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WESTMINSTER ENERGY FORUM - Strategic Challenges in the Development of UK & EU Oil and Gas

Date: Tuesday 15 November 2011

Time: 8.30am

Venue: I Norton Rose, London

Once again, Oil & Gas UK and the Westminster Energy Forum are holding an annual seminar, this year focussing upon the strategic trends in the development of European oil and gas. This is an annual, non-commercial event, by invitation only, which represents the third of the eight private seminars in the Forum’s annual programme. It will involve 125 senior executives and public sector representatives from the regular Forum network plus guests who are specialists in this particular field.

Please find the agenda for the day below.

For further information and to book please contact the Westminster Energy Forum by emailing secretariat@westminsterenergy.org.

Agenda

8.30 - 9.00am Registration and Refreshments

9.00am Welcome

Chris Lambert, Director, Westminster Energy Forum

Session 1

Chaired by Neil Miller, Partner at Norton Rose

9.05am Government economic and commercial assessment of the North Sea: key issues for 2012

Simon Toole, Head, Oil and Gas Licensing, Exploration & Development, DECC

9.35am Maximising long term recovery from the UKCS: the role of independents in the current fiscal context

Nigel Hares, COO, Enquest

10.05am The Northern question: developments in the geopolitics and ‘ownership’ of European Arctic resources - key issues of relevance for the upstream sector

Prof. Klaus Dodds, Director of Politics and Environment Research Group (PERG), Royal Holloway, University of London

10.35am 2011 OGUK economic overview: industry fundamentals and projections for the UKCS

Mike Tholen, Economics Director, Oil and Gas UK

11.00am Coffee and Networking

Session 2

Chaired by Anthony Lobo, Head of Oil & Gas at KPMG

11.30am Briefing of factors currently affecting UK investments & corporate strategy in the North Sea

Anthony Lobo, Head of Oil & Gas, KPMG

11.45am The operational, and competitive, contexts of IOC E&P activity beyond the OECD region

TBC, Tullow Oil

12.10pm Risk management post-Macondo: the Commission’s proposals for European offshore regulation

Steve Walker, Offshore Director, Health & Safety Executive

12.35 pm Developments towards the decoupling of gas and oil: key issues (incl. shale gas, LNG) + timeframes

Howard Rogers, Senior Research Fellow, Oxford Institute for Energy Studies

1.00pm Closing Remarks

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