Annual Petroleum Economics Conference 2022

Lars Erik Aamot has more than 20 years of experience from the oil and gas industry, mainly from different roles in the Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy. Since 2009 he has been the Director General for Oil and Gas in the Ministry. He obtained his Cand Oecon degree from University of Oslo, Norway in 1996. He joined the Ministry of Petroleum and Energy working with issues related to Norwegian petroleum and environmental policies. In 2000 he joined Statkraft as Senior Economist. In 2001 Norsk Hydro AS as a Senior Investment Analyst working with business development and follow-up of its activities in US, Libya and Russia. He returned to the Ministry as Deputy Director with responsibility of Economic Analysis in 2002. Between 2004 and 2007 he was the Counselor for Energy at the Norwegian embassy in Washington DC.

Anders Wittemann is an independent E&P and Energy strategy and business development consultant with Wittemann E&P Consulting (WEPC) since 2011. Before this Anders was manager of consulting services with Rystad Energy AS, a management consultant with McKinsey and a Petroleum Engineer with Shell International E&P. Anders has an MBA from INSEAD and an M.Eng in Petroleum Engineering from Imperial College and NTNU. Anders is an associated oil & gas industry expert with the M&A advisor INFIMA AS and since 2020 a board member of Resoptima AS, the provider of reservoir modeling software.

WEPC works with E&P and Energy clients in the North Sea region on an independent basis or in partnership with other consultants. WEPC also publishes its proprietary Norway BD Book to oil companies in Norway.

John is a Siviløkonom from Fribourgh 1996 and AFA NFF 2002. His work experience summarized is International Capital Growth (2 years), Terra Securities (4 years), Carnegie (10 years) and ABG Sundal Collier (11 years).

Øystein is the Deputy CEO in IKM Gruppen. He has broad experience within project management, operations, and strategy, gained serving in several different positions within IKM since he joined the group 14 years ago. Øystein holds a bachelor’s degree in Engineering from the University in Agder, and a master’s degree in Management from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He is also politically engaged as Deputy Major in Randaberg Muncipality.

Bjarne has more than 25 years experience from commodity markets. He has worked with analysis, market modelling, structured deals as well as trading of commodities for large commodity trading companies like Enron Nordic Energy and Cargill in Geneva with primary focus on energy derivatives. From 2005 to 2008 he worked as a carbon market analyst at Point Carbon with focus on the European EU ETS carbon market. Since 2008 he has held the position as Chief Analyst Commodities in SEB covering energy, emissions, metals, agricultural products as well as precious metals. The main focus through these years as well as through his career is however the energy markets. Bjarne has a M.Sc. in mathematics from the University of Oslo.

Henrik holds a MSc from the Norwegian University of Science & Technology (Institute of Petroleum Technology). He has worked for more than 3 decades in the oil and gas industry, in various management positions, predominantly with software development for the E&P companies. Henrik possesses extensive skills and experience within, reservoir management, risk & uncertainty assessments, energy analysis, economic modelling, taxation and political and regulatory issues.

Today Henrik is co-founder and COO at PreVisions. Prior to this he worked amongst others with Rystad Energy, Schlumberger, Emerson (Roxar) and Norsk Hydro (as reservoir management consultant).

Erik Haugane has had an extensive career in the oil and gas industry and his previous employments are with University of Tromsø, IKU/SINTEF, County of Trøndelag, PGS, Pertra, Det norske, SIVA, OKEA and Way. He is the founder and co-founder of Pertra AS (2001), Aker BP ASA (2005), OKEA ASA (2015), Way AS (2015), Folkeinvest AS (2015) and Blueye AS (2015). He was awarded the Oilman of the year in 2004 and later received the NPF honorary price in 2010. He is Cand. Real. in Geology and wrote his theses on "Shallow marine sediments and post glacial sea level change".

Tina Bru is a member of the Parliament for Rogaland Høyre and has previously been the Minister of Oil and Energy in government from January 2020 until October 2021. In 2005, she joined Unge Høyre and since then has been an active politician in the party and later the parliamentary representative for Rogaland since 2013. From 2016 she was elected Second vice chair of the Energy and Environment Committee and as of 2021 she is now First vice chair in the same committee. She has also been the leader of Høyre's Women's Forum (2016-2020). Bru is educated at the University of Stavanger and BI Business School with a bachelor's degree in Change Management.

