All registered attendees are welcome to attend the Keynote Plenary Session!
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2016
7:00 – 8:00 a.m.
BREAKFAST
Exhibit Hall Foyer
Sponsored by:
8:00 – 9:00 a.m.
KEYNOTE PLENARY SESSION - Hall A
WELCOME & INTRODUCTION
David Paganie, Conference Director, PennWell
David Paganie is Chief Editor of Offshore magazine and Conferences Director of PennWell’s Offshore Group. Paganie oversees the Offshore portfolio of print and digital editorial content and global oil and gas conferences. He has spoken at conferences addressing the offshore industry from China, Southeast Asia, West Africa, Middle East, Europe, and Latin America. Prior to joining PennWell in 2005, Paganie served as Editor of Offshore Field Development International at ODS-Petrodata; and as an Analyst at Baker Energy. He holds a Bachelor of Business Administration degree with a specialty in finance from Ohio University.
Chairman’s Opening Remarks
Jeremy Burford, Surface Engineering Manager; BHP Billiton
Jeremy Burford is a Surface Engineering Manager of the Gulf of Mexico Production Unit for BHP Billiton, a leading global resource company engaged in the exploration and production of crude oil, natural gas, iron ore, coal and copper. In this role, Burford has accountability for risk management, operations support and facility modification of the Gulf of Mexico assets, consisting of two tension leg platforms. Burford joined BHP Billiton in 2007 as a Control System Engineer working on the construction and commissioning of the Gulf of Mexico assets, helping BHP Billiton transition to operatorship of deep water facilities. Burford began his career designing, building and commissioning various types of facilities with Brown and Root. He then joined ConocoPhillips in which he held various project and operations support roles in both the upstream and downstream industries. Burford holds a bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from Texas A&M University. He currently serves as Advisory Board Chairman for the 2016 Deepwater Operations Conference.
Keynote Presentation
Andrew Meyers, Associate Director (Houston); Douglas-Westwood
Andrew will review the current macro situation and present the Douglas-Westwood deepwater outlook for 2016-2020. The outlook analyzes how prolonged low oil price has impacted the deepwater market, with operators considering alternative development options and delaying the sanctioning of new projects, whilst trying to protect returns on their existing investments in the sector.
Andrew joined Douglas-Westwood’s Houston office in 2014 with over ten years’ experience in the energy sector. Previously at Decision Strategies, Andrew was a Project Lead in the Market Intelligence practice where he focused on oilfield market research and due diligence. He has assisted energy & oilfield-related clients in market analysis, decision analysis, M&A due diligence, commercial analysis, strategy development, market forecasting, technology strategic marketing and benchmarking for the upstream, midstream and oilfield service sectors. Prior to joining Decision Strategies, Andrew was an analyst for Anadarko Petroleum. He holds a BBA in Finance from Texas Tech University and a Master of Business Administration from Duke University.
9:00 – 9:45 a.m.
COFFEE BREAK
Exhibit Hall
9:45 – 11:15 a.m.
SESSION 1: FLOW ASSURANCE – Hall A
Chair: Mike Lynch, Senior Operations Advisor, Granherne/KBR
Co-chair: Richard Loveland, Area Reservoir Development Manager, GoM; BP
Recycling of Produced Condensate Through Deepwater GOM Subsea Gas Production Lines to Maintain Hydrate Inhibitor Effectiveness
David A. Shumbera, Senior Advisor - Reservoir and Petroleum Engineering; Eni US Operating Co. Inc.
When water production started from the main gas-producing well, LDHI was required to produce the Longhorn field, a deepwater GOM gas field consisting of 4 subsea wells tied back 19 miles to a processing platform. When associated condensate production from the other gas wells declined later in field life, the water-producing, high-rate gas well did not produce enough condensate to maintain the water cut of the main subsea flow line below the maximum water cut limit for LDHI hydrate-treating effectiveness. To allow continued field production, injection of produced condensate into the main producing subsea flowline at the subsea manifold was initiated and has proven successful in maintaining LDHI effectiveness. This is the first known installation and actual operation world-wide of a produced condensate recycling system to reduce water cut in a producing subsea flowline to allow continued LDHI hydrate-treating effectiveness.
