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Farewell Bram van Mannekes - 10 May 2012In a personal address, NOGEPA Chairman

Ruud Zoon highlighted the qualies that

Bram possessed in his role as Secretary-

General of NOGEPA. Ruud thanked Bram for

his hard work, with a special word of thanks

for the professional way he concluded the

many issues that were covered during his

period in oce. In parcular, he reected

on the start of an acve dialogue on the

report by CPB, the Netherlands Bureau for

Economic Policy Analysis, pleading for animproved mining climate for marginal elds

and seeking outside experse to challenge

the conclusions of the CPB report, which

quesoned whether smulang measures

for marginal elds were necessary and

cauoned against for free riders.

Bram also started working on an informaon

package for the E&P industry to be used as

input for the elecon programmes of polical

pares for the 2007 elecons. He organised

eorts to support the maintenance of themarginal elds policy during the split-up of

Gasunie into Transport Service and Trade &

Supply, and worked with the state authories

to meet the Rescue-at-Sea requirements

tabled by the State Supervision of Mines,

resulng in the provision of a temporary

industry SAR helicopter which would ll the

gap unl the arrival of the NH90 helicopter

in 2008.

The Inspector-General of Mines from the

State Supervision of Mines, Jan de Jong,

spoke of his admiraon for the way Brammanaged to garner aenon for the E&P

industry and to build a NOGEPA which was

able to meet the challenges of the me,

resulng in more intensive interacons with

the authories and other stakeholders.

The recepon held at De Wie beach

pavilion in Scheveningen aracted a great

many representaves from the industry

and beyond to shake Brams hand and to

thank him for the fruiul partnerships, but

most of all to wish him a happy and healthyfuture together with his wife, children and

grandchildren.

NEWSLETTER

IN THIS EDITION

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Netherlands Oil and Gas Exploration and Production Association

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NOGEPAs Natural GasSymposium 2012

Onshore OCES

OCES 2012

NOREX 2012

Aardgas Update

EU Regulaon versus aDirecve on oshore safety

Farewell Peter Knobbe

New sta member forEmployment & Educaon

Xth NOGEPA-appointed DoctorsMeeng

Well Academy

32ndJoint OshoreDoctors Conference

Winners of the student designcontest Hit & Run Go Oshore!

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NOGEPA, the Netherlands

Oil and Gas Exploraon and

Producon Associaon

Bezuidenhoutseweg 27-29

P.O. Box 11729

2502 AS The Hague

Phone: +31 70 3478871

Fax: +31 70 385123

E-mail: [email protected]

On 10 May 2012, afarewell party was held

for Bram van Mannekes,who had held the post

of Secretary-General ofNOGEPA since April 2005.

At the age of 66, Bramdecided to take rerementto spend more me on his

family and hobbies.


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Netherlands Oil and Gas Exploration and Production Association NEWSLETTER J U L Y 2 0 1 2

Jelto Terpstra

NOGEPAs Natural GasSymposium 2012

Public acceptance of

energy innovaon

Public acceptance ofnew technologies.

The importance of natural gas in an increasingly sustainable energy mix the current state of

aairs on planned and expected industrial developments.

This years event will take place on 12 September 2012 at the Gemeentemuseum in The Hague

The programme of NOGEPAs Natural Gas Symposium 2012:

Morning:

Keynote speech: Gertjan Lankhorst - Gasterra

o E&P NL - the importance of the marginal elds policy

o Natural gas in the transion to sustainability

o Ambiono Opportunies

Mark Dierikx - Ministry of Economic Aairs, Agriculture & Innovaon

o Key developments in the Dutch E&P industry

o Public acceptance of new developments

o Role of the state

Linda Steg environmental psychologist (University of Groningen): social relevance

o Industrial developments versus social interests

o Polical and social discussions

o Importance of an open and honest dialogue with stakeholders

o Creang public acceptance

Ron Wit Natuur & Milieu

o The ambion of Natuur & Milieu

o Industrial interests and public disquiet

o Opons and non-opons when dealing with local residents

o Inuence of public opinion

LUNCH

Aernoon: Debate and conclusions

Closure of the formal programme by NOGEPAs Chair, followed by drinks.

