SLB

Marcelo was appointed as SLB Brazil Technology Director in Jun/22. Previously, he was Midstream and Surface Regional Sales Manager with the portfolio responsibility of Process Plants, Production Chemistries, Valves and Production Surface Systems.
During his 22 years of experience in the O&G industries, he held different positions on Engineering, Manufacturing, Operations, Project Management and Sales.
His professional experience ranges from Subsea to Topside and in the new position increasing to Reservoir and Wells.
He is SPE Brazil Technology Director for 2023-24 promoting industry events in benefit for the entire community.
Marcelo holds a Mechanical Engineering Bachelor from UFRJ (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro) and two MBAs in Economy with UFRJ and in O&G Industry with FGV (Fundação Getulio Vargas)

ANP

Engenheira Química, DSc. em Engenharia de Materiais e Metalugia (COPPE/UFRJ), desde 2006 é Servidora Pública – Especialista em Regulação de Petróleo e Derivados, Gás Natural e Bicombustível da Agência Nacional de Petróleo (ANP), atualmente encontra-se lotada na Superintendência de Desenvolvimento e Produção (SDP). Exerceu, por 3 anos, o cargo de Coordenadora de Descomissionamento e Recuperação de Áreas (ANP/SSM).

Trident Energy

Petroleum Engineer, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro – UFRJ

Director of SPE/UFRJ Chapter for 3 years, winner of the SPE´s Outstanding Student Chapter in 2016, Dubai-UAE.

Decommissioning assistant in ANP for 1,5 year. Accompanied the implantation of the actual Decommissioning Resolution (ANP n° 817/2020), analyzing a plenty of Decom Projects and Reports and documentation of P&A of wells.

Decommissioning Wells Engineer, Trident Energy (2023-actual), participating of the engineering team to end the cycle of the first maritime perforated wells in our country.

Petrobras

Sérgio Cavalcante is currently Senior Technical Advisor on Reservoir Engineering at Petrobras in Rio de Janeiro. His primary skills include reservoir engineering and numerical simulation of carbonate reservoirs, EOR, and reservoir production strategy. Sergio holds a Ph.D in Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering.He’s been active with SPE since 2004 and currently is Events Officer at SPE Brazil.

Trident Energy

Pierre-Edouard VINCENT is currently Completions and Well Intervention Manager at Trident Energy in London. His primary skills include well delivery (D&C) and operations, intervention and well integrity, and finally well P&A.“PE” holds Masters degrees in Mechanical Engineering, Petroleum Engineering, and Business Administration. He’s been active with SPE since 1996 and is currently involved with SPE Brazil (International Relations Officer) and SPE International (P&ATS Officer).

Petrobras

ABESPetro

Telmo Ghiorzi, secretário-executivo da ABESPetro, é engenheiro mecânico pela UnB, mestre em engenharia de petróleo pela Unicamp, doutor em políticas públicas pela UFRJ e pós-doutor em administração pela FGV. Possui mais de 30 anos de experiência em Óleo & Gás, Engenharia & Construção e outros setores industriais.

ABESPetro

Francesco Santoro, has 50 years of experience in the Oil Industry including 25 years in technical and management positions with Petrobras and 12 years working as the Executive Director/Country Manager for foreign companies, providers of services and equipment for the Oil & Gas industry, including Oceaneering Brasil, Global Industries Brasil and Intec Engineering do Brasil. He also performed consulting activities for the Brazilian Petroleum Agency (ANP), the Brazilian Ministry of Planning, several subsea equipment manufacturers, EPCI projects contractors and engineering companies. He was Executive Manager of Production Sharing Contracts with the Pre Sal Petróleo – PPSA. He has a Mechanical Engineering Degree from the Catholic University of Petropolis and an Equipment Engineering post grad with Petrobras. Francesco is currently working as the commercial Director of GranIHC.

Petrobras

Guilherme Castro is a Civil Engineer with an MSc in Petroleum Engineer (Campinas State Univ. – UNICAMP). He joined Petrobras in 1987, where he acted offshore as OIM (Offshore Installation Manager); after that, had worked in many Campos Basin management positions as Planning & Marketing, Asset Manager, Technical Support, and Human Resources. Then moved to Petrobras’ central office to work as Facilities General Manager and now is working in Campos Basin partnerships as Bijupira Salema Decommissioning Project with Shell.

Consultor

Petrobras

Rafael Castro atua desde 2007 na Petrobras na área de Poços, com especialidade técnica em perfuração direcional, sendo Mestre em Ciências e Engenharia de Petróleo pela Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP) e graduação em Engenharia Civil pela Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC). Atuou como projetista (well designer) de poços durante 9 anos e como Fiscal de perfuração em poços terrestres. Na área acadêmica lecionou disciplinas ligadas a Exploração & Produção como professor Assistente regime 20 horas na Universidade Federal de Sergipe (UFS), entre 2015 e 2017. Atualmente está na área coorporativa de Poços Marítimos onde é o coordenador da área de poços para os novos projetos de CCS (Carbon Capture and Storage) na Petrobras.

