Dirk
Kempthorne,
USA
Secretary of the U.S. Department of the
Interior
Dirk
Kempthorne was confirmed as the 49th Secretary of the U.S.
Department of the Interior on May 26, 2006, in a voice vote by the
U.S. Senate. Mr. Kempthorne took the oath of office on the same day.
Prior
to his confirmation as Secretary, Mr. Kempthorne served nearly two
terms as Governor of Idaho, elected first in 1998 and re-elected in
2002.
As
Governor, Mr. Kempthorne worked to develop consensus on management
of Idaho's and the West's natural resources. He worked with his
colleagues in Oregon, Washington and Montana to develop an historic
bipartisan agreement on a state-based solution for returning salmon
runs in the region. Following the devastating wildfires of 2000, he
worked with fellow western governors and federal officials to
fundamentally change the approach to forest health and wildfire
management. Under his leadership, Idaho developed wolf and grizzly
bear management plans aimed at delisting the endangered species and
giving the State of Idaho management responsibilities.
Before
his terms as Governor, Mr. Kempthorne completed a successful 6-year
term in the United States Senate (1993-1999). As a Senator, he
wrote, negotiated, and won passage of two major pieces of
legislation: a bill to end unfunded federal mandates on state and
local governments, and a substantial revision of the federal Safe
Drinking Water Act. He also worked to improve the quality of life
for American active-duty military personnel, reservists, their
families and veterans.
Dirk
Kempthorne began his commitment to public service as the highly
successful Mayor of the City of Boise (1985-1992). During his seven
years in office, he helped direct a renaissance in the state's
capital city that resulted in record growth, economic development
and numerous national honors and recognitions for quality of life,
business climate and family issues.
Secretary Kempthorne has been recognized by his peers as a national
leader. As Governor, his colleagues elected him as the Chairman of
the National Governors Association in August of 2003. He has served
as President of the Council of State Governments and Chairman of the
Western Governors Association. He served on the Executive Committees
of the National Governors Association and the Republican Governors
Association. Secretary of Education Rod Paige appointed
then-Governor Kempthorne to the National Assessment Governing Board
and Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge appointed him to the
Homeland Security Task Force.
Secretary Kempthorne and his wife Patricia are both University of
Idaho graduates and have two grown children, Heather and Jeff.
Ellen Seip,
Norway
Secretary General of the Norwegian Ministry of Labour and Social
Inclusion
Ellen
Seip has a Master's Degree of Sociology and is a Norwegian civil
servant. She was engaged by the Ministry of Social Affairs in 1980,
became Director General in 1987, and appointed Deputy Secretary
General in 1999. In 2002, she was appointed Secretary General of the
Ministry of Social Affairs. From 2002-03 she was Secretary General
of the Ministry of Labour and Administration and from 2004 of the
newly established Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, which in
2006 was renamed the Ministry of Labour and Social Inclusion. The
Ministry is responsible for Labour market policy, Working
Environment and Safety, Poverty and Welfare, Integration and
Diversity, Sami and Minority Affairs and Migration.
Ms. Seip holds a central position in the
implementation of Norway's new labor and welfare administration,
which also spends the greater part of Norway's state budget.
Randall B. Luthi, USA
Director, Minerals Management Service
Randall
B. Luthi was appointed Director of the Minerals Management Service
on July 23, 2007. Mr. Luthi, a former speaker of the Wyoming State
House of Representatives, is a rancher and attorney in private
practice from Freedom, Wyoming. He previously served in the
Department of the Interior and at the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
Mr. Luthi is a partner in the Luthi and Voyles law firm in Thayne,
Wyoming, and manages a cattle ranch in western Wyoming. He was first
elected to the Wyoming House of Representatives in 1995, and served
as speaker in 2005 and 2006.
He served in Washington in career positions as Senior Counselor for
Environmental Regulations in NOAA's Office of General Counsel from
1990 to 1993, and as an attorney in the Department of the Interior
Office of the Solicitor from 1986 to 1990.
Based on his work in the Wyoming legislature, Mr. Luthi developed an
understanding of the importance of royalties paid to the federal
government by companies producing energy on our public lands and
waters. As Majority Leader and Speaker of the Wyoming House, Mr.
