DEXS 2027 Agenda

Registration and morning networking

The Queens Lounge opens. Delegate app meeting scheduling active, interpretation headsets distributed at registration, and the podcast studio open for rolling recordings. Breakfast is included in the room rate for delegates staying aboard.

INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING Eight basins, four maturities

The analytical foundation for everything that follows, and the launch of GEN Intel Decommissioning and Abandonment, Edition Two. The global market from roughly $9bn in 2026 towards $16.7bn by 2034. The eight basins read by what has been delivered rather than what has been estimated. The quarterly capacity heat map through 2028. And the three tensions running through every region: capacity as the binding limit, regulators splitting two ways, and recycling becoming contractual.

Delivered by GEN Intel · Data briefing, 20 minutes

Opening ceremony and welcome

Welcome from the Stewardship Council Chair, followed by a host nation address. Platform: Council Chair and host nation representative

OPENING KEYNOTE A decade of delivery, not prospect

What changes when decommissioning stops being the work an operator does at the end and becomes the core of what a basin spends money on. The UKCS crosses over around 2028. The Gulf of Mexico passed it years ago. Australia reaches it in the 2030s and Brazil later still. The date moves by basin. The direction does not. Keynote, 35 minutes

LEADERSHIP DIALOGUE The crunch is 2027

The defining commercial conversation of the decade, held with real numbers. Five semi submersibles remain active on the UKCS against an industry requirement near 300 well abandonments a year, and only 103 reached final abandonment in 2024. Australian reception capacity across Barry Beach, Henderson and Onslow is the single most binding constraint in the global system through 2028. Panellists address what is genuinely available, what is already committed, and what a firming dayrate environment means for anyone pricing 2027 work. Panel: moderator and four · heavy lift owner, P&A fleet owner, rig owner, regulator

Morning coffee Served in the Queens Lounge.

Voices of the Next Generation, Interlude I

Two early career professionals, four minutes each, on the morning’s conversations.

Thought leadership presentation Main stage platform for the Founding Principal Partner.

PANEL Follow the vessel: sequencing a global campaign

How a global removal campaign is actually put together. Mobilisation and demobilisation windows and what they really cost. Weather and seasonal constraints across eight basins. What genuinely transfers between a North Sea campaign and a Bass Strait one, and what changes when the tow is twelve thousand miles rather than three hundred.

The counter story runs alongside it. Capacity is arriving as well as tightening. The Petrodec Obana did not exist two years ago and now clears the small jacket gap in the southern North Sea, with its own yard behind it. Panel: moderator and four · two heavy lift contractors, one charterer, one emerging basin operator

Voices of the Next Generation, Interlude II

Networking lunch

Served in the Queens Lounge. Private meeting rooms available for pre scheduled discussions via the delegate app.

Knowledge Partner briefing

An editorially guided briefing on original analysis: cost benchmarking, capability mapping or supply chain economics.

RAPID FORMAT Basin Flash, eight basins in twenty five minutes

Eight back to back three minute presentations, one per basin, hard slide limit, delivered by a regulator, national body or lead operator from each. The fastest orientation to the global forward pipeline available anywhere. Presenters: eight, one per Basin Pavilion partner

SIGNATURE SESSION Basin Spotlight, three basins in delivery

Three twenty five minute main stage showcases from the basins executing at volume. Each covers committed spend, the live forward book, the procurement route in, and what the supply chain has to do to reach the vendor list.

United Kingdom Continental Shelf. £44bn remaining, £27bn of it to 2032, and a regulator that has moved from convening to fining. Gulf of Mexico. $40 to $70bn of liability, 2,700 wells and 500 platforms overdue, driven by operator economics and idle iron rather than the bonding rule. Brazil. US$9.7bn committed to 2030, close to seventy platforms in the portfolio, and the largest single committed decommissioning budget of any operator in the world. Presenters: three, 25 minutes each · regulator or lead operator per basin

Afternoon coffee Served in the Queens Lounge.

PANEL When does the money land?

What releases decommissioning work is not engineering readiness. It is funding provision. Indonesia’s platforms wait because the Abandonment and Site Restoration scheme was mandatory only for assets sanctioned after 2010. Ghana’s Jubilee partners moved because they built a funded trust. Angola has escrow terms and liability release certificates written into presidential decree. The US Gulf backlog persists because bonds cover a fraction of the liability. Brazil’s wells are moving because a regulator attached a paid penalty and a hard date. Panel: moderator and five · state participants, funding authorities, one adviser

RAPID FORMAT Innovation Flash, technologies bending the cost curve

Six back to back five minute presentations, hard slide limit. Rigless and vessel based intervention. Bismuth alloy and thermite barriers that set without cement wait time. Abrasive water jet and diamond wire cutting. Conductor recovery. Mass flow excavation for structures long buried on the seabed. Presenters: six, five minutes each · by application, partners given priority

ROUNDTABLE Who pays

The commercial question underneath every programme in the world. Decommissioning relief and tax mechanics. Norway’s statutory trailing liability, where the obligation survives the sale of an interest and falls first on the most recent seller. The same principle reached by statute in Australia, by insolvency and case law in California, and by settlement in Brazil. Around 70 percent of Dutch decommissioning cost borne by the Treasury. What a buyer of a late life asset is actually taking on. Panel: moderator and four · legal, tax, insurance, operator commercial · Day one closes 17:25

Happy Hour, Upper Promenade and Smoking Room

Hosted drinks in the ship’s original first class lounges, a short walk from the Theatre and the Queens Lounge.

