SPE Ireland and PESGB Ireland
2019 Oil & Gas Industry Evening
Invitation & Ticket Only Event - FULLY BOOKED
Date: Thursday 28th March 2019
Venue: Davy House, 49 Dawson Street, Dublin 2
6 - 7 PM: Welcome Drinks Reception
Network and chat with fellow oil and gas related industry professionals ahead of the evenings speaker program.
7 - 8 PM: Evening Speaker Program
Darcy Kerwin, Managing Director, Ireland Busines Unit, Vermillion Energy
Niall McCormack, Executive Vice President, Exploration, BHP
with Closing remarks by Prof. Pat Shannon, IOOA Chairperson
This event is sponsored by DAVY, IOOA, BHP and Vermillion Energy
Speaker Biographies
Niall McCormack, Executive Vice President, Exploration & Appraisal, BHP
Niall joined BHP in 2012 and leads the Company’s worldwide petroleum Exploration and Appraisal division encompassing Access to new opportunities, Exploration, Appraisal, Upstream Agreements and Innovation, with a strategic focus on areas with Tier 1 potential. While at BHP, he has led the capture of dominant deepwater acreage positions in Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, the US & Mexican Gulf of Mexico, Eastern Canada and Australia. Over the last two years BHP has had play opening discoveries in the US GoM and the Caribbean and on the Trion discovery in Mexico drilled the first every deepwater well operated by an international oil company.
He has also played a significant role in bringing the latest seismic technology to bear on Exploration and Appraisal with the completion the largest 3D seismic program ever acquired by an independent oil company in Trinidad and Tobago and the world’s first ever deepwater Ocean Bottom Node acquisition designed purely for exploration. Niall also leads Innovation for BHP’s petroleum business and is the Executive sponsor for BHP Petroleum’s Inclusion and Diversity Council. Niall is currently based in Houston and has more than 20 years of industry experience, working at companies including BP, GNS Science, Hess Corporation and Afren Plc., holding various management positions in exploration and geoscience across the US, South America, Europe, Middle East and Africa. Niall holds a bachelor’s degree in Geology and a PhD in Geology from Trinity College Dublin.
Darcy Kerwin, Managing Director, Ireland Busines Unit, Vermillion Energy
Darcy has over 20 years of industry experience, with a focus on engineering and production operations in North America, West Africa, Australia, and Europe. Mr. Kerwin was appointed Managing Director of the Ireland Business Unit in February 2018. Previously, he held the position of Managing Director, France Business Unit from March 2014, and Facilities Engineering Manager from January 2011. Mr. Kerwin joined Vermilion in 2005 as the Interim General Manager of our Australia Business Unit. After his assignment in Australia, he spent five years in the France Business Unit leading facilities engineering and asset integrity functions before returning to Canada in 2011. Prior to joining Vermilion, he worked in various engineering and project management roles with Chevron in Canada, Houston and Nigeria. Darcy has an Engineering Diploma from St. Francis Xavier University and a B.Sc. Civil Engineering (Distinction), from the Technical University of Nova Scotia.