Exploration Revived 2021

Current position: Senior Vice President Exploration, Norway and UK
MSc in Petroleum Geology from the University of Aberdeen
Working in Equinor since 1997.
Experience is within Exploration including Norway, West and North Africa, technology development and implementation and portfolio management.

Torgeir Stordal is trained as a geoscientist and has more than 30 years’ experience in the upstream industry. Most of this time was spent with Shell, where he worked as an explorer and exploration leader, supplemented by roles in strategy, planning and economics, development, and project assurance. He was Exploration Manager in Norske Shell during the period 2009-2013 and from 2013-2017 he had a global role within resource assurance at Shell’s headquarters in The Netherlands.
In 2017 he joined the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) as Director for Exploration. Since January 2021 he is Director for Technology and Coexistence at the NPD.

Evy has been a SVP Exploration since July 2018, and SVP for Exploration and Reservoir development from September 2020. She has been with Aker BP from 2011, and worked mainly in Exploration. She worked as an Asset Development Manager for NOAKA prior to SVP Exploration.

Evy has a broad experience as a geologist in BP in Norway and USA, and held several managerial positions since joining Aker BP.

She has a Cand Scient degree from the university of Bergen from 1999 and a PhD in Petroleum geology/sedimentology from the University of Oslo.

British Geologist with an MSci in Geology and Msc in Petroleum Geoscience from University of Birmingham and Royal Holloway, London. Started with VNG Norge in 2012 as an explorationist in Oslo, working on licence rounds and licences in the North Sea.
Identified the Dugong Prospect for APA 2016 and along with colleagues and the PL 882 Partners, matured the prospect to a positive drill decision. Also identified and matured additional prospects in the Tampen, helping to establish this as one of Neptune’s core areas.
Now as Head of the Greater Dugong Area, currently leading a multidisciplinary subsurface team preparing for a DST on the Dugong discovery and development plan, drilling the Tail exploration well and maturing additional exploration potential in the area.

Currently Exploration Manager for Equinor in the Northern North Sea. Started at the Research Centre in Norsk Hydro in the late 1980’s and received the Dr. Philos degree in Sedimentology in 1995. Became involved in Exploration around year 2000 and has had positions as Exploration Manager and VP Exploration in Hydro/Statoil/Equinor since 2004 both in Norway and the UK. Has led exploration teams which has made more than 20 commercial discoveries in that period.

Working as a Senior Geologist in the Norway Exploration team in Wintershall Dea. Has more than 20 years experience, mainly within Exploration NCS, but also experience from Exploration GOM and Field in Production. Joined Wintershall Dea in 2014. Have a Cand Scient degree in Structural Geology from the University of Bergen from 1998.”

Ivan started his carrier in Fugro Robertson first and Jason after working as petrophycist mainly supporting inversion projects. He then joined Eni in Norway as exploration geologist. After spending 4 years in Norway, he went back to Italy to work in Milan (Eni HQ) in the Sub-Sahara New Venture Team. Attracted by new cultures and opportunities he moved again for international assignment in Nigeria, Norway again and Myanmar where he was the Exploration Manager for Eni. After this last experience he settled down in Norway in 2017, first looking after the exploration activities in the Hammerfest Basin and then in the Southern North Sea.

Peder Aursand holds a Master's degree in applied physics and a PhD in matematical modelling from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim. He works as a machine learning specialist in subsurface at Aker BP.

Principal Explorationist in Idemitsu Petroleum with more than 20 years experience from subsurface work on NCS, mainly within exploration, but also cross-disiplinary experience from new field development projects. Graduated from Norwegian University of Technology and Science in Trondheim in 1993. Joined Idemitsu in 2013.

Dr. Philos. from University of Oslo 2003 (Structural geology/Sedimentology). Worked for Norwegian and international companies since 1990. Exploration Advisor in MOL Norge since 2016.

Nina graduated from NTNU in Trondheim with a MSc in resource geology in 2017, specializing in the sedimentology and paleontology of the Botneheia Formation, analogue to important Triassic source rocks of the Barents Sea. She is currently working as a geologist in the Exploration and Reservoir Development department in Aker BP in Stavanger. For past 3 years she has been working in the Skarv asset, mainly with reservoir characterization, geomodelling and well planning. As a member of the Gråsel subsurface team, she has had the pleasure of contributing to the development of the first Cretaceous oil discovery within the Lange Formation of the Norwegian Sea. More recently she took on the role as an exploration geologist, following up various licenses in the Norwegian Sea, including the PL1008 license.

Education:
MSc Geology from the University of Bergen and the University Centre In Svalbard, Specialization in sedimentology.
Master thesis: Sedimentology of the Grønfjorden Bed and associated sedimentary deposits: Grønfjorden, Svalbard.

