22 and 23 February 2010, The Westin Oaks Hotel, Houston, Texas

Program

Monday 22 February 2010


08:30 Registration

08:55

Opening remarks from the Chair


09:00
Alex de Alvarez
Vice President, Corporate Security
Apache Corp.

Case Study
Building a Performance-Based Security Programme

  • Maximising the effectiveness of your security program: using performance standards not compliance standards
  • How to build performance standards into a security programme and substantially improve security
  • Developing your use of intelligence and local knowledge to improve security performance
  • Integrating security into the business: improving your efficiency by developing ownership of the security program at management level
  • Performance-based standards and making the business case: surviving the worst-case scenario

09:30
William Wilkins
Corporate Security, Projects Manager
Valero Energy Corporation

Identifying the potential advances in the robustness and sophistication of security programmes by converging physical and logical security

  • Uncovering the potential costs and benefits of a more coordinated approach in order to establish the business case
  • Using more effective convergence between security disciplines to create efficiencies and reduce costs
  • Analyzing ways in which a dynamic relationship between IT and security might improve the effectiveness of your onshore and offshore security
  • Establishing the role of computer forensics in physical and intellectual property security
  • Implementing effective convergence strategy: understanding the logistical implications

10:00

Dick O’Leary
Senior Director, Physical Security Group
EMC


 



10.30 Morning Refreshments and Networking

11:00

Ian Pilcher
Director, Development,
G4S Risk Management

Developing a comprehensive program that reduces your exposure to risk in high-threat, post-conflict regions

  • An overview of the ever evolving security dynamic in Iraq
  • Revealing region specific political challenges in order to maximize your level of preparedness
  • A close look at some of the key threats that impact business continuity in the Oil & Gas community in the territory
  • Observations on the difficulties of doing business in Iraq from a security contractor's perspective

11:30

Peter Lofgren
Manager
Western Hemisphere Regional Security

Haliburton

William Wilkins
Manager, Corporate Security Projects
Valero Energy Corporation

Alex de Alvarez
Vice President Corporate Security
Apache Corp.

Panel discussion: Evaluating the evolution of the global threat landscape to plan an effective response

  • Gauging the effect of recent evolutions in the political and economic landscapes for oil and gas security
  • Evaluating the changing environment for onshore rigs as their locations move from traditional area of exploration to new and remote areas: uncovering new threats and how you can avoid them
  • Deepening your understanding of the effect of increasingly complex technology and hostile locations on the risks faced by offshore rigs
  • Analyzing developments in global piracy in order to gauge the implications for your shipping routes and prepare evasive strategy
  • Defending your pipelines: developing a strategy to protect your lines and defend your profits
  • Assessing the financial and logistical implications of federal regulations and guidelines at field sites in the US: how can compliance, cost effectiveness and efficient implementation be achieved?

12:15
Sue Armstrong
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary
DHS

Regulation Keynote
Isolating the regulations that apply to physical security and the actions necessary to comply

  • A thorough overview of the current CFATS program and insight into the debate surrounding the future of the regulation. Discover what this will mean for your business and how you can ensure that you are both compliant, and able to benefit from the necessary investment.


12:45
Speaker

Lunch and Networking
Sponsored by WIPRO



2:15 - STREAMS

Stream A Offshore threats:
detection, response and prevention

The changing face of piracy: creating a robust security portfolio

  • Assessing the true cost of piracy to identify primary financial threats and learn how loses in these areas might be mitigated
  • Analysis of the threat posed to shipping in the Gulf of Aiden and establishing key measures to reduce your exposure to attack in the region
  • Prospects for a further reduction in piracy on the Malacca Straight and analysis of optimal defense strategies
  • Uncovering areas where risk is increasing or evolving: forewarned is forearmed
  • Understanding developments in the aggressors’ approach and equipment in order to ensure your response is proportional to the changing threat
    Pottengal Mukundan, Head, International Maritime Bureau

 

Pottengal Mukundan
Head
International Maritime Bureau

Stream B Onshore security:international challenges

Securing the personnel supply chain: preventing and responding to Kidnap and Ransom (K+R)

