 The Agenda Offshore conference was established in 2011 to acknowledge the link between shipping and the oil and gas industry.Speakers have included José Sergio Gabrielli, the CEO of Petrobras, Statoil CEO Helge Lund and US Coast Guard Jeffrey G. Lantz, as have National Oilwell Varco’s Pete Miller and John Ridgway from BP Shipping.Issues of interest to the offshore industry are debated here, such as the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.