Antonis Natsikas is Deputy Director for Corporate Development and Planning in DEPA (Greek Public Gas Corporation) and Technical Director for the Interconnector Greece – Italy Project (IGI Poseidon). He has studied Civil Engineering in the Technical University of Athens (Metsovio Polytechnical University) and Business Administration in the Athens University of Economics. Following an early career in Project Management of big Sport Projects (Stadiums, Pools, etc.), Antonis moved to DEPA on 1989 and he was involved from the very beginning in the design and construction of the Greek High and Medium Pressure Systems in Greece, till 1999. He then jointed the Corporate Development Department and worked for the Interconnector Gas Pipeline between Turkey and Greece (ITGI) and the Interconnector Pipeline IGI (onshore and offshore) with EDISON of Italy.

Mr. Felt has over thirty years experience in the energy industry with expertise from domestic projects to multi-billion dollar multinational undertakings. These projects cover the spectrum from exploration, production and other upstream ventures to transportation, distribution and downstream activities. He has extensive experience in integrated project management, international project development, engineering design, construction, start-up and operations of projects in the energy industry. Midstream Energy projects for which Mr. Felt is singularly qualified include design and construction of petroleum transportation systems, electric generation facility automated fuel systems, pipelines, terminals, underground storage, pumping stations, compressor stations, loading systems, design and custody transfer measurement systems for crude oil, petroleum products and natural gas. Mr. Felt is a published author, lecturer and guest speaker for professional associations and conferences. He is also accomplished in forensic engineering, expert witnessing and litigation support for complex technical cases.

Mr. Thygesen has 30 years of experience within oil & gas production and transport. Experience range from project management for design construction and commissioning to operations and lifetime expansion of on and offshore production and pipeline transmission. Mr. Thygesen has worked as DONG Energy´s representative in Pipeline Research Committee International for many years specific dealing with offshore pipelines. Mr. Thygesen is representing the Danish North Sea Operators Committee DK in the Danish Diving Council. Jens has extensive technical experience within energy and power installations, thermal and nuclear power plants, as well as in project management and organisational planning. Participated from the outset in the Danish hydrocarbon pipeline systems planning, design and construction. Headed later on the operation and maintenance of the offshore oil and gas transmission systems

Nikolay Seregin graduated from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (Russia) with a Master Degree in Economics in 1982. Later he continued his studies focusing on attraction of foreign investments and in 1989 received a PhD in economics. In 1994 he was a Visiting Fellow at Oxford University (Green College), having won the Reuters Foundation and Wincott foundation fellowship. Nikolay started his career in 1982 in the Ministry of International Trade of the USSR. From 1982-1985 he worked as an engineer and then a senior engineer in “Novoprom of V/O “NOVOEXPORT”, focusing on oil containing residues export projects. During 1992-2001 he contributed to a number of foreign publications, including Times, Los Angeles Times, Paris Match, BT as well as different Russian media working as a correspondent and then as observer of Business World daily newspaper, Novaya Gazeta, Stroitelnaya Gazeta. In 2002 Nikolay joined JSC Sibneft as Advisor to the President in charge of international projects. Later on he headed the Department of Analysis and Project Management of JSC “Gazprom Neft”, in October 2006 became a Deputy Head of Strategy Directorate and Head of strategy and International Projects Department. Since January 2006 he is a Member of the Board of Directors of Pipeline Consortium Burgas-Alexandrupolis being a Project director on behalf of JSC “Gazprom Neft”.

Dennis Keen has 34 years experience in the oil and gas industry, 31 of which have been associated with pipelines. Commencing work in 1975 with British Gas as a graduate trainee he worked initially on onshore gas distribution and transmission pipelines before moving into offshore pipeline IRM in 1981. In 1988 Dennis joined the UK Department of Energy, Pipelines Inspectorate where he lead a team of engineers overseeing the offshore pipeline operators safety improvement proposals in response to the incident. In 1992, the Inspectorate was transferred to the UK HSE and Dennis moved to Aberdeen, where he recruited and managed a team of 6 pipeline inspectors responsible for regulating pipeline legislation in the northern North Sea and onshore in Scotland. In 1997 Dennis left the HSE and joined Andrew Palmer and Associates (now a part of Penspen Limited) where he continues to work. He specialises in integrity management and health, safety and environmental work. During his 12 years with APA he has prepared, implemented and audited Pipeline Management Systems, performed risk assessments, chaired HAZIDs and HAZOPs, conducted accident investigations, prepared legal documents, completed pipeline Decommissioning Plans as well as managing pipeline design projects, all for a range of clients.

