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ConstructionProject Management Forum November
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27-28-29-30 November 2023

Danny Stadler
François Thuault Head of Project Thomas Salitz Natale Pezzimenti
Directeur - Branch Manager
Management & Civil engineer
Contract & Claim
Construction decommissioning projects
Management
BELECTRIC AUCOTEC AG EniRewind
René Søegaard Lidia Stepanyuk
Market Director Tanu shanker Mohamed El-Mehalawi Department Manager,
Rambøll Account Director Project Controls & Estimating
Management L&T Global Improvement Fluor
Consulting TECHNOLOGY Leader - Projects

EPC AMSTERDAM
DOW
Herve Baron
Ricketts Colette Ivan Siksne-Pedersen Mark Cowley
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Deputy Head of the
2020
ITER Organization
Strategic Pursuit Director, Vice President Senior Project Manager
Engineering – Global
Operations
Solvay
Project Control Office Accounts & EMEA
ITER Organization AVEVA Petrofac

Jens Dickmeis Trevor Jay Akachidike Kanu Sudipta Mohanty

ering
Senior Associate
2020 Business Development Projects Leader General Manager
Asset Performance Manager Repsol (Projects)
Risk Decisions Ltd Reliance Industries
Networks, LLC.

Audun Martinsen Sherif El Nabawy Mashel Gonyora

Ahmed Abdel-Zaher
Partner & Head of Engineering Manager SHE:Enablement,
Khalifa
Energy Service
ering
2020
Manager , Compliance and Assurance Maintenance Planning
Research
Dragon Oil Sasol Manager, Asset Management
Rystad Energy
Consultant (Sidpec)
Jacob C. Jorgensen
Prateek Bagaria
Senior Legal Pepijn Docter
Daniel Hoffiz Partner
Counsel Maersk Project director
Senior Counsel Singularity Legal LLP
ering Supply for offshore wind
TotalEnergies
2020
Tata Steel Europe
Adrian Furner
Rudi Frederix Managing Director, Mark Langerhorst
Kevin Danton
Project Manager Kommercialize Project Manager
Group Director
Operational Worley
Procurement & Contract
Excellence
Voltalia
ering
2020
Siemens Mobility Ömer Buğer
Heinz Janiec Contracts & Planning Frank Gebhardt
Craig Thomson
Prof. Sustainability Project Manager Manager
Project leader Lead Engineer
Built Environment eren ENERJI Artificial Intelligence
Specialty
Glasgow Caledonian UNIPER Technologies
Engineering
University Jose Corrales Perez
Guy Turner EPC Management Gavin Lock Lee
Norman K McLennan CP Projects - Contract
Capital Global Director & Consultant
Director of Europe Managing Director & Management Specialist
Partners in Consultant Shell
Performance
Dr. Yvonne Waterman
Specialist asbestos
liability law
Waterman Legal
Consultancy

EPC FORUM AMSTERDAM 2023 [email protected]

 Highlights
Industry Breakdown Job Function Breakdown

41% Oil, Gas & Chemical 44% Project Owners 50% C Level Executives
21% Infrastructure & Others 56% EPC Contractors 33% Project & Contract Management
38% Energy Utility 17% Engineering & Procurement

Key Focus:
• Industry growth post pandemic opportunities in 2022
• War in Ukraine: the construction impact on European and global economies The domino effect of the Ukraine crisis on gas and
LNG Projects
• Stay ahead with forecast suggesting boost in market growth during the forecast period (2022-2023)
• Resolving restraining factors and navigating towards pre pandemic levels with rising oil & gas exploration activities
• Discover regional insights into driving factor towards rising EPC activities and further increasing the O&G footprint on the market.
• To what extent the project implementation schedule (including in particular the milestones and the final completion date), the
procurement plan and the transportation study have to be revisited and, possibly, amended.
• Overcome supply chain disruption and sourcing challenges likely to affect project delivery and margins
• The role of effective relationship management in successful large oil and gas projects Monitoring Negotiations to Mitigate Risk in
Multiple Party Contracts.
• Dealing with critical project drivers (time, cost, quality and scope) and how they are affected when Alert Levels change or are
redefined.
• Mitigating the risk of delays in power plant projects: An EPC contractor’s view on different contractual concepts

