11.30 – Decom Week Golf Day

This event is kindly supported by our Decom Week Golf Day Partner

Golfers are invited to join the Decom Mission team for breakfast rolls and coffee, a round of golf, and an early evening BBQ.

Teams of four will compete in a Texas Scramble, with a shotgun start at 1.00pm.

Wells Decommissioning Forum: Effective Well Abandonment Workshop

This workshop is kindly supported by the Wells Decommissioning Forum Partner

Hosted by the North Sea Transition Authority (NSTA)

1130 Registration

1145 Working buffet lunch

1215 Welcome
Sam Long, CEO, Decom Mission

1220 Workshop Introduction
Chair: Suzie Coull, Senior Wells Decommissioning Engineer, NSTA

1225 Addressing the critical themes; Well Planning & Action Regulation and Stewardship, Well P&A Plan and Data

Alastair Bisset, Head of Decommissioning, NSTA

A Perspective on UKCS Well Decommissioning

Alasdair Thomas, Decommissioning Manager, NSTA

1245 Group Discussion Round Table

1330 Group Feedback and Panel Session

1400 Comfort Break

1415 Industry Presentations
Chair: Tom Hall, Halliburton

1420 Darren Stuart, Exceed

1435 Wellhead Severance: A Well by Well Approach

Blair McConachie, DeepOcean

1450 Will Black, EnQuest

1505 Phase 3 – Vessel Based Well Abandonment

Neil Watson, Claxton Engineering

1520 Panel Session

Chair: Tom Hall, Halliburton

Darren Stuart, Exceed

Blair McConachie, DeepOcean

Will Black, EnQuest

Neil Watson, Claxton

1540 Close
Sam Long, CEO, Decom Mission

The Decom Mission Awards 2024

The Decom Mission Awards 2024 are kindly supported by Welcome Reception Sponsor, Corecut, as well as award sponsors Utility ROV, North Sea Transition Authority (NSTA), and Zero Waste Scotland.

 

   

A celebration of decommissioning success. Read more about the awards finalists here.

1730 – Welcome Reception

Speaker – Bob Keiller

2300 – Carriages

0800 Registration | Coffee | Exhibition

0830 Welcome
Sam Long, CEO, Decom Mission

Annual Report
Sam Long and Peter Sueref, Empirisys

0900 Opportunities and challenges: Adapting to Change in Subsea Decommissioning
Stuart Cameron, Boskalis Subsea Services

0915 Decommissioning readiness in an uncertain environment
Innes Jordan, CNOOC International

0935 Building teams through diversity
Guest presenter, Mark McBride-Wright, Founder and CEO, Equal Engineering

1000 Panel Session:
Chair, Sam Long

Stuart Cameron, Boskalis Subsea Services

Innes Jordan, CNOOC International

Mark McBride-Wright, Equal Engineering

Kirsty Lal, NSTA

Anita Avgucevica, eServ

1030 Coffee Break | Networking | Exhibition

 

Parallel Sessions

Ballroom, Ardoe House Hotel

11.00  The Role of Technology
Chair: Richard Lind

11.15 D4NZ – Supporting Decision Making
Malcolm Stone, NDC

11.20 NDA Group and AI
Carl Dalby, Nuclear Decommissioning Authority

11.35 Deployment of technology across the energy industry
Craig Baxter, Claxton

Elliot Suite. Ardoe House Hotel

1100 Enabling diversity workshop
Mark McBride-Wright
Joined by Emerging Professionals (EPLLD) & Women in Decom

1200 Close of parallel sessions and reconvene in Ballroom

1210 Feedback from Diversity Workshop
Mark McBride-Wright

1230 Facilitated Discussion – Kurt Lindley, BeMore education and learning

1300 – 1400 Lunch

 

Parallel Sessions

Ballroom, Ardoe House Hotel

1400 Network with the exhibitors

Exhibitors indoors and outdoors, see the app for list and locations

1430 What have we learned, what do we do with it?

Introduction: Sam Long, Decom Mission

Learning from Late Life Operations
Chair: Rama Sharma, Xodus

Panel:
John Davey, EnQuest
Alasdair Thomas, NSTA
Jim Christie, Promethean
Caroline Lawford, CNRI

Elliot Suite, Ardoe House Hotel

1400-1645 Meet the Buyers, one-to-one sessions

Bob Crowe, Boskalis Subsea Services
Iain Gartshore, Subsea 7
Georgina Hosford, CNOOC International
Mark Raistrick, CNRI
Bryan Smith, DeepOcean
Nick Tulip, EnQuest
Alistair Gilmour, Petrofac
Rainier Duijts, Shell

Alasdair Thomas, NSTA

 

1515 Coffee | Networking | Exhibition

1545 Making Collaboration Real
Chair: Roy Aspden

1550 Roy Aspden, Independent

1600 Nic Duncan, Xodus

1615 Kitar Solutions: A partnership of strength for SE Asia

Graeme Fergusson, AF Offshore Decom

1630 Collaborating to drive safety awareness
Genevieve Martin, Shell UK

1645 Panel Session

Chair: Roy Aspden, Independent

Nic Duncan, Xodus

Graeme Fergusson, AF Offshore Decom

Genevieve Martin, Shell UK

1710 Closing Remarks
Sam Long, CEO, Decom Mission

 

 

Social Evening, Stonehaven

18.00 Bus leaves Ardoe House Hotel

Informal meal at the Marine Hotel, Stonehaven (PYOW)

21.00 Bus returns to Ardoe House Hotel

0800 Breakfast | Networking | Exhibition

0830 Welcome and learnings from Day One
Sam Long, CEO, Decom Mission

08.35 Wisdom of crowds – the many are smarter than the few
Guest presenter, Kurt Lindley, Be More Learning and Development Limited

0930 Panel Session
Chair: Callum Falconer, Operations Director, Decom Mission

1000 Break

Parallel Sessions:

Ballroom, Ardoe House Hotel

1010 Serious Play – Getting to the real challenges
Workshop with Kurt Lindley

Elliot Suite, Ardoe House Hotel

1010 Cross Sector Workshop with NDA
Facilitator – Sam Long

1115 Coffee | Networking | Exhibition

1145 Decom Pitch Battle, Chair Roger Esson, Centurion

Panel:
Neil Gordon, Global Underwater Hub
Richard Lind, Ashtead Technology
Taylor Erridge, James Fisher Decommissioning

12.30 Buffet Lunch

13.30 Driving Material Change
Chair: Dawn Robertson, Bureau Veritas

13.35 Renewables Decom – somebody else’s problem?
Charlotte Stamper, EMR

13.55 The Challenge of Comparative Assessment
Joe Nicolette, Montrose Environmental

14.15 Circular economy and material management
Kenny Taylor, Zero Waste Scotland & Terri Vogt, ETZ

14.35 Panel Discussion

Chair: Dawn Robertson, Bureau Veritas

Charlotte Stamper, EMR

Joe Nicolette, Montrose Environmental

Kenny Taylor, ZWS

Terri Vogt, ETZ

15.05 Decommissioning Challenges in Offshore Renewables
Facilitator: Charlotte Stamper, EMR

Round table workshop with RWE

15.45 Closing Remarks
Sam Long

10.30 Cycling and walking in Deeside

Scolty Hill Walk, Banchory