Opening/Plenary/Closing Sessions

Tuesday, 15 April 2008

OPENING SESSION

0900–1000 • Apollon

Speakers

Michel Contie, Total, Northern Europe E&P Vice-President
Christian Estrosi, Mayor, Nice, France
Behrooz Fattahi, SPE Vice-President
Sophie Galey-Leruste, French Directorate for Energy and Raw Materials
Chuck Taylor, Vice President, Health, Environment & Safety, Chevron
Bernard Anne, Bureau Veritas

PLENARY SESSION 1

1030–1230 • Apollon

The Challenges of Excellent Performance

Moderators: Emmanuel Garland, Total; Simon Mitchell, Schlumberger

Stakeholders clearly expect the E&P industry to deliver excellent performance in health, safety, security, environment, and social responsibility. But what does excellent performance entail? Can we agree on what it implies? Are we confident the level that the industry has reached meets most of the expectations? What happens when excellent performance is not achieved? How can the industry sustain excellent performance?

These are some of the questions that a panel of outstanding leaders—top executives and key stakeholders—will address during the session, with a view to show the path to excellent performance in the oil and gas industry.

Speakers

Eamonn Naughton, Vice President, BP Exploration & Production
Charles Bowen, Executive Director, OGP
Somit Varma, Global Head of Oil, Gas, Mining & Chemicals, World Bank
Veronique Decobert, AREVA
Pierre Girault, Air France Industries

Wednesday, 16 April 2008

PLENARY SESSION 2

0900–1030 • Athena

The Future of Oil in a Carbon-Constrained World

Moderators: Claudia Gnecco, BP; Luiz Molle Jr., Petrobras

Undoubtedly, climate change is today a worldwide concern. Viewpoints on this issue range from passionate advocacy to extreme scepticism. Various stakeholders are researching whether climate change is actually happening and what role anthropogenic CO₂ plays, if any. Although not everyone may agree, research data appears to support the theory that climate change is happening and that anthropogenic CO₂ plays an important role. However, the issue will be debated into the foreseeable future.

While the debate continues, governments, industries, and NGOs are already in action, many biased towards a precautionary approach.

It is now clear that many states will continue to regulate and/or tax CO₂ emissions through legislation. The oil and gas industry is already facing many challenges in this carbon-constrained environment.

The panel will provide a space to learn where legislation is heading. Can oil companies survive? What are the options? Is there a practical and cost-effective solution without oil? Find out what different stakeholders think, listen to proposals, and debate the future for a heavily populated, “small” planet.

Speakers

Raphaël Vermeir, ConocoPhillips
David White, President Carbon Services, Schlumberger
Kamel Bennaceur, International Energy Agency

Thursday, 17 April 2008

PLENARY SESSION 3

0900–1030 • Athena

Health Impact—Bridging the Gap

Moderators: Alexander Barbey, Schlumberger; Clarion E. Johnson, ExxonMobil Corporation

This panel consists of three recognized experts—one from a major, world-renowned nongovernmental organisation and two from highly acclaimed academic medical communities. Together, their expertise covers the areas of geographic-, occupational-, and public-health fields.

This panel will discuss and provide invaluable insights into how medicine is coping with the major global health issues.

As the title “Health Impact—Bridging the Gap” implies, the panel will focus on the existing and perceived gaps between NGOs and the oil industry, developed and developing countries in terms of health risks and health care, as well as the gap between work-related and nonwork-related health issues that must be managed by the industry’s occupational health doctors.

Sustainable excellence in the domain of health in tomorrow’s E&P world will only be achieved if these gaps are bridged!

Speakers

Jean-Hervé Bradol, President, Médecins Sans Frontières
Richard V. Lee, Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics and Obstetrics; Adjunct Professor of Anthropology and Social and Preventive Medicine; Director, Division of Maternal & Adolescent Medicine; Director, Division of Geographic Medicine, Department of Medicine, State University of New York at Buffalo
William Bunn, Medical Director, Navistar

CLOSING SESSION

1630–1730 • Athena

The programme committee co-chairpersons, Emmanuel Garland and Simon Mitchell, jointly look back at the previous 3 days of the conference and reflect on the major topics that have been discussed and conclusions reached. Lyn Arscott, past SPE president, former executive director of the International Association of Oil and Gas Producers, and retired director of HSE for Chevron, will present the results of a survey of the organising committee of this conference on what they think has been the progress in HSE over the past 10 years and where they think the industry should make more effort in the next 10 years. He will compare the results of this survey with the results of similar surveys taken at international SPE conferences over the past 5 years.

The venue for the 2010 conference will be announced, and in addition, awards will be presented to the winners of the SPE Knowledge Sharing Sessions. The session will close with a final expression of thanks to all the sponsors, exhibitors, and delegates for their continued support of this landmark event.