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The Amsterdam Engineering Procurement

ConstructionProject Management Forum November
2023Virtual&In-Person event of theyear
27-28-29-30 November 2023

Danny Stadler
François Thuault Head of Project Thomas Salitz Natale Pezzimenti
Direct eur - Branch M anager
M anagement & Civil engineer
Cont ract & Claim
Const ruct ion decommissioning projects
M anagement
BELECTRIC AUCOTEC AG EniRewind

Kurt VanStappen
Zhafran Sulaiman Mohamed El-Mehalawi Lidia Stepanyuk
Senior Project Head Department Manager,
M anager Decommissioning Global Improvement Project Controls & Estimating
Engie Tractebel Abandonment Leader - Projects Fluor
Petronas DOW

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Srinivas Herve Baron
Ramulu Mark Cowley Senior Project Manager
Marco Falconi
Project Manager Contaminated sites
Vice President Solvay
Uniper expert and Operations
Researcher Petrofac Bert Rits
Rodney Turner ISPRA Akachidike Kanu Head of Projects
Professor of Project OMV
Management Projects Leader
Sherif El Nabawy
SKEMA Repsol Ahmed Abdel-Zaher
Engineering
Business School Manager , Khalifa
Mashel Gonyora
Daniel Hoffiz Dragon Oil
Manager SHE:Enablement, Maintenance Planning
Senior Counsel Manager, Asset Management
Jacob C. Jorgensen Compliance and Assurance
TotalEnergies Consultant (Sidpec)
Sen ior Legal Sasol
Counsel Maersk Pepijn Docter
Rudi Frederix Mark Langerhorst
Supply
Project Manager Project director
Project Manager for offshore wind
Operational Heinz Janiec
Worley Tata Steel Europe
Excellence Project Manager
Siemens Mobility Kevin Danton
Specialty Robert Blundell
Group Director
Craig Thomson Engineering Senior Legal Counsel Procurement & Contract
Prof. Sustainability Nordex UK Voltalia
Built Environment Norman K McLennan
Glasgow Caledonian Manag ing Direc tor & Gavin Lock Lee Dr. Yvonne Waterman
University Consultan t CP Project s - Cont ract Specialist asbest os liabilit y
M anagement Specialist law
Thierry Linares
Senior Managing Renato Nazzini Waterman Legal
Shell
Director, Construction Professor of Law Consultancy
Solutions King’ s Mark Jones
FTI Consulting College London Senior Project Manager Doina Dobre
Morgan Sindall Construction Senior Cost Estimator
Binny Bagga Vladislava & Infrastructure Emerald Cost Consulting
Vice President - Stefanova Grant Morrison
Madhu P Pillai
Energy Services "Head of Procurement
Advisor - Oil & Gas Director, Head of Category
Reserach Contracting"
Projects Management
Rystard Energy Solar Montage
Kentz (Kent) Maersk Drilling
Team
Fernando Pinto Wouter Perry Aamir Awan
Contracting and Moreno Bisio
Business Development Director Project
Procurement Head of Legal Affairs Wind,
Manager Management
Specialist Solar & Business Development
Stantec Group VINCI Construction
EDP ERG

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 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
 13:30 Balancing Transactional Costs to Maximize Returns for EPC
27 November 2023DAY 1 Contractors

08:30 Registration (Tea / Coffee)

DAY 1 08:50 Opening address from the Chair

09:00 Project Execution - In search of excellence Madhu P Pillai

Advisor - Oil & Gas Projects
Kentz (Kent)
• Excellence in project execution realistic start
• Out of sequence execution - can we avoid it? 14:00 Optimizing costs and boosting profitability before, during and
• Project predictability - from systems Benchmarks & Team maturity after decommissioning
• People @ the center What are we doing at Fluor BV - A focus on challenges and prospects for the reuse of cement
- Recycling and circular economy as a basis for profitable
Lidia Stepanyuk, Department Manager, Project Controls & Estimating Fluor decommissioning and demolition
- Ensuring profitability by reusing the facilities
- Red flags: How not to turn the decommissioning process into an
Energy Transition (ET) Projects how can EPC contractors smooth & expensive failure
09:30 accelerate the FEED to EPC process to meet the needs of ET - Prospects for selling the site: What needs to be considered?
- An examination of budget planning: Why is it vital to have a financial
customers? reserve?
• As recently reported the energy transition to mitigate climate change
is becoming moreurgent if we are to limit temperature rise to 1.5oC Kurt Van Stappen Senior Project Manager Engie Tractabel
avoid catastrophy ,
• How can EPC contractors adapt and support this? 14:30 The missing link between maintenance and Project
• How can the FEED to EPC process be open fair
• People Management
and transparent commercially?
• Maintenance Processes
• What project execution strategies can be utilised to deliver such
• Project Management Process
projects quickly and efficiently?
• How can the use of digital delivery tools across the project life cycle • Reliability Process (link between M & P)
support accelerated delivery? Rudi Frederix Project Manager Operational Excellence Siemens Mobility
Mark Cowley, Vice President Operations, Petrofac