Please mark the date in your diary now. Invitaons for the event will be sent out in late July.

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Cees van OosteromOnshore OCESA milestone was reached in June with

the signing of the rst ever Onshore Joint

Declaraon and Emergency Assistance

Code, which was concluded betweenWEG (Wirtschasverband Erdl- und

Erdgasgewinnung - the German E&P industry

associaon) in Germany and NOGEPA The

OCES (Operators Cooperave Emergency

Services) agreement establishes a set of

principles for mutual aid in the event of

an emergency situaon in the oil and gas

exploraon and producon industry. The

Macondo incident in the Gulf of Mexico

emphasised the importance of being well

prepared for an emergency irrespecve of

the good track record of our industry inNorthwest Europe.

An oshore OCES has already existed for

oshore Northwest Europe since 1979.

The Macondo incident triggered a revision

of the oshore OCES arrangements, andthis was concluded in December 2011.

Work then started on establishing onshore

OCES arrangements. There was a good and

construcve exchange of comments on the

dra version between WEG and NOGEPA,

resulng in a nalisaon of the mutual

arrangements between Germany and the

Netherlands in June.

With the onshore OCES agreement now in

place, other countries in Western Europe are

also welcome to apply to join the onshoreOCES agreement.

Gert-Jan WindhorstOCES 2012

At the me an OCES agreement is invoked,

a lot of quesons need to be answered in

a short space of me. To prepare for this

eventuality, an OCES exercise was held by OLF

members in Stavanger on 22 May.

The emergency code (revised in December

2011) contained within the OCES agreement

established principles and pracces under

which emergency assistance is given, received

and paid for. The exercise is designed to

provide an illustraon of how the process

would work in pracce.

The OCES agreement provides a framework

within which resources (vessels, rigs, etc.)

can be transferred between operators in

an emergency situaon, and applies across

internaonal boundaries as well as within

them.

To test the working of the agreement,

parcipants were split into six groups. The

facilitator then briefed them on the scenario

and background. The actual situaon was

explained and quesons provided on subjects

to be considered in the separate groups.

The facilitator led the discussion based on

the quesons from the plenary session. The

session was concluded in a facilitated debrief.

OFFB, the Norwegian Operators Emergency

Associaon, will provide a report of the

exercise to OLF, the Norwegian Oil Industry

Associaon.

Pares involved were:

1. Requester - NORECO

2. Provider - Centrica

3. Naonal authories - PSA, KLIF, NCA

4. NOIA - OLF, Oil & Gas UK, NOGEPA

5. Oil spill response - NOFO, OSRL

The preliminary conclusion is that it was a

worthwhile exercise. Quesons emerged

during the actual exercise which were more

dicult to answer than had been expected.

A nal report is expected in mid summer andwill be circulated to all relevant pares. In

the meanme, it is advised to include OCES

elements in a Dutch LivEx exercise.

Earlier this year, weannounced that thenaonal oil industry

associaons inthe North Sea had

agreed on new OCES(Operators Cooperave

Emergency Services)arrangements.

Signing by Jo Peters (NOGEPA) of the OCES

agreement between WEG and NOGEPA


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Cees van OosteromNOREX 2012

On the morning of Monday 11 June at 07.00

hours, an alarm call from oshore was made

to NAM Central Control Room in Den Helder.There was a problem with a well which was

being drilled on an oshore plaorm. This

was the start of a large oshore emergency

exercise involving NAM, the Dutch

Coastguard, Rijkswaterstaat North Sea and

the RBN Regional Management Team

North Sea Calamies. The exercise took the

enre day and was played out in real me.

