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Ocean StarOffshore Drilling Rig and MuseumPier 19, Harborside Drive at 20th Street

Galveston IslandTel: 409.766.STAR

www.oceanstaroec.com

Mobile Oilfield Learning Units

(MOLU) on the road!

See page 9

Women With Energy SummitSee page 4

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The 2018 OEC Executive Speaker Series Luncheons continue Monday, April 23 at the

Petroleum Club. The speaker will be Roddie Mackenzie who is Vice President, Marketing and

Contracts, Transocean Ltd. Topic will be: Better times ahead – turning focus to sustainable

environment in which to conduct business.

Before being named to his current position in 2017, Mr. Mackenzie served as Managing

Director, Business Development and Strategic Accounts, and previously as Marketing Director

with increasing roles of responsibility in the United States, France, and Dubai. He brings 20

years of industry experience, and prior to his time in Marketing Mr. Mackenzie served in various

operational and project roles around the globe, starting his career at Transocean as a rig-based

engineer in 1997. He has worked on all manner of drilling rigs in Algeria, Nigeria, Cameroon,

Angola, Brazil, and the US Gulf of Mexico.

Mr. Mackenzie graduated from the Harvard Business School Advanced Management

Program in 2016 and received his bachelor's degree from the University of Strathclyde in Civil

Engineering with Environmental Studies in 1997.

Executive Speaker Series Luncheons begin at 11:30 a.m. with registration and networking.

Tickets are $50 per person or $500 for a table of ten. At the time of publication sponsors include

Apache, BP, Noble Energy, NOV, Schlumberger, Shell, TechnipFMC and Transocean.

Sponsorships are still available. Sponsors receive a premium table for ten at each luncheon,

recognition on event signage, registration materials and in the quarterly newsletter, The Star. If

you are interested in becoming a sponsor, please contact Rhonda Bean at 713-840-1753.

The next Executive Speaker Series Luncheon will be held on Monday, July 30.

EXECUTIVE SPEAKER SERIESMonday, April 23, 201811:30 A.M. – 1:00 P.M.Petroleum Club - The Total Plaza -1201 Louisiana Street, 35th floor - Houston, TX 77002

GUEST EXECUTIVE SPEAKER:

Roddie Mackenzie Vice President, Marketing and Contracts, Transocean Ltd.

Topic: Better times ahead – turning focus to sustainable

environment in which to conduct business.

Roddie Mackenzie

Sponsors to date:

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Living Legacies are those who are true leaders in their companies and in the oil and natural gas industry. These are leaders

who have created a lasting legacy for the next generation through their hard work, dedication and contributions.

In 2016, the Offshore Energy Center (OEC) began the Living Legacy Campaign to support the OEC’s outstanding and award

winning Educational Outreach Programs. The OEC, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, is the leader in educational programs for

our industry. The Offshore Energy Center would like to recognize our newest donor who has donated generously to the OEC “Living

Legacy” campaign: Galen & Kathy Cobb.

In the past five years, the Ocean Star Offshore Drilling Rig Museum and the education outreach programs have impacted more

than 1,000,000 students and teachers! This is our industry’s future! Many of these children would never be exposed to the

materials that we provide for their educational experience. We are grateful to all of our Living Legacies for their generosity and

support:

Al & Betty Ann Baker Clarence & Margaret Cazalot Galen & Kathy Cobb

Chuck & Nancy Davidson The James C. and Teresa K. Day Foundation Neil & Marianne Duffin

Ken & Kim LeSuer Jack & Debbie Moore Duane & Kimberly Radtke

If you are interested in participating in the OEC’s Living Legacy program, we welcome your support. Your gift will be restricted

for use for the education outreach programs. You will be recognized on a plaque at the Ocean Star Offshore Drilling Rig Museum

& Education Center for your generous contribution in funding OEC energy education efforts that have been recognized as one of

the best in educating the next generation. If you have any questions or would like additional information about the Living Legacy

campaign, please contact Rhonda Bean at the Offshore Energy Center at 281-783-1425 or via email at [email protected].

