Tom has been involved as a practitioner in Turnaround Management in the Oil & Gas sector  for over 25 years. Since 1996 Tom Lenahan has worked as an independent consultant assisting clients achieve cost effective solutions to difficult issues in maintenance strategy in general and turnaround management. He is also a consultant who has worked with a large number of companies to help them develop Centres of Excellence for Turnarounds. Tom has taught and consulted in the following countries – UK, Ireland, Holland, Belgium, Russia, Tunisia, South Africa, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, India, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, USA, Colombia, Argentina and Venezuela. He has been trained in advanced communication skills and has extensive experience in dealing with 'soft' people issues that are as vital to the success of maintenance strategies as the more traditional technical issues.Tom is the author of the first book to be published on the subject of Turnaround, Shutdown and Outage Management (ISBN 13:978-0-7506-6787-6. Published by Elsevier) August 1999. He is at present engaged on developing a 'stripped down' turnaround methodology for companies with limited resources. Tom is a visiting lecturer at Manchester University in the UK where he teaches Turnaround Management and Maintenance Systems as part of an MSc course.

Mike’s 30 years in maintenance spans from mechanical engineering, strategic asset management to rotating equipment. He was previously a mechanical engineer with the State energy commission of Australia, where he conducted equipment failure investigations and constructed improvement plans. He was then the maintenance manager for the Swan Brewery, responsible for overall plant reliability and project engineering. Mike then spent over 10 years as maintenance manager and head of engineering services for Coogee Chemicals. In this role, he successfully introduced condition monitoring and maintenance strategies that reduced production down time and maintenance costs. An achievement was reducing bearing failures from 3 a month to 3 a year. As a maintenance manager, Mike also successfully initiated and trained other reliability centered techniques focused towards rotating equipment, including vibration analysis, particle analysis, thermography, equipment criticality analysis, root cause analysis reviews.As a current maintenance and reliability consultant, Mike continues to assist organisations such as BHP, Smorgon Steel and State Energy Commission in improving equipment reliability. He is also reputed publisher of numerous online technical white papers and training materials that are widely sought after by maintenance professionals. Mike is also a past Chairman of the WA Chapter of ( MESA) the Maintenance Engineering Society of Australia

Bich N has 24 years of experience in the Oil & Gas industry with pipeline integrity expertise. As the former Head Engineer for Corrosion at Shell, Canada, he provided technical guidance and conducted laboratory research on corrosion issues for all Shell Canada’s oil and gas fields, gas plants and refineries. Bich provided engineering services as a supervisor on the Waterton Gas Field Complex. His role was to provide corrosion inspection and computer services with a team.Bich is also experienced at conducting research and providing advice on corrosion problems to support field operations.Since 1999, Bich has conducted annual pipeline corrosion courses for the University of Calgary and published and presented papers on pipeline corrosion at NACE and IPC (International Pipeline Conference). On the topic of top-of-the-line corrosion, Bich is one of the first engineers at NACE to publish works with technical details on the subject. He has publications dedicated to Pipeline Corrosion.

V. Narayan retired from The Royal Dutch Shell Group of Companies in 2002, after a distinguished career in maintenance and project engineering. As the Head of Maintenance Strategy Group, Shell UK Exploration and Production, he was involved in the following assignments:- Created a new process and authored a standard to build in Reliability into new Projects.  This process, called ‘Operations in Projects’ is now extensively used in all major Shell Projects.  This clear Business Process enables Shell to maximise Life Cycle Net Present Value by designing lean Plants with high Reliability.As Maintenance and Reliability Adviser, Shell International, The Hague, he was involved in the following:-Created Shell’s process and Performance Indicators, for Bench-Marking Maintenance Performance of Refineries and Gas Plants.  This methodology is still in use today. Coordinated the Shell Group Refineries participating in the external Bench-Marking studies conducted by Solomon Associates Inc. Carried out a review of a major Shutdown execution at Pernis, the largest Shell Refinery, identifying significant improvement opportunities.  Many of these are now embedded in their planning process. Was a founder member of the Shell MERIT team, which made major improvements to Refineries’ maintenance performance.  Shell now sells this process to third parties. Identified best practices and opportunities for business improvement in fields of reliability, maintenance, inspection and projects in Shell Refineries, and Gas Plants.His book entitled Effective Maintenance Management –Risk and Reliability Strategies for Optimizing Performance was published by Industrial Press Inc., New York in April 2004, is now in its third print run. A second book entitled "100 Years in Maintenance and Reliability: Practical Lessons from Three Lifetimes at Process Plant” also published in early 2008 by Industrial Press Inc, NY. He is currently on the faculty of Shell Open University and an advisor to Robert Gordon University for their MSc programme in Asset Management.