Work experience:
As a student he held summer internships in exploration departments – Capricorn Norge AS, Statoil Petroleum AS and Wellesley Petroleum.
As a professional, he has worked for Wellesley Petroleum since February 2018 – three years in the industry.
At Wellesley he has worked with several different projects in several different disciplines. These include G&G work in prospect generation and maturation, operations geology while drilling, wellsite geology offshore and basin modelling both for APA and for licence maturation.

Graduated with a Phd in sedimentology and sequence stratigraphy from University of Oslo in 2008. Started then as a geologist in Bridge Energy and worked there for 3 years before joining Idemitsu in 2011. Main focus in Idemitsu has been exploration on the NCS

Vedad Hadziavdic is a project manager, currently working on second stage of the Maria field development. He holds a Master of Engineering degree in applied physics from the University of Tromsø and PhD in statistical physics from the Max-Planck Institute in Munich. He has worked within exploration and production in several companies in Norway. Lately, his focus has been on applying Bayesian statistical methods across several fields: statistical reservoir modelling, stochastic seismic inversion, geostatistical depth conversion, statistical analysis of production data.

Øystein studied MSc in Technical Cybernetics at NTNU and graduated in 2009. He started working for Equinor in 2009 and has been working with both Barents Sea and Norwegian Sea as a geophysicist, specializing on AVO and LFP evaluation. He has been working with the Johan Castberg area since award of the license and has been part of the interesting story of finding the oil and gas discoveries there.

Liv Hege B Løken is a Sr. Geologist in Aker BP. She graduated as geologist (cand scient) from University of Oslo in 2001. Liv Hege has been working in Aker BP (Det Norske) for 10 years in various positions within exploration.

Anna is a Senior Geophysicist at Spirit Energy in Aberdeen. She studied at the University of Leeds between 2009 and 2013 gaining a BSc in Geophysical Sciences and MSc in Exploration Geophysics. After graduating in September 2013 Anna joined Centrica Energy (which became Spirit Energy) as a graduate geophysicist. Since then, she has worked across a number of teams and assets in exploration and development in the UK. This includes the successful drilling of two infill wells in 2017 and 2020 on the Chestnut sandstone injectite field in the UK CNS.

Graduated with an MSc in Petroleum Geoscience from Imperial College in 2004. I began my career with Shell at NAM in the Netherlands before spending 5 years with Nexen, based in London, working exploration and appraisal projects in the UK and Norway. I joined ConocoPhillips Norway in 2012 initially working frontier exploration in the Barents Sea. Most recently I have been working on the evaluation of the Busta discovery.

Matthias is working as geophysicist and geologist in exploration and production on the NCS for Equinor since 2014. He has been following-up the drilling operation of the Ørn well and led the discovery evaluation work (2019/2020).
His previous work experiences include polar research, geophysical data acquisition and processing. He graduated in geophysics with a PhD from the University of Bremen, Germany, with specialisation in the geodynamic evolution of East Antarctica.

Graduated with a MSc in geodynamics from the University of Bergen. The main focus of the thesis was midocean ridges and how metamorphic core complexes are created in these environments. Started as a geologist in Equinor in 2010. The first eight years working in the petroleum technology environment following up fields such as Kvitebjørn, Veslefrikk, Heimdal and Oseberg Sør. Since 2018 been contributing towards Equinors exploration efforts.

Started working as a geologist in Equinor in 2002. Have been working as an exploration geologist the last 10 years in both the North Sea, Central Graben area and the Norwegian sea, but also have experience as a structural geologist specialist and from INT. Holds a Cand Scient degree in geology from the University of Bergen from 2000.

Alejandro Escalona is a professor at the University of Stavanger in Norway. He received his B.S. in geophysics from the Universidad Central de Venezuela in 1995 and his Ph.D. from The University of Texas at Austin in 2003. He moved to Norway in 2007 to build the geosciences program at the department of petroleum engineering. Since 2018, he became the head of the Department of Energy Resources but continues teaching (particularly he enjoys supervising the students participating in the AAPG Imperial Barrel Award competition) and doing research. His research focuses on basin evolution of continental margins, the interplay of tectonics and sedimentation, regional- to reservoir-scale analysis and more recent, near surface geophysics applied to geotechnical problems.

Currently Head of Exploration at OMV Norge since July 2021.
Graduated from Dijon University (France) with a PhD in Structural Geologist.
Joined the oil industry in 2002 in Holland through a post-doctoral position in clastic sedimentology, sequence stratigraphy and basin reconstruction (Wesphalian offshore NL).
From 2003 to 2014, worked for Total E&P as Exploration Geologist in various countries: France, Holland, Nigeria, and Angola; and later Norway as North Sea Exploration Team Leader.
Joined OMV Norge in 2014.
Moved in Tunisia as country Exploration Manager in 2017, and in Romania as Black Sea Exploration Leader in 2019.
Broad experience as geoscientist, from basin and play analysis, acreage capture to exploration and appraisal drilling. Held different managerial position in various countries.