Day Two

29 March 2012

8.30 Coffee & Registration

9.00 Chairman’s opening remarks

RISK MANAGEMENT

9.10 PANEL DISCUSSION: Identifying risks to project fulfilment and tips for how to plan robust contracts and smooth project delivery

• Get the contract right
• Proper handover of the contract to the project team
• Conduct during performance
• Dispute resolution

Panellists include:

Simon Hems, Partner, Ince & Co

Greg Gowans, Director, Logistics & Expediting, CB&I

Jenny Radcliffe, Director, Radcliffe Training Associates

10.00 Project management of FPSO and Oil & Gas projects: Lessons learned, risk management and best practices

• Oil & Gas and FPSO Projects - Environment and Challenges
• Risk Management and Best Practices
• Lessons Learned

Arthur Ruiz, EPS Deputy Manager, Petrobras

10.40 Morning refreshments 

11.10 Challenges of working in a hostile environment

• Planning considerations for a new venture
• What is required before deployment?
• Intelligence reports
• Pre planning for deployment
• Staff selection for the project
• The dead hand of security
• What is the best security for your project?
• Should you use local security?
• Kidnapping
• Crisis management response
• Hearts and Minds, become eyes and ears
• Why dialogue with locals by experts helps set good foundations
• Working with conflict
• Can a project work in conflict regions?
• Case studies

John Davidson, Director, Rubicon Resolutions

11.50 SPECIAL FOCUS ON PIRACY AS A THREAT TO GLOBAL SUPPLY CHAIN AND LOCAL OPERATIONS

Counter Piracy Cooperation:  Location Matters

• Piracy is a location based crime i.e., inside the territorial waters of sovereign nations, it’s considered armed robbery and/or kidnapping
• The most effective actions to address the issue are often land based
• The approach of U.S. government and international community differ based on governance of the affected country when such incidents occur in territorial waters
• In many ways industries have a direct influence on the willingness of governments where they do business to address maritime instability and should leverage that influence

Doris McBryde, Maritime Security Officer, US State Department

12.30 Lunch

PROJECT EXECUTION STRATEGIES 

1.30 Lean Project Delivery (LPD) for Capital Projects

• What is LPD?
• How does LPD work?
• Will it work on a “major project”?

Steve Knapp, Associate Principal, Lean Project Consulting

2.10 Case study: Applying lessons learned from the Jubilee Project to Tullow’s next major project in Ghana

• An overview of Jubilee and the key lessons learned
• Tullow’s next major project opportunity in Ghana
• Specific examples of changes in planning and execution methodology driven by lessons from Jubilee
• Wider implications for Tullow

Terry Hughes, Project Director, Tullow Oil

2.50 Afternoon refreshments

3.20 PANEL DISCUSSION: What are the critical elements to get right in order to achieve a controlled start-up?  

• Understanding what this will look like
• With increasingly challenging locations does your project have precedents to follow?
• What checks and measures should be in place and when should they apply?

Panellist include:

Bill Meyer, Director Project Execution Development, Foster Wheeler

Steve Knapp, Associate Principal, Lean Project Consulting

4.00 ROUNDTABLE ACTION SESSION

In this concluding session we break into a series of roundtables in order to summarize, within multi-discipline groups, what we have learnt of the key conference themes throughout the workshops, presentations and networking discussions that comprise this intensive focus on planning excellence. 

Invaluable at identifying the main actionable points you can apply to your business and aiding to shed light on the challenges you will face in the next 12 months.

‘Leading conferences that bring awareness  and trigger change’

Deutsche Bank

4.30 Chairman’s closing remarks and  summary of actionable points

4.45 Close of conference