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• Gain a detailed overview of the number and location of offshore installations in the Asia Pacific region
• Understand the characteristics of the offshore installations in the Asia Pacific region and examples of previous decommissioning projects in the Asia Pacific
• Take a detailed look at the value of the Asia Pacific decommissioning market and understand what fields are due to reach the end of production life in the Asia Pacific between now and 2025

Dr Brian Twomey, Managing Director, Reverse Engineering

9:30am
The Legal Framework for Offshore Decommissioning in the Asia Pacific Region

• Gain a detailed summary of the main sources of law for decommissioning in the Asia Pacific region
• Take away key insight into of the basic types of legal regime that apply to offshore decommissioning, including a jurisdiction by jurisdiction comparison
• Learn from a detailed case study on Indonesia decommissioning law

Toby Hewitt, Consultant, Herbert Smith LLP

• Gain unique insight into how the decommissioning of oil and gas installations in Thailand are handled by government agencies and operators
• Witness the investigation of specific challenges in decommissioning such as technology, environmental impact, legal landscape and finance and take away key lessons
• Understand how other international guidelines, regulations and practices have been taken into consideration to formulate the initial decommissioning guidelines for Thailand

Dr. Witsarut, Petroleum Engineer, Department of Mineral Fuels

• Explore the features of the North Sea regime for decommissioning, the political pressures that produced the regime and the way in which it is implemented by the various European states
• Take an in depth look at the contrasts with the Gulf of Mexico and other offshore locations and the features that need to be built into a business plan that can cope across all regions
• Understand the national and international regulations common to all offshore markets and the impact decommissioning can have on your organizations balance sheet no matter where you operate

Keith Mayo, Head of Offshore Decommissioning, DECC

11:00am Coffee Break

• Understand the alternatives to decommissioning through the reassessment and retro‐fitting of offshore platforms
• Gain a detailed overview of practical safety assessments of existing offshore fixed platforms and improved estimates of demand and capacity and how these relate to decommissioning
• Take away crucial insight into how risk analysis and mitigation should be used to paint a clear picture of cost/risk trade offs relating to COP timelines

LRET Prof. Choo Yoo Sang, National University of Singapore

• Gain a clear understanding of the history of offshore reefing through a review of international programs and the differences in how these are viewed between the various offshore regions
• Understand the background of US based reefing programs, how they are regulated, planned and executed with a particular focus on the larger programs in Louisiana and Texas
• Take away a summary of the science related to reefing programs and how in the U.S. how the recent hurricanes have affected the reefing programs.
• Assess the likely future for these programs

Mike Urbigkit, General Manager ‐ Far East Region, Proserv Offshore

• An in depth look at the history of platform, modules and large equipment re‐use in the Gulf of Mexico and the Netherlands where approx 20 ‐ 30 % of removed platforms have been reused.
• Hear expert views on platform removal, re‐use and dismantling, and hear how such experiences can be applied to your project to great effect
• Investigate the pros and cons of platform re‐use and hear success stories (or otherwise) from all such operations to date
• Discover the benefits of refurbishment costs and schedule benefits through a case study of the "Camelot" platform and "K10V" platform which were both re‐used in the North Sea.

Thor Sterker, Co‐Founder, Platform Brokers

1:00pm Lunch

• Understand business critical accounting for decommissioning principals and the factors that will effect your balance sheet
• Assess the direct relationship between oil prices and COP timelines and how a significant decommissioning liability can seriously impact your bottom line
• Asses the latest insurance implications of decommissioning, from platform characteristics to data requirements, as we provide the inside track to save you money

Bhupinder Singh, Executive Director, Ernst & Young

4:00pm Coffee Break

Have your say in this exclusive, interactive discussion involving all conference delegates. Cover key strategy topics from decommissioning timelines and internal approaches to decommissioning in the region, discussed in open, frank debate, led by Tongchai Tonsuwunnarat of Chevron E&P Thailand. This will include the following topics:

• Contract Management and developing an effective decommissioning supply chain model
• When is the right time to decommission and what are the cost/benefits of extending COP timelines
• How can decommissioning knowledge and experience be retained and utilized from more mature markets
• The importance of data management and record keeping in decommissioning project management
• Where do technology gaps exist and what is being done to address them to try and reduce costs?

