Senior Development Manager CCUS, The Crown Estate

Adrian Topham

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Senior Energy Advisor, True North Advisors

Allister Thomas

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HSSES Service Delivery Manager - Ops EMEA, Wood

Ann McCreath

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Chief Technology Officer, COMET

Arrash Nekonam

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Environment Manager, Offshore Energies UK

Caroline Brown

Caroline Brown is the Environment Manager for Offshore Energies UK and supports environmental compliance for the UK offshore assets. Prior to joining OEUK 3 years ago, Caroline held an 18 year career with oil & gas service companies working in a range of operational and environmental roles. Caroline has a BSc in Environmental Science and is a Chartered Environmentalist.

Senior HSE Advisor, Offshore Energies UK

Carolyn Smith

Carolyn is a Charterer Environmental Health and Chartered Safety professional, who has a heart-felt vocation for the job. She has held various HSEQ Management positions, worked in very demanding business environments, and now draws on her >15 years of HSEQ experience to manage and influence people at all levels. Carolyn thrives on facilitating, motivating, and engaging a variety of stakeholders to maintain and exceed HSEQ objectives.

Carolyn is truly passionate about health, safety, and risk reduction – how we can protect people, mitigate negative impacts, and improve safety culture.

Her personal goal is to do everything she can to ensure that everyone who goes to work, comes back home safely to their loved ones.

Managing Director, Enhancing Excellence

Chris Stirling

Chris is an Airline Captain with a major UK airline, bringing over 20 years of aviation experience to his role. His career spans both the aviation and rail industries, giving him a unique perspective on operational safety, leadership, and human performance.  In addition to flying regularly, he trains Crew Resource Management to flight and cabin crew.

He is the Managing Director of Enhancing Excellence, a company dedicated to delivering high-impact Human Factors training to operational teams across safety-critical sectors. Through this work, he focuses on developing frontline resilience, decision-making, and capability by equipping staff to become more effective mentors and coaches.

His practical, experience-led approach bridges the gap between theory and real-world application, making a lasting difference to team culture and performance. Passionate about empowering people at every level, Chris continues to lead and inspire initiatives that drive operational excellence and create safer, smarter teams.

Sales and Marketing Director, NEMS AS

Christer Bjorno-Husa

Christer Bjørnø-Husa is the Sales and Marketing Director at NEMS AS, a leading provider of SaaS-based environmental management & ESG solutions for the Oil & Gas/Energy sector. With over 15 years of experience in strategic business development and international sales, Christer has driven growth across the oil, gas, and energy industries. His expertise spans ESG reporting, sustainable innovation, and enhancing workflow efficiencies and collaboration in managing complex reporting processes.

Christer holds an Executive MBA with a focus on Sustainable Finance from the University of Stavanger. He is passionate about leveraging technology to help organizations meet their environmental goals while navigating complex regulatory landscapes.

Founder, Salus Technical

David Jamieson

David Jamieson is the founder and director of Salus Technical Limited, a Scottish company at the forefront of process safety and risk management. Since starting Salus in 2015, he has grown the business from a specialist consultancy into a global provider of safety software, training, and expertise. Today, Salus delivers the Salus Suite of software tools, used by organisations worldwide to strengthen barrier management and risk assessment, and is pioneering AI Copilots for process safety that bring regulatory knowledge and assurance into day-to-day operations.

A former Formula 1 engineer and Principal Technical Safety Engineer for a UK oil major, David has built Salus around the idea that safety tools should be practical, trusted, and easy to use in the real world.

Chief Executive, Offshore Energies UK

David Whitehouse

David joined Offshore Energies UK on 1 January 2023 as Chief Executive.

David is an established industry leader with 30 years of experience in the oil and gas industry. He has extensive knowledge of the North Sea sector, and most recently spent 7 years as the Managing Director of CNR International. David is respected across the sector for his strategic and hands-on leadership in the North Sea and around the world, including the USA, Netherlands, and Philippines.

