Since its modest beginning in 1996 with just over 100 attendees, the Lillehammer Energy Claims Conference had steadily grown to become the premier energy insurance market conference.
The current scenario
The impact of the pandemic and geopolitical events during the period since February/March 2020 have caused changes in many parts of the world, the global trade patterns, communication, etc. For our modern societies and trade, energy is a basic need and the latest developments have raised significant concerns about fragility in the supply of energy. Like financing, insurance is an enabler to develop and maintain a stable supply of energy to the world.
Agenda
The agenda for the LECC 2024 conference is currently being devised by the Committee and, as always, takes into account feedback and opinions gained from previous conferences.
In-person
Equally to the professional take-aways from the conference, the relaxed venue is renowned for its excellent atmosphere for networking across the business categories of attending professionals. Digital meetings are excellent for information sharing and basic training courses, however, have a long way to go to replace in-person meetings and communication.
The conference is the leading international gathering of underwriters, claims adjusters, insureds, brokers and other service providers involved in claims arising from activities which are commonly referred to as offshore energy risks (which extend to related onshore activities and include well and drilling operations irrespective of location).
For over five years the conference has attracted capacity attendances - some 345 delegates in 2015 for the 20th Anniversary Conference. In recent years participants from America, Angola, Australia, Bermuda, Canada, Denmark, Dubai, France, Germany, Indonesia, Jordan, Malaysia, Mexico, Monaco, The Netherlands, Norway, Qatar, Singapore, Sweden, Switzerland, the U.K., Venezuela, Vietnam and elsewhere, have clearly justify the conference’s claim to be the premier international energy claims forum.
Attendance at the Conference is, in general, restricted to representatives of underwriters, claims adjusters, insureds, claims brokers and other service providers directly involved in claims arising from offshore energy risks.
The Conference is not open to members of the legal professions although the Committee will usually issue a very limited number of specific invitations to lawyers closely involved with subjects under discussion. To encourage an atmosphere of open debate and participation, opinions expressed at the event are considered personal to the speakers and members of the media are excluded.
Delegates are always encouraged though Q&A and commentary sessions to play an active part in the Conferences’ interactive programmes.
Alasdair joined Lloyd Warwick in 2021 as an Adjuster, after working with a global loss adjusting company previously. He has industry experience within oil and gas and renewables on both installation and construction projects globally. Alasdair is working towards his Diploma in Insurance (DIP CII) and has presented at both the Lillehammer Energy Claims and International Marine Claims Conferences.
Alasdair attained a BSc Marine Geography (Hons) degree in 2012 and immediately commenced his employment with a major global offshore contracting and marine services company working with several clients including BP, Equinor, Saudi Aramco, Iberdrola and Ørsted. Here he spent five years as a Hydrographic Surveyor responsible for all survey and positioning activities on offshore installation of oil and gas production facilities, SURF, wind turbine foundations and offshore high voltage stations, as well as installation of infield and export cables.
In 2018, Alasdair transitioned to Loss Adjusting and has gained experience working on upstream offshore and renewable energy losses. In addition, he has also managed a portfolio of losses arising from the operation of marine seismic streamers and subsea equipment. Since joining Lloyd Warwick in 2021, Alasdair continues to work on a variety of energy losses. Some notable recent assignments include:
Chris is a Director with Charles Taylor Adjusting in its Energy claims division where since early 2008 he has enjoyed working on a broad range of energy claims involving fixed and floating offshore facilities, including a number of high profile losses. Chris has an interest and expertise in the construction/conversion and operation of FPSOs. He began his career as a ship surveyor with Classification Society Lloyd’s Register, following a short period with oil company Amerada Hess as part of a team delivering the conversion of the FPSO Triton. Having gained considerable experience with ship construction and marine engineering practices, he eventually transferred to Lloyd’s Register’s Research and Development Department where he worked on the development of technical standards and marine rules for engineering systems. Chris is a Chartered Engineer, a member of the Institute of Marine Engineers, and also a member of the Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers.
Chris has been a member of the Lillehammer Conference Organising Committee since 2014.
David is an Engineering Director at BPP-Tech, a specialist international engineering consultancy headquartered in London.
He works in the Oil & Gas plus Marine Renewables industries, including specialist risk engineering support and dispute resolution for the insurance sector.
David is a Chartered Engineer with the Royal Institution of Naval Architects (RINA) & the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE).
James is a Director with Charles Taylor Adjusting in its Natural Resources (formerly Energy) claim division where he has worked on a large number of high-profile upstream construction and operational energy claims.
James began his career working with the Wood Group where he spent 10 years on the design and construction of oil and gas production facilities around the world. Notably, he has worked on the construction of several high-profile Gulf of Mexico and North Sea production platforms for the oil majors. James has significant experience working with offshore contractors from both an EPC contractor and loss adjuster perspective.