Industry Focus Who Will Attend

Heads, Vice Presidents, Directors, Managers and Senior
Project owners, EPC Contractors and Sub-contractors with executives from contracting companies involved in
activities in new construction, and expansion projects engineering, Procurement and Construction projects
from:
with disciplines including:
 Oil and gas producers  Petrochemical
 Pipeline owners refineries • Project Managers • Risk Managers
 LNG industry  Mining • Project Planners • Commercial Managers
 Terminals and storage  Solar • Change Managers • Supply Chain Managers
 Law Firms • Program Managers • Procurement Managers
 Energy Utility • Portfolio Managers • Sales Managers
 Infrastructure Companies  TSO • Project control functions • Legal Counsel
• Project Sponsors • Business Development
2023 Sponsors • Project Consultants Managers
• Contracts Managers • Business Analysts
• Claims Managers • Sustainability Managers
• Compliance Officers • Operations
• HSE and HSEQ Managers • Production
• EPC Realisation Managers • Process
 28 November 2022 DAY 1
13:30 Contract Management on Mega Projects
08:30 Registration (Tea / Coffee)
DAY 1 08:50 Opening address from the Chair • Contract Negotiation and Execution Differencesbased on
Culture
09:00 Project Execution - In search of excellence • (Pros and Cons)
• Involvement of morethan 20 countrieswithmorethan 100 contracts
• Excellence in project execution realistic start • Social and Environmental Adaptation
• Out of sequence execution - can we avoid it? • Strategic Procurementtactics
• Project predictability - from systems Benchmarks & Team maturity • Techniquesto be executed to mitigate the risk
Omer Buger, Contracts & Planning Manager, eren ENERJI
• People @ the center What are we doing at Fluor BV
14:00 Coffee and Networking
Lidia Stepanyuk, Department Manager, Project Controls & Estimating Fluor
14:30 How much risk should you be taking on your projects?
Energy Transition (ET) Projects how can EPC contractors smooth & • Take too much risk and you could incur penalties and lose money.
09:30 accelerate the FEED to EPC process to meet the needs of ET • Take too little risk and you are likely to be uncompetitive.
customers?
• Scoping the work, developing a schedule, costing the work, establishing
• As recently reported the energy transition to mitigate climate change a price.
• How to prepare for uncertainty and risk.
is becoming moreurgent if we are to limit temperature rise to 1.5oC • How to make sure you are taking the right amount of risk.
avoid catastrophy ,
• How to ensure you’re making a profit.
• How can EPC contractors adapt and support this?
• How can the FEED to EPC process be open fair Trevor Jay Business Development Manager Risk Decisions Ltd
and transparent commercially?
• What project execution strategies can be utilised to deliver such
projects quickly and efficiently? 15:00 The missing link between maintenance and Project
• How can the use of digital delivery tools across the project life cycle
• People Management
support accelerated delivery?
• Maintenance Processes
Mark Cowley, Vice President Operations, Petrofac • Project Management Process
• Reliability Process (link between M & P)
10:00 Morning Coffee and Networking
Rudi Frederix Project Manager Operational Excellence Siemens Mobility
10:30 The role of Human and organisational factors in Asset Management
• Human and organisation factors (HOF): The role of Human and 15:30 Really collaborating to drive enhanced performance from
• organisational factors in Asset Management. today's Major-Projects
• Influence of safety management systems on asset and safety
• The importance of strong and intelligent owners teams
• performance
• Making everyone successful together = project success
• Safety critical communication in asset management • Empowering the frontline to drive performance not just progress everyday
• What can we learn from Asset incidents/accidents and the role • Proactive management of the supply chain, controlling today's most
• of HOF? significant risk
• Analysing asset data and promote continual improvement • The critical importance of digital to enabling it all

Mashel Gonyora, Manager SHE:Enablement, Compliance and Assurance Sasol Guy Turner Capital Global Director of Europe Partners in Performance

Direct and indirect control of thermal process eng 16:00 Project Cost Increases & Mitigation Strategies
11:00
ineering with a neural network
• Insolvency
• Performance Excuses
• Improvement of operations from thermal process engineering with • Foreseeability
Artificial Intelligence (AI) • Price Adjustment
• Realized optimizations in a pilot project • Delay
• Practical examples for AI-Prediction and AI-Operator • Increased Costs
• Data security
• Difference between the Uniper-AI-solution and common AI-solutions Daniel Hoffiz, Senior Counsel, TotalEnergies Distributed Generation