10:00 Morning Coffee and Networking 15:00 Coffee and Networking

10:30 The role of Human and organisational factors in Asset Management

• Human and organisation factors (HOF): The role of Human and 15:30 Safety and sustainable D&D: Application of new
• organisational factors in Asset Management. technologies
• Influence of safety management systems on asset and safety • Best-practice D&D Coal Power Plants
• performance • Safety Culture. A real challenge for us. Anllares and La Robla Projects
• Safety critical communication in asset management • Case Study La Robla: Demolition of the Office building and works with a
• What can we learn from Asset incidents/accidents and the role lift-platform-torch to separate the boiler from the turbine building
• of HOF?
• Analysing asset data and promote continual improvement
Mashel Gonyora, Manager SHE:Enablement, Compliance and Assurance Sasol Zhafran Sulaiman Head Decommissioning & Abandonment Petronas

16:00 Project Cost Increases & Mitigation Strategies

11:00 Power Plant Decommissioning and Demolition
Management Process
• Insolvency
• Performance Excuses
• Foreseeability
- Construction ( Design and Management) Regulations • Price Adjustment
- Planning Phase
• Delay
- Decommissioning Phase
- Project Implementation Phase • Increased Costs
- Project Execution Phase Daniel Hoffiz, Senior Counsel, TotalEnergies Distributed Generation
- Project Demolition Phase
16:30 Project Challenges & Opportunities in the current
environment
Srinivas Ramulu Project Manager Uniper

11:30 TBA

Bert Rits Head of Projects OMV

Thomas Salitz Branch Manager AUCOTEC AG

12:00 Business Lunch

 28 November 2023
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, Sen ior Legal Counsel Maersk Supply

14:00 EPC contract in renewable energy

· Voltalia: IPP and EPC Contractor
· Focus on Solar projects contractual scheme
· Impact of project financing onto EPC contracts
Herve Baron Senior Project Manager Solvay · Synergies between procurement and contract
Kevin Danton,Group Director Procurement & Contract, Voltalia
09:30 DISPUTE CIRCUIT BREAKERS ON MEGA PROJECTS
14:30 Afternoon Tea and Networking Break

Conflict avoidance – early-stage engagement and contracting approaches 15:00 Keep Projects on track during Front-End Engineering ,
Appropriate ADR and managing the escalation of disputes Construction and Start up
Checkpoints in arbitration – staying creative to avoid the full fight
• Be patient in the Front-End-Engineering and specify
correctly the requiered achievments
Thierry Linares Senior Managing Director, Construction Solutions FTI Consulting • Keep change requests as low as possible, there are many
whises which will blow up a project
10:00 Risk management for floating offshore wind farms • Respect new technologies but don’t over estimate the
savings it could be end up in the opposite
• Have a clear stratetgy for the design, procurement,
• Different from fixed-bottom offshore wind farms construction and start up
• Business case sensitivities • Keep in mind the resource shortages, knowledge, skills and
• Interface management long delivery times.
• Operational challenges Heinz Janiec, Project Manager, Specialty Engineering
• Geographical expansion and cultural risks
Pepijn Docter, Project director for offshore wind Tata Steel Europe 15:30 Collaborative Principles for Better
Supply Chain Practice in Managing Projects
·The rationale for collaborative business practices across supply chains
10:30 Morning Coffee and Networking and why collaboration can be the jewel in the crown for organisations in
the private, public and 3rd sectors.
·Collaborative arrangements: Different supply chain perspectives, drivers
and interdependencies
11:00 Avoidance, management and efficient resolution of disputes
· Raising the game - the CRAFT 8 Stage Life Cycle Model and ISO
44001: The evolution and emergence of a new global standard for
collaborative working in managing projects.
· The importance of stakeholder engagement in harnessing the benefits
of collaborative working practices
· Commercial risk and pricing considerations associated with
collaborative versus traditional contracting arrangements in managing
projects.
· Pan-industry supply chain collaboration: An exemplar case study of
solutions developed by and for the energy sector.

