Exploration Revived 2013
Dear Fellow Explorationists,
I am pleased to invite you to the 5th NPF Biennial Petroleum Geology Conference, scheduled for Bergen 18-20 March 2013. The coming conference will, based on our previous success, also be a pure exploration conference – Exploration Revived 2013.
The organizing committee has put together a great program, consisting of 22 attractive papers (all by invitation), from good case histories integrating geology and geophysics, through basin exploration overviews, exploration strategy and Key Notes on important exploration issues.
The much-coveted Exploration Revived Award 2013 will be announced during the conference dinner. We believe this contributes to stimulating exploration on the NCS and urge you to nominate candidates to the separate Award Committee (see by-laws and Award committee on our home page below).
A record of 445 participants discovered our exciting conference in 2011.
Join us in 2013! (please note that the conference capacity is approximately 450, first come – first served!).
Welcome (back) to beautiful Bergen and Grieghallen.
Regards – for NPF
Odd Ragnar Heum
Chair of the Exploration Revived Conference Committee
Phone: 0047 93224076
Exploration Revived Award
The intention behind this award is to stimulate the exploration on the Norwegian shelf. It will be awarded biennially at the NPF Exploration Revived conference in Bergen.
The award will be given to groups or companies who, over the preceding two years, have contributed to moving Exploration of the shelf forward by:
– Testing new play concepts and/or exploration models
– Testing high risk/high potential targets
– Exploring for upside potential in producing fields
– Reducing exploration risk by developing and/or applying new techniques
– Any other combination of ideas, technology and risk taking resulting in
revived exploration or production
The award will be based on nominations from the exploration community in Norway. It will be decided by a committee appointed by the Exploration Revived conference organizing committee.
The prize will consist of a lithographic print and a certificate/diploma.
For the 2013 the Exploration Revived Award Committee consists of:
* Vigdis Wiik Jacobsen, North Energy (chair) – e-mail
* Sissel Eriksen, NPD – e-mail
* Snorre Olaussen, UNIS – e-mail
* Hans Christen Rønnevik, Lundin Norway – e-mail
* Tim Sullivan, Agora Oil & Gas – e-mail
* Sigrid Borthen Toven, Statoil – e-mail
The deadline for nomination of candidate is February 1, 2013.
Please state the reason for your choice of nominated canditate and forward same to any of the above Award Committee members.
For further information please contact:
Norwegian Petroleum Society
e-mail: karin.haugness@npf.no
or any of the above committee members.
Program
Monday 18. March
Ice breaker
Tuesday 19. March
Registration
Welcome/Opening
Chairs:
The future of NCS exploration – New plays/areas (Key Note)
Skrugard – a breakthrough in the Barents Sea
Play types and prospectivity on and around the Loppa High
Refreshments / networking
Veslemøy High, Barents Sea: Geology and plays
The Caurus discovery, Barents Sea – A new look at the middle Triassic Kobbe formation
Lunch
Chairs:
Petroleum geology of Nordland VI, VII and Troms II
Gullris well results and implications for regional geology and prospectivity
From Heidrun to the Outer Vøring Margin – Lessons learned in search of a Westward extension to the prolific Halten Terrace Jurassic oil play
Refreshments / networking
Permian stratigraphy of the Southern Nordland Ridge, Haltenbanken: Results from recent exploration drilling
How innovative thinking can lead to exploration success? (Key Note)
End of Day 1
Guided tours
Cocktails
Conference Dinner
Wednesday 20. March
Chairs:
The Edvard Grieg - Johan Sverdrup exploration history and future area potential
Unfolding the complex geology and outline of the giant Johan Sverdrup discovery through appraisal drilling and subsurface modelling
Refreshments / networking
The Butch oil discovery
King Lear: Rewriting the play
Lunch
Chairs:
The Mamba complex supergiant gas discovery: An example of turbidite fans modified by deepwater tractive currents
Successful exploration in mature areas: Recipe from Revus and Agora stories (Key Note)
Refreshments / networking
Revived exploration on the flanks of Troll
The 35/9-6S Titan discovery
The 35/9-7 Skarfjell discovery
Closing
End Conference
Practical information
Organizer:
Norwegian Petroleum Society
Lilleakerveien 2a
NO-0283 Oslo, Norway
www.npf.no
Accommodation:
We are sorry to inform you that you have to make your own hotel reservations as we now have no more rooms available at the Radisson BLU Hotel Norge.
We have reserved a number of rooms at the Radisson BLU Hotel Norge, Bergen, Norway
NOK 1.795,- per night (incl. breakfast) to be paid direct to the hotel
Social arrangement Monday 18 March:
The day before conference starts, March 18, we welcome you to an
“Ice breaker” at 20.00 hrs at the “Fløien Folkeresturant”. The restaurant at the top of the famous Funicular in Bergen, 320 meters above sea level – well above everyday life and the noise of the city. The restaurant, opened in 1925, has been completely restored and is, with its distinctive architecture and prominent location, without doubt an attraction in itself.
www.floien.no
Final date of pre-registration:
11th March 2013
Conference fee:
| NPF personal members | NOK 8.200,- plus 25% vat |
| Non-NPF-members | NOK 9.200,- plus 25% vat |
| Academics | NOK 3.500,- plus 25% vat |
| Cancellation fee | NOK 900,- plus 25% vat |
The fee includes:
– Coffee/tea
– Lunches
– CD of expanded abstracts
– Icebreaker on Monday 18 March
– Guided tours on Tuesday 19 March
– Conference Dinner 19 March
Payment:
All delegates will receive an invoice from Norwegian Petroleum Society (NPF)
University students:
Students, senior year/Master, are free to attend the conference. In order to apply for a grant to cover travel and accommodation cost please contact:
Wenche Tjelta Johansen, NPD – wenche.johansen@npd.no
Jan Strømmen, Maersk Oil Norway As – jan.strommen@maerskoil.com
Application to be forwarded within 1st February 2013.
The application for sponsorship should state what sort of degree you are taking at which university, and an estimate of your travel and accommodation costs.
The grant is sponsored by Agora Oil, Centrica Energi, Conoco Phillips Norge, Det norske, Eni Norge, Svenska Petroleum, Maersk Oil Norway, Norwegian Petroleum Directorate, A/S Norske Shell, TOTAL E&P Norge AS and Wintershall Norge
Cancellations:
Cancellations must be received in writing by 11 March 2013 and will be subject to a NOK 1.000,- cancellation fee unless a substitute delegate is offered. After this date, the full registration fee will apply, however, substitutions will still be accepted. Substitutions for registered delegates may be made at any time, but we would appreciate prior notification.
Programme changes:
It is sometimes necessary to change timing of the programme. The conference organiser will not be liable for any such unavoidable changes.
Registration:
Norwegian Petroleum Society (NPF)
Lilleakerveien 2A
N-0283 OSLO, Norway
Phone no.: 0047- 22 13 18 15
Telefax no.: 0047-22 13 18 11
E-mail: karin.haugness@npf.no