COPPE/UFRJ

Pós-doutoranda, Doutora e Mestre pela COPPE/UFRJ em Engenharia de Produção com foco de pesquisa em Engajamento de Stakeholders e Sustentabilidade Organizacional. Pós-graduada em Responsabilidade Social e Terceiro Setor pelo Instituto de Economia/UFRJ. Graduada em Administração. Participou de atividades de aperfeiçoamento em gestão estratégica sustentável no Brasil e no exterior.

Vinte anos de experiência nas áreas de gestão estratégica para Sustentabilidade, Relatórios de sustentabilidade (GRI), Responsabilidade Social Empresarial, Voluntariado Empresarial e Investimento Social Privado.

Atuação desde 2018 como pesquisadora em descomissionamento de instalações offshore de produção de O&G, pela COPPE/UFRJ, além de ter atuado como profissional em empresas na área de sustentabilidade, organizações do terceiro setor, governos e academia, em cargos de gerência, coordenação e consultoria, com ação direta em gestão estratégica, desenvolvimento de metodologias, docência em treinamentos e workshops, gestão de equipes e estabelecimento de parcerias.

DPC/Marinha

ANP

Mariana Cavadinha atua desde novembro de 2022 como Superintendente de Desenvolvimento e Produção da Agência Nacional do Petróleo, Gas Natural e Biocombustíveis (ANP).

Mariana é engenheira de petróleo com 13 anos de experiência em gestão de reservatórios e operações de produção em diversos campos de petróleo e gás. Graduada em Engenharia de Petróleo pela Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Mariana trabalhou 5 anos na Schlumberger e ingressou na Agência Nacional do Petróleo (ANP) em 2015 como especialista em regulação. Atuou de 2018 a 2022 como Superintendente Adjunta de Desenvolvimento e Produção.

IBAMA

Coordenador-Geral de Licenciamento Ambiental de Empreendimentos Marinhos e Costeiros na Instituto Brasileiro de Meio Ambiente e dos Recursos Naturais Renováveis – Ibama

CNEN

Docteur en Sciences (Université Paris XI – Paris Sud Orsay), Mestre em Ciências (UFMG), Engenheiro Eletricista (PUC Minas). Tecnologista Sênior da CNEN, onde ocupa atualmente o cargo de Chefe da Divisão de Rejeitos Radioativos, tendo sido Assessor da Diretoria de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento, Assessor da Presidência, Diretor de Gestão Institucional, Coordenador-Geral de Tecnologia da Informação, dentre outros cargos. Foi Diretor de Administração, Finanças e Recursos Humanos e Chefe de Gabinete do Diretor-Presidente da Companhia Docas do Rio de Janeiro e Diretor de Gente e Gestão Empresarial da Light S/A. Foi membro do Comitê Científico do IBICT, do Conselho Superior do IPEN, do
Conselho de Administração da Axxiom S/A, do Conselho de Administração da SPE Olímpica, do Conselho Empresarial de Energia Elétrica da FIRJAN, além de Vice-Presidente da Fundação COGE e Vice-Presidente do Centro Brasileiro de Estudos Latino Americanos (CEBELA).

UFF

Professora do Departamento de Engenharia de Produção e do Programa de Pós Graduação em Engenharia de Produção da Universidade Federal Fluminense (EEIMVR/UFF). Coordenadora do Curso de Engenharia de Produção à Distância da UFF pelo Consórcio Cederj. Docente do Banco Nacional de Avaliadores do Sinaes – BASis, do Instituto Nacional de Estudos e Pesquisas Educacionais Anísio Teixeira (INEP/MEC). Doutora em Engenharia de Produção, com foco em Produção Sustentável pela COPPE/UFRJ,  Mestrado na mesma área pela mesma Instituição, Engenheira de Produção pelo Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica Celso Suckow da Fonseca – CEFETRJ. Líder do Grupo de Pesquisa em Produção Sustentável e Simbiose Industrial (PSSI). Áreas de atuação e linhas de pesquisa: Gestão do Ciclo de Vida, Simbiose Industrial, Modelo de Negócio Circular e Tomada de Decisão Sustentável.

Junia Bonfante Raymundo é Procuradora do Trabalho desde dezembro de 1993, especialista em Direito do Trabalho e Direitos Humanos pela UFRJ e coordena o Grupo de Trabalho interinstitucional Ouro Negro, em parceria do Ministério Público do Trabalho com ANP, Ministério do Trabalho, IBAMA, ANVISA e Marinha do Brasil.