James has a degree in Mechanical Engineering and is a Chartered Engineer with the Institute of Mechanical Engineering (IMechE).
Rosalia started her insurance career in 2003 at Xchanging Claims Services, dealing with Offshore Claims. In 2007 she joined Marsh as a Client Executive, being the client focal point for major Oil and Gas clients and participating in tenders, programme structure, marketing and day to servicing. During this time Rosalia was seconded twice to the organisation of Maersk Oil and Gas in Copenhagen, assisting with insurance and claims management.
In 2012, Rosalia joined DONG Energy as Risk Manager, in charge of risk and insurance for DONG E&P/INEOS Oil & Gas for all operational and construction activities in Denmark, Norway and the UK. Her responsibilities included insurance and claims management, contract risk management in respect of liability, indemnity and insurance, commercial agreements, partner relations and stakeholder management (Insurers, Brokers, Loss Adjusters, Government Entities, Lawyers).
Rosalia recently moved to Cubico Sustainable Investments as Global Risk & Insurance Manager, responsible for Cubico’s worldwide assets.
She holds a Masters in International Logistics.
Justin Crick is a partner with Baker Tilly. He is a skilled and experienced forensic accountant. Working with many of the leading insurance companies and law firms around the world, Justin has quantified losses for business interruption claims in more than 70 countries.
He specialises in the quantification of major and complex losses in energy and power generation, mining/mineral processing, oil, gas and petrochemicals, industrial manufacturing and production and telecommunications.
Enjoying the challenge and diversity of his work, Justin has been involved in more than 1000 large and complex international assignments involving multimillion dollar losses. Justin has acted on a number of the largest losses the energy insurance market has faced over the last few years, a number of which have been in excess of US $1 billion.
Teresa is a Senior Claims Executive working with the Offshore Energy claims team at Gard since 2020. Prior to this, she has been handling Shipowner’s and Charterer’s P&I claims in addition to being an internal specialist in dry bulk cargoes. Teresa holds bachelor's degrees from the University of Houston, and a Postgraduate Diploma in Maritime Law from London Metropolitan University.
Franco's experience encompasses court litigation in England and Wales and in foreign jurisdictions as well as in international arbitration.
His insurance practice sees him acting regularly for insurers in the London market and across various international insurance markets. His primary business-line focus includes energy (upstream, downstream and renewables) and most marine classes (predominantly hull and war). Franco also has considerable reinsurance and professional negligence disputes experience, encompassing both coverage and liability work.
Franco's commercial dispute resolution experience includes successfully handling power, EPC, shipping and agency agreement disputes as well as general commercial contract disputes.
In non-contentious matters, Franco has significant experience of insurance and commercial contract drafting. He has been involved in a number of recent insurance wordings reviews in the energy and marine insurance markets.
Angela is a Partner in Clyde & Co's London office. She advises insurers on complex energy insurance matters globally, across construction and operational phases. She has a broad knowledge and understanding of the oil & gas, petrochemical and renewables sectors.
Angela assists insurers across the full spectrum of their requirements including drafting policy wordings, advising on coverage, defending claims (liability claims and coverage) and pursuing subrogated recoveries.
Angela has significant experience of representing insurers in litigation and arbitration, including jurisdictional disputes, but she has also frequently helped insurers to conclude claims more amicably through settlement negotiations and mediation.
J. Clifton Hall III is a founding shareholder of Hall Maines Lugrin. He practices mainly in the energy and professional indemnity sectors where he concentrates on insurance coverage disputes, other complex commercial disputes and subrogation matters. He has advised numerous insurers on coverage claims in both upstream (offshore and onshore), midstream and downstream coverage issues. He is frequently asked to assist in the development of new policy wordings. He also has worked on numerous professional indemnity matters for lawyers, accountants and nursing home coverages as well as general and excess liability, political risk and various types of business interruption (and LOPI) claims. Clif also represents non-insurer clients in a variety of commercial disputes.
Clif has tried and arbitrated cases throughout the United States, including the courts of Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Alaska, Virginia, Pennsylvania and Illinois. He has argued numerous insurance related cases in the appellate courts of Louisiana and Texas (including in each state’s Supreme Court) as well as the United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. He has been listed in Chambers USA as one of America’s Leading Lawyers for Business since 2010 and has an “AV” rating in Martindale Hubbell since the 1990’s.
Jake graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Geology from Royal Holloway University of London in 2012, following which he gained experience in the oilfield working as a mudlogger with Baker Hughes in the UK sector of the North Sea. During this time he worked on jack-up and semi-submersible drilling rigs for various Operators, where his responsibilities included well control monitoring duties, engineering and drilling data analysis, and geological and hydrocarbon evaluation.
