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Mr Petros THEODORAKIS
Division Director of Administrative Services,
Hellenic Gas Transmission System Operator - (DESFA)
Administrative Services Division Director at the Hellenic Natural Gas Transmission System Operator,
responsible for Human Capital, Information & Communication Technology, Administrative Procurement
and Logistics. Currently runs a project for a new HCM development framework. An executive with 32
years of experience in businesses like natural gas transmission, industrial processes,
telecommunications and embedded systems development. He played a critical role in the envisioning
and creation of the vast ICT infrastructure of DESFA, which includes a fiber optic telecom network along
gas pipeline, an intranet computer network connecting all DESFA offices in Greece, cyber security
systems, an ERP system (SAP), a SCADA system and over forty of transactional and decision-support IT
systems. He won a SAP Quality Award for DESFA for year 2013 and was proclaimed Greek ICT Manager
of the Year 2005. Member of the Organizing Committee of the Hellenic CIO Forum. Dipl. Electrical
Engineer, 1985, MBA (cum laude), 2007. Speaks English, German and Greek.
Previous assignments : Business Planning & Tariffs Department Manager, Director Consultant to the Gas
Operations, Maintenance & Transportation Services Division, Information & Communications
Technology Director in DESFA, ICT Director in Public Gas Corporation of Greece (DEPA), member of the
executive team for the legal unbundling of DEPA, head of electrical maintenance in Athens sewage
plant, head of software development for SCADA systems and complex industrial automation, senior
developer of military and commercial communications devices and applications professor.
"Security Technologies for Natural Gas Transmission"
A new project is presented which includes a Security Control Center (SCC) and various Security
Technologies (ST), aiming at upgrading the physical security of the vast infrastructure of the Hellenic
Gas Transmission Operator (DESFA) spanning ca. 1.500 km of high pressure natural gas pipelines, 171
manned and unmanned installations and a liquefied natural gas terminal. Threats include equipment
theft, sabotage, terrorism, accidents and physical phenomena. SCC will accommodate all signaling
produced by ST’s, be manned on a 24-hour basis, coordinate local guards, call on police, fire, port and
other authorities in cases of emergency and inform the natural gas dispatching centers of events that
are likely to have an impact on the infrastructure or staff safety. ST’s to be installed in DESFA
installations include sensor systems, closed circuit television (CCTV) systems, remote-controlled
headlamps, visual / audible alarm and loudspeaker systems and an access control system for DESFA
staff. Distributed Acoustic Sensing is proposed as an ST along the pipeline, which will take advantage of
the fiber optic cable already installed along DESFA pipelines and which will detect, process and bring to
the SCC all audible signals 10m along the length of the pipeline (people walking, animals, birds,
excavation work, lightning strikes, vehicles, flying objects, etc.). Finally drones are proposed as an ST
along the pipeline for use by DESFA patrol staff along pipeline segments accessible only by hiking and in
order to have a direct visual representation of the situation.