Luthi was instrumental in formulation of state budgets which relied
heavily upon royalties and severance taxes paid by energy companies
developing federal leases. In addition, he was a legislative member
of the Energy Council, which is an organization comprised of
legislative representatives from energy producing states and
provinces and private energy-related industries that meets quarterly
to learn the latest in developments in energy related technology and
to discuss energy policy.
In addition, Mr. Luthi worked as a legislative assistant in the
office of U.S. Senator Alan K. Simpson of Wyoming. In this
capacity, Mr. Luthi provided counsel on legal and legislative issues
including oil and gas taxation.
Mr. Luthi graduated from the University of Wyoming in 1979 with a
Bachelor of Science Degree in administration of justice, and earned
a law degree from the University of Wyoming in 1982.
Matthew R.
Simmons,
USA
Chairman, Simmons & Company International
Matthew
R. Simmons is Chairman of Simmons & Company International, a
specialized energy investment banking firm. The firm has completed
approximately 629 investment banking projects for its worldwide
energy clients at a combined dollar value in excess of $84 billion.
Mr. Simmons was raised in Kaysville, Utah. He graduated cum laude
from the University of Utah and received an MBA with Distinction
from Harvard Business School. He served on the faculty of Harvard
Business School as a Research Associate for 2 years and was a
Doctoral Candidate.
Mr. Simmons began a small investment bank/advisory firm in Boston.
Among his early clients were several subsea service companies. By
1973, almost all of his clients were oil service companies.
Following the 1973 oil shock, Simmons decided to create a
Houston-based firm to concentrate on providing highest quality
investment banking advice to the worldwide oil service industry.
Over time, the specialization expanded into investment banking
covering all aspects of the global energy industry.
Today the firm has approximately 145 employees and enjoys a leading
role as one of the largest energy investment banking groups in the
world. Its offices are in Houston, Texas; London, England; Boston,
Massachusetts; and Aberdeen, Scotland.
He
serves on the Board of Directors of Brown-Forman Corporation, The
Initiative for a Competitive Inner City (Boston), Houston Technology
Center (Houston), and the Center for Houston’s Future (Houston). He
also serves on The University of Texas’ M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Foundation Board of Visitors (Houston) and is a Trustee of the
Bermuda Biological Station for Research. In addition, he is past
Chairman of the National Ocean Industry Association. Mr. Simmons
serves on the Board of Dean’s Advisors of Harvard Business School
and is a past President of the Harvard Business School Alumni
Association and a former member of the Visiting Committee of Harvard
Business School. He is a member of the National Petroleum Council,
Council on Foreign Relations and The Atlantic Council of the United
States. Mr. Simmons is a Trustee of The Farnsworth Art Museum in
Rockland, Maine, and is also a Trustee of the National Trust for
Historic Preservation.
Mr. Simmons’ recently published book Twilight in the Desert: The
Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy has been listed on
the Wall Street Journal’s best-seller list. He has also published
numerous energy papers for industry journals and is a frequent
speaker at government forums, energy symposiums, and in board rooms
of many leading energy companies around the world.
Mr. Simmons is married and has 5 daughters. His hobbies include
watercolours, cooking, writing, and travel.
Gary P. Luquette,
USA
Vice President, Chevron Corporation, and
President, Chevron North America Exploration and Production Co.
Gary
Luquette is a vice president of Chevron Corporation and is president
of Chevron North America Exploration and Production Co.
headquartered in Houston, Texas. The company is charged with
managing exploration, production, and development activities of
Chevron's North America asset base. He assumed his current position
April 1, 2006.
Prior to his current position, Mr. Luquette was the president and
managing director of Chevron Upstream Europe, headquartered in
Aberdeen, Scotland; he assumed that position in February 2003. From
June 1996 until assuming his position in Scotland, he served as
profit center manager and then vice president of Chevron's San
Joaquin Valley heavy oil operations in California. From 1993 until
1996, he served as manager of enhanced-recovery projects for PT.
Caltex Pacific Indonesia in Sumatra, Indonesia. He has held various
assignments in Chevron U.S.A. Production Co., Chevron Pipe Line Co.
and Chevron Corporation throughout his more than 25-year career.
In 1978, Mr. Luquette graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in
civil engineering from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. He
hails from Abbeville, Louisiana.
