Energy Industries Overview is presented by key industry players who are active specialists in their feild of expertise. Senior representatives of major operating and service companies, academia, and trade associations bring their knowledge and experience to the event and put into context the future sustainability of the industries.
Organising Committee of the Energy Industries Overview :
Paul Dymond joined Oil & Gas UK (then UKOOA) in 2003 and is responsible for addressing operational issues covering UK offshore petroleum exploration,
development, infrastructure, production
and decommissioning.
This has involved updating and promoting industry Codes of Practice;
liaising with the Department for Energy (DECC) on licensing, data
access, standard aggreements, fallow and stewardship processes;
co-ordinating PILOT and OSPRAG initiatives on incremental development, infrastructure usage, demonstrating financial responsibility, well life-cycle practices and decommissioning. He is also responsible for the inter-industry liaison with the renewable and fishing industries.
Paul is Company Secretary for the Fisheries Legacy Trust Company, a director of Oil & Gas UK subsidiary companies Leading Oil and Gas Industry Competitiveness (LOGIC) and Common Data Access (CDA); and a Trustee of the UKOOA Pension Fund.
With over 30 years of upstream industry experience, mainly based in the UK, Paul started as a Petroleum Engineer with BP, before moving into a variety of commercial and external affairs roles within the same company. Prior to his move to UKOOA he held the position of General Manager at Sullom Voe Oil and Gas Terminal in Shetland following a period as the Manager of Government and Public Affairs in Aberdeen.
Paul has an MBA from Warwick and is a Chartered Engineer, having initially graduated from Kingston with a BSc (Hon) in Applied Chemistry. In 2002 he was awarded an MBE in the New Year's Honours list for his services to the UK Oil and Gas Industry.
Iain Todd is an engineer, who has worked in both the private sector and the UK Civil Service. He has held senior posts in the HSE, the
Department of the Environment, and the DTI, mostly on energy-related issues. Between 2002 and 2004 he was the
DTI's Director of Renewable Energy.
In June 2004 Iain returned to the private sector, and now works as a renewable energy consultant. Much of his time is given to his role as Renewables Champion to the Aberdeen Renewable Energy Group (AREG). There he has played a central role in developing the Aberdeen offshore wind farm, as well as chairing the Grampian biomass working group.
He has worked as a consultant to the Scottish Government, helping to set up the Scottish European Green Energy Centre (SEGEC) based at Aberden University.
He is working on a number of applications for renewable hydrogen to be deployed in the Aberdeen area.
Iain is also Honorary Professor of Renewable Energy Policy at Aberdeen University
Professor Paul Mitchell, BSc, PhD, FEI has over 30 years experience in conducting research, development and demonstration in renewable energies. He has worked closely with government departments (UK Government, Scottish Government, Swedish Energy Agency, Singapore A*Star) and agencies, research institutes, international organisations (IEA), research councils (BBSRC, EPSRC, NERC) and industry as programme and project manager developing biomass and bioenergy as an economically viable and sustainable source of energy.
Paul is an elected Fellow of the Energy Institute, the author of over 200 scientific papers, editor of a book and 16 conference proceedings. He is Chief Editor of the academic journal Biomass and Bioenergy published by Elsevier.
Paul is based in the School of Engineering where he is Director of the Chemical and Petroleum Engineering Research Group and leads the School's Energy Research Programme. He is also Director of the university-wide Institute of Energy Technologies which brings together all the research in the University directed at energy related issues. He is the Bioenergy Coordinator and Board member of the Energy Technology Partnership. He is also a founder Director of the Aberdeen Renewable Energy Group (AREG) and the Scottish European Green Energy Centre (SEGEC) and a Director of the trade body Scottish Renewables. Paul has worked on the skills requirements for renewable energy and oil & gas and is involved in the developing supply chain issues.