Nils was the Head of Decommissioning for the Oil and Gas Authority (OGA) in the UK from October 2017 for 2 years. The OGA Decommissioning Team’s mission is to support and influence the cost reduction challenge for the overall UKCS decommissioning cost, targeting cost reductions of 35% safely and with due respect to all UK and international regulations. Nils graduated in Mechanical Engineering before commencing a varied international career of over 30 years (UK, Tunisia, Oman, Syria, Libya, Germany, The Netherlands and Iraq-KRG) in Operations Management for Operators such as Shell, Wintershall, Centrica and TAQA. This included work in the North Sea as OIM on Shell’s Brent A platform, for Wintershall as Operations Manager in the Dutch sector and Centrica Storage as Operations Director.