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Innovative Technology Innovation is crucial for the oil and gas industry as the new finds of oil and gas are often at difficult locations such as deep offshore and arctic areas. Bringing down the ever growing costs of exploration and production is also an important issue together with improving and increasing the production from existing fields. Minimizing the carbon footprint for environmental considerations is crucial. Good reason for IRO to stress the importance of innovation and to promote innovation programmes offered by the Dutch government. Innovation contract for the top sector Energy Nine top sectors have been selected by the Dutch government for further support. ‘Energy’ is one of these top sectors. IRO in cooperation with NOGEPA and EBN set up a strong concerted lobby campaign to get oil and gas on the agenda under this sector. The Ministry of Economic Affairs, Agriculture & Innovation has selected gas as the focus area for innovation within the top sector ‘Energy’. The main government goal is to realize the ambition of 30/30: produce 30 billion m 3 gas in 2030 from the marginal fields in the Netherlands. As a result the Ministry of EL&I has made additional budgets available for innovation in the field of gas technology on top of the existing budgets available at TNO, ECN and NOW starting in 2012 with 71 million Euro. This is very special as it is not the case for the other top sectors where only fiscal incentives are available (RDA and RDA+). In order to be able to profit from the additional subsidies the industry has to participate in knowledge development in the form of public private partnerships, the so called innovation contracts. To stimulate cooperation with research institutes an extra fiscal incentive is available (RDA+). At the end of 2011 various innovation contracts for upstream oil and gas were in process for Upstream gas, Unconventional gas and for LNG. Beginning in 2012 IRO members will be invited to participate in the innovation contracts. Top sector Water Besides the top sector ‘Energy’, the top sector ‘Water’ is also interesting for IRO as the maritime industry falls under this sector. IRO members will be invited to participate in innovation contracts for the maritime industry. Decommissioning seminar On Wednesday 12 October 2011, IRO, in cooperation with Decom North Sea and Navingo, organized a Decommissioning Seminar in the Amsterdam RAI during the Offshore Energy Exhibition. Brian Nixon, Chief Executive Decom North Sea, highlighted the challenges for the industry where decommissioning is concerned in his presentation: ‘Market overview and update on industry initiatives’. One of his topics was the growth of the industry and how to get enough qualified personnel. The message of Decom North Sea is that companies in the North Sea countries should team up in order to be able to handle all the expected decommissioning activities. 4 IRO Annual Report 2011
IRO Oil & Gas Innovation Seminar On Thursday 7 April 2011 the biannual IRO Oil & Gas Innovation Seminar took place at the Shell Exploration & Production International Centre in Rijswijk. Jeroen Regtien, Vice President Hydrocarbon Recovery Technologies Shell, welcomed the IRO members and gave a presentation on Innovation technology. The participants at the seminar were given a very interesting guided tour through several Shell labs such as the ultramodern Virtual Reality Centre (I-scope), the Test Rig, the Enhanced Oil Recovery Lab, the Model Room & Drilling Machine and the Core Shed. During this seminar four pre-selected companies presented their innovations and competed for the IRO Innovation Prize. The 130 participants at the seminar were asked to vote and In his presentation ‘A contractor’s perspective on decommissioning’, Jelle Lanting, Commercial Manager Mammoet, focused on the synergies between Marine Salvage & Offshore Decommissioning from a salvage contractors point of view. Jan Kromhout, Lawyer Shipping, Trade & Insurance at AKD, gave a presentation on ‘Decommissioning principles’ which went into legislation and insurance on decommissioning with such subjects as Contracts, the Knock for Knock Principle and Indemnity. Chairman of the seminar was Hans P. de Boer, Managing Director of IRO. About 60 persons attended the seminar among who were eight British members of Decom North Sea. After the meeting there was a network reception. The decommissioning seminar was made possible by support of the Dutch Maritime Network (NML). Shale Gas Seminar On 16 November 2011 the IRO Gas Group (IGG) in cooperation with the IRO Well Services Group (IWSG) organized a seminar on Shale Gas at TNO Energy in Utrecht. Exploration and production of shale gas in the US has been a great success however there are also some serious environmental issues. What are the possibilities for shale gas in The Netherlands? Is exploration of shale gas possible without harming the environment? What new innovations have to be developed? Chairman of the seminar was René Peters, Director Gas Technology TNO and Chairman IGG. Berend Scheffers, Director Technology EBN, gave a presentation on ‘Shale Gas: natural gas prospects for an experienced gas industry’. Hans Weijel, Cuadrilla Resources, The Netherlands, talked about the importance of communication to inform the public in his presentation: ‘Drilling for shale gas, doing the job right’. A presentation on Schlumberger technology and experience was given by Keith Bartenhagen, Principal Petrophysicist Schlumberger and Frank van Bergen, Geologist and Shale gas expert at TNO Energy, ended the programme with the question: ‘What can be done to support safe shale gas operations?’. The seminar was made possible by generous support of TNO Energy in Utrecht which provided the meeting facilities and took care of the excellent catering. © IRO 2012 Airborne Composite Tubulars came out as winner with its ‘Novel Composite Pipe System as Service Intervention Line’. Hans de Boer, Managing Director IRO, presented the IRO Innovation Prize to Martin van Onna, Managing Director Airborne Composite Tubulars, during the network drinks at the Innovation Market. IRO thanks Shell for its warm hospitality. Regulatory Affairs NEN seminar on developments in ISO and EN norms in the oil and gas industry IRO is an active participant in the norm committee 310008 gas and oil exploration and production of the NEN. This norm committee is involved in the realization of ISO and EN standards for the oil and gas exploration and production. On 1 September 2011 NEN organized a meeting on the implementation of new ISO and EN norms that are necessary as a result of recent developments in the oil and gas industry such as the incident in the Gulf of Mexico, Shale Gas, CCS and arctic oil operations. About 15 IRO members attended the meeting. 5
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