Keynote Speakers

Deep Offshore Technology International Conference and Exhibition

KEYNOTE ADDRESS - UPDATE ON DEEPOFFSHORE DEVELOPMENTS, PORTFOLIO AND TECHNICAL CAHLLENGES

About Antoine Serceau
Antoine Serceau graduated in Engineering from the Institut Catholique des Arts et Métiers in Lille in 1973 and took up a position as a pipeline engineer with OTP in Paris. In 1980 he joined Elf (subsequently part of Total) as an engineer in the E&P Division’s Congo Projects group. He then held various engineering management positions of increasing seniority, mainly involving pipeline, platform and onshore plant construction, on projects in Norway, Gabon and the Netherlands. Antoine Serceau’s career continued to progress, with a posting to Elf’s E&P center in Pau (France) as Projects Department Manager, a move back to Norway as Froy Project Director. Then from 1997 to 2002, his operational career was crowned by appointment as Project Director for the showcase Girassol deep-offshore development project in Angola. Since September 2002, Antoine Serceau is Vice President, Projects Construction within Total E&P’s Technology and Operations Division.

INDUSTRY FORECAST - PROSPECTS FOR THE DEEPWATER INDUSTRY

About John Westwood
A regular presenter at DOT, John Westwood is a noted commentator on the energy industries, featuring in international business media such as Bloomberg and CNBC, Dow Jones, the Wall Street Journal and regional media worldwide. He initially spent 12 years in underwater operations companies before moving into market analysis and the past 19 years heading industry analysts Douglas-Westwood Limited. He was the first person to value the global deepwater industry and edits ‘The World Deepwater Report’.

His firm has completed nearly 600 projects since its formation in 1990 and has provided services to clients in over 50 countries. It acts as strategy advisers to industry, governments and presidential offices worldwide and a leading provider of commercial due-diligence services to investment houses and energy industry organisations.

INDUSTRY PERSPECTIVE

About Tony Mace
Tony Mace holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering & Naval Architecture and a Masters in Ocean Engineering from London University. He has spent 35 years in the offshore industry, more than 30 of them being with SBM where he has held various engineering and project management positions, before being nominated as President of SBM-Imdoco in Houston in 2002 where he oversaw the integration of Atlantia Offshore to form SBM-Atlantia. In 2007 he returned to Monaco as Director of LNG Projects, and was appointed President and CEO of the SBM Offshore group in May 2008.