16:30 Demystifying the transition from EPC to EPCM - The what,

Frank Gebhardt Project leader Lead Engineer (AI) UNIPER
why and how

• Current industry challenges

11:30 Enterprise Visualization for CAPEX Projects • EPC & EPCM – benefits and challenges of each delivery model
(Execution & Construction) • Which model works best for your needs
• Converge engineering, materials, construction,
and financial data in context for end-to-end enterprise visibility Tanu Tankar Account Director L&T TECHNOLOGY
• Requirements as a consequence of global change
• Need to unify information 17:00 Eni Rewind experiences in decommissioning of tall
• Information essential to project teams
structures
• Practical example of collaborative architecture
• Future aspiration • Eni Rewind decommissioning major challenges at Eni
petrochemical sites in Italy
Ivan Siksne Pedersen, Strategic Pursuit Director, Engineering
Global Accounts & EMEA Aveva • Plants description
Project constrains – hot topics
12:00 Business Lunch • Demolition Technique: mechanical dismantling & critical lifting
– Project & Execution Phase
Natale Pezzimenti Civil engineer decommissioning projects EniRewind
 29 November 2022
08:30 Registration (Tea / Coffee)
DAY 2 08:50 Opening address from the Chair

09:00 Modular projects: design and delivery"

13:30 Offshore Wind Farm Installation Contracts –challenges when

mixing BiMCO with FIDIC
• Dealing with delays
• Knock-for-(almost)-knock
• Payments
• Seabed problems
JacobC.Jorgensen, S enior Legal Counsel Maersk Supply

14:00 EPC contract in renewable energy

Herve Baron Senior Project Manager Solvay
· Voltalia: IPP and EPC Contractor
· Focus on Solar projects contractual scheme
· Impact of project financing onto EPC contracts
· Synergies between procurement and contract
Kevin Danton,Group Director Procurement & Contract, Voltalia
09:30 Claims Management for Multi-Jurisdictional EPC
14:30 Afternoon Tea and Networking Break
Projects
15:00 Keep Projects on track during Front-End Engineering ,
• What are the key risks and challenges in multi- Construction and Start up
jurisdictional EPC Projects in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East? • Be patient in the Front-End-Engineering and specify
• What are the potential claims in EPC Projects? correctly the requiered achievments
• EPC Contract Negotiation – How to achieve optimal • Keep change requests as low as possible, there are many
balancebetween owner and contractor? whises which will blow up a project
• Respect new technologies but don’t over estimate the
• What are the dispute avoidance strategies? savings it could be end up in the opposite
• How should you manage claims and prepare for dispute resolution? • Have a clear stratetgy for the design, procurement,
• How can you enforce the arbitration award or judgment construction and start up
against a State-owned employer? • Keep in mind the resource shortages, knowledge, skills and
long delivery times.
Prateek Bagaria, Partner, Singularity Legal LLP
Heinz Janiec, Project Manager, Specialty Engineering
10:00 Morning Coffee and Networking
15:30 Collaborative Principles for Better
Supply Chain Practice in Managing Projects
10:30 Risk management for floating offshore wind farms
·The rationale for collaborative business practices across supply chains
and why collaboration can be the jewel in the crown for organisations in
• Different from fixed-bottom offshore wind farms the private, public and 3rd sectors.
• Business case sensitivities ·Collaborative arrangements: Different supply chain perspectives, drivers
and interdependencies
• Interface management · Raising the game - the CRAFT 8 Stage Life Cycle Model and ISO
• Operational challenges 44001: The evolution and emergence of a new global standard for
• Geographical expansion and cultural risks collaborative working in managing projects.
· The importance of stakeholder engagement in harnessing the benefits
Pepijn Docter, Project director for offshore wind Tata Steel Europe of collaborative working practices
· Commercial risk and pricing considerations associated with
11:00 Maximize Business Value on your Project Portfolio collaborative versus traditional contracting arrangements in managing
projects.
· Pan-industry supply chain collaboration: An exemplar case study of
- Industry Performance & Pitfalls solutions developed by and for the energy sector.
- Project portfolio Selection & Optimization
- Seamless integration with Turnarounds (STO)- Norman K. Mclennan Professor
Digitalization as a Solution
16:00 The outlook for EPC in the energy sector
Jens Dickmeis Senior Associate Asset Performance Networks
Energy prices skyrocketing, how will demand for EPC thrive
How quick will EPC opportunities scale in CCUS, Hydrogen and
11:30 Minimizing EPC Disputes: collaboration between Owner Renewables
& Contractor Strategies and technology among suppliers
Audun Martinsen Partner & Head of Energy Service Research
Rystad Energy

16:30 Integrating Sustainability in Construction Contracts.