David A. Shumbera is currently a Senior Reservoir and Petroleum Engineering Advisor with Eni US Operating Co. Inc. in Houston, Texas responsible for well/reservoir management, production optimization and well/reservoir integrity for Eni’s deepwater GOM-operated assets. He has 36 years of Reservoir and Petroleum Engineering experience (21 years of which are in deepwater GOM-operated field development and reservoir management). He has been with Eni for 18 years with previous positions with Atlantic Richfield (ARCO) and Occidental. He is a graduate of Texas A&M University with a BS and MS in Chemical Engineering.
Neptune Flowline Gas Circulation
Rodney Hichens, Senior Process Engineer; BHP Billiton
A cost effective flowline gas-lift solution was successfully implemented during 2015 for the Neptune Deepwater TLP. This project required only minor topsides piping modifications, and enabled continuous gas circulation around a flowline loop. This modification has proven essential to sustaining the life of the Neptune field by ensuring successful field restarts, maintaining flow stability and maximizing well deliverability.
Rodney Hichens is a Senior Process Engineer for BHP Billiton, supporting the GOM Production Unit. Rodney was the Start-Up and Commissioning Engineer for the Neptune Gas Circulation Project.
Asphaltene Management in the Deepwater Thunder Horse Field
Amber Mees, Production Engineer; BP
BP’s Thunder Horse field has been challenged by asphaltene deposition in wells, subsea infrastructure, and topsides throughout its eight-year history. In order to reduce production deferrals due to asphaltenes, a system-wide asphaltene monitoring and remediation program was developed and has become critical to maintaining more than 50% of total production.
Amber Mees is a petroleum engineer with 10 years of experience at BP. She has worked in deepwater Gulf of Mexico operations for seven years, including her current role supporting BP’s Thunder Horse facility. Prior to her deepwater roles, Mees was a production engineer for gas operations in Texas, Colorado as well as the North Sea, UK. Amber received her Bachelors Degree in Chemical Engineering from Texas A&M in 2005.
11:15 a.m. – 12:45 p.m.
LUNCH – Exhibit Hall B-C
Sponsored by: 
12:45 – 2:15 p.m.
SESSION 2: START-UPS/FIRST YEAR LESSONS LEARNED – Hall A
Chair: Pete Stracke, Offshore Facilities Manager – US & Mexico; Statoil
Co-Chairs: Raffaello Rapacioli, Non Operated Production Manager & Deputy VP Operations; Eni Petroleum
Rio Grande and Gunflint - Lessons Learned On Operations Readiness and Project Execution
Dan Browning, Reservoir Engineer and Chris Efstathion, Production Engineer; Noble Energy
The Rio Grande and Gunflint projects commenced production in the 4th quarter of 2015 and 3rd quarter of 2016, respectively. This presentation covers lessons learned from the operational readiness program and major projects success while maintaining integrity and a safe work culture.
Dan Browning is a Reservoir Engineer working in the DW GoM business unit for Noble Energy. He assisted Rio Grande start up while on location and played a primary role in the design and implementation of Gunflint start up.
Chris Efstathion is a Production Engineer working in the DW GoM business unit for Noble Energy. He was on site for both the Rio Grande and Gunflint start up assisting with dewatering and well ramp up.
Contingency Planning: The Heidelberg IHUC Campaign
Alexander Ray, Facilities Engineer; Anadarko Petroleum Corporation
The Heidelberg team experienced a four-month delay in the installation of the spar due to external factors, yet was still able to bring production online three months ahead of schedule and under the original sanction budget. This presentation will discuss the team’s culture and mindset, the hallmarks of which were planning for contingencies, liquidating work off critical path, and adapting to change during the IHUC campaign.
Alexander “Sander” Ray is a Staff Facilities Engineer at Anadarko Petroleum Corporation. He recently served as the Hook-Up and Commissioning Lead on the Heidelberg project team. He currently oversees facilities engineering and construction for the Constitution and Heidelberg spars and serves as the group SME for electrical and instrumentation engineering. He started his career in 2005 at Mustang Engineering (now Wood Group Mustang) and held various electrical engineering positions in their Houston and Aberdeen offices prior to joining Anadarko.
