Southern North Sea

Decommissioning Conference
Bringing the Experiences of the Gulf of Mexico
and Southern North Sea Together
Tuesday 26 and Wednesday 27 May 2009
Newcastle Marrio Gosforth Park

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 felds, some
projects are already going ahead and it is likely that a critcal mass of decommissioning actvity will be
upon us within the next fve years.
In ensuring smarter, quicker and more cost efectve decommissioning, collaboraton between asset
owners and efectve communicaton with the supply chain is key. Building on Oil & Gas UKs events held
in partnership with the Industry Technology Facilitator (ITF) in 2008, this highly interactve conference
now provides the opportunity for you to share informaton and put in place the foundatons for that
collaboraton.

The Southern area of the province exhibits a diferent market from other areas of the North Sea with
its smaller platorms in large numbers and more benign environment. It does however share many
characteristcs with decommissioning in shallow water Gulf of Mexico and you will beneft from
examining the well-developed market there.
One aspect of this learning process is fnding technical solutons, whether relatng to salvage, wells,
facilites cleaning, removal and transport or re-use. You will hear about the technologies employed in
the Gulf of Mexico and consider the potental for their use in the Southern North Sea.
The other aspect of the learning process is exploring the contractng strategy and model utlised. For
example, you will examine the benefts of a portolio approach, whereby crews skilled in a partcular
aspect of decommissioning focus on that area only and carry out similar projects for many asset owners,
allowing greater efciency 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 tming 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 partes freely contribute
their questons, ideas and perspectves. Therefore, we encourage you to partcipate fully in the sessions
and play your part in mobilising the Southern North Sea decommissioning market - a market which
has the potental to provide strong business opportunites for efcient and inventve supply chain
companies.
Enjoy the conference!
Paul Dymond,
Operatons & Supply Chain Director,
Oil & Gas UK
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part of Aker
Aker Qserv in conjunction with other Aker
Solutions partners can deliver integrated
decommissioning services:
Project management and engineering
Well abandonment services
Process decommissioning
Pipeline decommissioning
Removal of offshore structures
Transportation and marine operations
Demolition and re-cycling
Disposal of hazardous material
Find out more:
Aker Qserv Ltd
Badentoy Crescent, Portlethen,
Aberdeen AB12 4YD, UK
Tel: +44 (01224 783707
Fax: +44 (01224 783702
e-mail: marketing@qserv.com
www.qserv.com
Aker Qserv: innovative
decommissioning solutions

Day 1
9.00am REGISTRATION
9.30am Chairmans Welcome
Paul Dymond, Operatons & 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 Internatonal Decommissioning
Chevron Environmental Management Company
10.10am Collaboraton and Innovaton
Gunther Newcombe, Head of Decommissioning
BP Exploraton Operatng Company Limited
10.40am COFFEE AND NETWORKING
11.10am Gulf of Mexico Case Study
Project Management for Unconventonal Decommissioning
Pat Campbell, Executve Vice President, Superior Energy Services, Inc.
11.50am Southern North Sea Case Study
Indefatgable 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 Installatons to be Decommissioned in the North Sea
with Danish Examples
Kai Birger Olson, Regional UK Director, Ramboll Oil & Gas
2.00pm The Dutch Sector Portolio
Peter Valkenier, Engineering & Constructon Manager, Wintershall Noordzee B.V.
2.30pm Questons and Answers for Sessions 1 and 2

2.45pm COFFEE AND NETWORKING
SESSION 3 DECOMMISSIONING STRATEGIES
3.15pm Onshore Disposal Providing the Best Practcable Environmental Opton
Peter Stephenson, Executve Chairman, Able UK Ltd

3.45pm Decommissioning Break Down Actvites
Kre Kristng, 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 Ofshore
4.45pm Queston and Answers for Session 3
5.00pm Thanks and Close of Day
Paul Dymond, Operatons & Supply Chain Director, Oil & Gas UK
7.00pm Pre-Dinner Drinks
7.30pm Dinner
Afer Dinner Speaker Tom McClean

