Agenda

EMBRACING THE CHALLENGE
Thursday 6 February 2025

7.45 am to 8.45 a.m

Registration opens

Exhibition & catering available

OPENING PLENARY

Welcome & introduction
  • 8.45 am
  • Mark Wilson, HSE & Operations Director, Offshore Energies UK

Welcome & introduction

Keynote address
  • 8.50 am
  • Dave Whitehouse, Chief Executive, Offshore Energies UK

Keynote address

Panel session
  • 9.10 am

Panel session

Facilitated by Jenny Stanning, External Relations Director, Offshore Energies UK

• Professor Lucy Easthope, Disaster Recovery Specialist
• Scott Barr, Managing Director – UK Business Unit, Harbour Energy
• Marielle Inizan, Asset Director – UK Central North Sea, TotalEnergies E&P UK
• Dave Whitehouse, Chief Executive, Offshore Energies UK

9.50 am to 10.30 am

Refreshments break and exhibition visit

PARALLEL SESSION 1

Delegates to self-select which conference stream they wish to attend

HEALTH

A Strategic approach to health challenges

Chaired by Carolyn Smith, HSE Advisor, Offshore Energies UK

Hear from the regulator on their strategic priorities for health in the workplace and understand how that will inform your own approach, gain insights into workforce engagement on health issues and learn more about the wellbeing assessments that underpin strategic action.

  • 10.35 am

Introduction & scene setter

  • 10.40 am
  • Mike Calcutt, Deputy Director, Health & Safety Executive

HSE’s Strategy for Workplace Health

  • 11.00 am
  • Laura Hardie, Health & Wellbeing Manager, Bilfinger UK

Engaging the workforce: Health and wellbeing in the offshore sector

  • 11.20 am
  • Aimee Pert, Injury Prevention Subject Matter Expert (Europe), SLB

Worksite wellbeing assessment

11.40 am to 12.00 pm

Panel Session

SAFETY

Collaboration, simplification, purposeful planning and deeper learning

Chaired by Richard Koops, Director in dss+ Oil, Gas & Energy Practice, dss+

From strategy to implementation, this session from senior leaders, and leading energy companies reviews aspects of collaboration to achieve a measurable change in safety performance. The session covers cross-disciplinary approaches to process safety and decommissioning and looks at effective learning from incidents.

Session sponsor
  • 10.35 am

Introduction & Scene Setter

  • 10.40 am
  • Craig Wiggins, CEO, Step Change in Safety

Guiding a coalition to drive the reduction of incidents and injuries in the energy industry over the next three years

  • 10.55 am
  • Mike Richardson, Principal Process Safety Engineer - UK Business Unit & Jamie Harcus, Lead Process Safety Engineer – UK Business Unit, Harbour Energy

It’s all about the barriers; Making process safety barriers simple and relatable. Where do Human Factors fit in?

  • 11.10 am
  • Mark Wilson, Project Manager, TAQA UK

Disembarkation: Changing Focus, Resolute Commitment to Safety

  • 11.25 am
  • Chris Cunningham, Senior Production Operations Engineer, Shell UK

Stepping back from the consequences of incidents – Using causal information to inform safety improvements

11.40 am to 12.00 pm

Panel Session

ENVIRONMENT

Marine Spatial Planning & Co-existence

Chaired by Christer Bjorno-Husa, Sales & Marketing Director, NEMS AS

As the offshore energy industry expands, ensuring coexistence with all ocean users is critical. This session details the challenges different marine users face and explores the collaborative approaches that can be taken to balance stakeholder requirements and environmental stewardship. Discover how this strategic approach aligns industry needs with regulatory requirements, fosters collaboration, and ensures coexistence with other marine users. Join the discussion to aid an industry eager to co-exist and regulators involved in marine spatial planning drive efficiency, reduce conflicts, and accelerate project delivery.

Session sponsor
  • 10.35 am

Introduction & scene setter

  • 10.40 am
  • Ian Hay, Project Officer, EGCP

The Marine Spatial Planning Game

  • 10.50 am
  • Louise O’Hara Murray, Marine Planning Manager, Scottish Government

Regulatory perspective: Developing a new National Marine Plan for Scotland

  • 11.00 am
  • John Watson, Senior HSE Advisor, Spirit Energy

Marine spatial planning – A hydrocarbons perspective

  • 11.10 am
  • Nichola Lacey, Environment Manager EMEA, Xodus Group

Wind perspective - MSP challenges for offshore wind

  • 11.20 am
  • Robert Merrylees, Policy Manager (Safety & Nautical) & Analyst, The UK Chamber of Shipping

Co-existing in the marine space – A shipping perspective

  • 11.30 am
  • Kenny Coull, Fisheries Policy Officer, The Scottish Whitefish Producers Association

