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The Kristiansand Conference in Drilling & Well 2025
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08. to 10. Sep 2025

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The Kristiansand Conference in Drilling & Well 2025

KRISTIANSAND

Speaker Invitation – Proposals for Presentations for

The 38th Kristiansand Conference in Drilling & Well

 

08 – 10 September 2025

Radisson Blu Caledonien Hotel Kristiansand

Conference language: English

 

Norwegian Petroleum Society again arranges the reputable «Kristiansandkonferansen». The conference started in 1983 and is Norway’s most important meeting arena for drilling and wells.

The purpose of the conference is to present operational and technical experiences, projects, solutions and improvements within all related areas. Case Histories with learnings will be prioritized. The conference is technically oriented towards the people planning, making selections and executing the operations.

For the first time in many years, we will return to English as the Conference language, hoping to attract an even wider audience. The request is that all presentation material is in English and presented in English. With the possibility of allowing presentations in Norwegian.

Drilling and maintaining wells are vital for Norway’s production. To tackle future challenges with limited resources, we need innovation, cost-effective solutions, and smarter processes. Our industry must improve drilling efficiency. The cost spent on drilling and wells is a significant part of the total development cost, making our work crucial to the industry’s future.

The committee welcomes proposals for presentations within but not limited to the following areas:

🔹New fields. Efficient, safe and profitable development of smaller discoveries

🔹Existing fields. Well-integrity, lifetime extension, reuse, keeper wells.

🔹Better completions, interventions and maintenance of wells on platforms and subsea

🔹Optimal cost-efficient and new solutions for P&A

🔹New solutions for planning and execution, digitalization and automated drilling

🔹Do we have the solutions for tight reservoirs?

🔹Share your operational experiences – case histories with learnings – good or bad

Submit your abstract

Interested speakers are invited to submit an abstract (~300 words) describing the main ideas of the presentation. Each speaker gets 20 minutes + 5 minutes for Q&A.

The program committee is looking forward to putting together an exciting and relevant program and welcomes everyone to Kristiansand from 8 to 10 September 2025!

On behalf of the program committee,
Thor Blunck
Committee Chair

 

Programkomite

Thor Blunck
Lars- Jørgen Ruså Solvi, Aker BP
Amir Gergerechi, Havtil
Elisabeth Haram, Odfjell Drilling
Roy Middleton, ConocoPhillips
Jeanette Gimre, Halliburton
Torstein Haugland, Equinor
Vivien Helen Vestre, Petoro
Mohammad Jahangir, Vår Energi
Steinar Lomeland, NORCE

Program

Monday 08. September

18:30

Registration

Conference Venue - Radisson Blu Caledonien Hotel Kristiansand
19:00

Tapas and mingling

Conference Venue - Radisson Blu Caledonien Hotel Kristiansand

Tuesday 09. September

08:00

Registration

08:30

Welcome!

Thor Blunck - Chair Program Committee
19:00

Aperitiff & Conference Dinner

Wednesday 10. September

08:30

Welcome day 2!

Thor Blunck - Chair Program Committee
12:00

Lunch and End of Conference

Practical information

Organiser

Norwegian Petroleum Society (NPF)

 

Venue

Radisson Blue Caledonien Hotel, Kristiansand

 

Conference language:

English

 

Membership of the Norwegian Petroleum Society (NPF)

If you want to receive the member price, please register here first: https://npf.medlemssystem.com/registration. If you are already registered in our database, please send an email to conferences@npf.no to become a member. Reduced membership fees applies for young professionals under the age of 34, students and seniors.

 

Conference fee

NOK 12.900 for NPF personal members (+ 25% VAT)

NOK 14.900 for Non-NPF member (+ 25% VAT)

The conference fee includes: Monday night Tapas & Drinks – Lunches – Refreshments – Tuesday night Conference Dinner – Presentations

 

Accommodation

To book hotel accommodations at Caledonien hotel you are free to use this link.

You also can book rooms online using the Voucher code “BOREKONF” on the Radisson Blu website.

Alternatively send a mail to guest.kristiansand@radissonblu.com or phone + 47 38 11 21 00. Deadline for getting Conference Pricing is 8 july.

Hotel price ea night: NOK 1.590 incl. tax in a single room. Breakfast included.

 

Exhibition stand:

NOK 15.000 (+25% VAT).

You’ll need to register as a conference participant, so you order your stand as an option when you sign up for the conference.

The exhibition fee includes exhibition space in the breakout area outside the conference hall. This is the area where all coffeebreaks will take place.
Each exhibition space is 2m wide x 1m deep (1x conference table and 2 roll-ups). A conference table, chair and electricity are included and provided.

We will present your logo on the conference webpage and in the conference program.

 

 

Cancellations

Cancellations must be received in writing by 25 August 2025 and will be subject to a NOK 2,000 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.

 

Payment

Payment can be done upon registration by credit card (Master Card/Visa/AmEx) or by invoice. If the invoice needs to be changed due to wrong information there will be an added a fee of NOK 150. All international payments must be approved before the conference starts.

 

Presentations

Approved presentations will be published after the conference. Participants will be informed when they are available.

 

Program changes

It is sometimes necessary to make changes to the program. The conference organiser will not be liable for any such unavoidable changes.

 

Contact  NPF Project Manager

Hanne Hernes, Tlf. +47 4045 2327. e-post: hanne.hernes@npf.no

In case of cancellation of the conference by the Norwegian Petroleum Society, (NPF), the participant will be refunded the conference fee and/or the exhibition fee. Other expenses the participants may have are not refunded, and is not the responsibility of NPF.

 

Force majeure

Events beyond the control of the NPF- for example, but not limited to, extreme weather conditions, acts of war, terrorism, transportation shut-down (strikes or accidents), government regulation or advisory including travel warnings, serious illness or epidemics that makes it impossible to fulfill the obligations of conducting the conference, entitle NPF to cancel the event without liability.