North Sea Transition Authority

Alastair Bisset is the Head of Decommissioning for the North Sea Transition Authority, having joined them in April of this year.
He is a Mechanical, chartered engineer by background, having studied at Aberdeen University before starting his career in oil and gas.
Alastair has over 16 years’ experience in the energy industry, working for Chevron then Ithaca Energy on their operated assets offshore in the UKCS.
His roles there included subsea engineering, project assurance and turnaround management.
Most recently he was head of asset integrity at Ithaca, responsible for the late-life integrity management of all their North Sea installations.
Alastair holds a master’s degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Aberdeen.

Offshore Norge

Anne-Lise Abrahamsen Søyland is currently in charge of regulations and operational management in Offshore Norge, working with operators and suppliers on the Norwegian Continental Shelf on environmental regulations, decommissioning, diving and subsea assets.
Anne-Lise has over 15 years of experience in the oil and gas industry with legal counselling, regulatory development, leading contract negotiations, strategy work, project management, digitalisation, change management, M&A, leading gas sales tenders, analysis and studies, and infrastructure projects.
She holds a Master’s degree in Law and a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration.

Net Zero Technology Centre

Craig Nicol is with Net Zero Technology Centre in Aberdeen.
With a strong background in EPC Oil Service Company project management roles, including the Engineering Team Lead role with Aker Solutions on the CNR Murchison Decommissioning Contract, Craig is vocal in his passion for innovation and knowledge sharing within the energy industry’s community.
Craig headed up all development activities for Veolia Environmental Services, providing onshore disposal services to the offshore decommissioning market across 4 locations throughout the UK and Norway.
His current role is leading the delivery of Net Zero Technology Centre’s “Aberdeen City Region Deal” (ACRD) portfolio.
The ACRD portfolio is a £170 million investment across a 10 year period that spans across the whole energy sector, developing and deploying new technologies within Oil and Gas operations and Decommissioning through to renewable sectors including Wind, Solar and Geothermal.
We aim to inspire, enable and accelerate the development and deployment of technology to enable an affordable net zero energy industry.
Craig currently is Honorary Research Fellow with the University of Aberdeen School of Engineering.

OKEA

Michael Bishop is currently working as a decommissioning advisor for OKEA and Chairman of the Offshore Norge specialist network for Decommissioning.
He has worked for 40 years in Oil and Gas industry where the focus during the last ten years has been on Decommissioning. During earlier years his role was Project Manager/Project Controls Manager in many types of projects.
While working for Repsol Michael was their representative in Offshore Norge (NOROG) Decommissioning Forum and was chairman of this for several years. During the same period he was also involved with IOGP Decom forums as well as being Co-Chairman of the Europe/Mediterranean decommissioning network.
He holds a Bachelor of Science (BSc) degree, in Chemical Engineering from the University of Birmingham.

Ocyan

Mechanical engineer with a masters degree in naval engineering from COPPE, have bee working with subsea construction for the past 17 years. Currently in charge of the subsea construction business at Ocyan.

SLB

Janio Cornelio atua como Well Integrity Domain Champion na SLB, com mais de 22 anos de experiência em serviços de intervenção em poços, auxiliando os operadores com suporte técnico especializado em questões relacionadas a integridade de poços e intervenção com wireline.

A vasta experiência adquirida ao longo de muitos anos realizando e gerenciando operações de wireline na América do Sul e na Arábia Saudita, em uma grande variedade de ambientes, lhe permitiu acumular o conhecimento que agora é usado para desenvolver soluções personalizadas para avaliação da integridade de poços e otimização de operações de intervenção e descomissionamento.

Helix

Based in Rio de Janeiro, Sam manages the vessel Siem Helix 1 and leads the Project Team responsible for planning and executing integrated well intervention campaigns in Brazil, under the Subsea Services Alliance (Helix and SLB). He has 15 years of international experience in the well intervention space, with roles in engineering, capital build projects and operations management. Originally from the UK, Sam holds a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Heriot-Watt University and an MBA from Imperial College London.

Petrobras

Marcelo Matos é graduado em Engenharia Mecânica pela Escola de Engenharia de São Carlos da USP e ingressou na Petrobras em 2008 como Engenheiro de Equipamentos. Realizou especialização em Engenharia de Petróleo pela Universidade Petrobras e atualmente cursa mestrado em Descomissionamento pela Universidade de Aberdeen. Atuou como company man a bordo de sondas flutuantes, projetista de abandono e atualmente é Consultor de Abandono de Poços da Petrobras, tendo sido o coordenador da última revisão das Diretrizes de Abandono de Poços do IBP.