Franz H has gained his near thirty year experience in the Oil and Gas Drilling Industry around onshore and off shore facilities in Australia, the North Sea, Middle East, USA, Europe & Asia. He has experience in nearly every position around the rigs, including; roustabout, roughneck, derrick man, assistant driller, barge captain.As a Drilling Engineer since 1967, Franz is thoroughly familiar with the drilling operations, has sound understanding of the engineering principles involved and gained substantial hands on knowledge of related well services. After studying Drilling Engineering at the Deutsche Bohrmeisterschule, Celle, Germany, he went on to work as an engineer around rigs in Europe, the Middle and Far East, for Weatherford, Agip, Nioc,  Siri in Iran, Aramco in Saudi Arabia, Adnoc, Conoco being some of the clients.  Gravitating towards the Oil and Gas Service side, he spent time on business development for Weatherford in the USA, and transferred to Singapore as M.D. for Weatherford in Asia. As an MD for Weatherford, he was responsible for all aspects of Company management, business development, training, customer relations and client consulting.He personally delivered the training to various Oil & Gas personnel in the region, including Conoco, Philips,Total, Arco, Amerada Hess, Mobil. With more than 30 years in the upstream Oil & Gas industry, he is familiar with the entire phase of exploration and production, with global experience including, Middle East, USA, Europe & Asia. He has gained unique global insights into the teaching fundamentals of exploration and production through numerous presentations to various Oil & Gas companies globally.

James has been consulting and teaching at University level since 1988. His area of specialisation include structural geology, regional tectonics, techniques of structural interpretation, field and laboratory methods, interpretation, field geology and  man, surveying and remote sensoring techniques, geostatistics and computer geology. In his career he has lead various field trips and labs. James has over fifty articles and abstracts published. Fields of published research include structural geology and tectonics, well bore guidance technology, stratiography, geophysics, coal geochemistry, applied mathematics, volcanology and igneous petrology, and geomorphology.James obtain his Ph.D. in Geology from Baylor University in 1993. He is professionally affiliated to American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Energy Minerals Division of AAPG and International Association of Structural/Tectronic Geologists.

Frank has worked in the oil and gas industry for 25 years, gaining experience with major oil companies, petroleum engineering consultancies, engineering and design houses and as an independent petroleum consultant.During ten years in Shell International he worked as wellsite petroleum engineer and later as operations and production geologist in Brunei, Thailand, Holland, and the UK, gaining experience in subsurface evaluation, field development planning and the management of producing assets. For two years he worked as Production Geology lecturer in the Group’s training centre and also conducted courses in Turkey, Nigeria and Malaysia; he left Shell in 1991 to work as a petroleum consultant and in 1992 became co-founder of TRACS International, providing training and technical consultancy. His work in TRACS included technical and commercial evaluations of assets in the FSU, Libya, Egypt and the North Sea.Since 2003 he works as an independent petroleum consultant and has designed and taught multidisciplinary field development and asset management modules for clients in Malaysia, Indonesia, the US, Canada, Australia, India and the Middle East He is currently based in the UAE. From 2002 to 2006 he served as a visiting lecturer and research associate working on the commercialisation of marginal fields at Curtin University in Perth, Western Australia.

James H has presented over 100 courses and seminars in financial management. He began his career as a graduate in the Corporate Treasury of WMC Ltd having completed a degree in Applied Mathematics and Geology at Monash University. After 5 years with WMC he pursued an MBA in finance and accounting at Cornell University in New York.Upon returning to Australia, he rejoined WMC Ltd in Perth as a Senior Financial Analyst in the Minerals Division and subsequently as an Energy Analyst in the Petroleum Division. In April 1997, he established an independent consultancy business providing advice to companies such as Woodside, Shell and Japan Australia LNG (MIMI). His background in geology and mathematics allows him to empathise with those who seek an understanding of finance but are approaching the learning experience with a technical mind. He receives consistently high ratings for his breadth of knowledge of the subject matter. He presents in a lively interactive style using real life examples and cases.

Jamal has built one of the most comprehensive and top drilling engineering programs world-wide in the petroleum engineering department at The University of Tulsa.  He has contributed significantly to the advancement of drilling engineering technology through education, research and publication.On the undergraduate level at The University of Tulsa, he has developed a comprehensive course in drilling engineering that prior to 1974 did not exist. On the graduate level, he has developed several drilling courses and built a research support facility that is recognized as the top in the world.  Some of his notable contributions in drilling engineering are; publications in the areas of hole cleaning in direction well drilling, BHA mechanics, drill bit mechanics, drilling fluids, etc.  He is among the top promoters worldwide for drilling engineering education and research. He has 37 years of teaching/research at the University of Tulsa. He has directed and managed joint industry program in drilling for 24 years on the average of $400,000.00 funding per year. He has promoted and received equipment gifts worth over $8 millions to support his drilling research program. He was the major advisor of over 100 completed M.S. theses and 12 completed Ph.D. dissertations.He has been invited to be the key note speaker at international meetings, including the Latin American Drilling Congress ( Mexico, Venezuela and Brazil), South East Asia Drilling Association ( Jakarta Indonesia with 25 countries represented), American Association of Drilling Engineering ( New Orleans), Extended Reach High Angle Drilling Symposium ( Houston, TX). He was also invited by the United Nations to conduct a course in China concerning Formation Damage Due to Wellbore Fluids, including drilling fluids and workover and completion fluids.

On joining the British Council, Kuala Lumpur in 1997, Steve managed the Business Skills Unit and was involved in the marketing of British Council programmes as well as overseeing all training-related matters. Steve considers himself a trainer first and specializes predominantly in high-level writing and technical report writing programmes. In addition to conducting training in Technical Writing, Steve has also been the chief editor for two large writing projects. The first was the entire Start-Up Manual (including the Black Start Manual) for Nippon Oil’s Helang Integrated Platform, which came online off Sarawak in 2004. Steve was involved in this year-long project from the beginning, including helping to decide on the overall style aspects of the manuals to the final preparation prior to submission to the client. The second was a four-month project rewriting the manuals for the Puteri Dulang FSO off Terengganu.

