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Conference
Steering Committee
Elmer P. Danenberger, III,
USA
Conference Steering Committee Chairman
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.
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