Mr. Luquette is a member of the American Petroleum Institute's
Upstream Committee and a member of the executive board of the
Greater Houston Partnership. Earlier he served as chairman of the
Step Change in Safety Leadership Team (a U.K. oil and gas industry
health and safety initiative). He also served as a member of the
United Kingdom Offshore Operators Association council and board, the
Industry Leadership Team and PILOT (a U.K. government and industry
collaborative forum for addressing major industry issues).
Jean P. Cahuzac, USA
President, Transocean Inc.
Mr.
Cahuzac is currently President of Transocean, Inc. Previously, he
served the company as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating
Officer.
Mr. Cahuzac has over 27 years of experience within the oil and gas
industry, having held various technical and senior management
positions around the world. His service included technical and
managerial positions in countries such as Nigeria, Congo, Brazil,
and the United Kingdom. While working for Schlumberger -- Sedco
Forex -- he was appointed as Vice President of Engineering in 1989,
Vice President, Europe & Africa Business Unit, in 1994, and Sedco
Forex President in early 1999.
Mr. Cahuzac earned a degree in France from Ecole des Mines Saint
Etienne and the French Petroleum Institute. He is both an active
member and director of the International Association of Drilling
Contractors and a member in the Society of Petroleum Engineers.
Elmer P. Danenberger, III, USA
Chief, Office of Offshore Regulatory Programs, Minerals
Management Service
Mr.
Danenberger earned a B.S. degree in Petroleum and Natural Gas
Engineering and a Masters degree in Environmental Pollution Control,
both from Pennsylvania State University. He has been employed as an
engineer in the Department of the Interior’s offshore oil and gas
program since 1971. He served as a staff engineer in the Gulf of
Mexico regional office; Chief of the Technical Advisory Section at
the headquarters office of the U.S. Geological Survey; District
Supervisor for MMS field offices in Santa Maria, California, and
Hyannis, Massachusetts; and as Chief of the Engineering and
Operations Division at MMS headquarters.
He is currently Chief, Office of Offshore
Regulatory Programs, with responsibilities for safety and
pollution-prevention research, engineering support, operating
regulations, and inspection and enforcement programs.
Magne Ognedal, Norway
Director, Petroleum Safety Authority Norway
Mr. Ognedal is a graduate from the University of
Newcastle upon Tyne (1967) with a BSC in Mechanical Engineering and
Electrical Engineering.
He has experience
from automation of ship engine rooms and in automatisation of
industrial processes.
Employed by the
Norwegian Petroleum Directorate from 1974, starting as a Petroleum
Engineer, later became Section Manager and from 1980 Director Safety
and Working Environment Division, dealing with all aspects within
safety and working environment for Norwegian offshore installations.
At present, Mr.
Ognedal is Director for the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway.
J. W. (Jan) de Jong,
Netherlands
Inspector-General of Mines for
the
State Supervision of Mines
Mr.
de Jong is presently the Inspector–General of Mines for the
State Supervision of
Mines, Netherlands. The State Supervision of Mines is a supervising
agency of the Ministry of Economic Affairs. It ensures that the
extraction of natural resources in the Netherlands is carried out in
a socially responsible way. Supervision of oil, gas, salt and marl
mining in the Netherlands covers safety, health, environmental
matters, subsidence, earth tremors and the effective production of
minerals.
Mr. de Jong
received a Bachelors degree in mechanical engineering and
specialized in energy-technology from Technical College. He also
studied at Heriot Watt University where he earned a Masters degree
in petroleum engineering. His thesis subject was the cleaning of
cuttings from North Sea drilling rigs.
Mr. de Jong
worked from 1975-1989 for
Shell Internationale Petroleum Maatschappij (SIPM) where
he worked in the
drilling operations department in various functions such as
trainee-driller, assistant driller, driller, well site petroleum
engineer, operations engineer and toolpusher within several SIPM
operating companies in the Netherlands, Oman, Brunei and the UK.
During the last year working in the drilling engineering / research
departments as a member of the SIPM/KSEPL drilling cost reduction
spearhead team, initiating and assisting in the implementation of
cost-reducing measures (technical and economical) within various
operating companies of Shell. Disseminating the experience with
these measures throughout the group of operating companies of the
Shell group. At the same time coordinating a number of
drilling-research projects. Co-author of several exploration and
production and research reports.
