22 and 23 February 2010, Houston, Texas

Program

Monday 22 February 2010


08:30 Registration

08:55

Opening remarks from the Chair

09:00
Russ Cancilla
Vice President & CSO, HSE & Security
Baker Hughes

Keynote Presentation:
Positioning security as part of the business plan
in order to effectively prepare for the future of global risk

  • Developing a security program that is coherent with your business objectives in order to maximize the potential operational and financial benefits
  • Ensuring that security personnel have a business outlook in order to build the business plan into every layer of the security operation
  • The need for security projects to demonstrate value: communicating the impact of risk in the language of business in order to better understand ROI
  • Instigating an effective program to calculate the ROI of security investments thus ensuring an informed and efficient decision making process

09:40
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

10:20

William Wilkins
Projects Manager
Corporate Security
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


10:50

Morning Refreshments and Networking

11:20

Walied Shater
Director, Security, Middle East and North Africa ConocoPhillips

Overcoming terrorist threat – analysing the trends, identifying successful tactics and mitigating threats

  • Outlining trends in terrorist attacks on the region’s energy infrastructure – How real is the threat?
  • What can be determined from previous attempts and the realities on existing operations
  • Revealing tactics that should be implemented to enhance security in the face of growing threats

12:30

Mark Niblett
Global Director
Halliburton
(Provisional)

Russ Cancilla
Vice President & CSO, HSE & Security
Baker Hughes

Peter Lofgren
Western Hemisphere Regional Security Manager Haliburton

William Wilkins
Projects Manager, Corporate Security
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
  • Developing 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?


1:00
Speaker

Lunch and Networking



2:30 - 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

  • 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

3:00

Optimizing your defenses against sea-borne assailants: hardening the target

  • Surveillance and identification: benchmarking against the best possible scenario
  • Establishing key trip-wires to deploy a response that is proportionate to the threat
  • Improving your response times in remote locations in order to maximize the effectiveness of your reaction
  • Training and preparation: identifying the skills and personnel that will reduce your vulnerability
  • Assessing the viability of using alternative routes: the financial costs and benefits of taking the long way round

 

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

3:30

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

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 Defence Economist
NATO HQ



4:00

Afternoon refreshments and networking



4:30

Advisory Session- Hardening the target: revealing next generation technology that will maximize your offshore defenses

  • Identifying new products, the efficiencies they propose and the security threat that they reduce
  • Critical insight into their functionality, how they operate, and their subsequent vulnerabilities in order to access their relevance for your business model
  • Case studies of new technology in practice: deepening your understanding of their objectives and successes
  • The product pipeline: analyzing the technological advances that might contribute to your security and profit margin in the medium to long-term

Advisory Session- securing your onshore facilities and other assets: revealing next generation technology to create a more resilient infrastructure

  • Identifying new products, the efficiencies they propose and the security threat that they reduce
  • Critical insight into their functionality, how they operate, and their subsequent vulnerabilities in order to access their relevance for your business model
  • Case studies of new technology in practice: deepening your understanding of their objectives and successes
  • The product pipeline: analyzing the technological advances that might contribute to your security and profit margin in the medium to long-term

5:00

Securing offshore rigs against attack and intrusion in order to reduce erosion of profits and improve safety

  • Ensuring that your security program and crisis management plan is optimal by understanding the changing threat from seaborne raiders
  • Robot operated platforms: assessing their vulnerability to attack as opposed to more traditional formats
  • Identifying and locating potential hostile parties
  • Communicating with the central control centre in order to enable a rapid response and increased success rate
  • Establish an effective procedure for dealing with ships perceived to be a threat: developing more effective practices
  • Deep waters and remote locations: predicting the future of rig security threats

Grahame Bullock
Head of Security
Nexen inc

Remote location security: improving detection, warning and response in order to effectively prevent loss of assets

  • Improving communications between remote and central sites in order to facilitate a workable security procedure
  • Establishing best practice in intrusion response: overcoming the problems created by slow law enforcement response times
  • Training and preparation for security breach: mitigating the potential loses
  • Crisis management in remote locations: ensuring that law enforcement and emergency services are sufficiently briefed and equipped


Kent Chrisman
Director of Global Security
Devon Energy Corporation


5:30
Speaker

Chairman’s summary and close of day 1