Woodside COO to deliver Hazards Australasia keynote

The Chief Operating Officer of Australia’s largest independent oil and gas operator has been confirmed as a keynote speaker for the inaugural Hazards Australasia conference. Vince Santostefano, the COO of Woodside, will present at the international process safety conference in Perth in November.

A civil engineer with more than 33 years’ experience in the oil and gas sector, Santostefano oversees the producing business units and the production function covering the operations of all of Woodside’s producing facilities.

Santostefano’s Hazards Australasia presentation will focus on process safety and leadership. He will be joined by Jane Cutler, the CEO of the National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority (NOPSEMA), who will also be speaking at the conference.

Themes for the event include:

• Lessons learned from major hazard incidents
• Management of abnormal operations
• Process safety design and inherently safer design
• Regulatory compliance and legislation
• Human factors
• Asset integrity and extending the operating life span of infrastructure
• Safety management systems
• Education and training
• Process safety key performance indicators

The Hazards Australasia conference is organised by the Institution of Chemical Engineers (iChemE). Abstracts are being accepted for the conference until 5 August. For more information, visit the Hazards Australasia website.