  • Assessing the true cost of piracy to identify primary financial threats and learn how loses in these areas might be mitigate
  • Deepening your knowledge of geographical locations most subject to K+R in order to tailor your response and instigate the most relevant possible security programme
  • Responding to a hostage situation: adhering to national law and safeguarding personnel whilst protecting the business interest
  • Developing an effective contingency programme to reduce the impact of stoppages
  • Ensuring that your workforce can operate safely and efficiently in high-risk areas

 

Paul Barker
Regional Security Advisor, EMEA
Chevron

2:45

Protecting of Offshore Oil and Gas Assets

  • Differentiating offshore oil and gas security requirements from other maritime security environments •
  • Fundamentals and employment of early warning, detection and identification of threats •
  • Hardening the target: practical solutions for the maritime environment
  • Employment of security boats: lessons learned on what works and doesn’t work
  • Training and preparation: identifying the skills and personnel that will reduce your vulnerability

 

Roger Hawkes
Director,  Corporate Security
Global Industries

Pipeline security – preventing and responding to security breach in order to defend your product flow

  • Key risk assessment procedure to ensure that your security provision is optimal
  • Discovering key regional threats and understanding how your security program can best respond to specific risks
  • Analyzing critical technology and equipment that can help you prevent pipeline security breaches and protect your supply line
  • Surveillance and detection at remote and unmanned sites: overcoming the challenges in order to enable a swift response
  • The evolving risks in pipeline security: what threats should you be preparing for and what is your best defense against the associated costs?

 

Duane Jones
Corporate Security Manager
Kinder Morgan


3:15

Clarifying your legal rights and responsibilities in defense against pirates and kidnappers

  • The rule of law: establishing what protection you have in international waters to discover how to best deter and retaliate against attackers
  • Determining the factors affecting your legal powers following an attack or theft
  • National laws and their implications for the level of security you can legally employ to protect vessels and rigs
  • An overview of new laws against kidnap insurance, what it means for your response and analysis of the long term implications for K+R crisis planning
  • Analyzing potential future developments in global law relating to security in order to establish an effective forward looking crime-response strategy


H. Allan Black
Partner
Winston and Strawn LLP

Risk based approach to monitor information security

  • Understanding  the risk of cyber attack as a result of an increasingly technology dependant oil and gas industry
  • Developing remote access to sensitive systems and incorporating appropriate controls to mitigate potential threats
  • Analyzing  approaches and guidelines that have been successfully adopted for addressing different types of risks posed
    • Technical IT risks
    • Process control domain related risks
    • Physical infrastructure risks

    Arun K Singh
    Head, Enterprise Security Business
    Wipro Technologies


3:45

Afternoon refreshments and networking



4:15

Update from the Coast Guard, uncovering key developments

This session will look closely at the issue of seafarer access as well as the MTSA regulations and how they affect you and your operations. With close analysis of harmonization between MTSA and CFATS, this crucial insight will help you maximize the positive impact of these guidelines.

Jim Bull
Chief, Facility Branch, Office of Vessel and Facility Security, Coast Guard's
Port Security Directorate

Case Study: Establishing key community relationships to improve security in global locations

  • Analyzing the requirements of your location: creating an accurate understanding of key relationships and potential fracture points
  • Facilitating the development of sustainable community interaction that allows your facilities to operate without incident
  • Allocating sufficient time and resources to develop a beneficial relationship
  • Damage limitation and repairing your relationship in the event of an incident
  • Establishing key areas for change and improvement going forward

Adrian Kendry
Senior defense Economist
NATO HQ



4:45

To what extent is TWIC affecting the way you operate and what can be done better?

An exclusive chance to discover how TWIC implementation is progressing and what it means for you. Interactive discussion will enable you to share knowledge and experience with your peers and at the same time develop a deeper understanding of the challenges and their potential solutions.



LT Devon Brennan
Cargo and Facilities Division
US Coast Guard

 


5:30
Speaker

Chairman’s summary and close of day 1


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