Jack St. Malo First Year After Start-Up
Emile Boudreaux, Offshore Installation Manager; Chevron
A review of the Jack & St. Malo (JSM) first year of operations with a focus on reliability and production efficiency. The presentation will cover best practices and opportunities during the first year that includes the operator’s perspective with third party tie-backs along with planned and unplanned downtime learnings.
Emile Boudreaux, Offshore Installation Manager with 30 years of experience with Chevron and 36 years of total industry experience. Jack St. Malo was his third consecutive GOM MCP and start-up. Incorporating lesson’s learned from other MCP’s and transitioning from a MCP business unit to an operating business unit will be presented.
2:15 – 3:00 p.m.
COFFEE BREAK – Exhibit Hall
3:00 – 4:30 p.m.
SESSION 3: OPERATIONAL SOLUTIONS I – Hall A
Session Chair: Amro Hamza, GOM Operations Manager, Anadarko Petroleum Corporation
Co-Chair: Gerhard Visser, Offshore Operations Manager; Williams
Drilling from a Deepwater Spar: Innovative Adaptation of Existing Single Barrier Riser at Devil’s Tower
Bill Cowan, Subsea Advisor; ENI U.S. Operating Co.
The production risers at Devil’s Tower are single-barrier design, originally meant for reentry and workover but not for drilling. An innovative riser wear liner, used with a carefully conceived drilling program and riser monitoring program, allowed for a safe and successful sidetrack of one of the system wells.
Bill is the Subsea Engineering Advisor for ENI Petroleum, the U.S. operating company of ENI SpA. of Italy. Bill has been with ENI for 14 years, providing consultative support on subsea wellheads, trees, and BOPs for their Well Operations Department. He has been in the oil and gas business for 43 years, starting work in 1973 with what was then the National Supply Co. (now AKER Solutions). Altogether he has 23 years working in product design and manufacturing and 20 years working for operators. Bill has worked through the years in API standardization, serving on groups writing the original editions of 17A, 17D, 17G, 17W, and 16Q. He also is the ENI representative on the re-write of API Std 53 for BOPs. Bill holds 11 U.S. patents for oilfield equipment. He is a member of ASME, and is a registered professional engineer in Texas. He holds a BSME from Texas Tech University and a Master of Liberal Studies from Rice University.
Thunder Horse Water Injection: Start Up and Lessons Learned
Carlos Stewart, Petroleum Engineer; BP
Project and start up challenges and lessons learned implementing a water injection project on a brown field development. Challenges and lessons learned range from equipment preservation, facility SIMOPS, and injection well remediation, to initial start-up issues with injection chokes.
Carlos Stewart is a Petroleum Engineer at BP with 11+ years of PE experience, 6 years working with water injection in the Gulf of Mexico. Carlos supported the Thunder Horse Water Injection project though the project execution phase starting in 2014 and continues to support water injection operations post transition to the operating phase.
Brownfield Projects Execution/Lessons Learned From a Third Party Host
Clay Coffey, Project Engineer; Noble Energy
The current commodity climate is promoting subsea tiebacks as frontrunners for viable upcoming developments. In late 2013, Noble Energy sanctioned two long distance deepwater tieback projects: Big Bend/Dantzler and Gunflint. These developments gathered production to floating facilities owned by one company and operated by another company. The presentation will compare and contrast the interfaces between the multiple parties and show how the varied experience levels, operating philosophies, and execution approaches of the companies influenced the outcome of the projects while at the same time dealing with declining commodity prices. Execution and operating lessons learned from the projects will be presented to aid others in planning and executing tiebacks to third party hosts.
Clay Coffey is a deepwater project engineer within Noble Energy’s Major Projects Group. He has worked on the planning and execution of the subsea and topsides portions of the Gunflint tieback over the last two years. Clay is a veteran of the U.S. Navy’s submarine force and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.
4:30 – 6:00 p.m.