Paul's training and consulting experience spans almost twenty years and includes - accredited facilitator on the Ericsson global leadership programme, delivering in over 10 countries to 20 different nationalities over a five year period.  Paul's training and consultancy experience is supported by early sales and marketing roles with GEC and Boeing and as Business Marketing Manager for London Electricity during market liberalisation. At London Electricity he was responsible for the development of marketing strategy and managing a multi-million pound promotion budget. Prior to this, he was the director of a management consultancy and training firm, the SIA Group. Paul graduated in law from Oxford University in the early '80s. In 1987 he gained an MBA from City University. He is a member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing and the Institute of Management Consultancy.

Bob M has over 30 years of experience in project management. His background includes the areas of project definition, start-up, planning, execution, monitoring and close-out on a variety of multimillion dollar developments throughout the Asian region. He has extensive experience in organising and leading multi-discipline and multi-project teams to achieve project success. Bob has worked and lectured in over a dozen countries, including USA, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Philippines, Australia, India, New Zealand, United Arab Emirates, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Korea and Japan. Clients who have benefited from Bob’s views on how to deal with the complexities of project management include BASF, Shell, BP, Motorola, HP, Delphi, ABB, Flextronics, Intel, NCR/Teradata, SAP, Honeywell, Otis Elevators, the United States Air Force, the United States Marine Corp Community Services, Fuji-Xerox, Volkswagen, Cisco Systems, and many others.Bob holds a BSc from the University of the State of New York, an MBA from the National University of Singapore, and a Master’s Certificate in Project Management from George Washington University. He is a Certified Project Management Professional (PMP) with the Project Management Institute (PMI) of the USA.

Peter brings with him a wealth of 32 years of managerial experience and industrial practice in Strategic Leadership, Change Management & Talent Development. He holds a B.Soc Sc (Hons) and Master in HRD (Distinction), Sheffield, United Kingdom; Competency Vocational Assessor with National Vocational Qualification (NVQ), UK; certified and accredited trainer with Training and Development Lead Body (TDLB), UK, Managerial Assessment of Proficiency (MAP),US.A member of Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development (UK), American Society of Training & Development (ASTD), Singapore Institute of Management (SIM), New Zealand Institute of Management (NZIM), and Malaysian Institute of Human Resource Management (MIHRM); he is also the External Verifier of Institute of Leadership & Management (UK) for International Management Qualifications – Professional Development Programs.Prior to this, he was the Learning & Development Consultant with Shell Malaysia (E&P) and later became the HR Advisor for Shell Malaysia (G&P) which includes the Shell Middle Distillate Synthesis (SMDS), a showcase of the world’s first commercial gas-to-liquid technology.

Michael has more than a 20-year career as a management consultant and corporate trainer. He has provided consulting and training services to organisations in the United States, Africa, and the Middle-East.  Mike received his doctorate in Human Resource Development from The George Washington University. His doctoral dissertation was selected as a finalist to the Donald Bullock Award and in 1991 he received the Special Achievement Award from The American Society for Training and Development ( ASTD, D.C. Chapter).As a university professor of management, Mike’s more than 15 years experience includes teaching Conflict Resolution and Effective Negotiation in the MBA Program at The Johns Hopkins University, and in the Executive Program at the University of Maryland, University College.  Mike  is a Certified HBDI (Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument) Trainer and an author of the book titled, Done Deal: Insights from Interviews with the World’s Best Negotiators (Platinum Press, 2005). It is based on his personal interviews with the world’s best negotiators in business, diplomacy, labor, sports and law.  His book was selected by The Chicago Tribune as one of “The Best Business Books of 2005”. Mike’s profile had been aired in on major media interviews and appearances in the United States include: Bloomberg Televisión; BusinessWeek; The Wall Street Radio Network; amongst many others.

Karen S is a Human Resource Management professional with specific expertise in people re-engagement. Her experience has been gained from over 20 years in human resource management, corporate education, consulting and administration across a range of industries.  In the past 10 years she has consulted to both the public and private sectors in medium to large organisations. Some of her recent clients in the Engineering and Mining sector include:Australian Drilling Industry Association, Australian Longwall 2007 Conference, Northern Territory Power and Water Authority, ActewAGL.Karen believes one of her key advantages as a consultant is her ability to bring in fresh ideas from a wide range of industries to help her clients develop new and innovative ways to manage their people. Whilst the majority of her experience is with Australian audiences, she regularly presents to multicultural groups with a large percentage of Asian delegates.Karen holds a Bachelor of Education (Adult Education) from University of Technology, Sydney along with a Certificate IV in Assessment and Workplace Training and is a former lecturer and consultant for TAFE Queensland and NSW. She is a member of the Australian Institute of Management and a professional member of the National Speakers Association of Australia. Karen was recognized for her speaking talents in 2006 by the National Speakers Association of Queensland with the award of “Speaker of the year”.