To date, we have never had to deal with a

large emergency in the oil and gas producing

industry. The chance that we would have toface a large incident is very small, yet as an

industry we have an obligaon together with

the Dutch authories to deal in a professional

manner with any emergency that may occur.

For this reason, we organised an exercise

which included a number of live parts.

Each of the parcipang organisaons

already has their own emergency plans. It

was clear from the outset that we would

need to clearly dene which organisaon

was responsible for what. So we prepared amatrix using the RACI principle to help dene

the responsibilies. R stands for Responsible

and refers to the problem owner. A stands for

Accountable and refers to the organisaon

which has the nal decision or veto right.

C stands for Consult, referring to those who

should be consulted before a decision is

made. Finally, I stands for those who must

be Informed once a decision has been made.

The RACI matrix did help considerably in

preparing and execung the exercise.

The Macondo incident in the Gulf of Mexico

had a large impact on the contents of

the exercise. For this reason, the exercise

involved problems with a well which

developed into the loss of containment of

the well. Wild Well Control was pulled in as

advisor, rst to work with NAM on developingplans of aack to cap the well and to drill a

relief well. Both techniques serve to bring

the well back under control. On Monday 18

June, a workshop was organised where the

drilling sta of NAM and Wild Well Control

considered what is involved in trying to cap

a well from the top, as well as what it takes

to drill a relief well which intercepts an out-

of-control well in the reservoir. Once this

has been accomplished, heavy uids can be

pumped down the relief well into the well

which is no longer under control, eventuallykilling it.

This large emergency exercise also served

as a training event for the Dutch oil and gas

producing industry. NAM kindly opened its

doors during the emergency exercise for

observers from the other Dutch oil and gas

producers and again for the workshop. The

exercise proved to be very valuable for the

industry in ensuring it is beer prepared to

handle large emergencies.

The exercise was a success. Teams from

the authories and from NAM handled

the exercise in a professional manner and

valuable lessons were learned. The exercise

report will be shared with the pares

parcipang in the exercise as well as with

other Dutch oil and gas producers.

Once again it was shown that conducng

emergency exercises does pay o. We thank

the Dutch Authories; Ministry of EL&I

-State Supervision of Mines, the Ministryof I&M Rijkswaterstaat North Sea and the

Dutch Coastguard and NAM for hosng the

exercise.


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Jelto TerpstraAardgas Update

This edion is enrely dedicated to the LiveEx.

In the wake of the Macondo disaster in the Gulf

of Mexico, the Dutch E&P operators and the

state authories decided to hold a large-scale

exercise. Apart from lead player NAM, the

exercise also involved the Dutch Coastguard

and the state authories.

Once 11 June came, no holds were barred

in the tesng of the emergency procedures

available to deal with any emergency that

might occur in the Dutch sector of the North

Sea. The scenario involved an emergency

incident on the K7 plaorm. The disaster

simulaon was designed to be as life-like aspossible. As with most disasters, it included an

escalaon of events that was dicult to stop.

The involvement of the news media was also

simulated.

See www.aardgas-update.nl for a full report

of the exercise. This edion also includes

interviews with various pares, including

NAM, the Coastguard, NOGEPA and the State

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Gert-Jan Windhorst

EU Regulaon versus aDirecve on oshore safety

To support the EU NOIAs posion withrespect to the discussion of the proposed

EU Regulaon versus a Direcve on oshore

safety, Nogepas posion was presented at

an Oil & Gas UK seminar on the subject on 10

May in Aberdeen.

Gert-Jan Windhorst, responsible for Health

& Safety within NOGEPA, made very clear

that substanve improvements in safety

have been on the agenda of NOGEPAs

members since the organisaons

foundaon over 40 years ago.Learning from incidents and adapng

guidelines and standards has been

standard pracce from the outset.

The proposed Regulaon adds some processeswhich, prior to the proposals by the EU, had

already been agreed upon by the Dutch

industry and the State Supervision of Mines

(SSM) in the wake of the Macondo incident.