Since 1987,
he has worked for the State Supervision of Mines (SSM). Commenced
as Head of Operations, responsible for the operational activities,
i.e., inspecting, auditing, investigating, enforcing and assessing
of plans, programs, reports and safety cases. Since 1992 special
responsibility for the management of change (from hardware
inspections towards auditing , verification and monitoring of
management systems) and stimulating the companies to adopt and
implement integrated management systems for safety, health and
environment based on quality management systems like ISO 9000 and
ISO 14000.
Mr. de Jong
was appointed in 1989 as Deputy Inspector General responsible for
advising the ministry, drafting of regulations, contacts with
employers (and their associations), employees (and unions), other
governmental agencies and the media. Since 1997, he has been
responsible for directing the supervision towards a process based
approach with special attention for critical sub processes and
activities. Convincing, stimulating and supervising that the
industry does the same and adapt their management accordingly was
part thereof. Company Environmental Plans, Environmental Impact
Studies and Safety and Health documents are the most important
instruments for the management of risk for both the companies and
for the Dutch government supervising the mining activities.
Mr. de Jong
was finally appointed as Inspector–General of Mines in 2003
responsible for managing the SSM organization as a whole.
Taf Powell, United Kingdom
Program Committee Chairman
Investigation Manager, Buncefield Board
Taf
Powell is head of Health and Safety Executive’s (HSE) Offshore
Division. He graduated in Geology and Chemistry from Nottingham
University. His oil field career has been split between working in
the UK and abroad in offshore exploration and development and
regulation of the sector in licensing, well operations, policy and
safety regulation.
In 1991, he joined the HSE’s
Offshore Division from BP and started work to develop the new
offshore regulatory framework, one of Lord Cullen’s recommendations
following his inquiry into the Piper Alpha disaster.
As HSE’s Operations Manager, based
in Aberdeen, he led inspection teams and well engineer specialists
responsible for enforcing the new regulations until 2000 when he
took up the role as Director and Chief Inspector of the Offshore
Division of the HSE’s Hazardous Industries Directorate.
Taf
has been working with the International Regulators Forum promoting
the economic sustainability agenda worldwide–and gaining additional
leverage with the worldwide drilling and production industry since
its creation in 1994.
In December 2005, Taf was
appointed to lead the Government’s investigation into the Buncefield
Major Incident of December 11, 2005. The investigation reports to an
independent Board, of which Taf is a member.
Taf is
married to Judy, with a son and daughter. They live in Aberdeen,
Scotland. When spared from work and household maintenance, his
interests include outdoor activities, particularly hill walking.
John Mogford,
United Kingdom
BP Senior Group Vice President, Safety & Operations
John
Mogford has worked for over 33 years in the oil and gas industry,
mainly in Upstream Exploration and Production. In light of the Texas
City incident John was appointed Senior Group Vice President of
Safety & Operations, reporting to Tony Hayward. Previous to this
role, John returned to E&P to take up the position of Group Vice
President, Technology and Decentralised Functions. His roles prior
to joining E&P included Group Vice President for Gas, Power &
Renewables, and his remit covering the areas of Wind, Hydrogen,
Solar and NGL’s. John is also a great champion for Health and Safety
and from 1999 to 2002 he was Group Vice President for Health, Safety
and Environment. Prior to this, he was Technology Vice President
with specific responsibilities for drilling, production operations
and HSE for BP’s global E&P activities. In the early 90’s, John was
manager of BP’s North Seas Forties Field after a spell as Technical
Manager for North Sea operations having worked in field and drilling
roles culminating in the position of global drilling manager for BP.
He has worked in a variety of geographical regions including London,
Alaska, the Gulf of Mexico, Egypt and the North Sea.
After graduating from Sheffield University as a mechanical engineer,
John joined the oil and gas industry working for Schlumberger
Oilfield Services before joining BP in 1977.
He is married and has two children.
Glenn
Erwin,
USA
Project Director of the Triangle of Prevention Program for
International Union
United Steelworkers International Union
Glenn Erwin is a member of the USW (United Steelworkers
International Union) Health, Safety and Environment Department and
is the Project Director of the Triangle of Prevention (TOP) Program
for International Union.