Internationally recognized “Guru” in cased hole logging with more than 20 years of oil industry experience. He is the author of Cased Hole and Production Log Evaluation by Penn Well Publications.He also authored more than a dozen technical publications on these subjects:Smolen, James J. and van der Spek, Alex, “Distributed Temperature Sensing—A DTS Primer for Oil & Gas Production” Unclassified, Shell International Exploration And Production B. V., The Hague, The Netherlands, 2003. Smolen, James J., and Gysen, Michel, “PLATO User Manual” Shell International Exploration and Production B.V., The Hague, The Netherlands, and Interpretive Software Products, Inc., Houston, Texas, 2000. Whittaker, J.L., Golich, G.M., and Smolen, J.J.,  “Diagnosing Horizontal Well Production in the Belridge Field with Downhole Video and Production Logs” SPE Paper 38295, 1997 SPE Western Regional Meeting, Long Beach, June 1997.Education: B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, 1965, M.S., Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, 1966, Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, 1970

Frank is a senior human resource consultant, with a strong commercial and academic pedigree. He was educated at Cambridge University where he completed his first masters degree (Master of Arts) in Classics. He gained 17 years’ experience with the Exxon Corporation in a wide range of general management positions, including marketing, international auditing (Europe, Middle East & Africa), government relations and financial management. Frank Penson’s Exxon career culminated in 5 years as Esso UK’s Head of Training & Organisation Effectiveness, where he influenced the corporation’s training activity throughout Europe. Frank elected to move into consultancy in 1994 and has specialised in strategic training, learning & development assignments, nationally and internationally. His extensive oil & gas consultancy experience includes projects in Europe, the Former Soviet Union, the Middle East, SE Asia, Africa & the Caribbean. He has close links with the UK Government’s Learning and Skills Council network and is an approved adviser for their national people development standard, Investors in People. From 1992 to 2002 Frank sat on the Management Committee of the UK’s National Training Organisation for downstream petroleum: the Petroleum Industry National Training Organisation. He is a Member of the Energy Institute and is listed on their Consultants Database.

Geof has been working as an organisation and management development consultant for over 25 years, initially as an internal consultant with Esso Petroleum, then as the principal of his own consulting practice. He has direct line and HR management experience with Esso Petroleum, and has worked in almost every private, public and not-for-profit sector in countries across Europe, Middle East, South East Asia, Africa and the USA. His projects have ranged from major organisation change programmes spanning multi-site, multi-level activities lasting several years, to one off workshops on management skills and individual coaching. He has written a number of books and articles on management subjects and is the editor of the professional journal Organisations & People/ Geof is a Chartered Member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, a Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute, a Member of the Association for Management Education and Development, a partner in Learning Consortium and was a founding partner of Castle Consultants International. Geof is qualified in FIRO-B and FIRO Elements.

Howard has over 30 years in the oil industry. During that time he has worked exclusively in well intervention and completions.  After a number of years working for intervention service companies (mostly slickline) he joined BP as an offshore well service supervisor. He was responsible for the day to day supervision of well intervention work on many of BP’s North Sea platforms.  This included coil tubing, e-line, slickline and stimulation operations.An office based role as a well operations engineer followed. He was responsible for planning, programming and organising of all the well intervention work on the Bruce and later the Magnus fields. In 1995 Howard moved into completion design. Since then he has designed many platform and sub-sea completion’s, often travelling to the rig site to oversee the installation.  In addition to his day to day work as a completion engineer, Howard regularly teaches completion and well intervention courses all over the world.

Tim is a petroleum economist. He has undertaken a range of economic evaluations across the Middle East, North and West Africa, Pakistan, India and NW Europe. He has also provided upstream economics and risk analysis training courses both in the UK and internationally.Tim trained and qualified as a Chartered Management Accountant and moved into the oil and gas industry with Premier Oil plc in 1995 working in both Pakistan and London. For the two years to the end of 2003 he worked as their UK Commercial Analyst in an analytical and management role covering a wide range of commercial activities including field valuations for development, acquisitions and disposals, asset management, gas contract management and  the administration of the Sales and Marketing function. Prior to that, he was UK Finance Manager with responsibilities for the maintenance of economic models, management of budgets and statutory financial reporting. Tim spent time in Premier's Islamabad office where experience was gained in both financial and project accounting.

David has worked in the Oil and Gas industry since 1977. He trained initially in the gas turbine industry before moving into the application of machinery to marine propulsion and oil & gas production. He spent sixteen years with Shell, initially as a machinery specialist before moving into maintenance management. Following Shell, he was maintenance manager for a major contractor before moving into consultancy. Consultancy projects have included specification and troubleshooting of machinery as well as studies into availability and production efficiency, and development of maintenance management systems.Since 1999, he has provided training in maintenance management and machinery application for Shell International E & P and has also taught at the University of Aberdeen. David has also been providing consultancy, including training courses, for 13 years: clients have included most of the oil majors as well as supply companies, smaller exploration and production companies. Major clients have included Shell, Chevron, BP and Talisman.David holds a Batchelors degree in Mechanical Engineering and is a Chartered Engineer and Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (UK).