In 2014 he started his career in the London market as an energy loss adjuster with Matthews Daniel, where he has worked on a portfolio of upstream insurance claims around the world. He has recently been working on several control of well and loss of production income claims for oil majors in the North Sea.
Simon has extensive experience in energy and marine insurance disputes, and his practice also includes a deep experience of construction all-risks, professional indemnity, reinsurance, political risks and general coverage disputes. He regularly advises London and international insurers in relation to complex claims in the energy insurance sector, and assists with the drafting of policy wordings. Simon is also part of Clyde & Co’s oil & gas team. Simon is recognised by Legal 500 as a leading individual for insurance and reinsurance litigation.
Kevin served for almost 30 years as CEO of MatthewsDaniel Group, during which time he steered it through both an MBO and, some years later, a sale to Bureau Veritas. In 2020, Kevin transitioned into a new role as ‘Special Advisor’ to MatthewsDaniel and its shareholders. He also remains involved in a number of active claims.
Kevin has been a member of the Lillehammer conference organising committee since 2001.
Caroline is a physics scientist whose research is focused on the macro and microphysics of clouds, aerosol-cloud-radiation interactions, precipitation, as well as the parameterization of atmospheric physical processes.
She has a MSc in Atmospheric and Oceanographic Sciences in exchange program between two universities (UPS-Toulouse, UQAM-Montreal), and a PhD in Earth and Atmospheric Sciences in co-tutoring involving universities and laboratories (UQAM-Montreal, LATMOS-Paris, LAMP-Clermont-Ferrand).
Caroline has previously worked in the development and research sections on numerical weather predictions at Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) in Montreal.
Allan became an adjuster in Singapore in 2009 where he worked on offshore construction and operational losses involving platforms, pipelines, subsea equipment, mooring systems and a jack-up drilling unit in India, Australia, Malaysia, Brunei and China. Allan transferred to London in 2012 and has handled a number of significant offshore construction, operational, LOPI and liability losses. He is now Managing Director of the Europe Adjusting team.
Jan-Hugo, born 1959, grew up in a family of fishermen and seafarers in the Norwegian Arctic, just north of the 70° parallel, north of the town of Tromsoe. After junior college and military service Jan-Hugo started his insurance career as a marine underwriter in October 1979. He moved to offshore energy claims in February 1986, all the time with Gard and its predecessors. He graduated from the Norwegian Shipping Academy (Marine Insurance Candidate) in 1986 and became a Chartered Insurer and Associate of the Chartered Insurance Institute, London, in 1991. He is the founder of the Lillehammer Energy Claims Conference (1996) and has been chairing its organising committee for all conferences except one. Jan-Hugo was a member of the Offshore Energy Committee of the International Union of Marine Insurers (IUMI) from 2008 to 2018 and was elected as a Vice Chairman on the IUMI Executive Committee from 2018. He has served as a board member of CEFOR - The Nordic Association of Marine Insurers from 2011 to 2014. Jan-Hugo is a Vice President and the Head of Offshore Energy Claims at Gard.
Patrick is a claims consultant and advises clients on both onshore and offshore claims.
Since joining INDECS in 2016, Patrick has been involved in the handling and management of some of the largest and most complex offshore construction claims in Australia, Indonesia, South Korea, Egypt, Qatar and Norway, as well as a number of onshore PD/BI and DSU claims. He has Masters degrees in both Mechanical and Petroleum Engineering, field experience in Quality Control in the Australian construction industry, and is ACII qualified.
Patrick understands the issues involved in the handling of complex claims and recognises the value in clear and transparent communication and claim presentation with insurers and loss adjusters to efficiently resolve insurance claims.
Gary graduated with a degree in Geology and started his oil industry career as a mudlogger in the North Sea. This role included monitoring drilling parameters for the early detection of downhole problems and kicks. After completing a Master's degree at Camborne School of Mines, Gary returned to the oil industry onshore Venezuela and offshore Netherlands, UK and Norway. In 1999 Gary made the transition to loss adjusting joining MatthewsDaniel in London, returning again to London head office after a secondment to our Calgary operation.
Gary manages a wide range of claims, specialising in complex and high profile well control and drilling-related issues, with a focus on losses in the North Sea, Norway and North and West Africa.
Joe is the Chairman of Lloyd Warwick International. Based in London Joe has been involved in major energy losses for over 20 years and worked on all continents.
Joe joined the loss-adjusting profession in 1974 and worked for a major UK practice. After qualifying as a Chartered member of the Institute of Loss Adjusters in 1981, he moved overseas for 10 years working in the Caribbean, the Far East and the Middle East.