NETWORKING RECEPTION
Exhibit Hall B-C
All registered attendees are welcome to attend the Keynote Plenary Session!
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2016
7:00 – 8:00 a.m.
BREAKFAST
Exhibit Hall Foyer
Sponsored by:
8:00 – 9:00 a.m.
KEYNOTE PLENARY SESSION - Hall A
WELCOME & INTRODUCTION
David Paganie, Conference Director, PennWell
David Paganie is Chief Editor of Offshore magazine and Conferences Director of PennWell’s Offshore Group. Paganie oversees the Offshore portfolio of print and digital editorial content and global oil and gas conferences. He has spoken at conferences addressing the offshore industry from China, Southeast Asia, West Africa, Middle East, Europe, and Latin America. Prior to joining PennWell in 2005, Paganie served as Editor of Offshore Field Development International at ODS-Petrodata; and as an Analyst at Baker Energy. He holds a Bachelor of Business Administration degree with a specialty in finance from Ohio University.
Chairman’s Opening Remarks
Jeremy Burford, Surface Engineering Manager; BHP Billiton
Jeremy Burford is a Surface Engineering Manager of the Gulf of Mexico Production Unit for BHP Billiton, a leading global resource company engaged in the exploration and production of crude oil, natural gas, iron ore, coal and copper. In this role, Burford has accountability for risk management, operations support and facility modification of the Gulf of Mexico assets, consisting of two tension leg platforms. Burford joined BHP Billiton in 2007 as a Control System Engineer working on the construction and commissioning of the Gulf of Mexico assets, helping BHP Billiton transition to operatorship of deep water facilities. Burford began his career designing, building and commissioning various types of facilities with Brown and Root. He then joined ConocoPhillips in which he held various project and operations support roles in both the upstream and downstream industries. Burford holds a bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from Texas A&M University. He currently serves as Advisory Board Chairman for the 2016 Deepwater Operations Conference.
Keynote Presentation
Andrew Meyers, Associate Director (Houston); Douglas-Westwood
Andrew will review the current macro situation and present the Douglas-Westwood deepwater outlook for 2016-2020. The outlook analyzes how prolonged low oil price has impacted the deepwater market, with operators considering alternative development options and delaying the sanctioning of new projects, whilst trying to protect returns on their existing investments in the sector.
Andrew joined Douglas-Westwood’s Houston office in 2014 with over ten years’ experience in the energy sector. Previously at Decision Strategies, Andrew was a Project Lead in the Market Intelligence practice where he focused on oilfield market research and due diligence. He has assisted energy & oilfield-related clients in market analysis, decision analysis, M&A due diligence, commercial analysis, strategy development, market forecasting, technology strategic marketing and benchmarking for the upstream, midstream and oilfield service sectors. Prior to joining Decision Strategies, Andrew was an analyst for Anadarko Petroleum. He holds a BBA in Finance from Texas Tech University and a Master of Business Administration from Duke University.
9:00 – 9:45 a.m.
COFFEE BREAK
Exhibit Hall
9:45 – 11:15 a.m.
SESSION 1: FLOW ASSURANCE – Hall A
Chair: Mike Lynch, Senior Operations Advisor, Granherne/KBR
Co-chair: Richard Loveland, Area Reservoir Development Manager, GoM; BP
Recycling of Produced Condensate Through Deepwater GOM Subsea Gas Production Lines to Maintain Hydrate Inhibitor Effectiveness
David A. Shumbera, Senior Advisor - Reservoir and Petroleum Engineering; Eni US Operating Co. Inc.
When water production started from the main gas-producing well, LDHI was required to produce the Longhorn field, a deepwater GOM gas field consisting of 4 subsea wells tied back 19 miles to a processing platform. When associated condensate production from the other gas wells declined later in field life, the water-producing, high-rate gas well did not produce enough condensate to maintain the water cut of the main subsea flow line below the maximum water cut limit for LDHI hydrate-treating effectiveness. To allow continued field production, injection of produced condensate into the main producing subsea flowline at the subsea manifold was initiated and has proven successful in maintaining LDHI effectiveness. This is the first known installation and actual operation world-wide of a produced condensate recycling system to reduce water cut in a producing subsea flowline to allow continued LDHI hydrate-treating effectiveness.
