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Forthcoming Events

The Energy Institute offers a range of conferences, seminars, dinners, lunches and other events dealing with all sectors of the energy business and catering for the various interests of EI Members and guests.

To keep you up to date with the topics of greatest concern, we run an annual programme of conferences. We are ideally placed to identify topical issues and provide a forum for debate led by experts from industry and government.

For a full listing of events, conferences and other EI programmes, click here.

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Melchett Lecture

Process Safety Management for Power & Steam Generation

Summer lunch

Energy in transition

Asset life assessment

EI Awards

Countdown to 2020

Oil supply and energy security - getting on with the job

IP Week 2011

IP Week Dinner 2011

Melchett Lecture
Thursday 1 July 2010
DeVeres Holborn Bars, 138-142 Holborn, London EC1N 2NQ

The Energy Institute is pleased to announce Professor Jim Skea OBE FEI, Research Director, UK Energy Research Centre as the recipient of the 73rd Melchett Award.

This free event is a unique opportunity to hear Professor Jim Skea talk about the issues that matter to the energy industry today.

16.30 Welcome reception
17.00 Welcome by James Smith FEI, President, Energy Institute
17.15 Lecture by Professor Jim Skea OBE FEI
17.45 Questions from the floor
18.05 Drinks reception

For more information contact Zuzana Vrablikova t: +44 (0)20 7467 7106; e: zuzana@energyinst.org.uk

Process Safety Management for Power & Steam Generation
Thursday 8 July 2010
Energy Institute, 61 New Cavendish Street, London, W1G 7AR

09:00 Registration

09:30 Welcome remarks from the Chair
TBC

09:40 Keynote address: learning from disasters – understanding the cultural and organisational precursors
Professor Richard Taylor, University of Bristol - Safety Systems Research Centre

10:10 Integrity assurance of aging assets
Martin Carter, Head of Engineering Governance, E.ON

10:40 Tea break

11:00 Keynote address: current HSE position on process safety requirements for
power generation
Gordon Macdonald, Director of Hazardous Installations Directorate, HSE

11:30 Experience with developing process safety KPI’s within Scottish Power
Martin Sedgwick, Head of Asset Management, Scottish Power

12:00 The challenge of dealing with recommendations from process safety reviews
of existing assets
Phil Eames, Principal Consultant, ABB Engineering services

12:30 Lunch

13:30 Energy Institute Process Safety Committee: development of a PSM
framework
Martin Ball, Bossiney Consulting

13:45 Learning from incidents: MoD cost cutting blamed for 2006 Nimrod crash
Bob Kilford, EDF Energy

14:15 Ensuring the safety of personnel in temporary buildings during plant start-up John Henderson, Principal Safety Engineer, CB&I Lummus

14:45 Tea break

15:05 Development and ranking of the GENSIP Hazardous Event Register
Andrew Rushton, Lead Plant Risk Engineer, RWE npower

15:35 Experiences in developing process safety awareness within the workforce Paul McCulloch, E.ON Generation

16:05 Discussion and closing remarks from the chair

16:30 End of conference

Please click here to download a booking form

The EI has several process safety publications that cover: design; emergency planning; ignition probabilities; hazardous area classification; key performance indicators; fire and explosion; etc. In addition, there are also publications on human and organisational factors which largely have been developed in support of process safety aspects of major accident hazards, installation integrity and hydrocarbon leak reduction. Visit www.energypublishing.org for more information.

For more information contact Vickie Naidu t: +44 (0)20 7467 7179;
e: vnaidu@energyinst.org.uk

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Summer lunch
September 2010

For more information contact Gemma Wilkinson t: +44 (0)20 7467 7174;
e: gwilkinson@energyinst.org

Energy in transition
12-14 October 2010

For more information contact Jacqueline Warner t: +44 (0)20 7467 7116;
e: jwarner@energyinst.org

Asset life assessment
Tuesday 2 November 2010
TBC, Aberdeen

Conference topics to include:

HSE address: guidance on management of ageing & thorough reviews of ageing installations
Management of ageing topsides - methodology, case study
Life extension of centrifugal compressors
Management of external coatings and development of industry KPIs
Obsolescence of electrical, electronic, electronic programmable equipment & software
Subsea reliability & obsolescence
Structural fatigue failures - risers, j-tubes and associated structural components
Maintaining the integrity of cathodic protection

For more information or to book please contact Vickie Naidu on t: + 44 (0)20 7467 7179; e: vnaidu@energyinst.org

EI Awards
Thursday 18 November 2010
Sheraton Park Lane, London

Click here to enter your project. Deadline for entries: 29 June 2010

Countdown to 2020
Monday 29 November 2010
Deloitte, 2 New Street Square, London, EC4A 3BZ

Oil supply and energy security – getting on with the job
Tuesday 7 December 2010
Energy Institute, 61 New Cavendish Street, London, W1G 7AR

09.30 Registration

10.00 Welcome from the Chair
Professor Martin Fry CEng FEI, Visiting Professor of City University

Scene setting

10.10 Fifty years of oil depletion
Dr Roger Bentley MEI, Visiting Research Fellow, Department of Cybernetics, University of Reading

10.35 Update on supply/oil depletion
Chris Skrebowski FEI, Consulting Editor, Petroleum Review

11.00 Global update on supply and demand
TBC

11.25 Refreshments break