In 1992, Joe returned to the UK and was based in London, specialising in large industrial losses throughout the world but particularly in the energy and petrochemical sectors. His portfolio has included major oil spills, refinery and petrochemical losses as well as specialising in delay in start-up and advance loss of profits. A large portion of his work has been in North America but he has handled claims in more than 40 countries.
Joe has been fortunate enough to deal with some of the largest offshore and onshore claims that have been presented to the major energy reinsurance market. Apart from physical damage claims, he has also dealt with many of the larger business interruption claims that have arisen in the onshore and offshore environment.
Joe worked closely with large brokers when dealing with one of the largest energy claims of recent times, this involved a major energy company based in Canada.
Prior to his adjusting career, Mike worked as an Engineering Project Manager delivering complex construction projects for multinational engineering consultancy and as a Consulting Engineer for a major Classification Society.
Mike has a degree in Mechanical Engineering and is a Chartered Mechanical Engineer. He also holds a Post Graduate qualification in Engineering Management.
Vegard Nedrevåg is a Leading Engineer in Equinor’s floating wind department, working across early phase projects and technology development. He has been with Equinor since 2018, and have been working full time on floating wind since 2016. He holds a Master of Science in mechanical engineering from NTNU.
Kristina started her insurance career in 2001 in Willis working with insurance tenders for Energy clients and incoming international business. In 2005, she joined Aon and worked as an Account Executive with major international and industrial clients participating in tenders, marketing and day to servicing for all lines of business. Later on she moved into the Property Practice Group in Aon and worked solely with design, tender and placement of Property Damage programmes and claims negotiation for global corporations.
In 2012, Kristina joined Codan Forsikring as Portfolio Manager for Renewable Energy and Construction and Engineering business with responsibilities for profitability and strategic development of the portfolios.
Kristina joined Ørsted (former DONG Energy) in 2016 as Risk Manager for all operational and construction Offshore Wind activities in EU, UK and Asia. Her responsibilities include insurance and claims management, contract risk management in respect of insurance, commercial agreements, M&A projects, partner relations, stakeholder management (Insurers, Brokers, Loss Adjusters, Government Entities, Lawyers) and total cost of risk.
She holds a Masters in International Development and Intercultural Business Strategy.
Andrew is a Chartered Engineer and Chartered Insurer with over 20 years’ experience in loss adjusting, underwriting, claims management and risk surveying. A founder and former chairman of the European Wind Turbine Committee, he also chaired the Oil, Petrochemical and Energy Risks Association (OPERA) and is a member of the Offshore Engineering Society. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, an Associate of the Chartered Insurance Institute and holds an Advanced Diploma in Insurance, specialising in engineering, energy and marine insurance.
In his early career, Andrew worked in the mining industry, gaining experience of diamond, tin and coal mining operations. He is also very knowledgeable on tunnelling, underground construction and drilling.
In a subsequent career move, Andrew gained a commission in the Royal Navy, serving at sea on operational warships and at various engineering training establishments ashore. During this time, he was able to gain technical expertise in thermal power systems but was also trained in the naval coordination of maritime trade operations and commercial shipping.
On completion of his naval career, Andrew entered the insurance industry and initially worked as a regional engineer for a commercial loss adjusting company. He subsequently joined a specialist consultancy providing technical claim management services to insurers and law firms, especially in respect of damage to underground cables and pipeline systems.
In 2000, Andrew moved to the London insurance market and worked for 7 years with an international team of energy loss adjusters, investigating and negotiating the settlement of some of the market’s largest upstream / offshore energy, mining and power generation claims.
He later joined a Lloyd’s syndicate writing a book of energy, operational and construction risks, as their risk engineer and claims adjuster. Building on this, he took up a position as a senior engineering underwriter with one of the world’s largest reinsurance companies where he quickly established a reputation as one of the market’s leading underwriters for offshore wind and submarine cable risks.
Alex is a partner in the insurance and reinsurance disputes group in the London office of Herbert Smith Freehills LLP with a focus on acting for corporate policyholders. Alex specialises in all aspects of insurance claims and associated coverage advice in the energy insurance sector and has represented owners and contractors on major construction and operational losses, both onshore and offshore. He also handles a broad range of commercial disputes. Alex leads the ADR practice within the firm’s disputes division and is a CEDR Accredited Mediator. He is a solicitor advocate (Higher Courts Civil Proceedings).
Edward has been involved in cases that have varied widely in complexity and value, which affected large parts of the business and required a varied level of technical expertise. Edward has worked on numerous cases spanning many industries, with a focus on Energy, throughout mainland Europe, the Middle East, North Africa and Latin America. In addition, Edward has worked on losses stemming from recent catastrophes and Covid-19 related cases.
Jason leads the Marine & Energy claim teams at Miller. Over his career Jason has successfully handled some of the insurance markets largest energy claims and has experienced most types of losses that the energy industry can produce.