Fishing perspective

11.40 am to 12.00 pm

Panel Session

12.00 pm to 1.00 pm

Lunch & exhibition visit

  • 1.00 pm

Insights into process safety leadership performance

Facilitated by Graham Skinner, Health & Safety Manager, Offshore Energies UK

• Scott Templeton, HM Principal Inspector Health & Safety, Health & Safety Executive - Improving the understanding and application of process safety leadership – the ongoing challenge
• Andrew Taylor, Technical Lead, Offshore Environmental Inspectorate, Offshore Petroleum Regulator for Environment & Decommissioning - Preventing major environmental incidents & leadership on environmental issues
• Bruce Webb, Associate Director, Scapa Energy - Process Safety Leadership Gap Assessment Industry Data 2022 to 2025
• Graham Skinner, Health & Safety Manager, Offshore Energies UK

PARALLEL SESSION 2

Delegates to self-select which conference stream they wish to attend

HEALTH

Healthy leadership and healthy culture can improve outcomes

Chaired by Carolyn Smith, HSE Advisor, Offshore Energies UK

Discover how community can underpin health and wellbeing strategies and drive improvement. Building a healthy culture requires a competent and effective leadership which can be seen as a key preventative barrier to workplace stress and poor mental health. Find out about how an preventative approach can have measurable improvements in the health of offshore workers.

  • 2.10 pm

Introduction & Scene Setter

  • 2.15 pm
  • Louise Martin, CEO & Founder, RigRun Ltd

Creating a sense of belonging in offshore workplaces to enhance health and well-being

  • 2.30 pm
  • Georgina Howden, Wellness & Lifestyle Manager, Healthoutfit Ltd

Cutting medevac rates offshore: Innovative strategies

  • 2.45 pm
  • Anurag Rai, Managing Director, AMHWAL Academy

Building resilient cultures: Leadership for mentally healthy and high-performing teams

  • 3.00 pm
  • Bruce Holcombe, Commercial Director, MCM Crisis

Care for the welfare of those affected by incidents

3.15 pm to 3.35 pm

Panel Session

SAFETY

Inspiring engagement and impactful initiatives

Chaired by Richard Koops, Director in dss+ Oil, Gas & Energy Practice, dss+

Gain insight into how to communicate corporate policies to the frontline. Discover how leadership can impact the safety performance of your organisation and discover key initiatives that are keeping people safe.

Session sponsor
  • 2.10 pm

Introduction & Scene Setter

  • 2.15 pm
  • Rebecca Melody, Assurance Manager, Perenco UK-SNS

Understanding PUK corporate major accident prevention policy

  • 2.30 pm
  • Ashley Hynds, Senior Principal Consultant - Process Safety, DNV

Sailing the Supertanker - charting a safe course

  • 2.45 pm
  • Gillian Urquhart, Regional HSE & Carbon Manager, bp

Recordable injuries - an operator perspective

  • 3.00 pm
  • Bryan Horton, Senior Principal Engineer – Offshore Structures and Lisa Doyle, Chief Technical Safety Engineer, Kent Energies UK Ltd

Managing the risks associated with the extreme environmental loading hazard through de-staffing

3.15 pm to 3.35 pm

Panel Session

ENVIRONMENT

LAUNCHING THE OEUK SHORELINE RESPONSE PLAN DATABASE FOLLOWED BY Closing the Loop: Embracing the Circular Economy in Offshore Energy

Chaired by Christer Bjorno-Husa, Sales & Marketing Director, NEMS AS

As the offshore energy sector navigates the twin challenges of decarbonisation and resource efficiency, adopting circular economy principles has become a game-changer. This session explores how the industry can design out waste, extend asset lifecycles, and repurpose materials to create a sustainable future. Join leading experts and innovators as they share real-world examples, strategies, and technologies that are embracing the challenge of reshaping offshore operations—reducing environmental impacts while boosting economic value.

Session sponsor
  • 2.10 pm

Introduction & Scene Setter

  • 2.15 pm
  • Paul Bowerman, Principal Consultant & Samu Turi, Graduate Environmental Engineer & Timothy Fegan, Lead Geospatial Consultant, Xodus Group

Launch of Shoreline Response Plan Database

  • 2.35 pm
  • Kenny Taylor, Partner – Net Zero Infrastructure, Zero Waste Scotland

Offshore energy’s circular economy practices ecosystem

  • 2.50 pm
  • Jip Andrew, Head of QHSE & Katie Morrison, Sustainability Advisor, Centurion & Chris Tait, Design Researcher, Brunel University & Xinyu Liu, Research Associate, Loughborough University

Towards 2050: Achieving metal circularity through university and industry collaboration

  • 3.05 pm
  • Yngve Nilsen, Offshore Norge

Material sharing through digital collaboration

3.15 pm to 3.35 pm

Panel Session

3.35 pm to 4.00 pm

Refreshments break and exhibition visit

  • 4.00 pm
  • Caroline Brown, Environment Manager, Offshore Energies UK

Introduction & scene setter

  • 4.05 pm
  • Professor Lucy Easthope, Disaster Recovery Specialist

Come what may: Embracing the challenges of a turbulent world

Closing call to action
  • 4.50 pm
  • Mark Wilson, HSE & Operations Director, Offshore Energies UK

Closing call to action

  • 5.00 pm

Event close

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