His passion for energy, engineering and innovation is built on a PhD in Theoretical Chemistry from Cambridge University and a degree in Chemistry from Manchester University. He is currently studying at the University of Aberdeen for a Masters in Renewable Engineering.

HSE Lead, Spirit Energy

Donnie Munro

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Project Manager, Petrofac / CB&I Asset Solutions

Donny Chisholm

Donny Chisholm served as a Police Officer for 30 years from Constable to Chief Inspector.  He specialised as a Police Negotiator / Coordinator and led the transition of Police Negotiator provision across Scotland during the formation of Police Scotland in 2013.  He served within the Energy Industry Liaison Unit harmonising offshore emergency response and crisis management protocols through EPOL, UKPOEG and visiting many offshore installations.  He retired as the Critical Incident Manager within the North Area Control Room in Aberdeen.  Donny joined Petrofac as a Project Manager where he shares his emergency response and crisis management experience / skills to best effect.  Donny translates his passion for supporting those suffering deteriorating Mental Health offshore through his involvement as a Mental Health First Aider and, recently acquiring Public Health Scotland accreditation for the delivery of the globally recognised ‘Living Works’ Applied Suicide Intervention Training (ASIST), specifically targeting the offshore community.

Environment & Emissions Manager, TotalEnergies E&P UK Ltd

Elaine Yeoman

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O&G Asset Decarbonisation Lead, Kent

Graham Filsell

Graham Filsell is a Chartered Chemical Engineer with over 20 years’ experience in the O&G industry, supporting clients predominantly in feasibility and concept assessments for brownfield developments, as well as providing operational support for complex process issues. In Graham’s role at Kent, understanding the changing landscape of O&G operations through the energy transition is critical to supporting clients on their journey to Net Zero. Graham recently led a baselining activity for a major NOC across all their assets, identifying the projects, challenges, and risks associated with achieving their commitment to the World Bank’s Zero Routine Flaring by 2030 initiative. He has also contributed to the ASTF’s Net Zero Culture guideline and has been involved in developing a guideline for the Energy Institute related to the economics of decarbonisation projects.

Health & Safety Manager, Offshore Energies UK

Graham Skinner

Graham Skinner is the Health & Safety Manager at Offshore Energies UK, where he leads efforts to manage health and safety concerns while fostering collaboration among members to enhance offshore safety across the UK. His role encompasses process safety, major accident hazards, and personal safety, as well as aviation safety, security, and operational resilience. Graham is a Chartered Engineer and a member of the Energy Institute.

Graham began his career in the energy sector with a drilling contractor, holding various roles on land rigs and mobile offshore drilling units in the Middle East and Africa. Encountering extreme operating conditions, security challenges and developed a high degree of personal resilience.  In 2013, he transitioned to the UK Health and Safety Executive, where he regulated the safety of well engineering and operations.

Since joining Offshore Energies UK in February 2023, Graham has delivered strategic responses to key challenges, such as reducing maintenance backlogs. He supports UK and Scottish Government national resilience efforts via the Industry Resilience Group and various exercises and workshops

CEO, Seabed User & Developer Group

Jennifer Godwin

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Health & Hygiene Technical Manager

Julie Hart

Julie Hart, BSc Biomedical Science – 12 years as an analyst in toxicology and clinical pathology for pharmaceutical trials company based in Edinburgh, gave me a great opportunity to hone my analytical techniques and appreciation for robust quality assurance, even if frustrating at times. This experience also taught me the values of teamwork and collaboration between researchers. The following 20 years have been based in the Oil and Gas Sector with Commercial Microbiology then becoming Intertek, a greater focus has been on customer service and determination to support the welfare and health our colleagues working onboard North Sea Assets.

Supply Chain & People Director, Offshore Energies UK

Katy Heidenreich

Katy Heidenreich is the Supply Chain & People Director at Offshore Energies UK. She has responsibility for championing the world-class capabilities of the UK supply chain and the industry’s highly skilled workforce.

Katy focuses on helping the sector maximise its opportunity to deliver as much of the UK’s energy needs as possible and drive the technology and innovation required to deliver net zero targets.