SAVE THE DATEThe Offshore Energy Center will hold its 21st Annual Ocean Star Gala

this year on Saturday, September 15, 2018 at the Westin Galleria hotel. AnOcean Star Gala Steering Committee Kick-Off Breakfast is being planned.

This will be a spectacular evening that you do not want to miss!


The OEC SOCIETY hosted the third “Women WithEnergy Summit” on March 27 at the Junior League ofHouston. OEC SOCIETY Chairman, Joy Hall was theMaster Of Ceremony and opened the event thanking the sponsors, presenters and attendees.

A very special thank you to Schlumbergerwho generously sponsored the Women withEnergy Summit.

This dynamic event connected and provided over 200attendees within the offshore and energy industries with aunique professional development afternoon with energy leaderson the rise. The panelists and topics related to momentumwith project development, hiring, industry trends and positiveenergy through communication styles for the advancement ofcareers for women in the oil and gas industry.

The event began promptly at 11:15 with lunch followedby the first panel that was entitled “Energy Leaders”.Schlumberger’s Paula McCann Harris moderated the panelwhich consisted of Linda Ibrahim, Vice President Tax andGovernment Compliance, Vantage Drilling; Karen Davis,Manager Marine Assurance, ConocoPhillips; CarrieLockhart, Sr. VP US Offshore Development, Statoil andDenise Cox, President, Storm Energy & President-Elect,American Association Petroleum Geologists.

Janet H. Moore, Director Communication Program,Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business at Rice University

lead a “Positive Energy Exercise”.Her enthusiastic presentationincluded strategies for bettercommunicat ion, exuding confidence and tips on publicspeaking.

A second panel, “Energy Revival”, was moderatedby Libby Cheney, Chief Operating Officer, Cheney EnergyPartners, LLC. The panelists were Randall Luthi, President,NOIA; Renee Klimczak, Managing Director, GalwayGroup and James Parr, Consultant.

The final panel of the day, “Energy Networks” was moderated by Terry Bonno, Sr. VP Marketing, Transocean.The four panelists were Elizabeth Simenstad, Founder &Editor, Sea Sisters.org; Ally Cedeno, Founder, WomenOffshore.org; Katie Mehnert, CEO & Founder, Pink Petroand Kara Byrne, President, Women’s Energy Network –Houston.

Thank you to the following companies who were tablesponsors: Apache, BP, ExxonMobil , SBM Offshore ,She l l , St a to i l , TechnipFMC, Tidewater andTransocean.

A special thank you to our Partners: Anadarko,ConocoPhillips, Lean In Energy, Pink Petro, Raba Kistner Inc., Sea Sisters, Society of Professional Women in Petroleum, Women’s Energy Network and WomenOffshore.

Schlumberger’s Paula Harris(Moderator) introduces the“Energy Leaders” panelists (left to right) Carrie Lockhart(Statoil), Denise Cox (StormEnergy) and Karen Davis(ConocoPhillips). Panelist Linda Ibrahim (Vantage Drilling)was not yet seated when thisphoto was taken.

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Moderator Libby Cheney (Cheney Energy Partners) with panelists Randall Luthi (NOIA), Renee Klimczak (Galway Group)

and James Parr (Consultant)

Linda Ibrahim (Vantage Drilling), Bob Warren (IADC/OEC Board member)and Leesa Teel (IADC)

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Itoro Meshioye (Oceaneering)and Moji Badru


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Kathy Pattillo (Boxley Group), Joy Hall (OEC SOCIETY Chairman) andLibby Cheney (Cheney Energy Partners)

Kippi Cleavinger and Shelli Larson (both with SBM Offshore)visit with Katie Mehnert (Pink Petro)

(Left to right) Master of Ceremony Joy Hall (ConocoPhillips) with the

ladies of Tidewater - Darlene McKeever,Marilu Sutherland, Amelia Xu,

Jackie Caporella, Cheryl Porter and in the back row, Lauren Gomez.

Karen Ma (Tudor Pickering Holt & Co.)and Dr. Shawn Simmons (ExxonMobil)check out OEC’s Mobile Oilfield LearningUnit (MOLU) that was on display to showcase the program and for the attendees to experience.