Peder Bjorland joined Statoil (later Equinor) in 1991 and has since then worked in downstream marketing and trading within oil and gas. Mr. Bjorland assumed his current position as Vice President Marketing and trading 1 October 2017. Prior to this he headed the marketing and trading of LPG, LNG, light ends and distillates. He has previously held various leadership and professional positions in trading including global responsibility of all Gas Liquids in Statoil and several trader and management positions within oil and supply. Peder Bjorland holds a Bachelor's degree in Engineering & Economy at Agder University.

Jan Emblemsvåg er professor ved NTNU siden 2020, men før den tid har han hatt flere topplederstillinger i industrien. De tre siste er Verftsdirektør/Innovasjonsdirektør i Vard, SVP Ship Design & Systems i Rolls-Royce Marine og Administrerende Direktør på Midsund Bruk. Han har i tillegg hatt bistillinger i det akademiske siden 2006 (BI, Høyskolen i Ålesund og NTNU). Han har mange års erfaring som konsulent, foredragsholder og styremedlem/-leder. Han har jobbet og publisert mye innen økonomiske livsløpsanalyser, energi, risiko, lean og prosjektledelse. Han tok opp risikoledelse i sine år som konsulent ved DNV, og har siden jobbet og publisert en del om det. Siden hans doktorgrad omhandler integrerte miljø- og kostnadsanalyser i livsløpsperspektiv for bruk i produkt- og prosessdesign har han også publisert flere bøker og titalls fagartikler innenfor livsløpsanalyser, finans, bærekraft og energi (kjernekraft, sol og vind). Lean var fundamentet for hans arbeid i industrien og en integrert del av hans doktorgrad. Doktorgraden tok han ved Georiga Institute of Technology (1999) og Master of Science (1995). Han er også sivilingeniør i Maskinteknikk, konstruksjon og produksjon, fra Norges Tekniske Høyskole (1994).

Sverre Alvik is Director for Energy Transition Outlook. He has a Master’s degree in Naval Architecture from NTNU in Norway from 1997 and 25 years’ experience from working in DNV. His main experience is with the energy and the maritime industry, where he has worked with strategy and politics, marketing and sales, project management and research & innovation, and where he also has written a number of papers and presentations. The last eight years he has been heading up DNV’s global research work on the energy transition.

Mr. Hans Olav Ibrekk is Special Envoy, Climate and Security, Section for Energy, Climate and Food Security, Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He is a member of the Board of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) and served on the Board of the Adaptation Fund 2007-2017, including serving as Chair in 2013 and 2015. Mr. Ibrekk is also the co-facilitator of the UNDESA-appointed SDG7 Technical Advisory Group. He is the focal point for climate and security, geopolitics of the energy transformation, IRENA and water and sanitation in the Ministry. Mr. Ibrekk previously worked at the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad), the World Bank and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD).

Lars Gjerdåker is heading the Business Development and Opportunity management for Shell in Norway. He has broad experience within project, business development, planning and subsurface within Shell since he joined the company 20 years ago. Lars holds a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from the University of Bergen.

Petter Osmundsen is Professor of Petroleum Economics at University of Stavanger. He has a Ph.D. from the Norwegian School of Economics (NHH). As part of the PhD program, he was a Research Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has previously held positions as Associate Professor at NHH at the Department of Economics and Adjunct Professor at the Department of Finance and Management science. He has had assignments for IMF and the World Bank. His research topics are tax design, valuation, contract theory, and incentive design - applied to the petroleum sector. He has published more than 100 academic journal articles on these topics and contributed to academic books and Government reports.

Francesca is a senior analyst in Rystad Energy's Renewable Research team focusing on solar, wind and storage markets in Europe. She holds an MSc in Engineering from Imperial College London and has over six years of experience from the energy service sector and research institutions prior to joining Rystad Energy.