Katy Heidenreich brings more than 28 years of industry experience to the role, mainly from Schlumberger Oilfield Services where she has worked across a variety of technical, commercial and senior management roles in the UK, Norway and Azerbaijan.

Robotics and Autonomous Systems Lead, TotalEnergies E&P UK Ltd

Kris Kydd

Kris is a chartered electrical engineer with over 20 years’ experience in the Energy Industry with previous roles including operations and robotics from R&D to site implementation. Since 2022 Kris has been responsible for the implementation of a variety of emissions measurement technology including quadcopter, Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLoS) unmanned aerial systems and most recently Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) wireless spectrometers.

Kris has identified and implemented synergies between unmanned aircraft inspection and emissions measurement campaigns.  With three years’ experience in managing aerial emissions measurement campaigns, Kris plays a key role in providing operational lessons learnt and recommendations in the OEUK Aerial Methane Measurement Topic Group to establish industry guidelines based on deployment knowhow. 

Laboratory Manager, Explicit ApS

Laura De Rossi

Laura De Rossi is an Italian environmental engineer based in Copenhagen, Denmark. She joined Explicit in 2021 as an Emissions Analyst and has since progressed to a Project Manager role, before taking on her current position as Laboratory Manager, leading the project management team. Laura brings several years of hands-on experience delivering emissions monitoring campaigns and is responsible for overseeing the delivery of all emission reports at Explicit, ensuring full compliance with ISO 17025 accreditation requirements. Her experience also includes offshore measurement campaigns on oil and gas platforms, combining technical leadership with real-world expertise.

Deputy to the SOSREP, HM Government

Lisa Tuckwell

Lisa Tuckwell is a senior maritime leader with over 20 years of experience across the Royal Navy, oil and gas consultancy, and the Civil Service.

Since her appointment as Deputy to the Secretary of State’s Representative for Maritime Salvage and Intervention (SOSREP) in 2019, she has played a critical role in protecting UK maritime interests through strategic leadership and expert incident management.

Lisa has led responses to several major maritime incidents, including the Stena Immaculate tanker allision and MV Mazarine grounding, demonstrating her ability to coordinate complex, multi-agency operations and make high-level decisions under pressure.

She represents the Secretaries of State for Transport and for Energy Security and Net Zero during incidents, assuming full authority in the SOSREP’s absence.

Her impact extends beyond operational leadership. Lisa is a committed mentor, actively supporting the development of colleagues across the civil service. She shares her expertise in salvage, environmental protection, and emergency planning, through forums and conferences alike.

Senior Marine Protected Areas Advisor, JNCC

Louise Cook

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Medical Advisor, Offshore Energies UK

Mark Cheesman

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Founder & CEO, EqualEngineers

Mark McBride-Wright MBE

Dr Mark McBride-Wright MBE CEng FIChemE FEI is an award-winning safety engineer, author, and international speaker specialising in inclusive safety leadership. Founder and CEO of EqualEngineers, he works with major organisations across high-hazard sectors to create cultures where every individual feels safe to speak up, contribute, and thrive.

Mark established the longitudinal research study on Masculinity in Engineering®. He is the author of The SAFE Leader®: Engineering Inclusive Cultures, introducing his flagship SAFE framework—Share, Act, Feel, Empower—which bridges psychological and physical safety to transform organisational performance.
A Chartered Chemical Engineer and Royal Academy of Engineering Visiting Professor, Mark has advised government, professional institutions, and global engineering leaders on safety culture, diversity, and organisational transformation.

Named on the Financial Times’ Future LGBT Leaders list and appointed MBE for services to diversity in engineering, his mission is to make workplaces safer, fairer, and more human. Mark hosts The SAFE Leader Podcast, sharing stories and practical insights on the future of leadership.

Energy Operations Director, Offshore Energies UK

Mark Wilson

Mark Wilson is the Energy Operations Director, for Offshore Energies UK and supports HSE & operational arrangements for the UK offshore assets.

The first part of Mark’s career was with the British Army as a mechanical engineer, where he worked through the ranks to retire as a Major.  His second part of his career has been working in the energy sector where he has held HSE and operational roles both on and offshore. 

