• CERAWEEK 2025 | March 10-14, 2025
  • CERAWEEK
  • March 10 - 14, 2025

Stuart Payne

North Sea Transition Authority

Chief Executive

Stuart Payne is the Chief Executive of the North Sea Transition Authority, responsible for regulating the UK's oil, gas, carbon storage and offshore hydrogen industries. He was appointed on 1st January 2023 prior to which he was the Director responsible for the NSTA’s activities in Decommissioning, Supply Chain and also led the NSTA’s HR function. Stuart co-chairs the industry’s North Sea Transition Forum and is a member of the Scottish Government’s Energy Transition Leadership Group. Stuart joined the NSTA in January 2015 having held a variety of leadership positions in the oil and gas industry in the UK and overseas. Away from the NSTA, Stuart is Chairman of the Brightside Trust (a national children's mentoring charity) and a member of the Advisory Board of Barnardo’s Scotland (the UK's largest childrens' charity). Stuart was awarded a CBE for services to the oil and gas sector in the Queen's Birthday Honours List 2020.

Sessions With Stuart Payne

Monday, 18 March

  • 09:30am - 10:10am (CST) / 18/mar/2024 02:30 pm - 18/mar/2024 03:10 pm

    Integrated Low Carbon Hubs across the Globe
    Carbon Management/Decarbonization

    Developing low-carbon energy hubs will require coordination and collaboration across a spectrum of stakeholders including governments, industry and public. Success will depend on ensuring a critical mass of emission sources; installing new plants for carbon capture, hydrogen and other processes; and ensuring that businesses exist to transport and utilize or store CO2. Different countries and regions need to tailor approaches according to local conditions. How are different regions tackling these challenges? What learnings from developing these hubs are most transferrable to other regions? 

Wednesday, 20 March

  • 03:30pm - 04:00pm (CST) / 20/mar/2024 08:30 pm - 20/mar/2024 09:00 pm

    Best Regulatory Practices for Reducing Methane Emissions
    Policy & Regulatory

    Reducing methane emissions and flaring in recent months has reached new levels of definition of regulations and standards, particularly in North America and Europe. At the same time, new technologies are enabling better data transparency and accuracy compared to past regulations. What are the best practices for matching regulations and standards with the tools available to Oil & Gas operators? How can industry and governments ensure such standards are sufficient to incentivize deployment of state-of-the-art measurement and mitigation solutions versus "good enough" methods for statutory reporting? How can standards be adopted in operating areas where best-in-class technologies may not be so easily deployed?