Mr. Erwin has worked within the Petrochemical Industry for over 40
years in various positions ranging from pipeline construction to
Chemical Plant Operations and Maintenance. During this period he
has co-authored over 50 publications relating to Health and Safety
within the Petrochemical Industry, reviewed or analyzed hundreds of
incident/accident investigations and made numerous presentations to
leading industry workgroups.
He has been actively involved in the Union movement throughout this
career serving in several elected positions such as Steward,
Trustee, Vice-President and President of the Oil, Chemical, and
Atomic Workers Local 4-449 Texas City, Texas.
Mr. Erwin has extensive experience in accident investigation within
the Petrochemical Industry and he is very knowledgeable in the area
of Health & Safety. In 2005, he testified before the U.S. Senate
Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee in their
examination the appropriate role of the Federal government in
efforts to better protect the nation’s chemical facilities from
terrorist attacks. He also served as a member of the Independent
Safety Review Panel requested by the United States Chemical and
Hazards Board to review the North American Refinery operations of
British Petroleum.
Charles
Bowen, United Kingdom
Executive Director, International Association of Oil and Gas
Producers
Charles
Bowen took over as Executive Director of the International
Association of Oil and Gas Producers in February 2005, after
a 30-year career with TOTAL. He spent his early career in
development projects, and then moved into production management, HSE
management and then general management.
He had several assignments in the
Middle East, amounting to some 10 years in all, and spent 8 years
working in the
North Sea.
Dr.
Lee Hunt, USA
President, International
Association of Drilling Contractors
Dr.
Lee Hunt serves as the Chief Executive of IADC, responsible for
managing IADC's worldwide operations. Before being named President
in 1990, his prior Association positions included Manager for State
Government Affairs, Environmental Affairs and Human Resources. Dr.
Hunt holds a PhD in political science from
Northwestern
University and
received his law degree from South Texas College of Law.
Tad
LeBlanc,
USA
Vice
President, HSE&C, Baker Energy
Tad
LeBlanc has worked in the oil and gas industry for over 25 years and
has been with Baker Energy in
Houston,
TX for the past 14
years. Mr. LeBlanc has served in various positions ranging from
operations and maintenance to health, safety, environment, and
compliance.
In his current position, Mr. LeBlanc
is responsible for the overall management for Baker Energy’s Health,
Safety, Environment & Compliance Program worldwide. His team
ensures compliance with required federal, state, and international
regulatory agencies and client contractual obligations. Significant
accomplishments while managing the HSE&C Team include:
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National
MMS SAFE Award Finalist and Winner for Production Contractor
Category in 2005.
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National MMS SAFE Award Finalist and
Winner for Production Contractor Category in 2006.
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Eight MMS District Production
Contractor SAFE Awards beginning in 2003.
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The distinction of being the only
production contract company to win three (of the five) MMS
District Awards. This was achieved two years in a row (2005 &
2006).
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One of 22 individuals in the
U.S. awarded
the 2006 Corporate Leadership Award (CORLA)
Mr. LeBlanc graduated from
Nichols
State
University in
Thibodeaux,
Louisiana, with degrees
in Petroleum Technology and Petroleum Safety.
Melinda Mayes, USA
Chief, Accident Investigation Board, MMS
Melinda Mayes currently serves as the Chief, Accident Investigation
Board, of the Minerals Management Service in Herndon, Virginia. The
Board is responsible for overseeing MMS's programs for investigating
offshore accidents and analyzing accident data. The Board works
with both Regional and District offices to establish appropriate
policies and procedures for accident investigation and data
management.
Ms. Mayes has worked for MMS for 18 years, including work in the
Pacific Regional office in the areas of offshore facility plan
review, coordination with State and local agencies, and offshore
development and unitization. Before coming to MMS, she worked for 7
years as a Petroleum Geologist for ARCO Oil and Gas Company in Texas
and Colorado.
Saif Al-Naimi, Qatar
HSE Director General
Mr.
Saif S Al Naimi, Director of the HSE Regulations and Enforcement
Directorate is vested with the primary responsibilities
to stipulate the Regulations and follow up to ensure
that the players in the petroleum activities maintain high standards
of health, environment, safety and emergency preparedness and
thereby contribute in creating the greatest possible values for the
society. As Director of the Regulations & Enforcement Directorate
has Regulatory & Enforcement responsibility to ensure for HSE and
the working environment in the petroleum activities.