Mark holds a voluntary role as a Charity Trustee for the UK’s Oil and Gas Chaplaincy.  Out of work his interests are road cycling, family time in the campervan and developing his artistic abilities via watercolour paintings. 

Environmental, Carbon & Social Responsibility Manager – NOJV's, bp

Melanie Netherway

Skilled environmental, social and regulatory compliance professional within the energy sector, with
experience globally supporting both onshore and offshore energy activities from exploration through to decommissioning, and within Joint Ventures. I am a Chartered Environmentalist and have extensive experience working within protected and environmentally sensitive areas.

Chair of OEUK Environmental Operators Technical Group.

Managing Director, Seacroft Marine Consultants Limited

Michael Cowlam

Michael, studied at the University of Aberdeen graduating with a BSc Honours Degree in Marine Resource Management, has been a pivotal figure at Seacroft for over 20 years, serving as co-owner and director. He spearheads the Marine Technical side of the business, playing a crucial role in shaping the company’s products and services. His extensive understanding of marine operations and search and rescue, at a practical and academic level, has been instrumental in devising innovative and highly specialised operational and commercial strategies for the safe and effective use of marine assets and resources. Michael is also a volunteer Coxswain at Aberdeen Lifeboat Station with 25 years of service executing well over 250 search and rescue missions.

Technical Director, Bureau Veritas

Mike Meen

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Principal Inspector, Health & Safety Executive

Neil Grace

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General Manager - HSE & Assurance, CNOOC International

Neil Shand

Following a seven-year career with the Health & Safety Executive as an Offshore Inspector, Neil joined CNOOC International in Aberdeen as a Drilling HSE Advisor in 2007. By 2008 he was Regional Manager HSE for CNOOC’s Yemen operations, working in the field for more than two years and supporting the development of national workforce into leadership roles. At the end of 2010, a move to Calgary into a global HSE role was followed by three years as General Manager of HSE for CNOOC’s Oilsands business in Fort McMurray. In 2018, he returned to Aberdeen as Senior Manager for HSE operations and projects.

In 2023, Neil was promoted to his current role, General Manager – HSE & Assurance, with responsibility for leading safe, sustainable, and compliant operations across CNOOC’s UK business.

Senior Advisor: Sustainability, bp

Peter Evans

Peter Evans holds a PhD in geochemistry and an MBA in technology management. At bp he worked on a range of environmental technology challenges, including water quality, radioactive waste, noise pollution and greenhouse gas reporting. Before joining bp he was a senior scientist for the UKs chemical metrology programme and helped establish the Energy Futures Lab at Imperial College London. He is the technical lead behind the bp programme to measure and reduce methane emissions as part of its obligations to the UN led oil and gas methane partnership (OGMP2.0). Peter chaired the OEUK group exploring the effective use of aerial measurements of methane to meet emergent regulatory requirements for greenhouse gas reporting.

Operations Director, Spirit Energy

Peter Hepburn

In July 2023, Peter joined Spirit Energy as Asset Director for the Morecambe Hub and in 2024 became Operations Director. Peter is a Chartered Chemical Engineer with an MSc in Process Technology and Management. He has 16 years of experience in the upstream oil and gas industry, with the most recent five years spent with EnQuest, where his final role was HSEA (Health, Safety, Environment and Assurance) Director. Throughout his career, Peter has demonstrated a successful track record of operational leadership and cultural change, earning recognition for delivering results and improving business performance. Peter joined Maersk Oil UK in 2007 as a Management Systems Advisor before becoming Offshore Installation Manager and laterally Operations Director. Peter joined EnQuest in 2018 ultimately being accountable for all of EnQuest’s operated production as Upstream Asset Manager.

