Post-conference in-depth learning sessions - Thursday 26 June
Choose between:
Session A: Finding better ways to address community level conflicts over land access: An interactive workshop focussed on sharing experiences and exploring best practice
This full-day learning session will give attendees a comprehensive overview of the key land access challenges in upstream gas. Attendees will explore a range of techniques and strategies that can help companies gain, protect or enhance their social license to operate. It will feature an in-depth review of the current challenges and trends related to land access in Australia, with a particular focus on the Coal Seam Gas (CSG) industry. The session will examine learnings from other industries with land access challenges. Strategies for improving outcomes with a wide range of stakeholders will be examined. Participants will leave the session with relevant actionable ideas to take back to their organisations.
Agenda:
- Overview of the key land access challenges in upstream gas
- Practical techniques to gain, protect and enhance your social license to operate
- Analysing examples and learnings from parallel industries with land access challenges
- Strategies for communicating with diverse stakeholders; community, industry bodies, policy makers and media
Session leader:
David Paterson, Director, Emergent Advisory
David Paterson has worked in the mining industry for 25 years. During this time he has been involved in assignments in more than 30 countries, in functions from exploration to shipping. An economist by training, in recent years his work has focused on creating corporate value through strategic external relations. From 2004 to 2010 David led community, media and government relations for Rio Tinto’s uranium business in Australia. In 2010, he moved to Mongolia as Rio Tinto’s Country Director and subsequently took on responsibility for Regional Development and Communications at the $6 billion Oyu Tolgoi copper-gold mine in the South Gobi. Throughout his career, David has been closely involved in major capital projects, M&A and commercial transactions. Since leaving Rio Tinto, David has established a consultancy focused on advising
mining companies on strategic issues related to external relations and corporate social responsibility.
Session B: Future Energy Trends – Options, Challenges and Strategies
Energy markets will continue to be impacted by major political, economic, environmental and technical challenges. This full-day seminar is focused on examining the developing global energy trends that are anticipated over the next 20 years and is designed to inform delegates of current facts, future options, opportunities, business strategies, risks and likely consequences over this period. The full range of conventional, non-conventional, and renewable energy markets are examined and reviewed. The largest energy markets will continue to be the fossil fuels; crude oil, natural gas and coal with increasingly important role for natural gas. These markets will continue to dominate well into the 2030s. However, all forecasts indicate that the non-carbon energy alternatives that comprise nuclear, hydroelectric and solar, wind, wave, biomass, biofuels will continue to develop and complement fossil fuels in energy markets. A methodology will be presented to develop Levelized Costs of Energy (LCOE) for wide array of options – fossil fuels, renewables, and nuclear, will be compared and contrasted.
Participants will leave the session with business insights and relevant actionable ideas to take back to their organizations.
Agenda:
- Review of global energy markets and forecasting the future energy mix
- Major political and environmental trends that will impact energy markets
- Trends in the global economy and impacts on energy demand
- Developing a methodology for the Levelized costs of Energy (LOCE) to enable accurate forecasting and analysis
Session leader:
Hameed Siddiqui, Former Head of the Marketing Services Division, Saudi Aramco
Mr Hameed Siddiqui is President of Prescience Energy Consulting Inc., formerly Head of Marketing Services Division, Saudi Aramco, and, formerly Chairman of Society of Petroleum Engineers, Los Angeles Section, USA. He specialises in oil & gas business management, identifying and coaching its essential success factors in Upstream and Downstream businesses.
Hameed holds a Double-Master’s Degree from Stanford University (USA) in Petroleum Engineering and in Business Management, and Bachelors in Chemical Engineering. He is a certified Supply Chain Manager (CSCM, USA). After starting his career in the enhanced oil recovery research project sponsored by the US Department of Energy at SUPRI, Hameed moved into corporate planning (at Getty/Texaco), maximizing returns from the oil, gas, and diversified businesses.
This was followed by 30 years with Saudi Aramco, working at various projects in the US, Europe and Asia. Both as a Head of Marketing Services Division, and as an Assistant to the Vice President of Downstream, he has conducted crude oil sales and marketing at the world’s largest oil producer and exporter, supported planning, and development of new businesses, refineries, petrochemicals, and international joint ventures.
He was honoured as a President’s Scout with the prestigious certificate of merit and good conduct from the President of India, Mr. Giri.
He has trained/consulted in petroleum and petrochemical industries in worldwide locations. He has published technical papers on Supply Change Management, Enhanced Oil Recovery, Integrated Planning, and Reservoir Modelling.
Session C: Understanding the LNG process: an interactive workshop focussed on making sure non operations personnel understand the critical issues and component parts of the LNG process
This full-day learning session will give attendees a comprehensive overview of the LNG production process. Attendees will explore the detail of the process in non technical language. It will feature an in-depth review of the process building blocks, with the intent of providing service companies with an insight to opportunities, energy company in house non technical staff with an understanding of their business and the public and financial sectors with the vocabulary of LNG. The session will concentrate on generating understanding of the process and its issues rather than mere description. Participants will leave the session with a clear understanding of the LNG process, the mission critical obstacles that need to be overcome in the Australian context of LNG and an idea of how their role can make a difference.
Agenda:
- Overview of LNG process and critical issues
- Treatment of conventional and unconventional gas feed streams
- The role of Refrigeration in liquefaction
- The major equipment and their operation and maintenance to address the critical issues
Session leader:
Howard Thomas, Executive Consultant, Evans & Peck
Howard joined Exxon Chemical Olefins Inc in 1989. His practical experience in process operations led to a rapid specialisation in process optimisation, taking his first ethylene plant from 1800 t/d to 2100 t/d without physical modification. These results led to a rapid progression within Exxon, eventually coupling reliability science with process modelling analysis to extend optimisation from the process, to a combination with maintenance, improving not only efficiency but also availability. To this day, ExxonMobil still follow these practices worldwide.
Howard is by nature entrepreneurial and after leaving Exxon he learnt the ropes of consultancy before establishing his own businesses.
His considerable skills bring a unique dimension to Hydrocarbons Operational Support