The
appointment to the role of Director HSE regulations & Enforcement
Directorate has been a journey of challenges after being graduated
in Chemical Engineering from Qatar University. After graduation, he
joined QP and worked in the various capacities.
He became
Manager, Corporate Quality & Management Systems and was responsible
for managing all aspects of the Quality Management System and its
development throughout the Corporation and managed all quality
issues related to projects very meticulously.
The
present job responsibilities requires to liaison with national,
regional and International Institutions and Organisations in
relation to treaties, protocols and agreements involving HSE issues
and Sustainable Development in order to develop and maintain
synergies between HSE local Regulations and the International
developments.
In the
field of Standardisation, Mr, Saif Al Naimi played a major role in
establishing the QP Standardisation Management System and in
involving QP in the national, and international standardisation
efforts which lead to the establishment of the Gulf Standards
Committee for oil and gas industry, which he is chairing now as
Qatar Petroleum representative.
An articulate visionary in Management Systems, and
Regulatory issues, Mr. Saif with his impeccable leadership and
management skills has been instrumental in the implementation of
Management Systems, Standards, Regulations and Continuous
Improvement Programs.
Alan
Richardson, United
Kingdom
Specialist Inspector, Health & Safety Executive
(Fire, Explosion, and Risk Assessment)
Alan
Richardson has 25 years experience in upstream and downstream risk
assessment, major hazard testing and offshore safety regulation. He
spent 12 years at the British Gas Engineering Research Station
including 7 years as a Project Engineer at their Spadeadam Major
Hazard Test Site. This was followed by 6 years with Lloyd’s Register
in the U.K. and Far East carrying out onshore and offshore risk
assessments, writing offshore safety cases, and running a design
verification project. Mr. Richardson joined the U.K. HSE in 1998 as
a Specialist Inspector (fire, explosion and risk assessment) and has
managed Key Programme 3, Asset Integrity Inspection, since 2005.
Iain
Paterson,
United Kingdom
Principal Inspector of Health & Safety
Health & Safety Executive
Offshore Division
Iain
Paterson is a Principal Inspector with the Health and Safety
Executive and has been employed by them for the last 14 years. He
is a Chartered Engineer and leads the Offshore Mechanical
Engineering team, concentrating on the integrity of pressure
systems, maintenance, and lifting issues. Iain chairs the Lifting
Working Group of the International Regulators' Forum, a forum of
offshore regulators from around the world, and he will tell us a
little about that work during his presentation. He has also helped
devise HSE's inspection programme KP2 concentrating on the
management of offshore lifting operations. Before his involvement
in offshore work, Iain led HSE's onshore lifting team, concentrating
mostly on the construction industry. He has been involved in the
development of European standards for wire rope, lifting chain, and
below the hook lifting accessories. Before joining HSE, Iain
worked in coal mining, aerospace, and nuclear industries.
John Clegg, Australia
CEO,
Australian National Offshore Petroleum Safety Authority
John Clegg spent 29 years in
the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) in the UK regulating mainly
onshore and offshore major hazard industries. Following the Piper
Alpha disaster in the North Sea, John, an Operations Manager, helped
set up the Offshore Division and contributed to the regime change
from prescription to goal setting.
John took up post as the
inaugural CEO of the Australian National Offshore Petroleum Safety
Authority (NOPSA) on July 1, 2004.
Ahmed Mubarak, Qatar
Manager, HSE Monitoring and Performance Department, Qatar
Petroleum
Ahmed Mubarak
received his PhD in Chemical Technology in 1976. He has authored and
co-authored over 50 books and technical articles which have been
published in various engineering/technology and science journals. He
served as Principal Auditor [IRCA registered] for Quality [ISO
9001], Environment [ISO 14001], and Occupational Health and Safety [OHSAS
18001].
Mr. Mubarak has 25
years experience in the chemical and oil and gas industry and is
currently Manager of HSE Monitoring & Performance Dept, Qatar
Petroleum.
J.
