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Dan Walker is organization and is involved in the development of several

Drilling

Global Wellhead currently based in generations of spar technology, in his

Integrity Program the UK. He has role as the Spar Product Manager for

Manager for BP worked in various Technip and other engineering

America Inc. He operational engi- management roles. Maher has a BS in graduated from The neering roles in the Mechanical Engineering and a BA in

University of North Sea, Middle Government Studies from the

Oxford in East, Africa, and University of Notre Dame and an MSE

Engineering Science, completing a South America. Most recently he has in Civil Engineering from Purdue

M.Eng in 1999 at St. Catherine’s been involved in the subsea wells University.

College and D.Phil at Magdalen development planning for Shah Deniz

College in 2003. He was recruited by Stage 2 project in the Caspian Sea. Michelle Edwards

BP as a technical specialist in the area Henderson has 28 years of industry is a technical writer of offshore hydrodynamics. Walker experience. and editor for has worked in Azerbaijan, Russia, Barrios Technology.

Alaska, Norway and Trinidad, and James Maher is a Dr. Edwards has has covered technical areas in BP consultant focused worked in biotech- ranging from deepwater oil and gas on innovative nology where she exploration and production to solutions for assisted in the offshore wind projects. Walker has foating systems, management of a small start-up also worked for BP in the Gulf of risers, and equip- company. She then moved on to

Mexico and Angola and continues his ment for the NASA’s Johnson Space Center where role as relationship manager for BP’s foating drilling and she led a team in the development of engagement with the University of production industry. He has founded an architecture to identify and

Oxford. several deepwater technology compa- analyze risks to humans from long nies and has been involved in the duration space fight. Dr. Edwards

John Henderson is a senior drilling development and commercialization has a B.A. in biology and a Ph.D. in engineer working in BP’s Global Wells of many technologies. He was neuroscience.

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