Making networking more fun and more efficient! We’ll prepare some fun questions to break the ice and structure our coffee and speed-networking event in a way that will allow you to meet more people than at the standard usual networking events. Don’t miss this fantastic opportunity that will open the door to meeting new industry colleagues and gaining new contacts.

• People have a tendency to accept and “normalise” unnecessary risks. What leadership and management approaches can help eliminate “risk normalisation” and increase HSE standards?
• How can HSE managers and team leaders incorporate broader factors such as human behaviour and cultural aspects to achieve and preserve good HSE performance? What are the main inhibiting factors that are slowing down the safety culture adoption and how can the oil and gas industry address them?
• How can increased employees’ awareness help make oil and gas operations “greener” and more environmentally friendly?

12:00 – 12:15 Utmost process safety – how to avoid disasters?

This case study will focus on development and implementation of successful Process Safety Management, and will discuss how to tackle the challenges associated with it

Ahmed Mohammed Ibrahim Roustom Risk Assessment and OHS Technical Studies Assistant General Manager
Egyptian Natural Gas Company (GASCO)

12:15 – 12:30 Improving refineries’ HSE performance: A holistic safety management mode
This presentation will elaborate on the successful delivery of the HSE performance improvement programme encompassing three refinery sites with more than 2,000 employees - both permanent and contractors.

John Fotopoulos Refinery HSE Director
Hellenic Petroleum Group

12:30 – 12:45 Developing strategies to improve road safety and decrease the number of accidents
This presentation will talk about road safety in Egypt, elaborate on potential strategies and share real-life case studies that will help oil and companies to reduce the number of road related incidents.

Yasser Nashaat Deputy Managing Director for Operations & Engineering
TAQA Arabia

12:45 – 13:00 What can we learn from international companies and neighbouring countries? 
This presentation will discuss international best practises that can be transferred regionally or globally and improve existing HSE industry standards or processes

Captain Andreas Zacharia Operations Officer NAVY
Cyprus Joint Rescue Coordination Center

• How important is leadership commitment for ensuring utmost safety of oil and gas operations and employees? Definition of safety leadership
• What makes a good leader? What does it take to trigger positive health, safety and environmental transformations?
• What leadership style works best when it comes to promotion of safety culture and ensuring high HSE standards?
• Using leadership to tackle HSE challenges – practical hints and advices

• Minimising waste from oil and gas operations – identifying and tackling the challenges. What is the role of recycling, how can it help reduce waste?
• Developing efficient strategies to achieve good management of produced waters – what works and what doesn’t?
• There is an increasing pressure to decrease greenhouse gas emissions. Which oil and gas processes are the biggest contributors? Is it viable for oil and gas companies to simultaneously grow and reduce emissions?
• What steps is the oil and gas industry taking to meet the UN Sustainable Development Goals?

16:00 - 16:10 Awards opening keynote mode

His Excellency Tarek El Molla Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources
Arab Republic of Egypt

16:10 - 16:35 Best Health and Safety Project of the Year presentations and winner announcement

16:35 - 17:00 Best Environmental Project of the Year presentations and winner announcement

17:00 - 17:10 HSE Leader of the Year winner announcement

17:10 - 17:20 Acknowledgement of the Regional Select Jury members

17:20 - 17:30 Closing remarks