David A. Shumbera is currently a Senior Reservoir and Petroleum Engineering Advisor with Eni US Operating Co. Inc. in Houston, Texas responsible for well/reservoir management, production optimization and well/reservoir integrity for Eni’s deepwater GOM-operated assets. He has 36 years of Reservoir and Petroleum Engineering experience (21 years of which are in deepwater GOM-operated field development and reservoir management). He has been with Eni for 18 years with previous positions with Atlantic Richfield (ARCO) and Occidental. He is a graduate of Texas A&M University with a BS and MS in Chemical Engineering.
Neptune Flowline Gas Circulation
Rodney Hichens, Senior Process Engineer; BHP Billiton
A cost effective flowline gas-lift solution was successfully implemented during 2015 for the Neptune Deepwater TLP. This project required only minor topsides piping modifications, and enabled continuous gas circulation around a flowline loop. This modification has proven essential to sustaining the life of the Neptune field by ensuring successful field restarts, maintaining flow stability and maximizing well deliverability.
Rodney Hichens is a Senior Process Engineer for BHP Billiton, supporting the GOM Production Unit. Rodney was the Start-Up and Commissioning Engineer for the Neptune Gas Circulation Project.
Asphaltene Management in the Deepwater Thunder Horse Field
Amber Mees, Production Engineer; BP
BP’s Thunder Horse field has been challenged by asphaltene deposition in wells, subsea infrastructure, and topsides throughout its eight-year history. In order to reduce production deferrals due to asphaltenes, a system-wide asphaltene monitoring and remediation program was developed and has become critical to maintaining more than 50% of total production.
Amber Mees is a petroleum engineer with 10 years of experience at BP. She has worked in deepwater Gulf of Mexico operations for seven years, including her current role supporting BP’s Thunder Horse facility. Prior to her deepwater roles, Mees was a production engineer for gas operations in Texas, Colorado as well as the North Sea, UK. Amber received her Bachelors Degree in Chemical Engineering from Texas A&M in 2005.
11:15 a.m. – 12:45 p.m.
LUNCH – Exhibit Hall B-C
Sponsored by:
12:45 – 2:15 p.m.
SESSION 2: START-UPS/FIRST YEAR LESSONS LEARNED – Hall A
Chair: Pete Stracke, Offshore Facilities Manager – US & Mexico; Statoil
Co-Chairs: Raffaello Rapacioli, Non Operated Production Manager & Deputy VP Operations; Eni Petroleum
Rio Grande and Gunflint - Lessons Learned On Operations Readiness and Project Execution
Dan Browning, Reservoir Engineer and Chris Efstathion, Production Engineer; Noble Energy
The Rio Grande and Gunflint projects commenced production in the 4th quarter of 2015 and 3rd quarter of 2016, respectively. This presentation covers lessons learned from the operational readiness program and major projects success while maintaining integrity and a safe work culture.
Dan Browning is a Reservoir Engineer working in the DW GoM business unit for Noble Energy. He assisted Rio Grande start up while on location and played a primary role in the design and implementation of Gunflint start up.
Chris Efstathion is a Production Engineer working in the DW GoM business unit for Noble Energy. He was on site for both the Rio Grande and Gunflint start up assisting with dewatering and well ramp up.
Contingency Planning: The Heidelberg IHUC Campaign
Alexander Ray, Facilities Engineer; Anadarko Petroleum Corporation
The Heidelberg team experienced a four-month delay in the installation of the spar due to external factors, yet was still able to bring production online three months ahead of schedule and under the original sanction budget. This presentation will discuss the team’s culture and mindset, the hallmarks of which were planning for contingencies, liquidating work off critical path, and adapting to change during the IHUC campaign.
Alexander “Sander” Ray is a Staff Facilities Engineer at Anadarko Petroleum Corporation. He recently served as the Hook-Up and Commissioning Lead on the Heidelberg project team. He currently oversees facilities engineering and construction for the Constitution and Heidelberg spars and serves as the group SME for electrical and instrumentation engineering. He started his career in 2005 at Mustang Engineering (now Wood Group Mustang) and held various electrical engineering positions in their Houston and Aberdeen offices prior to joining Anadarko.
