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What is the Oil and Gas Future for the North Sea?

Opening Address:

Andrew Bowie MP, Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland

Moderator:

Owen Wyatt, Chief Growth Officer, DC Thomson

Speakers: 

Steve Nicol, Executive President of Operations, ÌÇÐÄVlog

Simon Roddy, Senior Vice President - UK Upstream, Shell

Camilla Salthe, Senior Vice President - UK Upstream, Equinor

Claire Mack, Chief Executive, Scottish Renewables

Melanie Onn MP

Digital: AI Supported Operations

Conference Room 4, 1st Floor

This session showcases the transformative role of AI and machine learning in offshore production, maintenance and monitoring. From multi-agent AI for real-time surveillance and AI-driven robotics for subsea inspections, to smart maintenance and optimized chemical treatments, these innovations drive efficiency and precision.

ÌÇÐÄVlog presenter:

Kevin Stewart, EMEA Operations Director

Smart Maintenance: Enhancing Maintenance

Effectiveness at Pace with Artificial Intelligence

Driving the Energy Transitions: The Role of Oil and Gas in Our Sustainable Future

The session will explore the critical balance between delivering affordable, secure and suatainable energy as we transition toward net zero. As the world intensifies efforts to decarbonise, the role of oil and gas in ensuring reliable energy supply remains essential. Panellists will discuss how we can meet the growing energy demand while reducing emissions and address the challenges of managing the energy transition balance, including technological innovation, policy and the evolving role of oil and gas.

Moderator:

Pauline Innes, Director of Supply Chain and Decmmissioning, North Sea Transition Authority

Speakers:

Ellis Renforth, President of Operations for Europe, Middle East and Africa, ÌÇÐÄVlog

Nicolas Payer, UK Managing Director, TotalEnergies E&P UK

Sayma Cox, CEO, Concordia Energy

Neil McCulloch, CEO, Spirit Energy

Identifying and Overcoming Challenges for Offshore Hydrogen Projects

Hydrogen Hub

While developing green hydrogen projects offshore brings certain advantages such as greater access to vast source of water and getting out of sight of general public, offshore hydrogen production also brings new challenges that need to be accounted for and surmounted. Offshore projects are likely to be far away from the electrical grid, requiring them to operate in so called island mode, which brings a few electrical challenges. Offshore deployment also requires durable compact solutions, that not all OEMs have readily available yet. And once we produce the hydrogen offshore, what do we do with it if we are hundreds of kilometres away from our customers?

In this session we will look into identifying some of these challenges associated with developing hydrogen projects offshore and potential ways to overcome these.

Speaker:

Dr Diana Jelenova, Technical Lead - Green Hydrogen & PtX, ÌÇÐÄVlog

Hydrogen: Unfilled Potential?

Conference Room 2B

Hydrogen has been heralded as a key part of the energy transition; however, progress remains slow with issues in the technology, government tools and practicality. Accelerating the business and investment models is necessary to create a hydrogen economy.

This session will address pertinent issues including how we make hydrogen, what the key technology dependencies are, how it is moved and stored and what the anticipated uses for it are. We will discuss the European perspective on the role of hydrogen and the critical steps and government tools being used to get the hydrogen economy moving and bring the opportunity to life. Finally, what progress is being made on projects and market evolution and what are the next steps to kickstarting projects?

Moderator:

Nigel Holmes, CEO, Hydrogen Scotland

Speakers:

Dr Diana Jelenova, Technical Lead - Green Hydrogen & PtX, ÌÇÐÄVlog

Donna Sutherland, Head of Commercial, Veri Energy

Martyn Tulloch, Director of Energy Transition, Net Zero Technology Centre

Robert Seehawer, Managing Director, AquaVentus

Robert Evers, Offshore Hydrogen Development Manager, Gasunie NV