Panel Sessions

All panel sessions will be held at the Sheikh Maktoum Room A.

Tuesday, 4 December ● 1600-1800 hours

PANEL SESSION 1: E&P STRATEGIES FOR SHORT AND LONG TERM DELIVERY

Session Manager: Mohamed Al Harthy, Exploration Gas Manager, Petroleum Development Oman

Session Moderator: Rick Vierbuchen, Vice President Caspian/Middle East, ExxonMobil Exploration Co.

Panellists:

  • Abdullah Al Naim, Vice President, Exploration, Saudi Aramco
  • Khalid Al Sumaiti, Deputy Managing Director (North Kuwait), Kuwait Oil Co.
  • Michael Naylor, Vice President Technical – Global Exploration, Shell E&P
  • Robert Ryan, Vice President of Global Exploration, Chevron Corp.
  • Pete Stark, Vice President Industry Relations, IHS Energy

Future forecasts of oil and gas demand show a sustainable growth for many years to come.   The record oil price in 2006 was a result of an eroding spare capacity at both the production and the refining ends of the industry.  The peak oil school is promoting the notion that oil resources are limited and that the industry will sunset in the coming decades.  In the midst of all these uncertainties, producing countries had embarked on major capacity expansion projects.  These expansions will come on stream within the near future.  What does the future hold for our industry?

Wednesday, 5 December ● 0900-1045 hours

PANEL SESSION 2: DELIVERING HSE EXCELLENCE

Session Manager: Michael Mannering, Vice President QHSE, Schlumberger (invited)

Session Moderator: Ali Al Jarwan, General Manager, Abu Dhabi Marine Operating Co.

Panellists:

  • Abdullah Aziz Al Kayumi, Assistant General Manager – Production, Abu Dhabi Marine Operating Co.
  • Nasser Mubarak, Manager of Corporate HSE Support, Qatar Petroleum
  • Helen O’Connor, Director HSE & Sustainable Development, Halliburton Energy Services
  • Sherri Stuewer, Vice President Safety, Health and Environment, Exxon Mobil Corp.

Within out industry, we often work in challenging environments where health and safety is critical to our employees, contractors, those around us and overall business success.  We must find effective ways to raise HSE expectations, maintain organisation focus on HSE and embed sustainable HSE enhancements in business strategies and work practices.

Wednesday, 6 December ● 1100-1300 hours

PANEL SESSION 3: RESPONSES TO CONSTRAINTS IN MEETING ENERGY CHALLENGES

Session Manager: Michel Boucherit, Vice President Middle East Technology & Coordination, Total S.A.

Session Moderator: Gavin Graham, New Business Director Middle East, Caspian & South Asia, Shell E&P

Panellists:

  • Ario Alioldi, Vice President – Onshore Business Development & New Initiatives, SNAMPROPGETTI
  • Giles Chichester, President of European Energy Forum, Member of the European Parliament
  • Eamon Gorman, Well Engineering & Logistics Director, Petroleum Development Oman
  • Ladislas Paszkiewicz, President Middle East, Total S.A.
  • Raoul Restucci, Executive Vice President Middle East, Russia and CIS, Shell E&P

Faced with the challenge of satisfying rapidly growing demand the oil and gas industry has to overcome a number of new constraints. These include:

  • Tight Market
  • Human Resources
  • HSE
  • Security of Supply
  • More Difficult Hydrocarbons
  • Sustainable Development

The panel, made up of representatives from oil and gas companies, the service industry, government and NOC's, will assess a few of these many constraints and suggest how some industry actors and organizations can best respond to them.

Wednesday, 5 December ● 1400-1545 hours 

PANEL SESSION 4: BILLION-DOLLAR PROJECT EXECUTION: INTERDEPENDENCE & INNOVATION

Session Manager: Muhammad M. Saggaf, Manager, EXPEC Advanced Research Centre, Saudi Aramco

Session Moderator: Fahed Al Ajmi, Deputy Managing Director – Technical Services, Kuwait Oil Co. 

Panellists:

  • Mohammed Al Juwair, General Manager - Area Projects, Saudi Aramco
  • Jean Marie Guillermou, Senior Vice President Development & Operations Techniques, Total S.A.
  • Bruce Luberski, Vice President – Major Projects, BP
  • Jerry Wolahan, Vice President Middle East Projects, ExxonMobil Development Co.

The large number of world-class oil and gas development projects currently being planned and implemented in many regions of the world will require continuing improvement in the quality of execution in order to efficiently deliver on the objectives and expectations of all stakeholders.  Effective, coordinated planning across stakeholders is essential to facilitate optimum resolution of diverse issues and coordinate the involvement of the many parties involved in progressing these complex projects.

Discussion topics will include:

  • Effective Project Planning
  • High Quality Project Execution
  • Fiscal/Financing Aspects

Wednesday, 5 December ● 1600-1730 hours

PANEL SESSION 5: MEETING OUR GLOBAL RESPONSIBILITIES TO PEOPLE AND THE INDUSTRY - DEVELOPMENT, DIVERSITY AND DEMOGRAPHICS

Session Manager: To be confirmed

Session Moderator: Anne Reeckmann, Vice President Geoscience, ExxonMobil Upstream Research Co.

Panellists:

  • Alain C. Gringarten, Chairman, Petroleum Engineering, Imperial College
  • Deborah Grubbe, Vice President – Group Safety & Industry Hygiene, BP
  • Chakib Sbiti, Executive Vice President, Schlumberger

The global oil and gas industry is set to face major labour shortages over the coming years as the industry’s skilled workers retire without a sufficient number of juniors to replace them.  This is compounded by unprecedented industry growth.  In order to secure current and future operations, an adequate number of skilled workers need to be recruited, developed and retained.  Young people, and those who influence them - their parents and teachers, have to believe that the industry provides a rewarding, challenging and technically exciting career path in an environmentally and socially responsible industry.  The next generation has to be actively encouraged to pursue degrees in science and technology.  Of equal importance is the need to encourage greater diversity in the industry by reaching out to women and to a geographically diverse workforce from new sources of skilled labour – the industry has long been too conservative in its attitudes and now needs to tap into these previously underutilized talent pools.  

Concurrently, surging industry growth and strained human resources capabilities require the full engagement and utilization of the current industry workforce in order to fulfill the demand for performance improvement, knowledge harvest and transfer.  Dedicated training programmes devised to fast track understanding and knowledge acquisition are vital, and the industry will need to work together as a whole to address the issue of best practice sharing.

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