Taf Powell, United Kingdom
Program Committee Chairman
Investigation Manager, Buncefield Board
Taf
Powell is head of Health and Safety Executive’s (HSE) Offshore
Division. He graduated in Geology and Chemistry from Nottingham
University. His oil field career has been split between working in
the UK and abroad in offshore exploration and development and
regulation of the sector in licensing, well operations, policy and
safety regulation.
In 1991, he joined the HSE’s
Offshore Division from BP and started work to develop the new
offshore regulatory framework, one of Lord Cullen’s recommendations
following his inquiry into the Piper Alpha disaster.
As HSE’s Operations Manager, based
in Aberdeen, he led inspection teams and well engineer specialists
responsible for enforcing the new regulations until 2000 when he
took up the role as Director and Chief Inspector of the Offshore
Division of the HSE’s Hazardous Industries Directorate.
Taf
has been working with the International Regulators Forum promoting
the economic sustainability agenda worldwide–and gaining additional
leverage with the worldwide drilling and production industry since
its creation in 1994.
In December 2005, Taf was
appointed to lead the Government’s investigation into the Buncefield
Major Incident of December 11, 2005. The investigation reports to an
independent Board, of which Taf is a member.
Taf is
married to Judy, with a son and daughter. They live in Aberdeen,
Scotland. When spared from work and household maintenance, his
interests include outdoor activities, particularly hill walking.
John Clegg, Australia
CEO,
Australian National Offshore Petroleum Safety Authority
John Clegg spent 29 years in
the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) in the UK regulating mainly
onshore and offshore major hazard industries. Following the Piper
Alpha disaster in the North Sea, John, an Operations Manager, helped
set up the Offshore Division and contributed to the regime change
from prescription to goal setting.
John took up post as the
inaugural CEO of the Australian National Offshore Petroleum Safety
Authority (NOPSA) on July 1, 2004.
Ahmed Mubarak, Qatar
Manager, HSE Monitoring and Performance Department, Qatar
Petroleum
Ahmed Mubarak
received his PhD in Chemical Technology in 1976. He has authored and
co-authored over 50 books and technical articles which have been
published in various engineering/technology and science journals. He
served as Principal Auditor [IRCA registered] for Quality [ISO
9001], Environment [ISO 14001], and Occupational Health and Safety [OHSAS
18001].
Mr. Mubarak has 25
years experience in the chemical and oil and gas industry and is
currently Manager of HSE Monitoring & Performance Dept, Qatar
Petroleum.
J.
B. Verma, India
Executive
Director, Oil Industry Safety Directorate
J. B. Verma is a
Chemical Engineer from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi,
India. He has 32 years experience in Indian Oil Corporation Limited
(IOCL), a Fortune 500 company in the petroleum refining,
manufacturing and marketing sector of the oil industry.
Mr. Verma has rich
experience in diversified fields of Technical Services, Operations
and Commissioning of Hydrogen, Hydro-desulphurization, and
Hydrocracker Plants of IOCL Mathura Refinery. He has worked in the
Gujarat, Guwahati, Haldia and Mathura Refineries of IOCL in various
departments.
Presently, he is the
Executive Director, heading Oil Industry Safety Directorate (OISD),
a technical directorate under the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural
Gas (MOP&NG), Government of India, that formulates and coordinates
the implementation of a series of self-regulatory standards in the
areas of design, operation and maintenance, aimed at enhancing the
safety in the Oil & Gas Industry in India. He is steering and
guiding the safety aspects in the Oil & Gas (Upstream & Downstream)
sector of India. Periodic safety audits of industry, regular reviews
for improvement, knowledge and experience sharing are done to
achieve highest safety standards in a cost effective manner. The
offshore safety regulations are being framed presently by OISD for
fast expanding offshore exploration and development activities in
India with knowledge and assistance from International Regulatory
bodies.
Mr. Verma has been the
leader of the Indian Delegation to the Conference organized by the
National Institute of Standards & Technology (NISI) in Gaithersburg,
Maryland, USA, in August 2005 to facilitate cooperation amongst
standards making bodies in Oil and Gas Sector in India and the USA,
wherein the initial dialogue was started with MMS for mutual
cooperation. He has also been instrumental in starting knowledge
sharing cooperation with various worldwide renowned bodies viz.
Petroleum Safety Authority, Norway, Health & Safety Executive, UK
and has given safety lectures in International LPG Conference in
Japan and done technical due diligence of Port Harcourt Refinery in
Nigeria.
Elmer P. Danenberger, III, USA
Chief, Office of Offshore Regulatory Programs, Minerals
Management Service
Mr.
Danenberger earned a B.S. degree in Petroleum and Natural Gas
Engineering and a Masters degree in Environmental Pollution Control,
both from Pennsylvania State University. He has been employed as an
engineer in the Department of the Interior’s offshore oil and gas
program since 1971. He served as a staff engineer in the Gulf of
Mexico regional office; Chief of the Technical Advisory Section at
the headquarters office of the U.S. Geological Survey; District
Supervisor for MMS field offices in Santa Maria, California, and
Hyannis, Massachusetts; and as Chief of the Engineering and
Operations Division at MMS headquarters.
He is currently Chief, Office of Offshore
Regulatory Programs, with responsibilities for safety and
pollution-prevention research, engineering support, operating
regulations, and inspection and enforcement programs.
Djibril Amadou Kanoute, Senegal
Operations Manager,
PETROSEN, Senegal National Oil Company
Mr. Djibril Kanoute is from Senegal. Senegal is located in West
Africa and is not yet an oil producing country.
He
graduated as a Mining Engineer from the Mining School of Rabat in
Morocco. He started his career in the early 80’s at the Direction of
Mines and Geology of the Ministry of Industrial Development of his
country.
He
joined Tullow Oil in 1986. Tullow Oil is an Irish company that first
started its activities in Senegal. He worked as a Field Engineer,
and specialised in Drilling and Production operations. In 1990, he
left Tullow Oil for PETROSEN where he was appointed in 1992 as
Manager of the Production Department and later as Operation Manager
when the company acquired a land drilling rig in 1996.
Between 1986 and 1996 he took many short courses in Drilling and
Production Operations in Canada within the OGCI (Oil & Gas
Consultants International Inc), PITS (Petroleum Industry Training
Service) and in France at the IFP (Institut Français du Petrole). He
also attended many seminars in Loss Control Management and
Occupational Health, Safety and Environmental Management.
From year 2000 until today, he moved to the management of the
company as an Operation Advisor to the General Manager. He initiated
the redaction of the terms of reference for the regulation of
exploration and production operations in order to complete petroleum
legislation of his country.
Ian Ramdahin, Trinidad and Tobago
Chief Mechanical
Engineer, Ministry of Energy and Energy Industries
Mr
Ian Ramdahin is currently the head of the HSE/Measurement Division,
Ministry of Energy and Energy Industries (MEEI), Republic of
Trinidad and Tobago, as well as a board member of the Trinidad and
Tobago Occupational Health and Safety Authority which was recently
instituted in October 2006. He is an Engineering graduate from the
University of the West Indies who has over ten years of regulatory
experience in the HSE field. A major achievement in his career so
far has been his role in the development of the Trinidad and Tobago
Verification Scheme Regime as a HSE tool for establishing technical
assurance.
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