These proposals could equally be included in a

Direcve, although it must be noted that none

of these would have prevented the Macondo

incident.

The preferred opon for the Dutch industry

is for a Direcve, because in a mature

exploraon area like the Dutch connentalshelf, tailor-made soluons will allow more

economically viable prospects, without

jeopardising or compromising safety standards

or environmental tolerance levels.

In a construcve dialogue with SSM,

NOGEPA connues to work on proper

legal arrangements that help avoid excess

bureaucracy.


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Cees van Oosterom

Chris Wijsman


I graduated from HTS Den Haag with a BSc in

Informaon Technology and went on to enjoy

a 33-year long career working for Shell, rstly

as a Scienc Programmer in the Exploraon

& Producon laboratory in Rijswijk and later

on posngs to operang units in Brunei (NW

Borneo) and Hannover, Germany.

As an Exploraon Geophysicist, I worked on

a wide variety of projects to explore for oil

and gas, even managing to nd a gas eld

in the German sector of the North Sea. Back

in the Netherlands, I worked as Regional HR

Manager for Research Geosciensts, and

my last job was at Shells Learning Centre

in Rijswijk where I was responsible for a

course that introduces new graduates to the

exploraon and producon business as well

as for a business course for young managers.

I enjoyed my me at Shell very much,

especially my last job, since I could combine

my technical knowledge and experience with

my passion for learning. I am therefore very

pleased with my new role, where I hope to

build on my past experiences.

In my new role at IRO and NOGEPA, the

ulmate goal will be to aract more qualied

and movated employees to the oil and gas

industry. In order to achieve this, I will work on

improving the image of the oil and gas industry

as a whole and look at ways to improve the

educaon and training opons available for

careers in our industry. Acve involvement

of members will be required to provide input

into the whole process. I hope to meet many

of you in the near future and jointly discover

how we can make improvements to benet

the needs of the industry, the training centres

and potenal new employees.

Please contact me if you have any quesons,

suggesons or informaon in the area of

educaon and training.

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Farewell Peter Knobbe

New sta member forEmployment & Educaon

As from May 2012,Chris Wijsman will

be working forNOGEPA and IRO

as Employment& Educaoncoordinator.

On 11 May, it was me to say farewell to

Peter Knobbe. Peter has coordinated the

safety training audits as presented in theNOGEPA Training Handbook since as far

back as 1998. At the start, 10 audits a year

were conducted, later growing to 12 audits

per year. The training instutes oering

NOGEPA courses provided Peter with their

course calendars. In consultaon with

NOGEPAs Safety Training Workgroup, Peter

then selected which training courses were

to be audited. Peter managed to secure one

of the members of the NOGEPA Health &

Safety Commiee and Kees Vellekoop

from the State Supervision of Minesto parcipate in the audit. A detailed

report of the audit was prepared, and

training instutes had two to three

weeks to react to the ndings set out

in the audit report.

Throughout the years, Peter built-up

a solid reputaon. For instance, he

would go the extra mile by oering

advice to the re exnguishing

instructor on how to insl praccal skills

in his student, and he would comment

on the learning materials and the way theclassroom knowledge was presented. He

earned a great deal of respect from the

training instutes because of this approach.

Peter was also a valuable source for quesons

about the contents of training courses and

a valued contributor to the revisions of the

NOGEPA Training Handbook.

Having reached the ripe age of 75, Peter

felt it was now me to rere. His farewell

recepon was held at the Loosdrechtlakes, the reason being that Peter is also an

enthusiasc sailor. Accordingly, his farewell

included a trip across the lakes in sloops.

This was greatly appreciated by Peter and

representaves of the Dutch authories,

training instutes and NOGEPAs Training

Evaluaon Workgroup.

We wish Peter a happy and well-deserved

rerement.