Chris is a NACE International Accredited Corrosion Specialist with more than 30 years experience acquired in over 40 countries. Expertise covers: materials, cathodic protection, protective coatings, inhibitors and monitoring. His experience has been predominantly in the hydrocarbon production industry, but has also carried out projects  refining, chemicals & petrochemicals. He has published and presented papers on: corrosion failures, cathodic protection, coatings, and corrosion management.Holds current UK Offshore Survival Certificate, and is a UK Law Society Accredited Expert Witness. He is a Principle contributor to Institute of Corrosion – Recognized course “Corrosion management in Oil and Gas Production”; presented annually in conjunction with Sheffield Testing Laboratories.Training related experience: 1984-present: prepared and presented experienced-based training courses world-wide on corrosion engineering topics: corrosion in oil and gas production, cathodic protection, coatings, inhibition and monitoring, corrosion of concrete reinforcement and chemical cleaning. Clients include: ADMA-OPCO (UAE), ADNOC (UAE), TWI, Trevor Jee Associates for Royal Engineers, Kuwait Petroleum Corporation, QCI (UK), BP Exploration (Alaska), Thames Water plc, Environment Agency, Tengizchevroil (Kazakhstan), Dyno Oilfield Chemicals (UK), International Energy Foundation (Libya), Sirte Oil Company (Libya), Institute of Corrosion (UK) for Brown & Root North Africa, SGS (Nigeria), QGPC (Qatar), Impalloy (UK), British Sugar plc, Marathon Oil UK Limited, GEC Oil and Gas (UK), Vetco Grey Controls Limited, Lloyds Register EAME, Shell EPE.

John worked for BP for 28 years as a Research Associate and Team Leader, working on Feasibility Studies  and acting as a trouble shooter covering all aspects of BPs businesses. These covered field Development Project in the North Sea and several novel resource recovery techniques which were taken from Concept to Field Pilot trials in Canada. His specific work in the offshore area covered Subsea Robotics / Automation , Seabed Production Concepts, Seabed Excavation Methods, Underwater Repair Techniques, Flexible Riser Studies and Maintenance Cost Reductions.After leaving BP in 1992, he has continued working in the offshore oil industry through Azur Offshore Ltd, including activities in the assessment of Emerging and Novel Technologies, Technical and Economic Audits,  Studies, Production Sharing Agreement Evaluations, Safety and Environmental issues. Clients have included Chevron UK, BP Exploration, British Gas , Technomare, Trident Consultants, Fina UK and Cameron France.In addition he is responsible for co-ordinating and is the Course Director and Principal Lecturer for the oil Industry Training courses that Azur Offshore Ltd Provides to Professional Engineers in Europe, USA , S.E. Asia, Australia and Africa. John is regular University lecturer at Crandfield School of Industrial Sceinces (UK) and is a course Group Project external examiner for Cranfield. He also lectures on offshore oil industry activities at ENSIETA (France), the Technical University of Delft (Holland) and the Northern Territories University in Darwin (Australia).He is an active member of the UK Society for Underwater Technology (SUT) and serves on their Subsea Engineering and Operations Committee.

Willy retired in 2003 after almost 25 years with Statoil, the national oil company of Norway. When he retired he had been a Senior Advisor to the President & CEO of Statoil for several years.He joined Statoil in 1980 after 15 years in journalism. During his time in Statoil Willy has held a number of positions, including Senior Vice President Government Affairs, Managing Director Statoil UK, Senior Vice President E&P International with responsibility for the countries in the former Soviet Union and Senior Vice President Corporate Strategy.Willy has an in-depth knowledge of Norway's development as one of the leading global oil and gas producers and of Statoil’s development as a national oil company from its role as an instrument for the government to its listing in New York and Oslo in 2001. He has over the last ten years also made a number of presentations at international conference on the Caspian developments and on the need for transparent oil revenue management. He has been a member of various advisory boards on Caspian and Russia, and is a Governor in the Board of Oxford Energy Institute.

Alan previously held a number of senior management positions with a large pipeline operating company in North America having responsibility for system planning, construction, maintenance and contracting functions.His thirty five years of experience spans research, design and development in pipelines and offshore structures. He was the founding chairman of the ASME Pipeline Systems Division and is the co-author of the text book “Pipeline Design and Construction – A Practical Approach” and author of over fifty published papers. Alan is an adjunct professor at the University of Calgary and has given courses on Pipeline Design and Construction throughout the world. He holds a doctorate in Civil Engineering from the Queen’s University of Belfast and is a member of the ASME and the I MechE of London.

Denis P is consultant with extensive commercial and engineering skills in flow measurement and hydrocarbon allocation & accounting within the oil and gas industry in both domestic and international markets.Denis spent 22 years in BP, where he was the Measurement Consultant for Europe. Since leaving BP in 1994, Denis has been working as a Consultant.  He is currently involved in helping several operators to optimise their production by improving their measurement systems. He has helped several operators extend the life of existing infrastructure by converting them to central processing facilities to develop marginal fields as sub-sea tiebacks. He is currently Chairman of the Aberdeen Highlands and islands Branch of the Energy Institute. He also lectures on a part-time basis at RGU’s Energy Centre Post Graduate Production Engineering Course. In this role he has been involved with the training PDVSA personnel in Aberdeen.