Jason is a member of the energy senior management team and a member of marine claims sub-committee at the London and International Insurance Brokers Association (LIIBA).
Away from work, Jason is a keen runner and is a member of the Lloyd’s running club.
Heidi is a senior sustainability consultant in the Supply Chain and Product Assurance department at DNV Norway. She holds a Cand. Polit. from University of Oslo and a MSc in EU integration from Vrije Universiteit Brussels with a focus on EU climate and energy policies. Since joining DNV, Heidi has been leading/supporting consultancies on ESG (Environment, Social, Governance) due-diligence and risk assessments, including in energy and maritime sectors
Heidi has solid project development/ -management experience and 20-years professional background from advisory and consultancy services within climate change and sustainability from development aid, humanitarian assistance and international cooperation. She has experience from the public sector, the United Nations International Labour Organization (ILO) and the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) and has done consultancies on the Green Climate Fund.
Heidi has a good knowledge of the ILO's core conventions, the UN Sustainable Development Goals, EU climate and energy policies and the Norwegian Transparency Act. She has a demonstrated understanding of development regions and fragile states, having lived in-/worked with a range of African countries. Her areas of expertise include human rights, decent work, supply chain risk management, combating modern slavery, disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation/mitigation. She is fluent in French.
Paul joined the Lloyds Claims Office in 1982 and worked there for 22 years before leaving to join Watkins Syndicate as Claims Manager, in which capacity he still works today. A regular speaker at Lillehammer, Houston Mariners and numerous other forums, Paul has been involved in most of the large energy claims in the market, either as leader or as a claims agreement party, and continues to do so today. He has been involved in many difficult negotiations and mediations, some of which has led to litigation along the way but fortunately not too often.
Paul became a member of the Lillehammer Conference Organising Committee in 2014.
Tim has over 40 years' experience in major international insurance dispute resolution, including marine and war risks, energy, construction all-risks, fraud investigation, reinsurance, political risks and general coverage disputes. He regularly deals with complex issues under energy related CAR, OEE, LOPI and Operating Policies in many jurisdictions around the world.
He has acted in major disaster litigation involving issues of corporate criminal law and is legal adviser to the London market Joint Rig Committee on a range of issues.
He is a CEDR accredited mediator, sits as an arbitrator and is a panel member of the ARIAS (UK) panel of arbitrators.
Chambers & Partners 2019 records praise from clients describing Tim as a "leader in the space" and he is also described as a "very user-friendly lawyer and a problem solver who knows the market inside out."
Henrik started his insurance career with Marsh AS in 2010 working as a broker, before he joined Statoil’s insurance department in October 2015. In Marsh he was a client facing broker with responsibilities for upstream insurance programs including placement of CAR policies.
The main responsibilities in Statoil relates to procurement of CAR insurance policies and procurement of Operational insurance policies, related claims handling, and general insurance advisory.
Henrik joined the YLECC in 2016.
Gary Walkling is a Partner at RPC's International Property and Energy Insurance practice. Prior to joining the firm in 2009, he worked in Marsh's Energy team for several years.
Gary regularly advises on coverage, disputes and subrogation on all types of claims arising out of the oil and gas, power generation, construction, mining and heavy industry sectors. He has a broad range of domestic and international litigation experience, and has also been involved in a variety of alternative dispute resolution methods including arbitration, adjudication and mediation.
Gary has spent time on secondment with the claims teams at both AXIS and Liberty. He spoke at the Asia Offshore Energy Conference in 2016, and was listed as a next generation lawyer in Legal 500 in 2017.
After leaving the British Army as an infantry captain in 1990, Sigurd joined Sedgwick Energy in London. In 2001 he left Marsh, and moved back to his home town Ålesund, and eventually found work as a ship’s plumber. In 2003, he joined the then Statoil, in their insurance department. His day to day responsibilities include arranging construction insurances, claims handling and insurance of Equinor’s renewable portfolio. He also arranged the construction insurances for Equinor’s operated CCS Northern Lights and Hywind Tampen Projects.
Rodney acquired a B.S. in Petroleum Engineering from Texas A&M University in 1997. He spent the next several years with an international oilfield service provider working as a Trainee Engineer and Field Representative in drilling and production operations in Dubai and Venezuela.
Thereafter, Rodney started his career as a licensed insurance loss adjuster specializing in claims unique to the oil and gas industry and has worked for various energy loss adjusting firms throughout the years primarily in Houston, Texas, with one posting in London, England. His claims experience includes control of well, rig physical damage, downhole tools, pollution remediation, processing plants and refineries, general liability, pipelines, and business interruption/loss of production income.
The claims Rodney has been involved with span the globe and range in quantum from hundreds of thousands to hundreds of millions of dollars. Rodney has also spoken at various seminars and training courses and routinely given presentations about industry trends.
