The Kristiansand Conference in Drilling & Well 2025 Vestre Strandgate 7, 4610 Kristiansand Norsk Petroleumsforening PROGRAM RELEASE!
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PROGRAM RELEASE!
The Kristiansand Conference in Drilling & Well 2025
The 38th Kristiansand Conference in Drilling & Well
09 – 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.
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.
🔹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
Evening Gatherings
Don’t miss the “Tapas and Mingling” event on the evening the 8th before the conference and join us for the Conference Dinner on Tuesday evening.
Exhibition
Take this opportunity to present your company and services. Sign up for an Exhibition Stand when you register for the conference.
Exhibitors
The Program Committee and NPF welcomes everyone to Kristiansand in 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
Registration
Tapas and mingling
Tuesday 09. September
Registration
Welcome!
Drilling & Well Operations: Industry Challenges and Insights from Equinor
Navigating Change - Challenges and Opportunities on the NCS
Seabed minerals exploration – a potential new industry on the NCS
Askeladden: The Best Supplier of Wells at Equinor in 2024
Break
Ringhorne drilling challenges – Business Case and Method Selected
Ringhorne drilling & geo-mechanical challenges – Field Results
Northern Lights CO2 injection wells - phase 1 experiencies and phase 2 development
Lunch
Balder Beyond
AIM: Better and faster well and field development planning with AI assistance
P&A RockSolid; Shaping the Future of Well Abandonment
Break
Using foam cement as a wellbarrier - Challenges and experience on the NCS
Multi-well application of lightweight (foam) cement cementing and evaluation using Pulse-Echo
Lessons from recent cement bond log in new wells
Casing and cement evaluation on drillpipe: An evaluation of the challenges and opportunities afforded by the mode of conveyance to change the way we think about when and how we log
Lost-Circulation Cement Solution for Ekofisk and Eldfisk Fields
End day 1
Aperitiff & Conference Dinner
Wednesday 10. September
Welcome day 2!
Integrated E-Line Automated Fishing and Shifting Solution: First-Time Deployments of Game-Changing Technologies in Complex Downhole Recovery
Potentially prevented fishing of more than 4000m wireline cable utilizing distributed fiber-optic sensing
Accelerating the Qualification of new P&A Technical Solutions
Break
Challenging the Traditional Sand Control Criteria – A Rock Mechanics Perspective
Enhanced the effectiveness of reservoir sweeps in water injectors Well using New Autonomous Outflow Control Valve technology
What I talk about when I talk about slop
Benefits of umbilical-less completion and intervention
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 again 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.