The 20th North Sea Decommissioning Conference

Kari Nessa Nordtun was elected Mayor of Stavanger on 21th October 2019. She represents the Labour Party, and is now serving her first four-year term as Stavangers’s 53rd mayor.
Prior to her election as mayor, Nordtun served for 8 years in Stavanger Municipal Council.
She has been a member of the Municipal Executive Presidency since 2013 and a Municipal Executive Board member since 2015.
Mayor Nordtun is comitted to fighting inequality, and works to improve the lives of her fellow Stavanger residents of all backgrounds and neighbourhoods. As head of Norway’s energy capital she is dedicated to the further development of the oil, gas and growing renewables sector, and is a strong voice for new technology, climate issues and green urban develoment.
Nordtun has a law degree from the University of Bergen, and during her time in university she worked with pro bono legal advice. She also studied European law in Brussels.
She began her law practice at Sjødin Meling & Co, and then went on to work for Elden Law Firm. She is currently on leave from Elden to work as a full-time politician.
Mayor Nordtun lives in Stavanger with her husband and two children.

Joe Leask is the Decommissioning Manager at OGUK. As part of his remit he works closely with industry, regulators and the UK and Scottish Governments to develop an efficient cost-effective decommissioning capability, sharing best practice and promoting that expertise at home and abroad. He is also custodian of the Industry’s decommissioning standards and guidelines and leads OGUK’s industry forums and workgroups to deliver incentives, respond to government consultations and promote industry dialogue.

Joe graduated from Heriot Watt University in 2011 with a 1st class Masters degree in Civil Engineering with International Studies. Joe is now a chartered engineer and member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. Prior to working for Oil & Gas UK, Joe gained experience in decommissioning with Repsol Sinopec Resources UK Limited (RSRUK), working on a significant portfolio of fields at various stages of decommissioning from planning through to execution. Projects included the Beatrice field which has had a recently approved Decommissioning Programme and Buchan which was towed off-station in 2017.

Prior to RSRUK and after graduating, Joe worked for Jee limited and was a member of BP’s decommissioning team working in the UK and Norway. Joe was BP’s client representative on the offshore subsea decommissioning execution phase for North West Hutton and subsequently responsible for writing the project’s decommissioning programme Close Out Report.

More than 25 years of broad E&P experience in technical and managerial positions. Prior to joining Rystad Energy in 2015 he worked as VP of Commercial, BD & Strategy at Talisman Norway. He has also worked for BP and Statoil and smaller E&P’s in Norway and internationally, onshore and offshore, covering the life cycle of the field from exploration to mature producing fields. M.Sc. degree in Petroleum Technology from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim.

Dr Richard Brooks began the role of Director of Decommissioning at OPRED in December 2019. A role that he previously held between 2010 and 2013. In the interim period, Richard worked with OPRED’s Offshore Inspectorate leading more than 100 offshore environmental inspections and investigations.

Previously, Richard was Head of Business Development for offshore wind at DECC and Head of Knowledge Transfer at the Office of Science and Technology. Prior to Government he spent a number of years in the private sector working in the automotive and aerospace sectors. Richard began his career at the TUV NEL carrying out research within the materials technology area.

Richard is an engineering graduate with an MBA from Imperial College

Nils was the Head of Decommissioning for the Oil and Gas Authority (OGA) in the UK from October 2017 until December 2019. The OGA Decommissioning Team’s mission is to support and influence the cost reduction challenge for the overall UKCS decommissioning cost, targeting cost reductions of 35% safely and with due respect to all UK and international regulations. As a result of influencing the industry, including introducing benchmarking and dashboards to highlight performance, and championing collaboration, the industry has delivered a 17% reduction in decommissioning costs forecast to date (50% of the target set for 2022.

Nils graduated in Mechanical Engineering before commencing a varied international career of over 30 years (UK, Tunisia, Oman, Syria, Libya, Germany, The Netherlands and Iraq-KRG) in Operations Management for Operators such as Shell, Wintershall, Centrica and TAQA. This included work in the North Sea as OIM on Shell’s Brent A platform, for Wintershall as Operations Manager in the Dutch sector and Centrica Storage as Operations Director.

Dr David Santillo is a marine and freshwater biologist and analytical chemist, who has worked with the Greenpeace Research Laboratories (based within the University of Exeter) for more than 25 years. During that time, alongside his research, David has represented Greenpeace International at the interface between science and policy within a number of international treaties and conventions, including the OSPAR Convention (at both committee and commission levels). David has also engaged actively in a number of stakeholder consultation processes relating to offshore decommissioning programmes within the North East Atlantic region.

