Program day 1 - morning sessions

08:55 Welcome

Halfdan Carstens, GeoPublishing
Session 1 - Introduction

Chairman: Halfdan Carstens
09:00 Keynote - Perspectives on Mature and Frontier Exploration on the NCS

Torgeir Stordal, Director Exploration, NPD
09:25 Keynote - New initiatives in a mature basin – the OGA’s role in stimulating UK exploration activity

Paul Herrigton, Exploration Portfolio Manager, OGA
09:50 Coffee break
Session 2 - The political framework

Chairman: Halfdan Carstens
10:20 20 years - retrospective review

Espen Myhra, OKEA
10:40 NCS - changing for the ...?

Kjell Pedersen, Independent
11:00 The Middle East Price Makers between US Shale, China's Yuan and Russia

Øystein Noreng, Professor emeritus BI
11:20 Plenary discussion

Torgeir Stordal – NPD
Paul Herrington – OGA
Espen Myhra – OKEA
Petter Osmundsen – University of Stavanger
Kjell Pedersen – Independent
Øystein Noreng – Professor emeritus BI
12:00 Lunch

Afternoon sessions

Session 3 - Exploration Innovation Prize

Chairman: Idar Horstad

About the Prize
13:00 Keynote - Exploration performance 2017

Anders Wittemann, Wittemann E&P Consulting
13:20 Finalist #1 - CARA

Tina Olsen, Neptune Energy
13:35 Finalist #2 - KAYAK

Lars Ole Løseth, Equinor ASA
13:50 Finalist #3 - ZUMBA

Per Avseth, G&G Resources
14:05 Coffee break
Session 4 - Cross-border learning

Chairman: Paul Herrington, OGA
14:35 Keynote: One North Sea – Equinor in the UK

Alun Williams, Leader, UK Licences, Equinor UK
15:05 Missed pay approach to exploration

Rod Crawford, Technical Director, Zennor
15:25 Delivering exploration success in the Beryl area

Jeffrey Towart, Apache North Sea
15:45 From Trash to Treasure: Sifting through old data with new tools and techniques to unlock the next generation of high value discoveries in the UKCS

Erik J. Hulm, BP
16:05 Median line infrastructure lead exploration sweet spots

Nick Terrell, Azinor Catalyst
16:25 The Alvheim area exploration phase – from gas satellite to oil hub

Hans Christen Rønnevik, Lundin Norway

17:00 Field trip: The Ordovician sedimentary rocks of the Oslo Rift

Morten Bergan, Spirit Energy

Read more here: “Field trip”
and geo365.no: “Kortreist ekskursjonslokalitet”
19:00 Apéritif
20:00 Evening dinner
Martin Landrø & Lasse Amundsen, NTNU

Dinner speech: Recent advances in pitfalls
Award Ceremony - Exploration Innovation Prize

Idar Horstad, Independent

Exploration Innovation Prize is presented by Bent Erlend Kjølhamar, TGS

08:30 Session 5 - Hydrocarbon shows and missed pay

Chairman: Jon Halvard Pedersen, Lundin Norway
``Missed Pay``

“Oil stains seen in outcrops, cuttings or cores, as well as high gas readings measured while drilling, are all promising pieces of information that should be included in any prospect evaluation or decision making during drilling.” Jon Halvard Pedersen, Lundin Norway, GEO 08/2017
08:40 Hydrocarbon shows – a view from the engine room

Andy Clark, Operations Geologist, Lundin Norway
09:00 Fluid sampling: Simple ways to optimize operations and early data delivery

Beathe Hustoft, Independent
09:20 Hydrocarbon shows - a cornerstone of PSA

Daniel Stoddart, GeoEight
09:40 Coffee break
10:10 Fluid inclusion analysis of thin sections - a tool for providing migration history of petroleum through a reservoir rock

Johannes Rykkje, University of Bergen
10:30 Missed pay exploration - case stories from the NCS

Per Bakøy, Advisor Petrophysics and Operation Geology, Pandion Energy
11:00 Plenary discussion: Shows - can we do better?

Jon Halvard Pedersen, Lundin Norway & Nils Telnæs, Equinor ASA
11:30 Lunch

Session 6 - Recent discoveries - Near field exploration

Chairman: Richard Olstad, Pandion Energy
12:30 Using TopSeis to identify near-field prospects: Examples from the Wisting area

Mathieu Denti, CGG
12:45 Frosk

Odd Arne Sandstad, Aker BP
13:00 Langfjellet

Lena Øvrebø, Aker BP
13:15 Ivar Aasen - near field

Tor-Ole Jøssund, Aker BP
13:30 Brasse

Donatella Mellere, Faroe
13:45 From near field exploration to value creation

Tord Pedersen, Point Resources
14:00 Coffee break
Session 7 - Recent discoveries - Frontier exploration
14:30 Korpfjell

Leif Bjørnar Henriksen, Equinor ASA
14:50 Pre-Cretaceous structural highs and prospectivity of the outer Møre and Vøring basins

Sverre Planke, VBPR
15:10 OGA Frontier basins Rockall project: A new view of the UK Rockall prospectivity

Lena Broadley, University of Aberdeen
15:30 Keynote: NCS Exploration – Drivers of Performance and Future Opportunities

Graeme Bagley, Westwood Global Energy
15:50 END of conference