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| Opening Plenary Session | |
| Wednesday, November 3, 2010 | |
| 8:00 - 9:00 a.m. | |
| Welcome & Introduction | |
| Eldon Ball, PennWell | |
| Chairman's Opening Remarks | |
| Rusty Sawyer, Murphy Exploration & Production Company | |
| Keynote Presentation | |
![]() | Roger Jenkins, Murphy Exploration & Production Company Roger Jenkins works as the President of Murphy's upstream business in Houston, Texas. He is responsible for all global exploration and production activities. Roger is also an Executive Vice President of Murphy Oil Corporation. Prior to his current role, Roger spent one and a half years leading Murphy's business in North America. Prior to that assignment, he spent six years in Malaysia where he managed all Murphy's deepwater operations. Prior to joining Murphy in 2001, Roger worked with Texaco Exploration and Production in the Gulf of Mexico for 18 years. Roger graduated from Louisiana State University with a BS degree in Petroleum Engineering in 1983. Roger also holds a MBA degree from the A.B. Freeman School of Business at Tulane University in New Orleans. Roger is a 25 year Society of Petroleum Engineers member and a six-time technical author. Roger was previously:
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| Preliminary Conference Program | |
| Tuesday, November 2, 2010 | |
| 5:00 - 6:30 p.m. | Opening Night Exhibit Hall Networking Reception |
| Wednesday, November 3, 2010 | |
| 7:00 - 8:00 a.m. | Continental Breakfast |
| 8:00 - 9:00 a.m. | Opening Plenary Session |
| Welcome & Introduction | |
| Eldon Ball, PennWell | |
| Chairman's Opening Remarks | |
| Rusty Sawyer, Murphy Exploration & Production Company | |
| Keynote Presentation | |
| Roger Jenkins, Murphy Exploration & Production Company | |
| 9:00 - 9:45 a.m. | Coffee Break |
| 9:45 - 11:15 a.m | Session 1 |
| Start-Ups and First Year Operations | |
| Co-Chairs: Don Armijo, Shell E&P Company Gary Mitchell, Anadarko Petroleum Corp. | |
| Perdido Start-Up and Early Operations Experience | |
| Chris Smith, Shell The Perdido spar was started up on 3-31-2010. This project had a number of unique features including the use of subsea separation and subsea boosting. The start-up will be reviewed aling with early operating experience on these unique systems. | |
| Thunder Hawk Start-Up and First Year Operations | |
| William Taggart, Murphy Exploration & Production A look back at Thunder Hawk MC-736 start-up and first year operations, issues, lessons learned and other events. | |
| Tahiti Start-Up Lessons Learned | |
| Thomas Even, Chevron Review of the planning, results and lessons learned of the Tahiti start-up. | |
| 11:15 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. | Lunch |
| 12:45 - 2:15 p.m. | Session 2 |
| Operational Solutions | |
| Co-Chairs: Craig Sherer, Chevron Global Jerome Meaux, Plains E&P | |
| URSA Princess Waterflood | |
| Anthony D'Amico, Shell Exploration & Production Company Operational experiences and learnings in the start-up of a high pressure (>7000 psi), high volume (>180,000 BPD), nano-filtrated (SRU) subsea water injection system. | |
| Offloading FPSO's Experience | |
| Sylvio H. Sa Correa da Silva, Petrobras E&P | |
| Maintaining Maturing Assets | |
| Jenifer Tule, Anadarko Petroleum This presentation will detail the planning and execution of operation to successfully remove buoyancyc ans from the Neptune Spar. | |
| 2:15 - 3:00 p.m. | Coffee Break |
| 3:00 - 4:30 p.m. | Session 3 |
| OIM's PANEL DISCUSSION | |
| Co-moderators: Mike Autin, BHP Billiton Bobby Fisher, Chevron | |
| Invited Participants: BK Smith, Chevron Fred Hearn, Shell Andre Fornet, Anadarko Petroleum Corp. Tony Owen, Helix ERT | |
| 4:30 - 6:00 p.m. | Networking Reception |
| Thursday, November 4, 2010 | |
| 7:00 - 8:00 a.m. | Continental Breakfast |
| 8:00 - 9:30 a.m. | Session 4 |
| Gulf of Mexico Regulatory Issues | |
| Co-Chairs: Cathy Thornton, J. Connor Consulting Jon Unwin, Shell | |
| Application of the Jones Act to Deepater Operations | |
| Kenneth Parris, Shell Upstream Americas The Jones Act reserves the transportation of merchandise between U.S. points to U.S. vessels. Sounds simple, but in deepwater operations, what is merchandise? What is transporation? What are U.S. points? | |
| National Center of Expertise - NOCE/Activities and On-Goings | |
| Darin Qualkenbush, United States Coast Guard | |
| Industry Response and Reaction to Current Regulatory Issues | |
| Allen Verret, OOC - INVITED | |
| 9:30 - 10:00 a.m. | Coffee Break |
| 10:00 - 11:30 a.m. | Session 5 |
| Asset Management | |
| Co-Chairs: Walter McDougle, Statoil John Glithero, Wood Group Production Services | |
| Asset Integrity - Process Safety Management in Offshore Operations | |
| James Kepper, III, Shell E&P Co. Preventing major accident incidents demands well-focused activities and constant assurance of in-place barriers. | |
| Subsea Intervention Readiness | |
| David McDaniel, Chevron ETC Subsea Intervention Readiness by Production Operations prior to commencement of start-up activities. | |
| Subsea HIPPS - Design and Operational Experience | |
| Bjorn A. Egerdahl, Statoil Design and operational experience with Statoil's subsea HIPPS systems in the North Sea. | |
| 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. | Lunch |
| 1:00 - 2:45 p.m. | Session 6 |
| Start-ups and First Year Operations 2 | |
| Co-Chair: Shawn Lurry, Wood Group Production Services Bob Nickola, Marathon Oil | |
| Droshky - Commissioning & First Year Operations | |
| Allan Page, Marathon Oil Company Summary of commissioning challenges and work involved in obtaining stable operations in the first year of production from Marathon Oil Company's Droshky subsea tie-back. | |
| Azurite FDPSO - A Step Change in Field Development | |
| Harry Howard, Murphy Oil This presentation summarizes the development, integration and subsea challenges, and the lessons learned on the Azurite FDPSO from concept selection through full functionality. | |
| Tombua Landana Start-up and First Year Operations | |
| Chris Scott, Chevron The speaker will discuss successes and lessons learned throughout the first year operation of the Tombua Landana facility. | |
| 2:30 - 2:45 p.m. | Presentation of Awards |
| Chairman's Closing Remarks | |



