Reliant Center
1 Reliant Park
8400 Kirby Drive
Houston, Texas 77054

Monday Afternoon

Monday, 30 April, 1400 to 1630

Room 306

PANEL: INTERNATIONAL OFFSHORE TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER: RISK AND RESTRICTIONS

Moderators:

Buford Pollett, Technip
Daniel Orange, Black Gold Energy

This session will provide energy-company and service-company professionals the opportunity to hear a candid discussion of the current restrictions on technology transfers that affect the offshore energy industry. In addition, the panel will discuss what are the current opportunities and concerns regarding the protection of intellectual-property rights as the offshore energy industry transforms from mature regions to new frontiers (e.g., China, India, and West Africa) and engages new clients (e.g., government-owned entities).

Panelists:

Duaine Priestley, Director, Houston USEAC, U.S. Dept. of Commerce
Jamie Joiner, Associate, Baker & Hostetler
Paul Krieger, Partner, Fulbright & Jaworski
Pierre-Armand Thomas, Director of Offshore Technology, Technip
Dan Chapman, Division Counsel, Baker Hughes Drilling Fluids, Baker Hughes Inc.
Fred Hook, Senior Counsel, Chevron Corp., Global Intellectual Property Team

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Moderator Profiles

Buford Pollett, Technip
Buford Pollett is a senior counsel with Technip France, and his responsibilities include oil and gas engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) contracts in Norway, West Africa and the Middle East along with engineering contracts for an affiliate in the UK. Prior to his assignment in Paris with Technip France, he worked on EPCI contracts for Technip Offshore in Houston, Texas. In addition to being a licensed attorney in Louisiana and Texas, he is also a Texas licensed geologist. His energy experience includes work with Entergy, Amoco, Texaco, Nabors and a Shell and Exxon joint venture in Germany (BEB Erdgas und Erdöl).
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Daniel Orange, Black Gold Energy
Daniel Orange is vice president of operations at Black Gold Energy (BGE), a start-up independent oil and gas company located in Jakarta. Orange and his colleagues are using a range of geophysical, geological and geochemical techniques to identify prospective acreage in frontier basins in deepwater Indonesia. Prior to joining BGE, Orange was president and CEO of AOA Geophysics Inc. and was involved in challenging seafloor geohazard projects. He is an expert in seafloor mapping, integrated geological/geophysical interpretations, and the use of manned and unmanned submersibles as field vehicles using seafloor data (bathymetry, side scan) as base maps for field work. He has held positions at the University of California Santa Cruz, Stanford University and the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute. In these positions, Orange continued to push the application of seafloor mapping techniques and ground-truthing to the prediction and evaluation of seafloor seepage, including seepage in hydrocarbon-prone basins. He holds undergraduate and master’s degrees in earth, atmospheric and planetary science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a PhD degree in geology and geophysics from the University of California Santa Cruz.
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Panelist Profiles

Duaine Priestley, Director, Houston USEAC, US Dept. of Commerce
Duaine A. Priestley is the director of the US and foreign commercial service unit in the Houston office of the US Export Assistance Center (USEAC), which is part of the US Department of Commerce’s International Trade Administration. Prior to being named director of the Houston USEAC in 2004, Priestley was a manager at MCI from 1999 to 2004 and was responsible for their international regulatory compliance. From 1996 to 1999, Priestley worked on trade development at the US Department of Commerce’s International Trade Administration, where he covered Internet and electronic commerce issues. He also worked as a research analyst for the US Chamber of Commerce, International Division, Asia, from 1993 to 1996. Priestley is the executive secretary to the Houston Export District Council and a member of the Mayor’s International Affairs and Development Council, the Greater Houston Partnership’s World Trade Supervisory Board and the Texas Medical Center’s International Affairs Advisory Council. Priestley earned a MA in international relations from the American University in Washington, DC, and a BA in political science, with a minor in geography, from the University of Houston.
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Jamie Joiner, Associate, Baker & Hostetler
Jamie A. Joiner is an associate in the Houston office of Baker & Hostetler. She advises both domestic and foreign companies on US trade laws and regulations. Joiner has advised and assisted companies from various industry sectors including aerospace, automotive, petrochemical, electronics, telecommunications and transportation (including freight forwarders and customs brokers). She is a member of the Texas State Bar and is admitted to practice before the Court of International Trade. She is also a member of the American, Federal, and Houston Bar Associations. During college, she was a trustees’ scholar. Joiner has a JD degree from Louisiana State University and a BA degree from Westminster College.
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Paul Krieger, Partner, Fulbright & Jaworski
Paul Krieger is a partner in Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P.'s Houston office and heads up the firm's intellectual property and technology department. He has been lead counsel in more than 50 patent, trademark and copyright lawsuits in courts throughout the US, and is a frequent lecturer and author on intellectual property topics to groups of attorneys and business executives in the US, Europe and Asia. He is a case note editor for the Jones McClure “O'Connor's Unfair Competition Codes” and has completed mediation training for litigated cases at the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution at Pepperdine University School of Law. He is also an adjunct professor at the University of Houston Law Center where he has taught the trademark and trade secret law courses for the past 20 years.
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Pierre-Armand Thomas, Director of Offshore Technology, Technip
Pierre-Armand Thomas is the offshore branch vice president of technology, innovation and risk management at Technip. He began his career with the Compagnie Française d’Entreprises Métalliques and remained there 13 years, ultimately working as an engineering director. He joined Technip-Geoproduction (a subsidiary of Technip) as the deputy technical director and became the technical director after two years. During 10 years, he has been responsible for project management of contracts involving new concepts and for research and development related to platform concepts, subsea technology and process design. In 1996, he was named the vice president of engineering and projects, and he became the deputy general manager responsible for the technical and commercial performance of major projects in 1998. He later served as the chief operating officer when TPG became a unit of the Technip Group (Technip Upstream Division). Thomas assumed his present position after the merger of Technip and Coflexip in 2001. He also remains involved in major contracts as a technical sponsor. Thomas is a graduate civil engineer of the Ecole Supérieure des Travaux Publics de Paris and of the Centre des Hautes Etudes de la Construction.
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Dan Chapman, Division Counsel, Baker Hughes Drilling Fluids, Baker Hughes Inc.
J. Daniel (Dan) Chapman is the division counsel and division chief legal compliance officer for the drilling fluids division of Baker Hughes Incorporated, a position he assumed in January 2007. Chapman has worked in Houston for Baker Hughes since 2002. During his tenure at Baker Hughes, Chapman first served as the international trade and general compliance counsel, where he oversaw company-wide compliance efforts regarding US antiboycott laws, economic sanctions and export controls. Prior to joining Baker Hughes, Chapman was a securities and merger and acquisitions lawyer with the law firms of Freshfields (London), and King & Spalding (Atlanta and Houston). Chapman is vice-chair of the American Bar Association’s Committee on Export Controls and Economic Sanctions and has been recognized as a popular presenter on economic sanctions and export controls at various national and international conferences. Chapman holds degrees from Emory University, the London School of Economics and the University of Kentucky. He has also studied at Oxford University and the Economics University of Vienna.
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Eric J. Foell, Consultant
George L. Richardson, Consultant

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