David has 30 years’ international and domestic experience in the oil and gas industry and specific experience in many facets of decommissioning and restoration in Australia, USA, Trinidad and Tobago, Bolivia, UK, Algeria and Pakistan. Decommissioning and restoration in these jurisdictions has variously included wells, pipelines, infrastructure, platforms and processing facilities as well as remediation following the impacts of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in the US Gulf of Mexico.

David started his career with Schlumberger in southeast Asia before joining BHP in Australia in 1994 in positions including General Manager Shale Oil. Other roles included Vice President HSE, Vice President Shale Drilling and Completion and Bass Strait Asset Manager. Beyond business and function leadership, David led BHP’s Petroleum Transformation and was Integration Manager for US shale assets.

David joined Santos in 2018 in the Onshore Operating Division and has since held the roles of Executive Vice President Onshore and Chief Operations Officer. In his current role of Chief Technical and Marketing Officer, he is accountable for Santos’ oil and gas asset lifecycle from exploration and new venture through decommissioning and asset retirement.

Paul is a fourth-generation family member of Hayes Metals, a recycling and smelting group of companies with facilities in Australia and New Zealand.

With over twenty years of experience in the recycling industry, Paul has developed several technologies to recycle complex materials, including the recycling of SURF cables (Subsea Umbilical, Risers, Flowlines).

As the groups Managing Director, he has a strong focus on the oil and gas industry to ensure commercially viable recycling outcomes for its by-products

Harvey’s career spans over 30 years across both the government and the oil and gas sectors, including eight years in London for BP, overseeing a decommissioning program.

In his role at BP, Harvey was involved in the development of a decommissioning training program, an onshore decommissioning guideline, and a legacy wells plug and abandonment practice. He was also responsible for bringing efficiencies in cost and reduced risk to onshore decommissioning, including working closely on synergies and opportunities with the BP offshore decommissioning program.

Harvey was a member of a multi-company team tasked with investigating options for a collaborative and optimised approach to decommissioning.

In his current role he’s responsible for overseeing the International Association of Oil and Gas Producers’ (OGP) environment and decommissioning strategies on behalf of the upstream oil and gas industry.

Richard started his career in Melbourne with ExxonMobil Australia before venturing overseas where he spent the next 18 years leading offshore oil and gas infrastructure projects in six different countries.

From shallow water conventional installations in Malaysia, to deep water subsea developments in Nigeria, and more recently concrete gravity structure construction and installation in the arctic waters off Newfoundland in Canada, Richard has extensive experience across all aspects of planning, engineering, contracting and execution of major projects.

Richard is now back in Melbourne where he is the Decommissioning Manager for ExxonMobil Australia, responsible for the decommissioning of the Gippsland Basin Joint Venture offshore assets.

Josie has more than 15 years of global energy industry experience and holds a bachelor’s degree in law from the University of Aberdeen.

Josie joined Petrofac’s drilling and well engineering division in 2008 and has held senior positions in commercial, business development and business unit leadership in the UK and the Middle East prior to relocating to Australia.

In 2019, Josie was appointed Regional Director in Perth with accountability for the strategic development and ongoing operations of the business across Australia and New Zealand, with expanded responsibility for Decommissioning across the wider Asia Pacific region.

Under Josie’s leadership, Petrofac secured the landmark Northern Endeavour Decommissioning Phase 1 project which sees Petrofac accountable for the safe ongoing operations and maintenance of the facility and the decommissioning and demobilisation of the Northern Endeavour FPSO.

Jay has 23 years of subsea experience having started his career at Vetco Gray in Aberdeen as a Graduate Engineer. Since then, he has progressed through various roles including manufacturing, engineering, project management, proposals, and operations across the UK, West Africa, Malaysia and Australia.

Since 2015, Jay has been working within the services business, driving focus on life of field management, asset integrity monitoring, production assurance and Integrated Services Management where his team successfully supported customers in well intervention, plug and abandonment and the safe decommissioning of subsea assets.