Jack St. Malo First Year After Start-Up
Emile Boudreaux, Offshore Installation Manager; Chevron
A review of the Jack & St. Malo (JSM) first year of operations with a focus on reliability and production efficiency. The presentation will cover best practices and opportunities during the first year that includes the operator’s perspective with third party tie-backs along with planned and unplanned downtime learnings.
Emile Boudreaux, Offshore Installation Manager with 30 years of experience with Chevron and 36 years of total industry experience. Jack St. Malo was his third consecutive GOM MCP and start-up. Incorporating lesson’s learned from other MCP’s and transitioning from a MCP business unit to an operating business unit will be presented.
2:15 – 3:00 p.m.
COFFEE BREAK – Exhibit Hall
3:00 – 4:30 p.m.
SESSION 3: OPERATIONAL SOLUTIONS I – Hall A
Session Chair: Amro Hamza, GOM Operations Manager, Anadarko Petroleum Corporation
Co-Chair: Gerhard Visser, Offshore Operations Manager; Williams
Drilling from a Deepwater Spar: Innovative Adaptation of Existing Single Barrier Riser at Devil’s Tower
Bill Cowan, Subsea Advisor; ENI U.S. Operating Co.
The production risers at Devil’s Tower are single-barrier design, originally meant for reentry and workover but not for drilling. An innovative riser wear liner, used with a carefully conceived drilling program and riser monitoring program, allowed for a safe and successful sidetrack of one of the system wells.
Bill is the Subsea Engineering Advisor for ENI Petroleum, the U.S. operating company of ENI SpA. of Italy. Bill has been with ENI for 14 years, providing consultative support on subsea wellheads, trees, and BOPs for their Well Operations Department. He has been in the oil and gas business for 43 years, starting work in 1973 with what was then the National Supply Co. (now AKER Solutions). Altogether he has 23 years working in product design and manufacturing and 20 years working for operators. Bill has worked through the years in API standardization, serving on groups writing the original editions of 17A, 17D, 17G, 17W, and 16Q. He also is the ENI representative on the re-write of API Std 53 for BOPs. Bill holds 11 U.S. patents for oilfield equipment. He is a member of ASME, and is a registered professional engineer in Texas. He holds a BSME from Texas Tech University and a Master of Liberal Studies from Rice University.
Thunder Horse Water Injection: Start Up and Lessons Learned
Carlos Stewart, Petroleum Engineer; BP
Project and start up challenges and lessons learned implementing a water injection project on a brown field development. Challenges and lessons learned range from equipment preservation, facility SIMOPS, and injection well remediation, to initial start-up issues with injection chokes.
Carlos Stewart is a Petroleum Engineer at BP with 11+ years of PE experience, 6 years working with water injection in the Gulf of Mexico. Carlos supported the Thunder Horse Water Injection project though the project execution phase starting in 2014 and continues to support water injection operations post transition to the operating phase.
Brownfield Projects Execution/Lessons Learned From a Third Party Host
Clay Coffey, Project Engineer; Noble Energy
The current commodity climate is promoting subsea tiebacks as frontrunners for viable upcoming developments. In late 2013, Noble Energy sanctioned two long distance deepwater tieback projects: Big Bend/Dantzler and Gunflint. These developments gathered production to floating facilities owned by one company and operated by another company. The presentation will compare and contrast the interfaces between the multiple parties and show how the varied experience levels, operating philosophies, and execution approaches of the companies influenced the outcome of the projects while at the same time dealing with declining commodity prices. Execution and operating lessons learned from the projects will be presented to aid others in planning and executing tiebacks to third party hosts.
Clay Coffey is a deepwater project engineer within Noble Energy’s Major Projects Group. He has worked on the planning and execution of the subsea and topsides portions of the Gunflint tieback over the last two years. Clay is a veteran of the U.S. Navy’s submarine force and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.
4:30 – 6:00 p.m.
NETWORKING RECEPTION
Exhibit Hall B-C
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