John’s expertise is in complete Nodal system analysis that can identify under-performing wells, model and quantify the incremental production. He is involved in optimizing all aspects of inflow and outflow performance curves of a well including well testing, stimulation, workover, well completion, hydraulic fracturing, sand control, horizontal, multi-laterals and selecting the proper artificial lift or optimizing the current artificial lift.As an internal consultant for Unocal, he also worked on projects in Vietnam, Argentina, India, Bangladesh, Azerbaijan and global deepwater evaluation. With his extensive experience in operations and knowledge in Nodal analysis he can easily identify and boost production of under-performing wells, and train younger engineers  in production optimization using Nodal analysis or an applied workshop using Nodal software customized to local needs.  He is currently a mentor in production for an oil and gas knowledge global portal in Perth, Australia and consultant for Weatherford. He has over 30 of hands-on experience with Unocal internationally with varied experience in oil and gas operations both onshore and offshore in Sumatera, Balikpapan, Thailand, Philippines, California, Alaska and Gulf of Mexico.

Michael is an energy consultant with worldwide experience particularly in gas and LNG, most recently in China and Taiwan.  As Managing Director (Gas & Power) for Shell in China, was acknowledged as a major influence in the change of China’s energy policy to import LNG and to utilise gas.  He has expertise in all phases of the gas and LNG business, and is acknowledged by industry experts, Governments and Government Expert Committees.  Now a consultant and Board Member.  Has consulted worldwide on all aspects of gas and LNG. Member of the Western Australia Gas Panel of Experts.His influence on the development of energy policy in China and in Taiwan was recognised by  the  Energy Working  Group  of APEC  and  by the  associated policy development body, APERC (Asia Pacific Energy Research Centre, based in  Tokyo).   For  the  past  4  years, has  been  invited to  recommend  energy policies to APERC and to critique energy policies developed by APERC.He has extensive experience of working with Joint Venture partners, including as a senior member of the management of the actual JV team.  As Technical and Planning Manager in the Venezuelan LNG  Project was  responsible for  all  technical and  planning  aspects.  As  LNG Manager  in the  Sakhalin LNG Project, led all LNG planning for the project.  Led the consortium of Shell, Marubeni and Osaka Gas to bid for the Guangdong LNG Project.He was the  inaugural manager  of  the Onshore  Treatment  Plant of  the  North West Shelf  LNG  Project in Karratha.    Set  up the  organisation  and  managed  the start2up  and  operation of  the  plant.   As  several innovative  organisational  concepts were  pioneered,  this involved  complex,  successful negotiations  with unions to secure their buy2in, all against a tight timeframe.He has always maintained a keen interest and capability in the technology of the gas and LNG business, and is respected by consultants and industry commentators for insight into the technology and its business applications.

Richard is a consultant  in the  field of natural gas market development  and  is interested  also  in the  integration  of commercial  and environmental opportunities offered by the use of natural gas.Richard was  formerly with the  Shell Group  of Companies  for  30 years.  His  final post was  General Manager,  Natural Gas  and  Project Development  Manager for Shell in China from 1997 to 2001.  His main responsibility was to develop  a  liquefied natural  gas  (LNG) import  project,  as well as  sales  and marketing of natural gas, in China.Richard  acted  as the  Shell  delegate on  the  Joint Venture  Project Committee of the Australian North West Shelf LNG project between 1993 and 1997.   During that period he was also  seconded part2time  to COAG Natural Gas  Taskforce (to  develop  a national  gas  regulatory regime)  to  coordinate and  report on  the  deliberations of  the  Upstream Working  Group.   Prior  to  that, Richard was  involved in managing  the  application of  onshore  and offshore technologies  for Shell’s own exploration and production programme 2  the successful development  of  gas projects  for  base and  peak  load duties  in  the UK  Southern  North Sea  gas  province, gas  and  oil venture assessments  in Russia, Kazakhstan  and Turkmenistan,  and deepwater  gas  and oil  discoveries  in The Philippines.

David specialises in executive leadership facilitation and management development. He was born in England in 1947 and educated at the City of London School. He gained a first class honours degree in chemical engineering from Edinburgh University in Scotland and has undertaken postgraduate studies in psychology at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia.His corporate career spanned 20 years in oil & gas with BP, Amoco and AGL and 10 years in information technology with ICL and Tandem where he held general management roles.David focuses on unleashing the power of the whole person - the power of the body, mind, emotions and spirit. As a qualified engineer, he understands the laws of physics. His postgraduate studies have given him an equally deep understanding of the laws governing human behaviour and the metaphysics of the mind, emotions and the spirit.These physical and metaphysical laws are the building blocks of our universe and understanding how they work is key to making the best choices in our lives - at work, at home and in our communities.David’s approach is pragmatic. He provides his clients with a comprehensive range of practical life skills and business tools to enable management and staff to achieve optimum performance and results.A powerful and compelling speaker, David combines humour, energy and passion. He draws on a wealth of personal experience and thorough research.

Jeff has extensive experience in financial modelling, forecasting, valuation, model auditing, and management reporting for clients throughout the world. He is skilled in the development and maintenance of analytical tools and financial models for middle-market to large corporate transactions and clients, at all levels of complexity, in both domestic and international settings.He has worked with companies such as Chevron, Rio Tinto, Glencore, KPMG, Grant Thornton and many others. He provides training in financial modelling for companies throughout the Asia Pacific region. Jeff is the author of a number of white papers on financial modelling on subjects such as Financial Modelling Best Practices and Financial Model Auditing.

