Process Safety Leadership

Bruce has over thirty years of experience in high-hazard industries, starting with BP in Scotland and then internationally from Azerbaijan to Wyoming. He was director of Operations in Projects, VP Operations and Head of Country for BP in Algeria and Libya.

He was COO at DNO based in Dubai, with activities in Norway, Oman, Somaliland, Tunisia, Kurdistan, Iran, and Yemen. In his first week, the company had a work-related fatality, Bruce led the team to fundamentally reshape leadership engagement in safety.

For Neptune Energy, he was Vice President of Operations with a critical focus on Process Safety.

Bruce has a portfolio of activities, focusing on Safety Leadership. He is co-chair of the Step Change in Safety Process Safety Leadership working group and on the OEUK Process Safety Leadership working group.

He has a B.Eng (Hons) in Chemical Engineering from Edinburgh University, is an Associate Member of the Institute of Risk Management, a member of the IoD and a Fellow of the IChemE.

Laura has thirty years of experience in the offshore oil and gas industry, working in the North Sea (UK and Norway), West Africa, and USA.

She is currently supporting enterprise risk management of global non-operated joint ventures at bp.

She formerly led process safety risk management in West Africa for bp and held a corporate role as Principal Process Safety Engineer for ConocoPhillips in the USA.

Laura is co-chair of the Step Change in Safety Process Safety Leadership working group. Previously, she was a member of IChemE Major Hazards Committee work group on Process Safety Competency and was Vice-Chair of the Energy Institute Process Safety Committee.

She has a B.Eng (Hons) in Chemical Engineering from Heriot Watt University, an MSc in Management from Robert Gordon University, and is a Fellow of the IChemE.