UK Government

Shozey Jafferi leads the Energy Transition team at the Department for Business and Trade. The team contributes to the delivery of an orderly transition to net-zero by supporting supply-chain capacity building and strengthening domestic exportable capability. Shozey has held diplomatic postings in Hong Kong (2000/01) and Kazakhstan (2003/07), and between 2007 and 2015, held senior management positions in the private sector based in Central Asia and Southeast Asia. He returned to government service to lead the development of the UK Decommissioning Export Strategy, before taking up his current role.

Origem

Nathan Biddle is a co-founder, shareholder, and Director of Origem Energia S.A., a company created in 2016 by three founders whom believe in more innovative and efficient energy solutions. As a technical professional with significant experience in the sector, he has been connecting Origem assets to international technologies and knowledge to develop projects such as; gas storage, carbon capture and storage, and LNG in addition to revitalizing onshore oil and gas fields.
Nathan, an American citizen residing in Brazil for more than 15 years, has contributed to and lead important projects in the states of Bahia, Ceará, Espírito Santo, Maranhão, Rio de Janeiro, Alagoas, and Sergipe. He is a well-known leader within the Brazilian oil and gas industry with additional experience on projects in the United States, Angola, Mexico and the United Kingdom. Since 2004, he has held relevant roles within major companies in onshore and offshore projects. Before joining Origem in 2020, he was General Director of Premier Oil do Brasil Petróleo e Gás Ltda., with responsibilities for overall management of Exploration Projects in the Ceará Basin and new business development in Brazil.
From 2020-21, Nathan was elected as a Board Member of ABEP, having previously held the role of Executive Director of ABEP/IBP. He has actively promoted and participated in Industry initiatives for the growth and diversification of the Brazilian O&G Industry. In addition to his role as Executive Director, he led the Operational Technical Committee within ABEP as either Coordinator or Vice-Coordinator from 2016-2018. His current focus with industry initiatives is to drive regulations to improve the diversity and competitiveness of the Brazilian market for exploration and development plays in shallow water and onshore. In his role as Director of ABEP, he was a key player in pushing forward recent abandonment, decommissioning, financial guarantee and cessation of asset regulations that have assisted in generating investments from small and mid-cap independents in Brazil.
Nathan graduated with honors from the Colorado School of Mines where he received a BSc Degree in Petroleum Engineering and also holds an MBA from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro COPPEAD Business School. He was born and raised in Sedona, Arizona and now happily resides in Rio de Janeiro with his family.

Decom Mission

With a background in environmental management and 20+ years in decommissioning, well abandonment and de-carbonisation, Sam is an industry advocate and leader for long term and sustainable end of life solutions in the energy sector.

Sam leads Decom Mission, a renowned, Not for Profit trade association that is solely focussed on decommissioning in oil and gas, nuclear and renewables sectors.

Equinor

Currently a Vice President, New Value Chains, MMP at Equinor, Claudia joined the company in January 2018 to develop gas marketing opportunities to enable the monetization of Equinor’s upstream assets in Brazil. With a career spanning 27 years as an experienced negotiator of complex energy joint ventures, Claudia has a solid understanding of the entire energy value chain, with substantial experience in upstream E&P projects, oil, gas and power marketing, terminal storage and loading operations, and powerplant development. Prior to joining Equinor, Claudia has served as Business Division Manager at Qatargas’ Ras Laffan Terminal Operations in Doha, served Commercial Director at El Paso Brasil, where she spent 14 years of her career, represented El Paso as a TBG Board member, served as Director at Enron South America negotiating power trading transactions, and Manager of Project Finance at EnergyWorks. Claudia has an MBA from Thunderbird, Arizona, and a BA from Eckerd College, Florida.

Petrobras

Eduardo Stein possui graduação e mestrado em Engenharia Mecânica pela PUC-RIO. Ingressou na Petrobras em 2005, trabalhando na área de engenharia de instalações de superfície de E&P, tornando-se Consultor em 2015.

A partir de 2016 passou a atuar na atividade de descomissionamento contribuindo para sua estruturação e prestando consultoria aos projetos com foco em plataformas de produção offshore.

Petrobras

Priscila Moczydlower é engenheira química formada pela UFRJ, tem mestrado em Engenharia Química pela COPPE/UFRJ, pós-graduação em Engenharia de Petróleo pela PUC-RJ e MBA em Gestão Empresarial pela FGV. Trabalha na Petrobras há 22 anos, tendo exercido diversas funções técnicas e gerenciais nas área de P&D, Engenharia de Reservatórios e Responsabilidade Social. É também Diretora de Sustentabilidade e Transição energética da SPE Brasil.

COPPE/UFRJ