OEC SOCIETY NewsOEC SOCIETY NewsOver 200 Women with EnergySummit attendees listened to the“Energy Leaders” presentationwith Paula Harris (Schlumberger),Carrie Lockhart (Statoil), DeniseCox (Storm Energy), Karen Davis(ConocoPhillips) and Linda Ibrahim(Vantage Drilling).

Cameron, a Schlumberger Company attendees includeCariann Peterson, Dawn Dewees and Sarah Scheidler.

Audrey Orhon, Brandi Peasley andAmy Martin withTechnipFMC

The event was presented by the OEC SOCIETY, a volunteer guild that promotes networking and fundraising events whichsupport the mission of the Offshore Energy Center (OEC) and the Ocean Star Offshore Drilling Rig Museum &Education Center. The Women With Energy Summit is a fundraiser which allows the OEC to expand the public’s awareness about the industries which comprise our livelihood and passion.

Dr. Shawn Simmons (ExxonMobil), Paula Harris (Schlumberger) and Dr. April Williams (Principal at Young Women’s College Preparatory Academy)


Education Outreach NewsEducation Outreach NewsKudos for Teacher Workshops

The OEC continues to enjoy success with itsProject E³: Expanding Energy Education work-shops. In the first quarter of 2018, 9 workshopshave been held. According to numbers submittedby the 220 teachers who attended these workshops,over 16,000 students will potentially be impactedthis year.

The OEC offers two versions of the PE³workshops:

n PE³ featuring the Knowledge Box

n PE³ featuring the Playing with PetroleumKit

Dates remaining for2018 workshops featuring

the Knowledge Box are:

Saturday, May 5

(Ocean Star Museum, Galveston)

Saturday, May 19

(Marathon Oil Tower, Houston)

Friday, July 13


Saturday, August 4


Saturday, September 29


Saturday, December 15


Dates remaining for

2018 workshops featuring the

Playing with Petroleum Kit are:

Saturday, April 21


Friday, July 27


Saturday, September 22


Saturday, October 27


Saturday, November 10


Mobile Oilfield LearningUnits (MOLU) on the roadn First Quarter 2018 Visits – MOLU I

23 school visits that impacted 3,104 students and 27 schools

Halliburton sponsored 8 school visits in the Rio Grand Valley – Todd Middle School, A. P. Solis Middle School, Rayburn Elementary, Perez Elementary, Zapata Elementary, Garza Elementary, Alvarez Elementary, Thigpen-Zavala Elementary, Covenant Christian Academy and Leo Marcell Elementary – impacting 1,119 students.

Abell-Hangar Foundation sponsored 1 week in theMidland, TX – Rusk Elementary, Pease Magnet,Yarborough Elementary and Fannin Elementary – impacting 596 students.

Gunn Oil Company sponsored a visit to CrockettElementary in Wichita Falls, TX – impacting 100 students.

Desk and Derrick Club of Wichita Falls, TX sponsoredvisits to Fain Elementary, Crockett Elementary, Milan Elementary and Zundy Elementary – impacting 170 students

ConocoPhillips sponsored 3 visits in Houston –Tipps Elementary (CFISD), Meyer Elementary (LCISD) impacting 335 students and also sponsored MOLU at the Women With Energy Summit

The James C. and Teresa K. Day Foundation sponsored 2 visits in Fort Bend ISD – Oyster Creek Elementary andMcAuliffe Middle School – impacting 335 students

Living Legacy Fund sponsored 2 local visits - John Cooper School and Taylor Ray Elementary – impacting 183 students.

Marathon Oil Company sponsored a visit for Browning Elementary (HISD) – impacting 75 students.

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“Absolutely amazing! Students were engagedthe entire time! Our conversations back in the classroom following our MOLU visit werein-depth and focused on the content theywere exposed to during the visit.”