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8.30am Introducton and Welcome to Day 2
Paul Dymond, Operatons & 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 Applicatons
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 Innovaton - Rigless Abandonment of Platorm and Subsea Wells in the
Southern North Sea
Phil Chandler, Senior Petroleum Engineer, InterAct Actvity Management Ltd
11.10am Experiences From Crossing the Pond - A Contractors View of Working in the Gulf of Mexico
and the Southern North Sea
Per Lund, Norse Cutng & Abandonment
11.40am Lessons Learnt in the Removal of Southern North Sea Platorms and Possible Contractng
Strategies for the Future
Aart Ligterink, Manager Marketng and Business Development, Seaway Heavy Lifing eng. BV
12.10pm Queston and Answers for Session 4
12.30pm LUNCH AND NETWORKING
SESSION 5 NORTH SEA PORTFOLIOS INTERACTIVE SHARE FAIR SESSION
1.30pm Introducton to the Interactve Session
Chris Gray, UK Decommissioning Manager, ConocoPhillips
and Chair of Oil & Gas UK Decommissioning Workgroup 4
Room 1 St Leger Room BP ENI Hewet Ltd
Room 2 Oaks Room ConocoPhillips Perenco UK Ltd
Room 3 Derby Room Shell Venture Producton
1.40pm Session 1
1.55pm Session 2
2.10pm 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, Operatons & Supply Chain Director, Oil & Gas UK
Delegates will be allocated an inital company to commence the Share Fair Session
with. Following the completon 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 presentng 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 refects 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 effcient;
Bringing about the transition to a low-
carbon Britain;
Achieving an international agreement
on climate change at Copenhagen in
December 2009.

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. DECCs Energy Development Unit
promotes and regulates all aspects of the
UKs 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 Energy
UK Energy Supply
Supporting Consumers
A Low Carbon UK

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 confdence 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
Setng the Scene: The Gulf of Mexico and The Southern North Sea
Win Thornton
Manager Internatonal Decommissioning
Chevron Environmental Management Company
Win Thornton has over thirty years experience in ofshore constructon and
decommissioning projects working as an operator (Chevron and Occidental Petroleum
Corporaton), contractor (Brown & Root) and consultant (WINMAR). A graduate of
both, Georgia Tech and the University of Houston, Win is recognised as an expert
in ofshore 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 efectve disposal of obsolete
platorms through placement in state sanctoned rigs-to-reefs programmes.
Gunther Newcombe
BP North Sea Decommissioning Manager
BP Exploraton Operatng Company Limited
Gunther graduated from Manchester University with a BSc and MSc in Geology and
joined BP in London as a geologist in 1980 afer 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 fronter
exploraton using satellite and feld geology to the reactvaton of oilfelds 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 fnally running
BPs onshore terminals and pipeline business. In 2004 Gunther was posted to Baku
as HSSE VP supportng BPs operatons in Azerbaijan, Georgia and Eastern Turkey. In
October 2007 Gunther returned to the North Sea to lead a newly established team
accountable for BPs North Sea decommissioning programme which includes North
West Huton, Miller and Don feld projects.
Patrick Campbell
Executve Vice President
Superior Energy Services, Inc.
Pat Campbell is Executve 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 preventon, decommissioning, subsea
completons, subsea well interventon as well as engineering studies for oil companies
worldwide. He is partcularly well known for his work in Kuwait in 1991 where he lead
Superiors subsidiary Wild Well Controls fre fghtng teams in the successful and
safe capping of 137 oil wells. Formerly President and Chief Operatng Ofcer of
Wild Well Control from 2000 untl April this year, Pat Campbell will in his new role at
Superior oversee the companys global subsea well interventon expansion as well as
its decommissioning and well control business.

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Herman Zant
Project Manager Inde Decommissioning
NAM as part of Shell EP Europe

Herman Zant currently works for Shell EP Europe (NAM) as Project Manager
responsible for leading the Indefatgable decommissioning project team. He was
born in the Netherlands in 1960. Afer graduatng in Energy Technology from HTS
Groningen, he worked for six years as a sales engineer in the refrigeraton industry
afer 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
capacites. He worked abroad in Brunei from 1997 to 2003 as head of front-end
engineering for ofshore east.
SESSION 2
The North Sea Portolio What is the market?
Kai Birger Olson
Regional UK Director
Ramboll Oil & Gas
Kai Olsen graduated as a structural engineer in 1975 and has been working in
ofshore oil and gas ever since. Afer an inital 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 untl he was appointed
Director for Business Development in 2003. He has been responsible for the
development of the small monotower platorms which have been widely used in the
Danish North Sea and in ofshore Qatar, in the Persian Gulf.
Kai is now responsible for the Ramboll Oil & Gas actvites in the UK.
Peter Valkenier
Engineering & Constructon Manager
Wintershall Noordzee B.V.
Peter Valkenier has been working in the ofshore industry for more than 20 years.
Afer his study, he joined a constructon company in the Netherlands and worked in
the Project Management department. He was responsible for new-built platorms
and major ofshore modifcatons for Dutch operators. Peter than changed over to
the Commercial department where he was responsible for the marketng and sales
actvites 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
platorm project.
His current positon is that of Engineering and Constructon Manager.