Mr. Baldwin has over 30 years experience in plant machinery diagnostics at Southwest Research Institute. Areas of theoretical and practical experience include rotordynamics, monitoring and diagnostics, foreign material ingestion, and flow-induced vibrations. For three years Mr. Baldwin led a Gas Machinery Research Council research task investigating ingestion of foreign materials into pipeline compressors, with particular emphasis on the problem of black powder (iron sulfide) formation, location, and identification. Presently he is leading a two-year study sponsored by PRCI to update knowledge on iron sulfide formation using chemical and biological testing of world-wide pipeline samples. Mr. Baldwin is a Registered Professional Engineer in the State of Texas and a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. He graduated from Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, with an Engineering Science degree and received an MSME from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A.

Jassem received his M.Sc. in Engineering Project Management from University of Glamorgan (U.K.) following a H.N.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Metropolitan College (UK). He has worked with Qatar Petroleum for 33 Years. Currently Jassem is Manager of the Transmission & Distribution Department. Here he is responsible and manages supply of gas fuel and transmission of feedstock to affiliated industries including State Power and Water Generation Plants. Jassem also manages 2000 Km of gas pipeline network. For the last 8 years since the creation of Transmission & Distribution Department, Jassem has actively participated in effecting changes and improvements in the gas transmission and distribution systems. Jassem has been instrumental in improving the required infrastructure to maintain higher reliability to achieve the target of 99.9%.

David Rodrigues de Miranda is Gassco’s project manager for the Tampen Link 2008/2009 project completion work scope. He worked for Shell International from 1986 to 2005 in various locations around the world and has been involved in onshore and offshore pipeline engineering and projects, production operations, HSE management, and asset integrity management. He is currently responsible for the integrity management of Gassco’s UK pipelines and associated onshore and offshore pipeline facilities at Nyhamna, Easington, St Fergus, Sleipner and Statfjord. He holds a Master of Engineering degree in Maritime Civil Engineering from the University of Liverpool, UK

Mrs. Andresen has over thirteen years of experience in the offshore oil and gas industry and a Master of Science from Norwegian Technical Highschool (NTNU). She started her career as a project engineer working her way up to lead engineer for Sonsub AS and then Subsea 7 AS. In 2000 and 2001 Mrs. Andresen worked as Lead Fabrication Engineer and Fabrication Yard Manager at PEMEX EPC28, in Mexico during which time she was responsible for the fabrication engineering and management operations on a daily basis. Since joining Technip Norge as in January 2007, Mrs. Andresen has worked as a Project Manager, acting Operations Manager and Business Development and Sales Manager. On the Kvitebjørn Repair Project she was working as the Project Manager responsible for the Design, Engineering and Operation under the Marine Contract where the Pipeline Repair System was utilised.

As Team Leader(Quality Control) of the Engineering & Major projects Division (EMPD) Mohamed Daoud has extensive experience within the oil & gas industry specialized in project management, construction, quality assurance & control, integrity management, inspection & certification of manufactured equipment. His qualifications include being an authorized TUV specialist for Inspection of Hazardous Equipment (Boilers, Pressure Vessels, and Lifting Equipment), Classification & Certification of Offshore Oil & Gas Installations and sub - sea pipelines, and an authorized Quality Lead Auditor for integrated management systems and ISO Certification.

Earlier cross country pipelines in the Middle East were designed and constructed along remote corridors with few crossings, and have minimum number of high consequence areas (HCA’s). During the last fifteen years the region had seen a major topographical transformation due to the rapid expansion of populated, agricultural and industrial areas. In many cases such changes were not anticipated during design stage. To deal with this issue, it is necessary to carry out detailed risk assessment to identify newly developed HCA’s, and address identified gaps in order to bring the old lines up to date with respect to safety requirements. This presentation highlights short falls of old pipelines design criteria, lists elements for integrity and risk assessment program, and discusses their implementation on one case study

Mr. Lars Erik Storck is a graduate from the Technical University of Denmark of 1984 with MSc in Civil Engineering. As a consulting engineer since 1984 he has gained experience in design and supervision of on- and offshore oil and Gas projects. Since 2001 Lars Erik has been employed by DONG Energy in the Subsea Technology Department first as responsible for the ROV and Diving IRM work on offshore Transmission pipeline systems and from 2007 as Manager of the Department responsible for IRM, route and site survey, integrity management and Emergency Pipeline Repair preparedness of all the subsea facilities the company operates. The facilities are covering offshore transmission pipelines, inter field pipelines, jackets, subsea production and oil off-loading system.