Richard Heard graduated in 1985 with an Honours Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Kings College London. He has 35-years’ experience in engineering consultancy, primarily in the pipeline and subsea sector in the UK, Australia and the USA. He has held board and senior management positions in a number of consultancy businesses. In 2005 he co-founded the Xodus Group, establishing the Group’s Subsea Division and London office. He left Xodus in 2011 and has worked in the decommissioning sector since then. He led the Oil & Gas UK Decommissioning Baseline Study Joint Industry Project from 2011-2013 and continues to provide decommissioning support within OGUK. Since 2013 he has been Programme Director for the INSITE Programme, an industry-funded marine science project studying the influence of man-made structures on the ecosystem of the North Sea.

Marinés is an analyst at Future Business in Equinor. She works on developing new business opportunities outside the core business. Before joining Equinor, Marinés worked as an advisor to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN and to the Government of Vanuatu working on risk management and climate resilience.

Marinés is interested in sustainability and innovation as a way to create new value for the society. She has a master’s degree in economics from the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics and a bachelor’s degree in economics from University of Costa Rica, her home country.

I have a MSc from NTNU Marine Technology in Trondheim. I specialized in hydrodynamics and in my master’s thesis I performed a long-term analysis of mooring line tension for a floating wind turbine. I graduated in June 2019.

The Blue Circular Economy project we will present at the conference was something I worked on as a part-time job in parallel with my master’s thesis. I was the technical leader in the project and had the main responsibility to make sure our solutions were technically feasible.

Currently, I work in the hydrodynamic department in Global Maritime in Oslo. My tasks here include a large variety of hydrodynamic analyses, mooring analyses and stability analyses on ships and offshore structures. Global Maritime is also involved in several decommissioning projects, which I also have had the pleasure to be a part of.

Ineke Reyboz is a Commercial Consultant and lawyer specialising in decommissioning. She has 25 years energy experience in heavy fabrication, subsea construction projects, operations and supply chain at ConocoPhillips, with Subsea7, Technip and McDermotts. In Australia, Ineke was the Business Director for Kellogg JV on the development of Gorgon LNG Downstream. She is involved in the development of green hydrogen projects and a well performance analysis app.
She has a BSc, LLB, LLM and recently finished MSc in Decommissioning at University of Aberdeen. She is an Adjunct Research Fellow at Curtin University Oil and Gas Innovation Centre in Western Australia.

William graduated with a Civil Engineering degree in 1990 joining Shell the same year and spent 25 years abroad in all phases of the Project lifecycle both onshore and offshore, brown/greenfield, oil & gas, in Europe, Africa, Middle East and Russia.
William returned to UK in 2013 as Project Manager for the Peterhead Carbon Capture & Storage Project which came to an abrupt demise in November 2015. After spending a year on secondment into the Oil & Gas Authority (UK regulator), he joined the Brent decommissioning Team responsible for the safe and efficient execution of decommissioning activities on the 4 Brent Platforms and surrounding infrastructure.
A Charter Project Professional with the Association of Project Managers, William is a Technical Authority in Project Engineering within Shell and is the current Chair of the Oil & Gas Project Managers Steering Committee.

Mark is a chartered Environmental Engineer and has spent all of his career in the waste management field although he prefers the term secondary raw materials.

With and MBA from Leeds University Business School and Strageic Marketing from Sandwell he balanced this business orientated academic background by studying degree level technical qualifications with the UK based Chartered Institute of Waste Management

Involement in oil and gas decommissiong began in the early 2000 then with Veolia where was Mark leading the business unit that established the recovery yard in Shetland recognising the development opportunities created resulting from the return this ‘waste’ back to the beach!

Since 2012 Mark has operated an independant consultancy Astonglen Associates Limited. Astonglen DECOM provides specialist support to operators, removal contractors, ports and companies in different stages of the waste value chain on all aspects of the onshore recovery phase of decommissiong.

Constructions Manager since 2003 for Hydro, Statoil, Lundin and Maersk (Culzean project in Singapore-preparation phase), before that Construction Manager at Aker Stord.
Has also been involved in method- and constructability studies DG2 to DG3.
Construction Manger whit broad experience with directing and coordinating major offshore project and modifications. HSE has a strong focus in the role of construction manager. Also familiarly with work preparation, planning, method studies, change control, engineering, risk assessment, quantity surveying and contract discussions.