· How to properly translate risk ownership into risk allocation
· Preventing or addressing disputes before formal dispute resolution • Sustainability in major projects - what does good look like?
· Sharing best practices, experiences and key learnings • How Procurement can play a key role in integrating sustainability from an
early phase of a project?
Gavin Lock Lee CP Projects - Contract Management Specialist Shell • How Contract Management can support the realisation of a project's
sustainability objectives?
12:00 Business Lunch • How to put sustainability on the agenda in your project?
Lars Boe Riber Manager, Legal & Contract Management

René Søegaard Market Director Rambøll Management Consulting

 30 November 2022

08:30 Registration (Tea / Coffee)

DAY 3 08:50 Opening address from the Chair
13:30 Transformation in EPC Industry , D uring & B yond Crisis
09:00 Lessons Learned in Projects Lifecycle Management • Whats driving Digital Transformation in the EPC Market ?

• Purpose and principles • Some of the Key industry Transformational trends

unfolding in the EPC industry over the recent Years
• Features, application and templates
• Reference case • Tips for successful Digital Transformation
• Digital transformation
• Blockers to Digitalisation
Akachidike Kanu, Projects Leader, Repsol • Overcoming the blockers

09:30 It’s time for new thinking • Case study

• The state of commercial capability in E&C today – Sudipta Mohanty General Manager (Projects) Reliance Industries
insights from WorldCC benchmarks Limited
• Current approaches cannot address market needs –
and executives demand more
• Uncertainty management and contract design
• Driving performance through integrated contract, 14:00 Recognising the ‘true value’ of knowledge management
governance and relationship within EPC project environment
•
· Viewing knowledge as a key project asset and resource: acore
Adrian Furner Managing Director, Kommercialize competency
· Theoretical foundations of knowledge management (knowledge
types, dynamic nature, context driven)
10:00 Morning Coffee and Networking · Implications of pandemic on the working environment within EPC
projects
10:30 Using Artificial Intelligence to reduce cost overruns in EPC projects · Need to remember the importance of people as knowledge holders
within a digital project environment
• Main causes of EPC project failures. · Recognising that an effective flow of knowledge aids decisions,
provides competitive advantage, facilitates sharing and long term
• Types of Artificial Intelligence and its applications to reduce learning (inter and intra project)
the risk of cost overruns. · Key characteristics of a knowledge management strategy
• Demonstration of an AI tool for automatic planning of EPC
projects. Craig Thomson Prof. Sustainability Built Environment Glasgow Caledonian
University
Jose Corrales Perez, EPC Management Consultant

11:00 Digitalization benefits to Oil & Gas Engineering

14:30 Afternoon Tea and Networking Break
• Engineering Database for Oil & Gas Projects;
• Digital Twin in Oil & Gas Engineering Projects –
•Design new and transform existing plants for a digital future.
• E&P Industry – Overview and Scenarios.
• Key elements that define the digital landscape:
Data, technology, new ways of working and new business models.
• Priorities of E&P Industry for Automation and
Digitalization.
15:00 Agile Waterfalls are constructing a Sun on Earth
• Road Map for E&P industry •What is ITER? Not your typical mega project
•Agile? Waterfall? How about both?
Mark Langerhorst, Project Manager, Worley
•Agile Waterfalls!
•Expect the unexpected
•A look to the future
11:30 Asset Life-Cycle phases and related EPC project activities.
Detail requirements in EPC projects for holistic approach of Life- Ricketts Colette Deputy Head of the ITER Organization Project Control Office ,
Cycle management including: ITER Organization

•Building reliability engineering for maintenance

15:30 Factors affecting successful FEED
•Facilitating asset condition management enablers
•Setting bases of work execution management Project scope of work, Code and standard, Involvement of the
•Being ready for leadership from early stages stake holders, selection criteria of the engineering contractor,
FEED schedule and timing.
Ahmed Abdel-Zaher Khalifa Maintenance Planning Manager,
Asset Management Consultant Sidi Kerir Petrochemicals Co. Sherif El Nabawy Engineering Manager , Dragon Oil
(Sidpec)

16:00 Future and Challenges of Project Controls Digitalization

12:00 Business Lunch
• The status of EPC project controls; from inaccurate to misleading
• Do we have enough data and tools to replace the current practices?
• A model framework for project controls that relies on data analytics
• The challenges that face the transformation and digitalization

Mohamed El-Mehalawi ,Global Improvement Leader - Projects , Dow

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