas UK, Shell, Talisman, BP, Perenco and others clients.

Per LundSenior Vice President – Business Development and SalesNorse Cutting & Abandonment

Per Lund holds an MSc in Naval Architecture from the University of Trondheim. Per joined Norse Cutting & Abandonment in 1999 and has since had a number of key positions in the company. He has played an important role in numerous subsea cutting, abandonment and decommissioning projects in the North Sea, Africa, Gulf of Mexico and the Middle East.

Aart LigterinkManager Marketing and Business DevelopmentSeaway Heavy Lifting eng. BV

Aart Ligterink graduated with a BSc in Civil Engineering in 1980 and has been working in the offshore industry since 1982. Aart began his career with Heerema, where he worked in foundation engineering for nine years.

Shortly after the inception of Seaway Heavy Lifting, in 1992, Aart joined the company as Manager Marketing and Business Development. In this job he was heavily involved in the growth of the company by expanding the activities for their crane vessel Stanislav Yudin to the Middle East and India. Since 2005 he has worked on the business case for Seaway Heavy Lifting’s 5000mt new crane vessel, the Oleg Strashnov, currently under construction and due to become operational in 2010.

Aart wrote a paper about the removal of the Conoco Viking “A” complex removal and gave a presentation in Bergen in 2007 on the removal of Southern North Sea platforms.

SESSION 5North Sea Portfolios - Interactive Share Fair Session

The following companies will present:

Jonathan Davison SNS Decommissioning Manager

Chris Gray UK Decommissioning Manager

Tony Lobban Operations Manager – Bacton and Hewett Assets

Richard Innes Decommissioning Engineer

Bob Hemmings EoFL Coordinator

Stewart Ford Project Manager

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Principal Sponsor DECC

Supporting Sponsor Aker Qserv

Dinner Sponsor BP

Lanyard Sponsor Offshore Design Engineering

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