Tormod is the Head of Marine and Energy Claims Practice Nordic Region of Marsh, a position he has held for the last 5 years. In 2015 he was also appointed as the Energy Practice Leader for the Nordic Region of Marsh. Tormod started his insurance career in 1983 in the Oslo division of Norwegian Hull Club whilst still studying. In 1985 he joined UNI Forsikring where he became department manager for Marine Claims. Tormod moved to insurance broker Aon Grieg as head of Marine & Energy Claims in 1989, a position he held for almost 23 years. During his career Tormod has handled complex claims in the global energy insurance market, including onshore and offshore losses, complex contractor claims such as total loss of drilling rigs, particular average, control of well and business interruption claims.
Chris is a Director with Charles Taylor Adjusting in its Energy claims division where since early 2008 he has enjoyed working on a broad range of energy claims involving fixed and floating offshore facilities, including a number of high profile losses. Chris has an interest and expertise in the construction/conversion and operation of FPSOs. He began his career as a ship surveyor with Classification Society Lloyd’s Register, following a short period with oil company Amerada Hess as part of a team delivering the conversion of the FPSO Triton. Having gained considerable experience with ship construction and marine engineering practices, he eventually transferred to Lloyd’s Register’s Research and Development Department where he worked on the development of technical standards and marine rules for engineering systems. Chris is a Chartered Engineer, a member of the Institute of Marine Engineers, and also a member of the Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers.
Chris has been a member of the Lillehammer Conference Organising Committee since 2014.
Rosalia started her insurance career in 2003 at Xchanging Claims Services, dealing with Offshore Claims. In 2007 she joined Marsh as a Client Executive, being the client focal point for major Oil and Gas clients and participating in tenders, programme structure, marketing and day to servicing. During this time Rosalia was seconded twice to the organisation of Maersk Oil and Gas in Copenhagen, assisting with insurance and claims management.
In 2012, Rosalia joined DONG Energy as Risk Manager, in charge of risk and insurance for DONG E&P/INEOS Oil & Gas for all operational and construction activities in Denmark, Norway and the UK. Her responsibilities included insurance and claims management, contract risk management in respect of liability, indemnity and insurance, commercial agreements, partner relations and stakeholder management (Insurers, Brokers, Loss Adjusters, Government Entities, Lawyers).
Rosalia recently moved to Cubico Sustainable Investments as Global Risk & Insurance Manager, responsible for Cubico’s worldwide assets.
She holds a Masters in International Logistics.
Spencer is a Director of Lloyd Warwick Middle East, based in Abu Dhabi. He is a Chartered Engineer and also holds a Master’s degree in Insurance and Risk Management. Having over 23 years international engineering, power, marine and energy experience, Spencer has been involved with many large losses.
Throughout his career Spencer has handled a wide variety of claims, including up/downstream energy, petrochemical, heavy engineering, pressure vessels, power production, offshore energy sectors including MOUs, FPSOs and drilling systems, machinery systems, specialist subsea equipment, shipping, yachts, ports and terminals, ship repairer’s liability and renewable energy.
Initially working for Lloyd’s Register of Shipping Classification Society Spencer spent several years working overseas carrying out hull and machinery, offshore fabrications, vessel in-service and new construction surveys, and worked in London and Copenhagen carrying out structural engineering design work.
From 2001 he joined a specialist international loss adjusting firm and has been involved with complex insurance claims, technical surveys, forensic engineering and root cause investigations. Spencer has also provided litigation support and expert related work in UK, Europe, USA and South Asia. He has lectured on marine and energy subjects including FLNG, FPSOs, MOUs, subsea equipment and claims handling around the world. In 2015 he became a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Shipwrights.
Teresa is a Senior Claims Executive working with the Offshore Energy claims team at Gard since 2020. Prior to this, she has been handling Shipowner’s and Charterer’s P&I claims in addition to being an internal specialist in dry bulk cargoes. Teresa holds bachelor's degrees from the University of Houston, and a Postgraduate Diploma in Maritime Law from London Metropolitan University.
Gaute Gjelsten has 25 years of experience specialising in international shipping and offshore law, including marine and energy, insurance law. Gjelsten has extensive experience in handling significant claims arising out of marine and offshore casualties, including i.a. groundings, fires, wreck removals, collisions, salvage, clean-up operations regarding oil spill/other pollutions, limitation of liability and limitation fund proceedings. He has acted for insurers and owners against the Norwegian State in the majority of the significant recourse claims made in Norway, and handles jurisdiction and conflict of laws disputes.