Education: Master of science in industrial chemistry from NTNU
Current position: Head of Section, Industry section 1, Norwegian Environment Agency
Summary:
I have been working with HSE-related issues for many years within different agencies, including being a lead auditor for ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001 (ISO 45001).

The last 10 years I have been working for the Norwegian Environmental Agency. Both in the Inspection and environmental data department and in the Industry and Marine Environment department.
Main responsibility (for Industry section 1) is to handle applications for emission permits on basis of the Pollution Control Act. The industry section works mainly with cases concerning metallurgical industry and sites for processing of waste.

Helge Dyrendal Rø holds a Master of Science in Biology from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, and has extensive experience with HSE in the oil and gas industry.
After graduating, Helge worked as an Associate Professor in Biology and Chemistry. Since 2013, Helge has been working with HSE in the petroleum sector as Environmental Coordinator for operators and within the Service and Supply Industry.
Helge is now working at Section for Petroleum Activity at the Norwegian Environment Agency (NEA) where he is regulating pollution from the Norwegian petroleum industry. He is responsible for the Decommissioning group within the NEA, and is also a member of the Norwegian IOC-delegation in OSPAR.

Steve Rae: is the Executive Director with Step Change in Safety, he 35 plus years’ experience in the International Oil and Gas Industry. Having entered the Industry, as an Offshore Technician, he happened to find himself onboard Piper Alpha on July 6th, 1988. Having survived the horrific events of that night Steve chose to continue working in the Industry where he went on to become an accomplished executive.

Throughout his time in Industry Steve has held several senior positions such as Vice President (VP) QHSE, VP International Drilling Operations, Country Manager & VP Business Development. He also served IADC as Chairman and Ex – Officio of the North Sea Chapter. In 2013 he received the IADC “Val Hood” award for services to the Drilling Industry. Steve was a member of the UK “Step Change in Safety” Leadership Team from 2007/2011 and Chairman of Statoil’s (Brazil) Aiming High Group in 2014/15. The experience gained throughout his time in Industry has provided him with a unique perspective on Safety Culture, effective Team Leadership and Workforce Engagement from “boardroom to coalface”.

Steve qualified as an Electrical Technician through a traditional Apprenticeship City and Guilds program. In 1996 he returned to Robert Gordon’s University, Aberdeen, graduating in 2000 with an International MBA.

More than 20 years’ experience in HSE in decommissioning work, onshore and offshore. Participation in projects as the Maureen Alpha, Frigg, Miller and Valhall QP decommissioning projects. Employed by Kvaerner since 2013, background in environmental research and industrial waste management.

Edward Heerema, born in 1947, has a Master’s Degree in Civil Engineering from the Technical University of Delft.
In the R&D department of his father’s company Heerema Engineering Service, he was engaged in development of new platform installation equipment.
In 1978 he was appointed General Manager of Heerema Engineering Service.
After his father deceased in 1981, Edward was President of Heerema Holding Company until 1984.

Edward Heerema founded Allseas in 1985, of which company he is President.
In this position he is responsible for the daily management of the Allseas Group, strategic and policy planning, maintaining senior client relations, and technological development.

In 2016 Edward was given the title “Fellow Chartered Engineer” by the Royal Netherlands Society of Engineers (KIVI) for his pioneering and innovative contributions to the offshore and marine industry. It was the first time that this title has been awarded in the Netherlands.

Ronald has almost 25 years of experience in the Oil and Gas industry. He has held the position of Vice President Sales & Business Development for the North Sea for Heerema since 2014. During this time, Ronald has driven Heerema’s strategy in the decommissioning market and has played a pivotal role in the establishment of Fairfield Decom. A civil engineer by background, Ronald has been involved in the execution and tendering of a broad range of offshore installation and removal projects and has done so from postings in the Netherlands, Malaysia, the United States and now Scotland.