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SESSION 3
Decommissioning Strategies
Peter Stephenson
Executve Chairman
Able UK Ltd
Peter Stephenson is the Executve Chairman of the Able Group of Companies,
which he founded over 40 years ago and developed into a signifcant force for the
dismantling/demoliton industry. Today Able specialises in the decommissioning of
major redundant facilites such as power statons, oil, gas, petrochem and chemical
plants.
Ables unequalled experience has been further advanced by its ofshore involvement
in the disposal of over 60 ofshore oil and gas modules.
Kre Kristng
Decommissioning Consultant
Design Alpha as

Kre Kristngs career in the Norwegian oil and gas industry stretches back to its
infancy. His frst four years of work were spent in ofshore supply and logistcs in
West Norway, then in 1978 he began working as Superintendent on Statjord A
during hook up and commissioning and in 1981 he saw the start up of the frst
Statoil producton company (Gullfaks Producton Company).
Following a number of years in South East Asia setng up contractng operatons
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 platorm. In 2001 he became Vice President for decommissioning at Aker
Solutons and since 2008 has been running his own decommissioning consultancy
Design Alpha.
Robert Byrd
Senior Vice President
Proserv Ofshore
Dr. Byrd is a Senior Vice President at Proserv Ofshore (formerly Twachtman, Snyder
& Byrd, Inc.) of Houston, Texas. He has over 30 years experience in the ofshore
oil and gas industry and for the past 15 years has focused on ofshore oil and gas
platorm 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 Capabilites and Opportunites
Allan Browne
Business Unit Manager for Halliburtons SureStream Flow Assurance Services
Halliburton Pipeline & Process Services
Allan Browne is the Business Unit Manager for Halliburtons SureStream Flow
Assurance Services within the Pipelines Division. SureStream concerns itself
primarily with the remediaton of problem pipelines which have experienced lost
throughput due to the depositon of either waxes, scales, asphaltenes, corrosion
products, hydrates and emulsions or combinaton of these.
For the last six years, Allan has worked for Halliburton Pipeline and Process
Services where he coordinated the integraton of products, specialist services and
technologies under the SureStream umbrella. His responsibilites also included
overseeing the marketng 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 Masters degree in
Marketng from The Robert Gordon University.
Mike Freak
Business Segment Manager
Halliburton
Mike Freak graduated with a BSc Honours in Aeronautcal 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 completon 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 operatons 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 Perforatng
Services, Mike is responsible for explosives services and cased hole logging and
perforatng operatons.
Jules Schoenmakers
Planning Lead Well Abandonments
NAM 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. Afer 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
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Phil Chandler
Senior Petroleum Engineer
InterAct Actvity Management Ltd
Phil Chandler has over 25 years experience in both operator and service sectors.
As a petroleum engineer for Amoco he gained well operatons experience
before transferring to drilling. For the past 12 years Phil has worked with various
organisatons within the Acteon Group, (UWG, Claxtons, Team and InterAct), and
gained wide experience of operatonal project management.
In the past three years in partcular Phil has focused on the well decommissioning
market; from well categorisaton work in support of UWGs vessel based Suspended
Well Abandonment Tool (SWAT) operatons to preparing well decommissioning
studies for Oil & Gas UK, Shell, Talisman, BP, Perenco and others clients.
Per Lund
Senior Vice President Business Development and Sales
Norse Cutng & Abandonment
Per Lund holds an MSc in Naval Architecture from the University of Trondheim. Per
joined Norse Cutng & Abandonment in 1999 and has since had a number of key
positons in the company. He has played an important role in numerous subsea
cutng, abandonment and decommissioning projects in the North Sea, Africa, Gulf
of Mexico and the Middle East.
Aart Ligterink
Manager Marketng and Business Development
Seaway Heavy Lifing eng. BV
Aart Ligterink graduated with a BSc in Civil Engineering in 1980 and has been working
in the ofshore industry since 1982. Aart began his career with Heerema, where he
worked in foundaton engineering for nine years.
Shortly afer the incepton of Seaway Heavy Lifing, in 1992, Aart joined the
company as Manager Marketng and Business Development. In this job he was
heavily involved in the growth of the company by expanding the actvites for their
crane vessel Stanislav Yudin to the Middle East and India. Since 2005 he has worked
on the business case for Seaway Heavy Lifings 5000mt new crane vessel, the Oleg
Strashnov, currently under constructon and due to become operatonal in 2010.
Aart wrote a paper about the removal of the Conoco Viking A complex removal
and gave a presentaton in Bergen in 2007 on the removal of Southern North Sea
platorms.
SESSION 5
North Sea Portolios - Interactve Share Fair Session
The following companies will present:
Jonathan Davison
SNS Decommissioning Manager
Chris Gray
UK Decommissioning Manager
Tony Lobban
Operatons Manager Bacton and Hewet Assets
Richard Innes
Decommissioning Engineer
Bob Hemmings
EoFL Coordinator
Stewart Ford
Project Manager
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Special thanks to
Principal Sponsor DECC
Supportng Sponsor Aker Qserv
Dinner Sponsor BP
Lanyard Sponsor Ofshore Design Engineering

Thanks also go to the following for their support in making this conference a success
Our speakers
Newcastle Marriot Gosforth Park
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