GALA DINNER AND AWARDS

The Grand Ballroom The flagship dinner of the summit, held in the ship’s principal ballroom. A drinks package is included throughout, and the DEXS Recognition Awards are presented over dinner across seven categories, judged across basins rather than within one. Included: all delegates · drinks package · places allocated at registration

Morning networking

Queens Lounge open. Podcast studio recording throughout. Breakfast is served in the ship’s restaurant and is included in the room rate for delegates staying aboard.

KEYNOTE AND DISCUSSION Where the cost bends Is decommissioning getting cheaper or more expensive, and who wins the work either way. The industry’s 35 percent cost reduction against a 2016 baseline deserves its caveat. A meaningful share came from vessel and rig rates falling during the pandemic, and those rates have since returned. As capacity tightens through 2027, the tailwind of a maturing market meets the headwind of a constrained supply chain.

The quietest lever is not a tool but how the work is packaged. Subsea infrastructure bundling, satellite disconnection campaigns, single contractor field models and multi package platform tenders are all cost strategies as much as procurement ones. Keynote 25 minutes, then moderator and three · two operators, one contractor

Voices of the Next Generation, Interlude III

LEADERSHIP DIALOGUE The yard takes the high margin seat

Operators now write recycling into the contract. Ninety five percent material reuse targets on North Sea removals, 95 percent steel recycling on Bass Strait, and around 98 percent achieved in Norway. The consequence is blunt. A removal contractor without a confirmed reception base and recycling chain partner is bidding an incomplete scope.

The model is already visible in the awards, with the yard owner and the vessel owner bidding as one consortium. Meanwhile Brazil and Southeast Asia are shipping structures to Europe or Australia at 10 to 25 percent added project cost. Panel: moderator and four · two yards, one port, one removal contractor

Morning coffee Served in the Queens Lounge.

LEADERSHIP DIALOGUE Removing it: methodology, lift engineering and the offshore phase

Single lift against reverse installation, and where the crossover actually sits. Above roughly 8,000 tonnes single lift is now the cost competitive route, but tonnage is not the only variable. Water depth, structural integrity and the age of the installation all move the answer.

What compressing the offshore phase genuinely buys, and how much labour it moves onshore to the receiving yard. Jacket removal and severance. Why subsea recovery is an excavation problem before it is a lifting problem. And the yard interface, and what a reception base needs to know before the vessel sails. Panel: moderator and four · two heavy lift contractors, one operator project director, one yard

SPOTLIGHT Women in decommissioning

The leadership pipeline, the business case, the mentorship and sponsorship models that work in practice, and the procurement commitments that create real opportunity. Drawn deliberately from operators, regulators, yards and finance across four basins. Panel: moderator and four

WORKING LUNCH The Campaign Forum Structured matchmaking. Pre scheduled twenty minute meetings arranged through the delegate app between operators and pre qualified suppliers, between yards and removal contractors, and between prospective consortium partners. Private meeting rooms available for confidential discussions. Lunch is served throughout, so nothing is lost to queuing. Facilitated one to one meetings · partners receive priority allocation

SIGNATURE SESSION Operator Procurement Forum, how to win our business

Four operators present upcoming scopes, vendor qualification requirements and tender timelines in a transparent format designed to reduce the information asymmetry that disadvantages smaller and non incumbent suppliers. Fifteen minutes each, then thirty minutes of structured speed networking with procurement teams in timed eight minute rotations, managed by a meeting concierge.

The forum also confronts a hard truth. Where a campaign is contracted under well operatorship, every subcontract sits with the contractor rather than the licence holder, and approaching the operator reaches nobody at all. A supplier has to know which end of the chain it is selling to. Presenters: four operators · one UKCS, one Norway, one Americas, one Asia Pacific

PANEL Second lives, repurposing, CCS and the adjacent markets

Not every depleted asset gets removed. One North Sea platform was costed at £260m to decommission and £26m to convert for CO₂ storage, around a tenth of the price, creating a revenue generating asset instead of a liability to retire. Elsewhere a single field is going from full removal straight into carbon storage with no idle period between them.

The session then widens to where most of the money actually is. European nuclear decommissioning approaches $120bn and the UK legacy exceeds $135bn, with much of that spend going on capability that is not sector specific at all. Around 13 percent of firms in nuclear decommissioning already work oil and gas, because the competencies are the same. Panel: moderator and four · CCS developer, operator, nuclear decommissioning, offshore wind

CLOSING SUMMIT The year ahead The 2028 forward book. Programmes approaching sanction, frameworks closing, the capacity picture beyond the crunch, and where the next tranche of contracting sits across the eight basins. Panel: moderator and three

Closing remarks and deal announcements Outcomes synthesised, a window for partnership announcements brokered during the summit, and Stewardship Council priorities for 2028.

Farewell drinks, Queens Lounge

The summit closes early enough on the second afternoon for delegates to reach an evening flight from Schiphol, twenty five minutes from the ship by direct train.