~ Linda Johnson,

Sunset Elementary

Oak View, CA

n First Quarter 2018 Visits – MOLU II3 school visits – impacted 418 students

Cabot Oil & Gas sponsored a week in PA, butunfortunately there were 2 snow days. We visitedElk Lake Elementary, Blue Ridge Elementaryand Mt. View Elementary.

n First Quarter 2018 – MOLU III update:

n Construction has begun for MOLU III

n Our sponsors to date are: Cabot Oil & Gas,Schlumberger, Shell, Southwestern andWilliams Co.

n We are working to secure the sixth sponsor

n Tentative completion date is September 2018

n MOLU III will be based in Pennsylvania

“The MOLU exhibit was a greatway for our students to learnabout the oil industry! Theexhibit was fun, interactive, and educational! The Devon leadersdid a super job working with our kids! Thank you so much!”

~ Amy Johnson,

Kingfisher Middle School

Kingfisher, OK

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Ocean Star NewsOcean Star NewsTours and activities keep Ocean Star staffbusy

The Ocean Star held an “overnight” for a group of teachers and studentsfrom Caldwell ISD on March 2. The teachers were Shelly Tucker,Brenda Schroeder, Breana Hardy, and Alex Salazar. In addition tobeing able to visit all of the exhibits, models and interactive displaysabout offshore energy, the students participated in a variety of hands-onactivities that included cupcake geology, insulators and conductors, andderricks of distinction.

The Ocean Star is proud to be a part of the Blue Star Museums 2018 program. For the past eight years, the NationalEndowment for the Arts (NEA) has collaborated with Blue Star Families and the U.S. Department of Defense on BlueStar Museums, a program which provides free museum admission to active duty military and their families all summerlong. Each year, more than 2,000 museums participate, reaching on average more than 856,000 military members andtheir families. The Ocean Star is included on the NEA Blue Star Museums map and website, providing a national platformto showcase the Ocean Star to the military community. The Blue Star Museums program sends our nation's militaryfamilies a clear signal, that the museums of the nation recognize and honor their contributions by opening their doorsto share the treasures of the nation with those who have been serving so long and so faithfully.

Students from Rainard School in Houston visited the Ocean Star in February for a tour and an activity program, which was “Hear, Hear Engineer” in which the students make an objectfrom Legos® then write the instructions so another student can then make the same object.


Ocean Star NewsOcean Star NewsOcean Star welcomes visitors from Baku, Azerbaijan

George A. Santulli, Contract TV Producer with theU.S. Department of State, Foreign Press Center inWashington, D.C. contacted the Ocean Star in earlyJanuary with a proposal to bring a group from Baku,Azerbaijan to the museum to film some information aboutthe oil and gas industry as well as the Ocean Star Museum.The project is to produce stories on the U.S. – Azerbaijanrelations and include the oil and gas connections asHouston and Baku both produce oil and gas.

On February 15, Santulli and three visitors from theCBC TV network in Baku arrived at the Ocean Star for atour and interviews. CBC TV plans a series of programsin three languages (Azerbaijani, Russian and English)focusing on U.S./Azerbaijan Energy and Trade Relations.

Vugar Abdusalimov, translator from Baku speaks with Khayala Mammadova, also fromBaku about the exhibits at the Ocean Star.

Chief of CBC TV in Azeraijan is Khayala Mammadova, shown here interviewing Bob Warren, Board member of the Offshore Energy Center and with IADC.

The visit wraps up with a group photo on the deck of the Ocean Star. Featured left to right are Bob Warren, George Santulli, U.S. Department of State Foreign Press Center, Vugar Abdusalimov,Translator (Baku), Lisa Lisinicchia, Ocean Star Museum Director, Khayala Mammadova, CBC TV(Baku), Sandra Mourton, OEC Executive Director and kneeling in front is Seymur Guliyev,Cameraman (Baku).


OEC NewsOEC News2018 CALENDAR OF EVENTS

May 5 Knowledge Box Workshop

Ocean Star – Galveston

May 12 Family Days – This Cycle Rocks!