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Cees van OosteromXth NOGEPA-appointed Doctors Meeng

Following the end of the State Supervision of

Mines responsibility for maintaining a list of

approved oshore doctors in 2002, Nogepa

took up responsibility for managing the list,

but also introduced an annual training day for

approved doctors.

On 14 June, some 140 doctors gathered at the

Vechthuis in Utrecht for their 10th Nogepa

Schooling Event. The meeng was hosted by

Nogepas medical adviser, Dr. Kees Tuinman.

Speakers included Gert-Jan Windhorst who

talked about developments at Nogepa and

provided some news on HSE maers. Dr. KeesTuinman addressed issues such as the newly

proposed obesity guidelines , and proposed

guidance on limited opons to work oshore

while taking ancoagulant medicines.

Other topics discussed the regular audits

of Nogepas doctors facilies. Dr. F. Storms,

an invited speaker from the Anthonius

Hospital in Utrecht and diabetologist at the

Diabetes Centre in Overvecht and medical

adviser of the Dutch Diabetes Associaon,

highlighted the issues faced by diabecs

working oshore. Dr. Paul Kooijman of KLM

Medical Services/Airport Medical Services

Schiphol discussed the lessons learned from

all medical evacuaons performed in 2011.

Good use was made of the opportunies to

ask quesons, and colleagues were happy

to debate and exchange their experiences.

Nogepas new DVD A Maer of Energy was

highly appreciated and will be sent to any

aendees who would like to receive a copy.

The meeng was very successful, and an

invited speaker to talk about a medical topic

will be a xed item on future programmes.

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Utrecht,14 June 2012

Cees van OosteromWell Academy

In response to the needs of the oil and gas

industry, a new training instute specialising

in well control training has been established

in Apeldoorn. Founded by oil and gas industry

professionals with a passion for improving

HSE performance and raising the competence

levels of drilling and well services personnel,

the Well Academy connues to develop

scenario-based well control training.

The Well Academy, the rst facility of its kind

in the Netherlands outside Shell, uses a state-

of-the-art rig oor simulator which can be

programmed with a wide variety of well control

scenarios and drilling problems. This enables

the Well Academy to provide the drilling and

well services industry with well control training

soluons which are aimed at increasing both

the competence levels and condence of

drilling and well service personnel.

To create a realisc environment where teams

can pracce, the Well Academy has built a

simulator room at their facility in Apeldoorn.

At its heart is a DrillSIM-5000 Classic full-size

rig oor simulator, which will enable rig teams

to be put through their paces while trying todeal with well control situaons or drilling-

related problems. An adjoining observaon

room will enable a trained assessor to observe

the exercise and provide valuable feedback to

the individuals on both technical and non-

technical skills.

The Well Academy is commied to taking

onboard the lessons learned from Macondo

and will connue to work closely with

NOGEPA, IWCF, IADC and IRO in developing

scenario-based well control training.

More informaon about the training provided

by the Well Academy can be found at

www.thewellacademy.com .


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Cees van Oosterom


This annual Internaonal Oshore Doctors

meeng with 30 medical representavesfrom NOGEPA, OLF Norway, Oil & Gas UK,

Energy Instute London, as well as from

Germany, Denmark and Belgium was hosted

by NOGEPA on board the SS Roerdam,

moored in the Port of Roerdam.

At the symposium on 7 June, a number

of invited speakers addressed the issue

of Healthy Ageing Oshore. The topic

was selected in the light of the imminentincrease in the rerement age and related

medical issues that come with age.

Jo Peters on behalf of NOGEPA welcomed

and addressed the aendees. Other

speakers were Prof. Van Rhenen from

Business University Nyenrode on

Engagement, Ms K. Beersen, a nutrionist

from Enerjoy who spoke about healthy food

campaigns oshore and Dr. M. Wondergem,

VU University Amsterdam, who spoke aboutancoagulants and oshore work.