Roger has over 30 years' experience of corrosion in the oil, gas, civil, and nuclear industries. He ran the premier microbiological corrosion group at UMIST for seven years; the group accumulated over 150 man-years of research into corrosion by micro-organisms. The group published over 100 theses, dissertations and papers on bacterial corrosion and its prevention and treatment. He also has specialist knowledge of sweet and sour corrosion and its prevention by chemical inhibition, monitoring of corrosion and the design of efficient cathodic-protection systems for flowlines, structures, and seabed installations. He has been an independent consultant since September, 1989, and prior to this was a founder member of the Corrosion and Protection Centre Industrial Service (CAPCIS) at the University of Manchester, UK.

Andrew retired in 2005 as Research Professor of Petroleum Engineering at Cambridge University in the UK. Professor Palmer is a Fellow of the Royal Society, a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers, and current chairman of the DNV Pipelines Committee. He is the author of three books and more than 180 published papers on pipeline engineering, structures and geotechnics, including the textbook Subsea Pipeline Engineering, which was co-authored with Dr. Roger.

Charles more than 25 years of domestic and international experience in the Oil & Gas industry in the areas of Nitrogen Injection, CO2 Flooding Processes, Waterflooding Processes, Thermal Recovery Processes, Reservoir  Engineering, Production and Environmental Engineering. During 1997 - 98, he was a Production/Reservoir Engineer Consultant-in-Residency with Shell Offshsore, Inc headquartered in New Orleans. He was also a consultant worldwide with Schlumberger. He has more than 15 years of academic experience teaching graduate and undergraduate petroleum courses and conducting research in the areas of EOR Processes, Production, Reservoir, Environmental Engineering, Paraffin and Asphaltene deposition prevention and/or control. He is active in consulting and teaching worldwide for the Oil & Gas Industry.  Being a result and problem solving oriented engineer and environmentalist, Dr. Alcocer holds a BS, MS, Ph.D. and Post Doctoral Research in Petroleum Engineering from Oklahoma University. Dr. Alcocer is a former professor of Oklahoma University, Montana University System, and The University of Louisiana, Lafayette, USA

Roger has more than 25 years experience in the selection, design and installation and removal of fixed and floating offshore structures deployed in the Gulf of Mexico as well as worldwide for oil and gas field development.  This project activity is connected to a number of environmental, economic and technical considerations.  The technical problems include hydrodynamic fluid structure interaction and structural design. The majority of this research was completed as a professor of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering at the University of New Orleans- UNO (1984-2007). In addition to computer modeling of offshore installation life cycle, Dr. Latorre planned and completed a number of physical scale model tests of offshore structures contracted by offshore design companies.  Dr. Latorre authored over 100 articles that have been published in  scientific journals as well as book chapters and technical meeting  proceedings. Dr. Latorre holds 4 US patents. He is a Fellow and Life member of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Royal Institution of Naval Architects and Japan Society of Naval Architects.  He is on the editorial board of four International Journals dealing with offshore engineering, marine engineering and technology.

Poston received his B.Sci. and M. E. in Geological Engineering at Texas A&M University in 1959 and 1963 and Ph. D in Petroleum Engineering from the same institution in 1967.From 1967 through 1982 Dr. Poston worked mainly in operations for Gulf Oil Exploration and Production Co. in the fields of production geology, simulation, reservoir engineering, planning and economic analysis principally along the U.S. Gulf Coast and offshore Nigeria.  His last position was Manager of Planning for the Gulf of Mexico division of Gulf Oil E&P in New Orleans which operated over150 fields in the offshore and marsh areas. He most recently involved in BP's Hugoton project.In 1982 Dr. Poston joined the Petroleum Engineering Department at Texas A&M University as professor of petroleum engineering until retiring in 1993.  While there he taught petroleum geology and applied oil and gas engineering on both the undergraduate and graduate level as well as obtained major research funding from the Department of Energy and the Gas Research Institute.The results of these efforts were over 40 presentations and publications as well as publishing “Overpressured Gas Reservoirs” with Dr. R.B. Berg under the auspices of the Society of Petroleum Engineers.

Gene founded Aberdeen Drilling Schools in 1982, following a career (initially in field drilling operations and subsequently in training) which began in 1972.  Immediately prior to establishing ADS, Gene  served  as  Training  Director  for  Sedco  North  Sea  Division.    His  responsibilities  included  the development  of  the  company's  in-house  Well  Control  School  (obtaining  Department  of  Energy,  UK Certification, Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) and International Association of Drilling Contractor Certification).  He was responsible for creating the Sedco International Qualification Programme and the development of Sedco's graduate  trainees.   Mr Wilson  is also a  founding member of  IADC Well Control Committee and IADC HPHT Drilling & Well Control Policies & Best Practice Joint Working Group.  He has continued to contribute hands-on to Aberdeen Drilling Schools' training activities, having project-managed the  "BP  Global  Well  Control  Policy  Revision"  (2001-02)  and  ChevronTexaco's  "Well  Control  Manuals Upgrade Project" (2004-05) and has conducted HPHT  training and consultancies  for many major clients worldwide.

