Paul Dymond
Operations Director, Oil & Gas UK

Paul joined Oil & Gas UK in July, 2003 and is responsible for operations issues and bringing a consolidated operator perspective to the cross-industry, non-fiscal initiatives in support of sustaining North Sea success, including exploration, brownfields, decommissioning and infrastructure.

Since then, Paul has been involved in updating the industry's Infrastructure Code of Practice, liaising with the DTI to improve exploration licensing, trading and fallow processes, co-ordinating the PILOT Brownfields initiative and the follow ups on its recommendations concerning improving stewardship, decommissioning securities and enhancing supply chain effectiveness. Paul is also responsible within Oil & Gas UK for the inter-industry liaison with the fishermen and he is a Director of the two Oil & Gas UK subsidiary companies; Leading Oil and Gas Industry Competitiveness, LOGIC and Common Data Access, CDA.

With over 30 years of upstream industry experience, mainly based in the UK, Paul started as a Petroleum Engineer with BP, before moving into a variety of commercial and external affairs roles within the same company. Prior to his move to Oil & Gas UK he held the position of General Manager of Sullom Voe Oil and Gas Terminal in Shetland. Before that he was Manager of Government and Public Affairs in Aberdeen, where he was active in the early deliveries from the Oil and Gas Industry Taskforce, the forerunner of PILOT.

Paul has an MBA from Warwick and is a Chartered Engineer, having initially graduated from Kingston with a BSc (Hon) in Applied Chemistry. In 2002 he was awarded an MBE in the New Year's Honours list for his services to the UK Oil and Gas Industry.