Lars Petersen, Medical Director at

Internaonal SOS, highlighted the challenges

of remote healthcare in extreme, inhospitable

environments. Finally, Dr. R. de Valk and J.

van der Wal from Shell Health Organisaon

introduced an ongoing Healthy Ageing

and Safety project by NAM and Groningen

University (UMCG).

On 8 June, the naonal delegaons metto discuss common medical topics such as

obesity, working while taking ancoagulant

medicines or medicaons for diabetes. The

main aim of the meengs are to create a

common plaorm for our naonal health

policies and guidelines.

The conference and meengs were well

received and appreciated.

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32ndJoint OshoreDoctors Conference

Roerdam,

6-7-8 June 2012


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Lennard Oudenaller


Oshore visitto P11-B De Ruyterof Dana Petroleum

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Winners of the student designcontest Hit & Run Go Oshore!

Tuesday 8 May 2012 had been a day to look

forward to for a long me. The day we were togo oshore! It was the prize we had won in the

student design contest organised by IRO and

NOGEPA for IROs 40th anniversary in November

last year. I can sll clearly remember the day of

its launch and the kick-o meeng held at the

STC in Roerdam. Me and my fellow group

members looked at each other and thought,

We must win this compeon!

The morning in queson, I had to get up early

and travel to Den Helder Airport, where my

fellow students had already arrived. Not much

later we were accompanied by Joris Fris and

Hein Hogenhuis of Dana Petroleum. Once we

had checked in at CHC Helicopters and had

gone through customs, we watched the safety

instrucon lm and instrucons on how to put

on the survival suits. It seemed like a piece of

cake, I thought, but aer much struggling and

twisng, I was nally in my survival suit, only

to realise that my boarding pass was sll in my

pocket. So I had to take o the suit and repeat

the whole exercise right from square one again.

On the way to the plaorm, we had the

helicopter to ourselves which made it feel

really special! Just before departure, we took

a quick photo of the whole group. Once in the

helicopter, it all became very real and everyone

suddenly realised that we were praccally on

our way. I scanned everyones faces just before

take-o, and everyone was wearing a smile

from ear to ear.

Aer almost 30 minutes of ying, we arrived atthe De Ruyter plaorm, but just before landing

we circled around a lile to take some pictures.

Immediately following our landing, we took o

our survival suits. While enjoying a fresh cup of

coee, we watched and discussed the safetyinstrucons of the plaorm. Aer that, there

was no me to lose: we only had one day to

view the plaorm from top to boom. First item

on the programme was a visit to the Oshore

Installaon Manager (OIM) of the plaorm. We

introduced ourselves and told him about our

studies (NHL minor in Oil & Gas). The OIM then

gave us more informaon about the plaorm

specically and about Dana Petroleum in

general. Aer we put on our personal protecve

equipment, we were given an interesng tour

where all systems onboard the plaorm were

demonstrated and discussed.

At the end of the morning, it was me for lunch,

so we moved on to the mess room for a good

meal. Here we were also told that during the

aernoon programme we could indicate the

things we would like to see and know more

about. For example, we paid a visit to the crane,

but also to the lowest deck of the plaorm and

even the DIY hot tub!

Time caught up with us when we realised it was

now already 5 oclock in the aernoon. Time

for our return trip. We once again donned our

survival suits and life jackets and proceeded to

the helicopter. Aer a half hour ight, we were

back onshore at Den Helder Airport, where we

handed in our personal protecve equipment.

We were all very impressed by the great

experience we had that day, and in the

evening we reected on our day once again

while enjoying a beer. Many thanks to DanaPetroleum, IRO and NOGEPA, and all other

organisaons involved, for making this special

experience possible!

Disclaimer newsleerNOGEPA has

aken the greatest of care to ensure

the accuracy of the contents of the

e-mail newsleer, but is not liable

for any inaccuracies, omissions, or

errors whether in respect of theinformaon provided in the e-mail

newsleer. The informaon in the

newsleer may only be used by

readers for their own purposes.

Permission must be obtained from

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