May 19 Knowledge Box Workshop

Marathon Oil Tower – Houston

June 9 Family Days – Insulators and Conductors


July 13 Knowledge Box Workshop

Marathon Oil Tower – Houston

July 14 Family Days – Rigs to Reefs


THE STAR is a quarterly newsletter about the activities and educational programs of the Offshore EnergyCenter. Address your comments, address changes, or questions to 5555 San Felipe Street, Suite 2119,Houston, TX 77056, 713-840-1753 or fax to 281-783-1200, or e-mail to [email protected].

www.oceanstaroec.com

Les Mallory, Jr.Managing Partner

Quixote Cattle Company

David H. WelchChairman

Welch Capital LLC

Elizabeth“Libby” Cheney

OwnerCheney Energy Partners

Vice Chairman-Open-

Immediate Past ChairmanNeil Duffin

PresidentExxonMobil Production

Robert “Bob” D. AbendscheinChief Operating Officer

Venari Resources

William N. “Bill” Barkhouse Director of Geophysics – S.E.G.

(Chairman – Hall of Fame)

S. Michael BeattieVP Project Management

Anadarko Petroleum Corp.

Terry B. BonnoSenior Vice President, Marketing

Transocean Ltd.

Robert EiflerVP & General ManagerMarketing & Contracts

Noble Corporation

David M. ForbesGeneral Manager, Global Wells

ConocoPhillips

Terry Gerhart Sr. Vice President

Global Operations ServicesNoble Energy, Inc.

Richard G. Ghiselin, PEQittitut Consulting, LLC

Leonard HaleVice President

Gulf Copper Energy Services

Jocelyn “Joy” HallConocoPhillips

(Chair, OEC SOCIETY)

Andy KriegerHead of Function,

Global Wells OrganizationBP

Jonathan “Jon” LandesSr. Vice President Commercial/Subsea

TechnipFMC North America

Jody LarriviereLFFCO

(Galveston Community)

Joe LeimkuhlerVice President – Drilling

LLOG Exploration

Carri Lockhart Sr. Vice President US Offshore

Development and Production USAStatoil

Randall Luthi President

National Ocean IndustriesAssociation (NOIA)

Scott McClure, PEAlan C. McClure Associates, Inc.

(Founding Organizations, S.N.A.M.E.)

Merrill A. “Pete” Miller, Jr.Chairman, BOD

Transocean

Harry E. Newman, Jr.Vice President – Drilling

ExxonMobil Development Company

James J. ParrConsultant

Nick Patterson

Donald “Donnie” RossSchlumberger Corporation Vice President

& CGC General ManagerSchlumberger

Loren Singletary Vice President,

Investor & Industry RelationsNational Oilwell Varco

Cindy Taff Vice President UNC Wells

Shell

Vice Chairman/DevelopmentTed J. Ryan

PresidentRyan Enterprises

Vice Chairman/Education OutreachGalen Cobb

Vice President, Industry RelationsHalliburton

Vice Chairman/Exhibits & ProgramsJeffrey “Jeff” A. Gorski

Executive Vice President & ChiefOperations Officer

Tidewater, Inc.

Vice Chairman/FinanceRoger P. Pinkerton

PresidentR. Pinkerton Consulting, LP

Vice Chairman/OperationsDavid Russell

ChairmanLoadmaster Derrick & Equipment, Inc.

Vice Chairman/PR & MarketingBill Yost

Director, Executive SalesBaker Hughes, a GE company

OEC Staff

Chairmen Emeritus

2018 Board Of DirectorsChairman

T. M. “Mitch” LittleExecutive Vice President of Operations, Marathon Oil Corporation

Sandra MourtonExecutive Director

Doris TomasEducation Director

Rhonda BeanDevelopment & Marketing Director

Lisa LisinicchiaMuseum Director, Ocean Star

Monica CrossnoOperations Manager, Ocean Star

SecretaryRobert E. “Bob” Warren

PresidentBaclenna, Inc.

Save the Date!The 2018

Offshore Energy Center Annual Fishing Invitational

will be heldOctober 11-12 in Galveston

Dani KniggeAdministrative Coordinator

Daun EllmanProject Coordinator

Beverly BullenAccounting Manager

Kali EllisGift Shop Manager, Ocean Star

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