Arguably the second most important oil & gas conference on the 2011 Aberdeen calendar will be staged this week – Subsea 2011.
Global connections will be the theme of the event, being held in the city this Wednesday and Thursday, therefore emphasising the worldwide nature of the business conducted from Europe’s energy capital.
The conference will also take account of the emergence of maritime renewables and the looming spectre of North Sea decommissioning, as decades-old production platforms reach the end of their lives.
The conference programme promises to be a strong one, with a host of speakers lined up.
Frank Bee, head of subsea at Shell, Ross Kinnear, head of subsea at BP, and Colin Welsh, CEO at energy investment bank Simmons & Company International, will kick-off proceedings with a look to the future of the sector and how its prosperity can be secured.
Other speakers will include Halfdan Knudesn, head of fast track projects in development and production Norway for Statoil; Mark Rae, senior market analyst at ODS Petrodata, and Bill Donaldson, Scotland/north England manager of Quest Offshore Resources.
Jim Britton, CEO of Deepwater EU; Steven Rossiter, senior engineer with BPP-TECH, Mark Stone, head of integrity support services at Sonomatic; Ron Cookson, managing director of Technip UK; Paul Simons, sales director at Subsea 7 and Mark McAllister of OSPRAG, who will examine the UKCS response to Macondo, will also take the floor.
In a session on opportunities in alternative energy, Ian Innes, project manager at SSE Renewables, will be joined by James Young, technical director at JDR Cables and Stephen Auld, managing director of Coda Octopus.
Leading a discussion on decommissioning will be Decom North Sea’s chief executive, Brian Nixon, Jason Tisdall, managing director of Fugro GRL, and Proserv Offshore’s decommissioning manager, Kenny Anderson, along with Stuart Wordsworth of Interact Projects, and Simon Davies of Veolia.
Sponsored by Shell, this year’s conference will cover a wide range of topics including major global projects, health, safety and environmental issues, innovation, operating strategies and legislation, skills development, recruitment and retentions, integrity, reliability and obsolescence.
Alongside the conference, Subsea UK will host the fifth annual subsea awards dinner to celebrate the excellence, innovation and outstanding achievements generated across the sector over the past 12 months.
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