Roger is currently Gungoll Family Chair Professor of Petroleum Geology and Geophysics at University of Oklahoma. For the past five years he was Director of the School of Geology and Geophysics and Eberly Family Chair Professor at The University of Oklahoma (2000-2005).   Before that, he was Head of the Department of Geology and Geological Engineering at Colorado School of Mines (1992-2000) and Director of the Rocky Mountain Region Petroleum Technology Transfer Council (1995-2000).After receiving his Ph.D. in 1970 from the University of Alaska, he taught geology for 8 years at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Arizona State University.  He then spent 14 years in the petroleum industry with Cities Service Research, ARCO Research, and ARCO International Oil and Gas. Co. before joining Colorado School of Mines in 1992.  He has published over 90 papers and abstracts, and has made numerous presentations on the subjects of petroleum geology, reservoir geology, seismic and sequence stratigraphy, shallow marine and turbidite depositional systems, geology of shale, glacial and Pleistocene-Quaternary geology, and geochemical exploration.He sits on various professional society committees, has organized technical conferences for American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG), and teaches short courses for industry and AAPG on the  “Introduction to the petroleum geology of deep-water (turbidite) depositional systems” and on  “Principles of geologic reservoir characterization”. He also offers a global, web-based course on “Introduction to geologic reservoir characterization”. In 1996 he received the AAPG Distinguished Service Award.  In 1999 he was the Esso Australia Distinguished Lecturer in Petroleum Geology. In 2001-2, he was an AAPG Distinguished Lecturer, giving a presentation titled “Outcrop/behind outcrop characterization of deepwater (turbidite) petroleum reservoir analogs: why and how”.   In 2002-3, he offered the same presentation as an SPE Distinguished Lecturer.  He has taught this course worldwide for many government and industry organizations.

Fundamentals of Petroluem Geology
Petroleum Geology Deepwater Clastic Depositional Systems
Sandstone depositional systems/reservoirs within a sequence stratigraphic framework
Characterisation of clastic (sandstone) reservoirs

Fundamentals of Petroluem Geophysics
Image Log Interpretation
Structural Geology Seismic Interpretation

Introduction to Petrophysics
Production Logging
Cased Hole & Production Log Evaluation

Drilling Workovers and Completions
High Pressure & High Temperature Wells
Stuck Pipe
Deepwater Well Control
Drilling Essentials for New Engineers
Fundamentals of Casing and Tubing Design
Fundamentals of Drilling Fluids (WBM & OBM)
Fundamentals of Cementing
Drill String and BHA design & Optimisation
Basic Drilling Technology for Drilling  Engineers
Fundamentals of Well Design
IWCF Well Control - Inhouse only
Well Completions and Interventions

Reservoir Engineering School 
(Fundamentals of Reservoir Engineering & Applied Reservoir Engineering)
Enhanced Oil Recovery - CO2 Injection and Waterflooding

Formation Damage, Acidizing and Hydraulic Fracturing Technologies and Practices
Production Optimisation Using NODAL Analysis
Shallow Water / Deepwater Drilling & Floating Production Facilities
Shallow Water / Deepwater Drilling , Production Facilities & Installation Techniques
Deepwater Production Facilities & Operations Course
Deepwater Drilling Rigs, Operations and Equipment
Well Intervention
Sand Control

Safety & Risk Management for Offshore Operations and Production
Behaviour Based Safety
Hazop
Integrated Risk Management
Safety Management (ISO9000)
Environmental Management (ISO14000)

Root Cause Analysis
Pipeline Integrity Management and Defect Assesment
Design, Operations and Maintenance of Pumps and Compressors
Corrosion Management in Oil & Gas Production
Reliability Centered Maintenance Master Class
Rotating Equipment Excellence
Pumps, compressors and Total Cost of Ownership
Platform Life Extension and Decommissioning
Effective Plant Turnaround Management
Subsea Pipeline Engineering 
Vibration and Bearing Condition Monitoring
Maintenance Planning and Scheduling
Writing Effective Maintenance SOP
Pipeline Hydraulics

National Oil Companies:  Growth and Expansion Strategies
Introduction to Exploration and Production for New Engineers and Non -Technical Professionals
Essential Drilling Technology for Non-Technical Professionals
Deepwater Drilling Rigs, Equipment and Operations for Non Technical Professionals
Fundamentals of Upstream Petroleum Economics &  Risk Analysis (PSC, Petroluem Royalties & Taxation)
OSV Chartering and Contract Management with Elements of Maritime Law
Human Competency & Capability Development in Oil & Gas
LNG fundamentals
Oil and Gas Financial Modelling
Fundamentals of Upstream Oil & Gas Agreements
Production Sharing Contracts
Joint Operating Agreements
Sales & Purchase of Upstream Oil & Gas Interests
Oil & Gas Supply and Construction Contracts
EPCC Contract Law for Non-Legal Managers and Engineers
Writing Effective Standard Operating Procedures

Effective Problem Solving & Decision Making for Engineers & Technical Professionals
Leading and Managing Generation X and Y Engineers and Technical Professionals in Oil & Gas
Technical Report Writing & Presentation Skills for Oil & Gas Engineers and Technical Professionals
Negotiation Skills and  Strategies
Leadership and Team Management Skills for Engineers and Technical Professionals
Finance for Non-Finance Professional in Oil & Gas and Fiscal Systems
Multi-party Negotiation Skills
Oil and Gas Project Management
Project Risk Management