Gaute is a leading lawyer in the energy insurance sector and he regularly advises on substantial losses under construction and operational policies, all-risks covers, reinsurance and general coverage disputes. He advises London and international insurers in complex on-shore and offshore claims in these sectors. He has further experience from handling claims under hull and machinery covers, mortgagee's interest, war, loss of hire, cargo, charterers' liability, general liability and protection and indemnity (P&I) policies for Nordic and international insurers.
He has extensive litigation experience before the Norwegian courts and in arbitration proceedings.
Gaute is recognized as a market leading Norwegian offshore and shipping lawyer and is top ranked in Legal 500 ("Recommended Individual") and Chambers and Partners (ranked in Band 1).
Simon has extensive experience in energy and marine insurance disputes, and his practice also includes a deep experience of construction all-risks, professional indemnity, reinsurance, political risks and general coverage disputes. He regularly advises London and international insurers in relation to complex claims in the energy insurance sector, and assists with the drafting of policy wordings. Simon is also part of Clyde & Co’s oil & gas team. Simon is recognised by Legal 500 as a leading individual for insurance and reinsurance litigation.
Kevin served for almost 30 years as CEO of MatthewsDaniel Group, during which time he steered it through both an MBO and, some years later, a sale to Bureau Veritas. In 2020, Kevin transitioned into a new role as ‘Special Advisor’ to MatthewsDaniel and its shareholders. He also remains involved in a number of active claims.
Kevin has been a member of the Lillehammer conference organising committee since 2001.
Allan became an adjuster in Singapore in 2009 where he worked on offshore construction and operational losses involving platforms, pipelines, subsea equipment, mooring systems and a jack-up drilling unit in India, Australia, Malaysia, Brunei and China. Allan transferred to London in 2012 and has handled a number of significant offshore construction, operational, LOPI and liability losses. He is now Managing Director of the Europe Adjusting team.
Jan-Hugo, born 1959, grew up in a family of fishermen and seafarers in the Norwegian Arctic, just north of the 70° parallel, north of the town of Tromsoe. After junior college and military service Jan-Hugo started his insurance career as a marine underwriter in October 1979. He moved to offshore energy claims in February 1986, all the time with Gard and its predecessors. He graduated from the Norwegian Shipping Academy (Marine Insurance Candidate) in 1986 and became a Chartered Insurer and Associate of the Chartered Insurance Institute, London, in 1991. He is the founder of the Lillehammer Energy Claims Conference (1996) and has been chairing its organising committee for all conferences except one. Jan-Hugo was a member of the Offshore Energy Committee of the International Union of Marine Insurers (IUMI) from 2008 to 2018 and was elected as a Vice Chairman on the IUMI Executive Committee from 2018. He has served as a board member of CEFOR - The Nordic Association of Marine Insurers from 2011 to 2014. Jan-Hugo is a Vice President and the Head of Offshore Energy Claims at Gard.
Alex is a partner in the insurance and reinsurance disputes group in the London office of Herbert Smith Freehills LLP with a focus on acting for corporate policyholders. Alex specialises in all aspects of insurance claims and associated coverage advice in the energy insurance sector and has represented owners and contractors on major construction and operational losses, both onshore and offshore. He also handles a broad range of commercial disputes. Alex leads the ADR practice within the firm’s disputes division and is a CEDR Accredited Mediator. He is a solicitor advocate (Higher Courts Civil Proceedings).
Jason leads the Marine & Energy claim teams at Miller. Over his career Jason has successfully handled some of the insurance markets largest energy claims and has experienced most types of losses that the energy industry can produce.
Jason is a member of the energy senior management team and a member of marine claims sub-committee at the London and International Insurance Brokers Association (LIIBA).
Away from work, Jason is a keen runner and is a member of the Lloyd’s running club.
Paul joined the Lloyds Claims Office in 1982 and worked there for 22 years before leaving to join Watkins Syndicate as Claims Manager, in which capacity he still works today. A regular speaker at Lillehammer, Houston Mariners and numerous other forums, Paul has been involved in most of the large energy claims in the market, either as leader or as a claims agreement party, and continues to do so today. He has been involved in many difficult negotiations and mediations, some of which has led to litigation along the way but fortunately not too often.
Paul became a member of the Lillehammer Conference Organising Committee in 2014.
Rodney acquired a B.S. in Petroleum Engineering from Texas A&M University in 1997. He spent the next several years with an international oilfield service provider working as a Trainee Engineer and Field Representative in drilling and production operations in Dubai and Venezuela.
Thereafter, Rodney started his career as a licensed insurance loss adjuster specializing in claims unique to the oil and gas industry and has worked for various energy loss adjusting firms throughout the years primarily in Houston, Texas, with one posting in London, England. His claims experience includes control of well, rig physical damage, downhole tools, pollution remediation, processing plants and refineries, general liability, pipelines, and business interruption/loss of production income.