Norman K. Mclennan Professor

Renato Nazzini Professor of Law King’ s College London 16:00 How to overcome the challenges Renewables
Energy Sector – SOLAR

11:30 Minimizing EPC Disputes: collaboration between Owner

& Contractor
Danny Stadler Head of Project Management & Construction
BELECTRIC

· How to properly translate risk ownership into risk allocation

16:30 Balancing the energy trilemma in the global EPC
· Preventing or addressing disputes before formal dispute resolution markets
· Sharing best practices, experiences and key learnings
· Growing energy security concerns on supply chain
Gavin Lock Lee CP Project s - Cont ract M anagement Specialist Shell · Boost in demand for EPC services
· Capacity and cost challenges
12:00 Business Lunch Binny Bagga Vice President - Energy Services Reserach
Rystard Energy
 2 9 November 2023

08:30 Registration (Tea / Coffee)

DAY 3 08:50 Opening address from the Chair
13:30 Key element s of ef f ect ive const ruct ion procurement st rat egies in
09:00 Lessons Learned in Projects Lifecycle Management PV Project s implement at ion
· Understanding the importance of construction procurement strategy
· Developing a tailored and detailed procurement plan
• Purpose and principles
• Features, application and templates · Implementing and monitoring the procurement strategy
· Leveraging technology in construction procurement and navigating challenges
• Reference case
• Digital transformation
Vladislava Stefanova "Head of Procurement & Contracting" Solar
Akachidike Kanu, Projects Leader, Repsol Montage Team

09:30 TBA

14:00 Recognising the ‘ true value’ of knowledge management

within EPC project environment
· Viewing knowledge as a key project asset and resource: acore
Robert Blundell Senior Legal Counsel Nordex UK 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 · Need to remember the importance of people as knowledge holders
within a digital project environment
· Recognising that an effective flow of knowledge aids decisions,
provides competitive advantage, facilitates sharing and long term
learning (inter and intra project)
· Key characteristics of a knowledge management strategy

Craig Thomson Prof. Sustainability Built Environment Glasgow Caledonian

University

11:00 Project Execution Model & 4D Scheduling - Best Practices

14:30 Afternoon Tea and Networking Break
• Project Execution Model;
• Conceptual Design Importance;
• People & Collaboration;
• PEM Strategic, Control and Execution levels; 15:00 EPC projects in the renewables sector
• Asset Life Cycle Management;
• Global Project Delivery Systems and Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
• Gateway Decisions;
• Front-End Loading (FEL).
Moreno Bisio
Head of Legal Affairs Wind, Solar & Business Development
ERG
Mark Langerhorst, Project Manager, Worley

11:30 Asset Life-Cycle phases and related EPC project activities.

Detail requirements in EPC projects for holistic approach of Life-
Cycle management including:

• 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

16:30 Topic TBA

Fernando Pinto
Contracting and Procurement Specialist
EDP
 30 November 2023

08:30 Registration (Tea / Coffee)

DAY 4 08:50 Opening address from the Chair
13:30 Eni Rewind experiences in decommissioning
09:00 Adjusting EPC Lump Sum contracting to market volatility of tall structures
climate : another Pandora box?
• Eni Rewind decommissioning major challenges at Eni
Generating controlled exceptions to fixed pricing : provisional, adjustable or floating sums? petrochemical sites in Italy
The scheduling dimension of the inflationary fever :
why Force Majeure will not cure the plague • Plants description
Between the threat of a renegotiation claim and the burden of a partnering approach, Project constrains – hot topics
which option would YOU take?
• Demolition Technique: mechanical dismantling & critical lif
François THUAULT Directeur- Contract Management Project & Execution Phase
Natale Pezzimenti Civil engineer decommissioning projects EniRewind
09:30

14:00 Zero-emission construction sites

No N2 & no C02 emissions during the construction works on

site:
Examples
Challenges
Collaboration and outlook

10:00 Morning Coffee and Networking Wouter Perry

Business Development
Manager Stantec Group
10:30 Best Pract ise in M egaproject s

Rodney Turner Professor of Project Management

SKEMA Business School

11:00 A Costa Corrada Case Demolition

14:30 Afternoon Tea and Networking Break

15:00 Topic TBA

Marco Falconi Contaminated sites expert and Researcher ISPRA

Doina Dobre
Senior Cost Est imat or
Emerald Cost Consult ing
11:30 TBA
15:00 How to balance the choice of adopting an EPC
vs a traditional appr oach to managing c omplex
pr ojec ts

Grant M orrison
Direct or, Head of Cat egory M anagement
Dr. Yvonne Waterman Specialist asbestos liability law M aersk Drilling
Waterman Legal Consultancy
15:30 Topic TBA
12:00 Business Lunch
Mark Jones
Senior Project Manager & Ambassador
Morgan Sindall Construction & Infrastructure

16:00 The Digital Era impact over industry

· Technologies and Risk impact
· Expertise & skill level
· Investment & strategies
· The outcome % of adoption of Tech

Aamir Awan
Director Project Management
VINCI Construction
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