Rebecca Allan graduated in 2013 from Heriot-Watt University with a 1st class masters degree in Chemical Engineering and has over six years’ experience in the energy industry.
Upon graduating, Rebecca joined an energy consultancy where she gained a strong background in asset performance and debottlenecking projects. After 3 years Rebecca began to specialise in decommissioning and soon rose to the position of Decommissioning Technical Authority. Rebecca’s contribution to the decommissioning industry was recognised when she was awarded the Decom North Sea Young Professional of the Year Award in May 2019.
Rebecca recently joined the Decommissioning Team at the Oil and Gas Authority where she works to promote efficient decommissioning practices which add value for both operators and supply chain.
Martha Vasquez is an Associate Director at BCG with over 17 years in Upstream including 10 at Schlumberger. Her consulting experience is on diagnostics and benchmarks, performance improvement, cost reduction, strategy and business models; focus includes decommissioning, drilling and production optimization.
Luis Ibarra graduated in 2006 as Mechanical Engineer with Honorific Mention from Universidad Simon Bolivar, in Venezuela, after developing a master's thesis in Robotics at Lund University, Sweden.
Initiated an exciting career in the Oil & Gas industry joining the Integrated Project Management Group of Schlumberger, driving wells delivery optimisation in factory drilling and HPHT campaigns under several contracting models, supporting operators across Latin America and the Middle East.
Left Schlumberger as a qualified Senior Well Engineer to pursue an MBA Oil & Gas Management in the United Kingdom, graduating in 2014 with Distinction from the Robert Gordon University after delivering a consultancy project on behalf of Shell focused on "Maximising Economic Recovery in the UKCS by enabling collaboration across the Supply Chain".
This transformational experience lead to the incorporation of eCERTO ENERGY in 2016, providing strategic advice to the senior leadership of both operators and tier-I contractors with portfolios of major capital and decommissioning projects, identifying the opportunity for driving a digitally enabled supply chain.
In 2019, joined the top 5% of the global energy tech start-ups, graduated from the TechX
Pioneers Programme of the Oil & Gas Technology Centre (OGTC), and joined the Entrepreneurship Development Programme sponsored by Scottish Enterprise High Growth Ventures.
Today, Luis is Founder & Operations Director of eCERTO.
Jim Christie has over 40 years’ experience in oil and gas construction and decommissioning projects. Jim has worked across the world, but has more recently been based in the UK and Gulf of Mexico, focused on onshore and offshore decommissioning.
Jim was the Global Decommissioning Projects Manager for Marathon Oil Company in Houston, with a world-wide remit, including the UKCS and Norway
Following his retirement from Marathon, Jim took up the role of Head of Decommissioning for the Oil and Gas Authority. While there, Jim was responsible for chairing the Decommissioning Task Force, developing and publishing the OGA Decommissioning Strategy, its supporting execution plan, and updating the overall UKCS cost estimate.
Jim currently works in an advisory capacity aiding both operators and service providers. Jim’s focus is on early planning, decision making, campaign developments, plus the development and implementation of execution and contracting strategies.