Professor Applied Marine Biology & Ecology, University of Edinburgh & Mara Consultants Ltd

Professor J Murray Roberts

Murray Roberts leads the Changing Oceans research group (University of Edinburgh) and is a founding director of Mara Consultants Ltd. He studies deep-sea structural habitats, like cold-water corals and sponges, to optimise their long-term management. Since 1997 his work on cold-water has taken him to sites off the UK, Norway, Ireland, the SE United States, Cape Verde and the S Pacific. Among his external roles he was a contributing author to the 2014 and 2019 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Reports and co-lead editor of a 2014 United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity report on ocean acidification. He led the 1st INSITE Phase Data Initiative and was a partner in the ANChor project examining ecological connectivity between North Sea platforms. Roberts co-leads a deep-sea ecosystem restoration workpackage in the European REDRESS consortium. He is a member of the Scottish Science Advisory Council to government.

University Director for Energy Transition and Professor of Geoscience, University of Aberdeen

Professor John Underhill

John Underhill is Aberdeen University’s Interdisciplinary Director for Energy Transition and Professor in Geoscience and Energy Transition in their School of Geosciences. He is the academic executive director of the UK’s GeoNetZero* Centre of Doctoral Training (CDT). His research interests focus upon the role of geoscience in the energy transition and use of methods and data in providing the best solutions and outcomes to deliver low-carbon net zero goals. Before taking up an academic career that has seen him hold posts at Edinburgh, Heriot-Watt and Aberdeen Universities, John worked as an Exploration Geoscientist for Shell and has also undertaken sabbaticals with bp in Glasgow and Norsk Hydro in Bergen. John helped lead Heriot-Watt’s efforts to set up the Lyell Centre for Earth and Marine Science and Technology and was the University’s Chief Scientist. He was a board member of the European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers (EAGE) for three years and their President in 2011-12. John was the Chair of the National Energy Skills Accelerator (NESA), a collaboration between Aberdeen University, Robert Gordon University *RGU), North-East Scotland College, Skills development Scotland and Energy Transition Zone (ETZ) in 2022-23. An unusual fact is that he also was a professional football referee who officiated in the top-flight matches in Scotland and Europe between 1994-2008.

*GeoNetZero = The Role of Geoscience in the Energy Transition and in addressing the Challenge to meet net zero emission targets

Chief Executive Officer, Zelim

Sam Mayall

Sam Mayall is the founder and CEO of Zelim, an Edinburgh-based maritime technology company established in 2017 to transform search, rescue and maritime security through advanced AI-driven systems.

A former North Sea deck officer in the merchant navy, Sam experienced first-hand the realities of offshore emergencies, including a fatal man overboard incident that shaped his belief that lives could be saved through better technology. In his early twenties, he left his seafaring career to found Zelim. Under his leadership, Zelim has secured over £12.5m in private investment and grant funding, and a senior team drawn from global maritime safety leaders.

Zelim’s technology portfolio includes ZOE, an AI-powered detection and tracking system; Swift, a rapid rescue conveyor; and Guardian, an unmanned rescue vessel. Together, these solutions aim to dramatically reduce rescue times while removing responders from harm, advancing Zelim’s mission to make unmanned search and rescue the global standard.

Environmental Manager, OPRED

Sarah Rogers

Sarah Rogers is an experienced environmental professional who has worked across a range of roles involving regulation, stakeholder engagement, and environmental management. Her work focuses on supporting effective decision‑making and contributing to the development of good practice in environmentally sensitive contexts.

She has previously worked in a variety of environmental positions within both regulatory and industry settings, providing broad support on environmental considerations across different types of projects.

Occupational Health & Industrial Hygiene Manager, Altrad Integrity Services

Simon Walker

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Director, Ethos Empowerment

Tom P Keane

For over 30 years Tom has collaborated with several Blue-Chip Companies to improve safety leadership and safety culture. His contribution has influenced industry leaders worldwide, making ground-breaking changes to how they lead their organisation and shape their culture. Prior to this he spent 14 years in the Fire Service as an operational fire-fighter, recruit trainer and operational fire-officer.

In recent years he has focussed on how psychological safety impacts the effectiveness of leaders and their teams.

What stand out at Tom’s presentations and workshops is the enthusiasm and passion to protect people from harm, this has overflowed into Ethos Empowerment and their team of coaches.