B. Verma, India
Executive
Director, Oil Industry Safety Directorate
J. B. Verma is a
Chemical Engineer from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi,
India. He has 32 years experience in Indian Oil Corporation Limited
(IOCL), a Fortune 500 company in the petroleum refining,
manufacturing and marketing sector of the oil industry.
Mr. Verma has rich
experience in diversified fields of Technical Services, Operations
and Commissioning of Hydrogen, Hydro-desulphurization, and
Hydrocracker Plants of IOCL Mathura Refinery. He has worked in the
Gujarat, Guwahati, Haldia and Mathura Refineries of IOCL in various
departments.
Presently, he is the
Executive Director, heading Oil Industry Safety Directorate (OISD),
a technical directorate under the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural
Gas (MOP&NG), Government of India, that formulates and coordinates
the implementation of a series of self-regulatory standards in the
areas of design, operation and maintenance, aimed at enhancing the
safety in the Oil & Gas Industry in India. He is steering and
guiding the safety aspects in the Oil & Gas (Upstream & Downstream)
sector of India. Periodic safety audits of industry, regular reviews
for improvement, knowledge and experience sharing are done to
achieve highest safety standards in a cost effective manner. The
offshore safety regulations are being framed presently by OISD for
fast expanding offshore exploration and development activities in
India with knowledge and assistance from International Regulatory
bodies.
Djibril Amadou Kanoute, Senegal
Operations Manager,
PETROSEN, Senegal National Oil Company
Mr. Djibril Kanoute is from Senegal. Senegal is located in West
Africa and is not yet an oil producing country.
He
graduated as a Mining Engineer from the Mining School of Rabat in
Morocco. He started his career in the early 80’s at the Direction of
Mines and Geology of the Ministry of Industrial Development of his
country.
He
joined Tullow Oil in 1986. Tullow Oil is an Irish company that first
started its activities in Senegal. He worked as a Field Engineer,
and specialised in Drilling and Production operations. In 1990, he
left Tullow Oil for PETROSEN where he was appointed in 1992 as
Manager of the Production Department and later as Operation Manager
when the company acquired a land drilling rig in 1996.
Between 1986 and 1996 he took many short courses in Drilling and
Production Operations in Canada within the OGCI (Oil & Gas
Consultants International Inc), PITS (Petroleum Industry Training
Service) and in France at the IFP (Institut Français du Petrole). He
also attended many seminars in Loss Control Management and
Occupational Health, Safety and Environmental Management.
From year 2000 until today, he moved to the management of the
company as an Operation Advisor to the General Manager. He initiated
the redaction of the terms of reference for the regulation of
exploration and production operations in order to complete petroleum
legislation of his country.
Ian Ramdahin, Trinidad and Tobago
Chief Mechanical
Engineer, Ministry of Energy and Energy Industries
Mr
Ian Ramdahin is currently the head of the HSE/Measurement Division,
Ministry of Energy and Energy Industries (MEEI), Republic of
Trinidad and Tobago, as well as a board member of the Trinidad and
Tobago Occupational Health and Safety Authority which was recently
instituted in October 2006. He is an Engineering graduate from the
University of the West Indies who has over ten years of regulatory
experience in the HSE field. A major achievement in his career so
far has been his role in the development of the Trinidad and Tobago
Verification Scheme Regime as a HSE tool for establishing technical
assurance.
Raphael Neves Moura,
Brazil
Nacional Petroleum Agency (ANP)
Mr. Moura earned a Bachelors degree
in Production Engineering from Technical College and postgraduated
in Offshore Systems Engineering at the Federal University of Rio de
Janeiro.
He worked from 1996 to 2005 for Siem Consub SA (Siem Offshore Inc.
Brazilian Subsidiary) as Project Engineer at several projects
comprising naval and underwater technology. In addition, Mr. Moura
was responsible for the diffusion of Integrated Management System
(Safety, Quality and Environment – ISO 9000 / ISO 14001 / OHSAS
18001) and was appointed as President of Internal Commission of
Accidents Prevention for 2004.
Since November 2005 he has been working for the National Petroleum
Agency (ANP*),
dealing with
inspections, auditing and investigating accidents at onshore and
offshore Production Facilities. In May 2007, ANP Board of Directors
appointed Mr. Moura as Head of the Safety Division, and he played a
central role on the establishment of the new offshore safety
regulatory model.