5:30pm End of Day One

• Take an in‐depth look at how effective project management can make your decommissioning portfolio more manageable and significantly reduce costs through a single line of accountability
• How can time effective plug and abandonment options including offshore, rigless, subsea and onshore solutions be implemented to reduce costs in your next project
• What heavy lift options are there for installation, construction and removal and which best suits your needs
• An overview of wireline services, subsea cutting services and diving and dive support vessels that can meet the needs of bespoke projects

Richard Ward, Vice President of International Operations, Tetra Technologies Inc

10:00am
Rigless and Riserless Production Well Abandonment

• Discover how Well Ops have confronted the challenge of offering a low cost production well decommissioning service from a monohull vessel
• Hear how Well Ops designed a suite of tools capable of killing, re‐entering and abandoning a series of subsea production wells in the Timor Sea.
• Learn how this innovative approach can save in excess of 30% of the cost of a traditional rigbased solution.
• Find out how Well Ops overcame a series of technical challenges to deliver a series of regional and world ‘firsts’

Tim Dallas, Project Manager ‐ Business Development, Well Ops

10:30am Coffee Break

• Get the low down on the various cutting applications for offshore decommissioning projects and gaps in current technology
• Take away an overview of available cutting methods, their effectiveness and limitations and which cutting option should be used on particular projects
• Understand what the impact of the various regulations in the offshore zones around the Asia Pacific are and the associated safety requirements of each regulatory bodies
• Learn from real life examples of offshore cutting projects from mature offshore location of the North Sea and Gulf of Mexico and apply them to your next decommissioning project

Per Lund, Senior Vice President – Business Development and Sales, NCA

• How can the use of a single lift, platform removal method offer a more flexible, time efficient approach to traditional piecemeal heavy lift options
• An overview of the 30,000 tonnes Heavy Lift System for removal of platforms that can operate in both shallow and deep waters, to offer lower operational and commercial risk
• Identifying current gaps in the Heavy lift market and how new technologies can be developed to meet the needs of future, deeper, heavier lifts
• Gain insight into contract management and how multi‐project contracting can be a cost effective approach to the shortage of equipment during periods of high demand

Johan Andresen, Managing Director, SeaMetric

• Discover how nitrogen gas and foam inerting of hydrocarbon pipe work can allow for cold cutting and rapid removal of subsea pipelines
• Discover the latest hydraulic bolt cutting techniques for large diameter pipe work.
• Understand how to de‐crude via pigging and chemicals and inerting and/or flooding of export pipelines

Ali Halliday, Eurasia Pacific BD Manager ‐ Pipeline and Process Service, Halliburton

12:30pm Lunch

• An overview of Global Industries as a decommissioning specialist
• Gain an understanding of Hurricane Recovery Efforts where HSE Planning, Tooling which contributed to safe execution and statistical analysis are key to success
• A look at the Global Industries and NCA alliance and how sharing experience
• Rigless Subsea Wellhead Removal – Case Study & Future Opportunities

Eric Senior, Manager of P&A ‐ Decommissioning, Global Industries

Have all your technology and services questions answered by our panel of experts. Listen as they address issues such as gaps in existing technologies, meeting the needs of the Asia Pacific decommissioning market and developing a decommissioning supply chain and workforce

Tim Dallas, Business Development and Project Manager, Well Ops APAC
Mike Urbigkit, General Manager Far East Region, Proserv Offshore
Stuart Wordsworth, General Manager UK, InterAct
Per Lund, Senior Vice President of Business Development, NCA

• Introduction to Weatherford's capabilities as a decommissioning contractor focusing on approach to safety
• Take away lessons learnt from successful case studies from the North Sea, Asia Pacific, offshore Japan and the Gulf of Mexico
• Understand Weatherford’s new innovative, rig less approach to decommissioning operations which utilizes the latest technologies
• Summary and Q&A

Jay Gillis, Operations Manager, Fishing & Re‐entry, Weatherford

3:45pm – 4:30pm End of Conference Coffee