Mr. Torstrick has over twelve years of experience in the offshore oil and gas industry, specializing in the construction management of deepwater and shallow water pipeline and umbilical projects. He began his career with an offshore marine contractor as a field engineer working his way up to Lead Project Engineer and then to Project Manager, with experience in West Africa, South America, and the United States (Gulf of Mexico and New England). Presently, he works as a consulting project manager for Cronus Technology working for a midstream pipeline company in the United States. Andrew has worked on several deepwater SCR and trunkline construction projects including the Independence Trail Gas Export Pipeline, with the 20” SCR in 7,950 fsw (2423 m). He has co-authored several other papers addressing different aspects of the Independence Trail project. Mr. Torstrick graduated from Texas A&M University with a Maritime Systems Engineering degree.

Mr. Palmer-Jones is Consultant in the Newcastle upon Tyne office of Penspen Integrity. He has 16 years experience of research, development and consultancy in the oil and gas industry. Since 1996 he has specialised in pipeline integrity. He has specific knowledge in pipeline repair methods, pipeline inspection systems, fitness for purpose assessment, training, finite element analysis, pipeline damage prevention, pipeline design and operation audit, and research project management. Mr. Palmer-Jones is a visiting lecturer in pipeline repair on the University of Newcastle MSc course in Pipeline Engineering and regularly delivers public and in-house pipeline defect assessment training courses.

Mr. Wijnholds, who is a member of the AWS, has a degree as mechanical engineer and in metallurgical engineering and spent more than 30 years in the welding industry. He has been with Hobart Brothers Int. in The Netherlands as Manager Advance Welding Systems for 13 years responsible for R/D and marketing world wide for this line of products. For the last 20 years he has been with Magnatech, based in Connecticut USA. His present position is Managing Director of Magnatech International BV based in the Netherlands and Vice President of Magnatech USA. Magnatech is specialised in manufacturing of orbital pipe and tube welding equipment. Mr. Wijnholds have been, and is still, strongly involved in the R/D of this line of products mainly used in the oil- and gas pipeline industry. (On- and off-shore)

With over twenty years experience in the In-Line Inspection industry Wolfgang has extensive experience in new product design and product launch. He is also co-inventor of the UltraScan corrosion inspection system. Since 2004 Wolfgang has been Corporate Manager Marketing at ROSEN Swiss AG, responsible for all global marketing activities, advertisement, new product developments and product launch.

Jon Major is Vice President of T.D. Williamson Inc. (TDW). TDW, privately held and in business for 90 years, is a market leader in pipeline intervention technology, products, and solutions. Jon has been with TDW for 8 years serving as Manager of Business Development, Manager of Pipeline Integrity Products and Services, Vice President of Western Hemisphere Operations and currently, Vice President of TDW’s global offshore services business unit. Jon has served the energy industry for nearly 30 years, 20 years of which with Texaco Inc. (acquired by Chevron in 2001), a worldwide integrated energy company. He held a variety of domestic and international onshore and offshore, project, business development, and operational leadership roles in Texaco’s upstream and midstream businesses. Jon, since joining TDW, has been instrumental in developing and executing TDW’s strategies for growth and the acquisition of pipeline technology firms over the past 8 years. Jon, originally from Rochester New York, earned his undergraduate degree in structural engineering from Michigan Technological University, and a Masters in Business Administration from Oklahoma State University. Jon is a registered professional engineer and is active on ASME’s International Offshore Pipeline Forum. Jon has two grown daughters, and resides in Houston, Texas.

Kenneth Jekteberg is Director of Business Acquisition in Sensorlink AS, a company that specialises in instrumentation and measurement systems for the oil and gas business with a special focus on the pipeline segment. Mr. Jekteberg holds a Master Degree in Mechanical Engineering and Project Management from Stavanger Unversity. Following a career in the field of industrial robotics and process automation, the last 16 years have been spent in the oil and gas pipeline industry. He has been involved in a large number of pipeline construction, commissioning and operations projects in a special solutions and problem solving capacity working from project manager, technical manager and managing director positions.

Dr David Hill is the Technical Leader of the OptaSense business unit at QinetiQ Ltd. and has over 24 years of research and development experience in the field of acoustic sensing. Almost halve that time has been spent developing fibre-optic based sensors for oil & gas applications as well as for the military. With a background which includes acoustic array processing, transducer design and experimentation, Dr Hill has lead in the development of 4-component all fibre-optic seismic arrays and more recently in the development and exploitation of Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) techniques for use on pipelines and in other Oil & Gas applications.

