87th PERF Meeting Agenda - Biodiversity Challenges
March 13, 2013
Time
Subject
Speaker
8:00
Registration
8:30
Welcome
Viviana Coelho
(Petrobras’ Gas,
Energy and Sustainable
Development General
Manager)
8:45
Introductions & PERF Overview
Veronica Blackwell,
(Chevron, PERF Chair)
9:15
Meeting Introduction & Stage Setting
Paulo Negrais Seabra
(Petrobras)
9:30
Biodiversity: the principal challenges facing the oil and gas Jane Mauro (Petrobras)
industry
10:15
Break
SESSION 1: Relevance, challenges and tools to assess the ecosystem services
dependencies and impacts of the oil and gas industry
10:30
Overview of biodiversity and ecosystem service concepts
James Spurgeon
and tools in relation to managing oil and gas industry
(Sustain Value, UK)
impacts and dependencies
11:15
Prioritizing Environmental Sensitivities Through Application Heidi Mairs
of Ecosystem Services: From Concept to Practice
(ExxonMobil)
12:00
Lunch
13:00
Panel Discussion: What are the major knowledge gaps?
Panelists: James
What are the criteria used for selecting tools? What are the Spurgeon; Anne
boundary conditions for the assessment of impacts and
Wagner (Chevron);
dependence on biodiversity ecosystem services (project
Sarah Terry
timeline, scope, motivation etc.)?
(ConocoPhillips)
Moderator: Daniela
Lerda (PADMA, Brazil)
14:00
PERF Program Brainstorm
SESSION 2: Operations in sensitive marine areas
14:15
Management of dredging in tropical waters
Michael Marnane
(Chevron)
14:45
Establishing an alternate pipeline route to prevent impacts
Renata Arantes
in rhodolith and deepwater corals communities
(Independent
consultant, Brazil)
15:15
Break
15:30
Protection of Natural Habitats and Biodiversity at Saudi
Yasser Kattan (Saudi
Aramco
Aramco)
16:00
Panel Discussion: How to identify and map sensitive
Panelists: Renata
marine areas? What are the operational and design
Arantes¸ Heidi Mairs
solutions to prevent / mitigate impacts on sensitive areas?
(ExxonMobil), Yasser
Kattan, Michael
Marnane
Moderator: Frederico
Brandini (USP)
17:00
PERF Program Brainstorm
17:15
Adjourn/Reception
March 14, 2013
Time
8:00
Subject
Welcome
8:15
PERF Business Review: Updates on current projects &
proposals & Day 1 Review
SESSION 3: Strategies to prevent bioinvasion
8:45
Managing bioufouling at international level: Challenges
and opportunities
9:30
10:00
10:15
Quarantine Management System for the Gorgon Project
Break
Challenges in implementing international
recommendations for bioinvasion – Petrobras experience
10:45
Panel Discussion: What are the main difficulties in
implementing international recommendations for
bioinvasion through biofouling prevention? What is the
perception about other sectors involvement (e.g. fishing
and Navy) in this subject?
11:45
PERF Program Brainstorm
12:00
Lunch
FINAL SESSION
13:00
Restoration Planning and Implementation: Challenges
and Solutions
13:45
IPIECA-OGP Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
Working Group
14:30
Break
14:45
PERF Breakouts & Program Brainstorming:
Based on the previous panel discussions, how do we now
rate the urgency and importance of programs proposed
over the past 2 days?
16:00
17:00
Report-Out: 5-10 min by work group + Post sign-up
sheets for new programs
Adjourn
Speaker
Viviana Coelho
(Petrobras’ Gas, Energy
and Sustainable
Development General
Manager)
Veronica Blackwell,
(Chevron, PERF Chair)
Naomi Parker (Ministry
for Primary Industries,
New Zealand)
Anne Wagner (Chevron)
Anna Scofano
(Petrobras)
Panelists: Naomi Parker,
Ana Scofano, TBD
Moderator: Ricardo
Coutinho (IEAPM, Brazil)
Jonathon Weier (CH2M
Hill)
Sarah Terry
(ConocoPhillips)
Focus Areas:
- Assess the
ecosystem
services
dependencies
and impacts
- Operations in
sensitive marine
areas
- Strategies to
prevent
bioinvasion