Official Event Advisory Panel for Safety in Oil and Gas 2015
Quest Events would like to take this opportunity to sincerely thank the panel members below who are contributing their valuable time and expertise to ensure the conference agenda is timely and relevant for all stakeholders.
Ian Travers
Head of Chemical Industries Strategy Unit, Hazardous Installations Directorate
Health and Safety Executive (UK)
Ian is head of Chemical Industries Strategy Unit in HSE with responsibility for setting the direction and operational policy for the regulation of chemical industries in the UK. He was responsible for managing HSE’s strategic response to Buncefield and steered the Process Safety Leadership Group to conclude a joint regulator and industry response to the incident and other major incidents such as BP Texas City. From this experience, Ian was promoted for the UK chemical industry to develop key principles of Process Safety Leadership.
He shaped recent changes to the way the HSE and the UK Environment Agencies jointly regulate major hazards within the COMAH remodelling program, resulting in improved efficiency in the regulation of major hazards and regulatory programs. He also pioneered the use of key performance indicators to monitor the effectiveness of critical chemical process systems. Ian was the first author
to present this in ‘Developing Key Performance Indicator for Process Safety, HSG 254. He also worked as a drafting author on the OECD guidelines for KPIs and contributed to the CCPS and KPI guidelines.
Ian recently chaired the international expert panel to publish the OECD guidelines on Process Safety Governance, and he worked with ScottishPower in the UK to develop their award winning approach to asset management.
Kevin Lacy
EVP, Petroskills and former VP Drilling and Completions
BP (USA)
Kevin joined Talisman Energy as the Senior Vice President of Drilling and Completions in February 2010. Kevin Lacy has worked in the oil & gas industry for the past 32 years. His career began with Chevron U.S.A. in New Orleans, Louisiana. Kevin rose through the ranks of Chevron in various roles in drilling, production, and asset management to ultimately become Vice President of Global Drilling and Completions at the merger of Chevron and Texaco.
After spending 26 years with Chevron, Kevin retired from Chevron and joined BP in July 2006 where he initially held the role of D&C Head of Discipline for the Western Hemisphere. He then held the position of VP for Drilling and Completions in the Gulf of Mexico. He was responsible for the central team established in 2008 to manage all drilling and completions operations for the Gulf of Mexico.
Kevin has traveled to over 45 countries and lived in five outside the US. He holds a bachelor of science with honors in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Tulsa and an MBA from the University of California at Berkeley. Kevin received the International Association of Drilling Contractors Exemplary Service Award in 2007. He was elected to the Tulsa University Engineering Hall of Fame in 2002.
Kevin is married to Kate and has 4 children: Sheehan, Paul, Eric and Laura.
Mark Leigh
Team Leader - Process Safety and Asset Integrity
ConocoPhillips
Mark has worked for ConocoPhillips for 30 years in a variety of technical and leadership roles in the UK, Middle East, Houston and now in Australia. His role in Houston was to lead the ConocoPhillips functional excellence team in asset and operation integrity, a role that exposed him to a wide range of asset types around the globe.
Mark’s current role is to lead the Asset Integrity and Process Safety team based in Perth, WA which supports the Bayu-Undan (offshore) and Darwin LNG (onshore) assets.
Dr. Clive Killick
Principal HSE Consultant
Arrow Energy
Adjunct Professor of Chemical Engineering, University of Queensland
Dr Clive Killick has more than thirty years’ experience of process, safety engineering, and HSE consultancy in hydrocarbon gathering / processing facilities and air separation technology, most recently at Royal Dutch Shell and in his current role at Arrow Energy.
He has authored several Shell HSE documents including the Shell Contractor HSE Greenbanding Process and the guidance document HSE Assurance for Capital Projects (Project Guide 1) which is used as the template for determining the number and scope of HSE activities in a project. Clive is also the author and presenter of a course on risk management at the University of Queensland and, in 2014, was awarded the title of Adjunct Professor in Chemical Engineering.
In his spare time Clive is a rower, coach and umpire. He was the British Rowing Honorary Safety Advisor and Chairman of the National Safety Committee (2010-2013), and a member of the safety team for the Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2012.