A chartered chemical engineer with an MBA, Sidney has had a varied career in the upstream oil and gas industry for almost 30years. His initial work, with Technica/DNV Technica and in the wake of the Piper Alpha disaster, focussed on making offshore platforms significantly safer by re-engineering them using new quantitative risk assessment (QRA) techniques. A keen team player, Sidney has led and developed teams and businesses to achieve high performance. Sidney is passionate about innovation, technology, intellectual property and business growth and secured his own patent for ‘sub-surface wellbores’ to replace subsea pipelines. Career highlights include developing SPEX Group’s Innovation Centre, being responsible for half of AMEC’s work with BP in the North Sea, inventing and developing BP’s Downhole-Well-Topsides Interface Procedure, playing a key role in getting the EU Constitution changed to protect UK oil & gas interests, being in charge of AMEC’s supply chain function across Europe & West Africa and being honoured with the Energy North – Ambassador 2012 award. Sidney has also been chairman of various UK industry bodies and committees.

As manager of the Decommissioning, Solution Centre, Roger is leading the team to identify, fund and support the development and deployment of technology that drives down the cost of decommissioning. Roger has more than 20 years’ experience in the oil and gas sector and has held a variety of leadership positions within companies ranging from SMEs to tier 1 contractors. Before joining the Oil & Gas Technology Centre, he was Chief Executive of Decom North Sea. Roger played an active role in the execution of several of the UK’s most significant decommissioning projects including; MCP01, North West Hutton and Brent Delta.

Espen D. Malde works as a drilling superintendent responsible for the Gyda P&A operation. He has been working in Repsol for 8 years and has been 18 years in the business working with drilling and wells projects with a special focus on P&A the last years.

30 years experience within oil business – working for both oil and service companies

4 years within service companies – Baker Oil Tools and Transocean Drilling as an engineer, roustabout and roughneck.

26 years for oil and gas operators holding positions as Completion Engineer, Lead Well Engineer, offshore Well Operations Supervisor and P&A Engineer. I have worked for Saga Petroleum, Statoil, Talisman and now Repsol. I have worked as a consultant for 13 of these years and for the past 2 years as an employee with Repsol Norge AS.

B.Sc in Civil Engineering from Imperial College. Over 35 years experience in the offshore oil and gas industry. Managing projects on the NCS since 1999 for Brown & Root, Fabricom, Marathon, BP and now Aker BP. Managing decommissioning projects since 2013 – most notably the removal and disposal of the Original Valhall Development platforms.

Experienced Chief Executive Officer with a demonstrated history of working in the oil & energy industry. Strong operations professional skilled in Petroleum, Management, Oil & Gas, Offshore Drilling, and Subsea Engineering.

Naval Architect of trade and have gained operational experience offshore in the North Sea, West Africa and North America.

More than 25 years of broad E&P experience. Metallurgist as profession, working many years as responsible for Material Technology in DPN in Norsk Hydro, contributor to NORSOK Material Technology specifications. Been responsible for the integrity of pipeline and risers including flexible. Turned into project management late 1990’s. Broad project expertise and have been Project Director for several projects nationally and international. As a curiosity, was PD for TOGI Decommissioning until late 1999.

Having been involved specifically with decommissioning over the past 12 years, starting as a Snr decommissioning technician and Supervisor initially with Oceaneering, before moving over to Subsea 7 in 2017 as part of a drive within the i-Tech7 life of field business unit, Iain worked with the team to create a specific decommissioning service line for the company. Iain and his team provide support to Seaway7, Subsea7, i-Tech7 project teams and clients with equipment, expertise and personnel globally.
Iain is also a key member of the Science and Underwater Technology (SUT) committee for decommissioning and wreck recovery. Iain works closely with academia and government bodies to provide operational input and lessons learned from his valuable project experience.

Company: Seaway 7
Department: Engineering
Job Title: Sr. Project Engineer
Time with company: 3 years
Previous Employment: Heerema Marine Contractors - 10 Years
Bio: Having been involved specifically with decommissioning over the past 10 years, starting as a Sr. Engineer initially with Heerema Marine Contractors, before moving over to Seaway 7 in 2017 as part of a drive within Seaway 7 to strengthen the decommissioning arm of the Company, Michael leads the Seaway 7 decommissioning projects. Michael and his team provide support to the Subsea7 and i-Tech7 project teams and clients with removal project preparation, expertise and personnel.

Tijn has a Master of Science degree in Civil Engineering from the Technical University Delft, The Netherlands.
He started working for Heerema Marine Contractors in 2000 and has held positions within Engineering, Business Development, Planning and Project Management.
Worked abroad in the United Kingdom and Mexico before returning to the HMC Head Office Leiden in 2014.
He lives in the Netherlands with his wife and three children.
Tijn is currently responsible for the Vår Energi AS – Jotun B EPRD project.