Doug Frater is the Managing Director of FTP Secure Solutions Ltd and has 35+ years of experience in the energy industry, primarily in automation and control technologies. Prior to forming FTP, he worked for Honeywell International Industrial Controls Division as sales vice president, Europe, Middle East and Africa and global vice president, oil and gas business and international projects. He has extensive international business experience with resident assignments in the UAE, USA, Hong Kong and China, Saudi Arabia and Europe. FTP and Future Fibre Technologies have operated a strategic relationship in Europe, Central Asia, Middle East and Africa since 2003 in the development, marketing, sales and services of FFT’s fibre optic intrusion sensing technology.

Andrew is a Chartered Engineer with more than 20 years’ experience working with optical fibre in many sensing and telecommunications applications, in disciplines including R&D, manufacturing, applications and sales & marketing. Andrew has for the past 5 years held the role of Technology Manager for the Midstream Oil & Gas group within Schlumberger, the world’s largest Oilfield Services Company. During this time he has worked with the company’s range of distributed temperature sensors and their application to pipeline monitoring. In parallel, and working closely with one of the world’s largest Oil Exploration & Production operators, he has also managed the development of new optical fibre technologies from initial feasibility study to the creation and proving of the present Integriti range of pipeline condition monitoring products.

Andrey Vassiliev graduated from Moscow State Management University and has more then 15 years of experience in operational and business development aspects of in-line inspection of oil and gas pipelines and is currently Product Line Specialist, ESSA region in Weatherford Pipeline and Specialty Services Division. Andrey will present a new approach to detection and localization of illegal taps in liquid transmission pipelines using custom-designed intelligent pigs developed by Weatherford.

Dr.Mohammad Niqab Khan has over twenty years of experience in automation and controls in various industries with expertise from hardware configuration to programming and handling projects business. He has extensive experience in innovative solutions derived from customer’s requirements, interactive dialog and feedback from operational staff of the concerned sectors. He has a bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering and Masters and Ph.D in Industrial Management. He has been working for Siemens Saudi Arabia for more than a decade being responsible for Automation and General Process Solution’s business and is CEO ABTC, Private Limited since 2002.

Robert Jablonski is General Manager of Metegrity, an asset management company for the process industry. Its flagship product Visions Enterprise is considered the leading and most-proven lifecycle management software product on the market. Mr. Jablonski has over 18 years’ background in business management, Information Technology and software development and is the author, designer and developer of the premier Visions Enterprise product which incorporates a risk-based inspection basis to ensure profits and top facility production. He has extensive experience in overseeing the IT operations of large companies as well as intricate knowledge of the specific requirements and details of the process industry and plant operations. With the unique expertise of Mr. Jablonski and other Metegrity team members, Visions Enterprise is flawlessly implemented at renowned client installations while incorporating each company’s unique requirements and requests.

John Whytock has been with Metalogic Inspection Services since 2004, working exclusively with Phased Array technology application development. He has been in the Inspection & Testing industry for 25 years and holds multiple CGSB certifications relative to NDT. As one of the original founders of Metalogic, his focus over the past 5 years has been the design, development and implementation of Phased Array technology and services for the Power Generation , Pipeline, Petrochemical, Refining, and Construction Industries. John is currently Manager of Business Development. His responsibilities include application & service development, marketing & sales, and client satisfaction.

Mr. Frank Koper is the CEO of Psicon BV since 1998. Frank is a mechanical engineer with experience in the rotating equipment field for more then 20 years. Before joining Psicon BV he has worked for a number of companies in different continents. For Flowserve he was responsible for the API610 pumps is sales n South America, for Weatherford he ran the European compressor operations group. Frank will present the use of Magnetic Filtration Solutions to remove black powder from gas and oil transport lines.

Onshore pipelines are constructed in much the same way, using similar types of equipment, as they were thirty years ago. Over the same period, the Offshore and Subsea Industries have been radically transformed by the implementation of new and novel technologies bringing with it reduced unit costs, improvements in productivity and a substantial extension in capability. The remaining untapped oil and gas reserves are increasingly found in remote, inaccessible regions, frequently requiring onshore pipelines to transport oil and gas production to customers. Pipeline transportation costs will therefore form an ever-increasing proportion of total field development costs as pipelines become longer in ever more demanding environments. Focus has therefore fallen on pipeline costs in a world where high steel prices and scarce equipment and skilled personnel has led to sprialling cost inflation. Working smarter to improve productivity and reduce unit costs via innovation and technology offers significant opportunities. These developments require a significant change in the way we address future pipeline projects and in particular the way we harness technology to meet these challenges.