The claims Rodney has been involved with span the globe and range in quantum from hundreds of thousands to hundreds of millions of dollars. Rodney has also spoken at various seminars and training courses and routinely given presentations about industry trends.
Emie graduated from Durham University with a Bachelor of Mathematics (Honours) degree, Emie is a loss adjuster at Lloyd Warwick international which she joined In 2018 following qualification as a chartered accountant registered both in England and Wales where she cultivated an extensive knowledge of financial modelling, analysis of financial information and forensic accountancy.
She develops advanced claim and scenario modelling tools which are used to assist in complex claims both onshore and offshore specialising in renewable energy.
Henry is Marsh JLT’s principal contact for all US & Scandinavian losses into London, in addition to providing assistance across the rest of the world.
Having joined JLT after graduating in Naval Architecture & Offshore Engineering at Newcastle University, Henry began his tenure working on energy & marine claims. From 2015, Henry focussed exclusively on energy claims where he was primarily responsible for claims emanating from Asia & Middle East.
Henry joined JLT in 2014, returning in 2018 after working for AIG Europe as Energy Claims Adjuster, where he adjusted both Up & Downstream losses.
Teresa is a Senior Claims Executive working with the Offshore Energy claims team at Gard since 2020. Prior to this, she has been handling Shipowner’s and Charterer’s P&I claims in addition to being an internal specialist in dry bulk cargoes. Teresa holds bachelor's degrees from the University of Houston, and a Postgraduate Diploma in Maritime Law from London Metropolitan University.
Angela is a Partner in Clyde & Co's London office. She advises insurers on complex energy insurance matters globally, across construction and operational phases. She has a broad knowledge and understanding of the oil & gas, petrochemical and renewables sectors.
Angela assists insurers across the full spectrum of their requirements including drafting policy wordings, advising on coverage, defending claims (liability claims and coverage) and pursuing subrogated recoveries.
Angela has significant experience of representing insurers in litigation and arbitration, including jurisdictional disputes, but she has also frequently helped insurers to conclude claims more amicably through settlement negotiations and mediation.
Jake graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Geology from Royal Holloway University of London in 2012, following which he gained experience in the oilfield working as a mudlogger with Baker Hughes in the UK sector of the North Sea. During this time he worked on jack-up and semi-submersible drilling rigs for various Operators, where his responsibilities included well control monitoring duties, engineering and drilling data analysis, and geological and hydrocarbon evaluation.
In 2014 he started his career in the London market as an energy loss adjuster with Matthews Daniel, where he has worked on a portfolio of upstream insurance claims around the world. He has recently been working on several control of well and loss of production income claims for oil majors in the North Sea.
Patrick is a claims consultant and advises clients on both onshore and offshore claims.
Since joining INDECS in 2016, Patrick has been involved in the handling and management of some of the largest and most complex offshore construction claims in Australia, Indonesia, South Korea, Egypt, Qatar and Norway, as well as a number of onshore PD/BI and DSU claims. He has Masters degrees in both Mechanical and Petroleum Engineering, field experience in Quality Control in the Australian construction industry, and is ACII qualified.
Patrick understands the issues involved in the handling of complex claims and recognises the value in clear and transparent communication and claim presentation with insurers and loss adjusters to efficiently resolve insurance claims.
Adrian is a Major Loss Claims Adjuster at AIG, handling large complex upstream losses worldwide. He started his career in the Insurance industry in 2008 at Xchanging in the Offshore Energy Claims team and joined Torus in 2010 gaining a vast amount of experience handling Onshore, Offshore, Power and Construction losses. At AIG Adrian is based in London and deals with predominantly upstream energy losses occurring globally and written by various AIG offices around the world. Adrian is nearing the completion of the ACII and is part of the CII New Generation Claims team.
Henrik started his insurance career with Marsh AS in 2010 working as a broker, before he joined Statoil’s insurance department in October 2015. In Marsh he was a client facing broker with responsibilities for upstream insurance programs including placement of CAR policies.
The main responsibilities in Statoil relates to procurement of CAR insurance policies and procurement of Operational insurance policies, related claims handling, and general insurance advisory.
Henrik joined the YLECC in 2016.
Gary Walkling is a Partner at RPC's International Property and Energy Insurance practice. Prior to joining the firm in 2009, he worked in Marsh's Energy team for several years.
Gary regularly advises on coverage, disputes and subrogation on all types of claims arising out of the oil and gas, power generation, construction, mining and heavy industry sectors. He has a broad range of domestic and international litigation experience, and has also been involved in a variety of alternative dispute resolution methods including arbitration, adjudication and mediation.
Gary has spent time on secondment with the claims teams at both AXIS and Liberty. He spoke at the Asia Offshore Energy Conference in 2016, and was listed as a next generation lawyer in Legal 500 in 2017.
