The Board review and shape the strategy and vision of Decom North Sea, ensuring that the business aims and objectives are realistic, deliver value and meet the needs of our members.
The Board support Decom North Sea in a range of ways, from involvement in their retrospective sub-committee groups, participation at events, provision of market intelligence and assistance to member companies.
The Board of Directors ensure that our corporate governance structures are robust and that we meet all our statutory and regulatory requirements. Decom North Sea and the Board of Directors are governed by articles of association and in compliance with these articles all directors serve a fixed term of three years (unless they change sector and must therefore seek election in the new sector or stand down). The maximum term for a director is six years.
Jinda Nelson | Head of Decommissioning, PDi Ltd
Jinda is Head of Decommissioning for PDi Ltd.
She is dedicated to increasing the UK’s market share in decommissioning.
Jinda comes from a varied technical background and holds a BSc honours degree in Architectural Technology from the Scott Sutherland School of Architecture, Robert Gordon University.
She has previously spent more than 8 years in the Middle East running her own business, then consulting throughout the Persian Gulf. She has worked with the British Embassy in Bahrain as a warden and has vast national and international experience in global business.
Jinda’s holistic understanding of design and construction, underpinned by time spent in a mechanical engineering post working on various projects, including FPSOs, ideally positions her to add value to reverse engineering/ decommissioning. She is involved in a number of live decommissioning projects both offshore and at UK quaysides.
She has also spent a significant amount of time in the Far East and has worked within an international, award-winning design studio, where she worked on designing a theme park within a seismic area in Taiwan and several high profile shopping malls in China.
Jinda has been heavily involved with the Decommissioning Leadership Group and served time in the Market Intelligence Group.
Adam Sheikh is VP Decommissioning and Energy Transition at Repsol Sinopec Resources UK Limited
Dawn Robertson | Bureau Veritas - Global Strategic Sales Director, Global Services – Marine & Offshore
John is the Decommissioning Director at Enquest PLC where he is accountable for the development of decommissioning capability and project delivery. He is a fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and previously worked for Shell International and Canadian Natural Resources where he led the Murchison, Ninian North and Olowi decommissioning projects. John’s current directorate project portfolio at Enquest includes the Heather and Thistle platforms, Alma-Galia and the Don fields. He is passionate about reducing both decommissioning costs and carbon emissions through constant challenge of project timing, scope and execution, encouraging a continuous improvement mind-set and building diverse, engaged project teams.
Steven Simpson | Brimmond Group - Business Development Manager
Having been part of the DLG for the last 2 years, Steven has gained a good understanding of where Decom North Sea wishes to grow and develop as well as provide an ever-increasing portfolio of services and market intelligence to the membership. Internationalisation, Market Intelligence and collaboration are some of the key focus areas going forward for DNS which are areas that provide a great personal interest to Steven and of which he has over 15 years of experience in.
Bringing experience of Business development, Business & Marketing (B.A Honours degree), commercial, negotiation and market research, Steven aims to make himself both approachable and available whenever possible to discuss any appropriate matters. Within the decommissioning sector itself, Steven has first-hand experience of both the issues and opportunities that organisations have whether it be in P&A, Wells, Crane and lifting applications and removal processes, and feels that with increased support, exposure and collaboration then all levels of organisations can greatly benefit from a wide scale of perspectives from safety, cost, availability and innovation.
Steven is a diligent and approachable professional that will strive to become a link and voice for current and new members in what he believes to be a defining 3-5 years for the decommissioning sector.
Anthony Fievez | Heerema Marine Contractors - Decommissioning Commercial Manager
Anthony has spent 20 years working on a range of high profile projects in the oil and gas contracting industry. He started his career in Australia and South East Asia on several shallow water pipelay projects before moving to Heerema Marine Contractors where he spent 5 years on ultra-deep water pipelay projects in the Gulf of Mexico.
Anthony took some time away from the industry to complete an MBA before returning to Heerema to take project management roles on jacket and topsides installation and removal projects in the North Sea and Australia.
In his current role as Decommissioning Commercial Manager for Heerema, Anthony has spent the last 5 years engaging directly with operators, regulators and other stakeholders to assist them with their decommissioning challenges. Anthony is a strong believer in the strength of supplier-led solutions and recognizes the importance of the Decom North Sea member base to delivering decommissioning activities worldwide.
Donald Mackay | Schlumberger Oilfield UK Plc – Business Development Manager
Donald started his career in oil and gas with Schlumberger over 22 years ago as a graduate engineer, and subsequently moved through various offshore engineering, onshore operational and commercial support roles in countries around the North Sea and Continental Europe.
In 2012 Donald joined the Schlumberger Integrated Projects group with responsibility to help define and set strategy for Schlumberger’s creation of the Integrated Well Abandonment group; a group which has capability from subsurface studies, through planning, engineering and execution, inside a single innovative contract model. Currently in the role of Business Development Manager for abandonment and decommissioning projects, he has responsibility for Schlumberger’s involvement and execution of multi-service / turnkey abandonment workscopes throughout Europe.
With a continual requirement for improved performance and cost efficiency for abandonment and decommissioning Donald has actively pursued, and brings extensive experience, in the creation of collaborative solutions, partnerships, new technology development and alternative contracting strategies to meet the demands of the market.
Minnie Lu | Wood, Decommissioning Service Director
Minnie is the current Chairperson of our Decommissioning Leadership Group.
Minnie is a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers. She has extensive decommissioning, engineering and management experiences gained from working in major projects in the UK and overseas for over 24 years. She was project manager on many decommissioning projects, offshore structural integrity assessments and management projects which gave her valuable insight into their design and execution. Minnie is currently the Decommissioning Director leading the Late Life Asset Management and decommissioning business in Wood. She develops the vision, business plan and strategy for growing the late life operation and decommissioning business. She also set up the global Decommissioning Centre of Excellence.
With her in-depth knowledge and experiences in decommissioning business, Minnie understands the market and the challenges our sector is facing. She is able to provide strong leadership and guidance on both technical innovation and novel commercial solutions. She has wide connections with the supply chain, operators, and regulators.
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