Reservoir & Production Management Conference 2024

Hersvik has been CEO of Aker BP since May 2014. Before joining Aker BP, he was head of research at Statoil. Hersvik has held a number of professional and managerial positions in Norsk Hydro and StatoilHydro.
Hersvik has a master's degree in industrial mathematics from the University of Bergen.
Hersvik is chairman of the board of RunwayFBU as well as board member of Offshore Norway, the international school in Bergen (ISB) and Clara Venture Labs.

Nadine is Assistant Director for Technology, Analysis and Co-existence at Norwegian Offshore Directorate (NOD), where she is Head of Data and Analysis. She is responsible for data analysis, statistics, benchmarking, resource accounting and prognosis, as well as innovation and digitalisation projects within the data sphere. Much of Nadine's day-to-day work is about change management, fostering digital transformation and the implementation of agile workflows. Before joining the NOD Nadine worked in various technical and leadership roles in international energy companies both in Norway, Canada and the UK. Nadine is a geologist, by heart and training, and holds a PhD in Geology from the University of Manchester. She is also a certified mediator trained in alternative conflict resolution at the Justice Institute of British Columbia.

Vladimir Volkov is an accomplished Petroleum Engineer with over 20 years of international experience in offshore and onshore assets. Currently serving as an Advanced Reservoir Engineer and Business Transformation Lead at Aker BP ASA, he excels in integrated production modeling, field development planning, and reservoir optimization. Vladimir’s expertise includes reservoir modeling, history matching, data analytics and uncertainty analysis, with a track record of improving value of projects at all stages from exploration evaluation to mature field optimization.
He holds an MSc degree in Petroleum Engineering from Heriot-Watt University, UK, and an MSc in Applied Mathematics from Samara National Research University, Russia.

Alv-Arne holds a PhD in reservoir physics from the University of Bergen. He has worked in SINTEF since 2005 with research on enhanced oil recovery and geological CO2 storage. Key research interests have been
- Enhanced oil recovery with tertiary CO2 flooding
- Methods for low-energy oil and gas production
- Mechanisms for long-term CO2 storage safety

Dr. Ismarullizam Mohd Ismail is Chief Technology Officer for InflowControl AS. He holds over 20 years of global experience within advanced completions, petroleum engineering and Research & Development. Dr Mohd Ismail holds a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from University of Leeds, UK and was selected as SPE Distinguished Lecturer for inflow control technology disciplines in 2018/19.

Dr. Sarah Gasda is Research Director and Chief Scientist in Computational Geosciences at NORCE and holds a Professor II position at Dept of Physics and Technology at University of Bergen. She holds a PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Princeton University. She is currently the director of the Centre for Sustainable Subsurface Resources (CSSR), a national research centre with funding from the NFR Petrosenter program. CSSR will provide new knowledge to enable the green transition within Norwegian petroleum industry, including conversion of fields to CO2 and hydrogen energy storage. CSSR involves multidisciplinary collaborations involving international researchers in several countries.
Dr. Gasda has research expertise in computational methods and modeling of multiphase flow in porous media with particular focus on solving engineering challenges in geological CO2 storage, underground hydrogen storage, and reservoir simulation. Dr. Gasda's research interests address the intersection between disciplines: geological characterization and computational simulation, lab-based petrophysical understanding and multiphase flow modeling, social sciences and engineering. She is currently serving as Associate Editor for the International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control and is active board member of GeoEnergy, a journal of The Geological Society.

He has for a little more than two years now been an employee for Equinor and working as a production engineer on the Heidun field. He holds two Master’s degrees, one in Industrial economics with specialization in investments and finance, and the second in Petroleum engineering with specialization in reservoir engineering. Both Master’s degrees were obtained from the University of Stavanger. Prior to joining Equinor in the fall of 2022 he worked as a portfolio manager and power market analyst for a mid-sized Norwegian electrical power company called Sogn og Fjordane Energi (SFE Produksjon).

30+ years’ experience in the petroleum industry (Norsk Hydro, Norwegian Computing Centre and Equinor). Working with most disciplines always supporting prediction and uncertainty quantification.

Anisa is a geocientist with over 17 years of diverse geoscience experience, ranging from quantitative geophysical interpretation to geologic operations, across various fields from the Gulf of Mexico to the North Slope of Alaska. In 2021, Anisa transitioned to ConocoPhillips Skandinavia, leveraging Coiled Tubing Drilling (CTD) expertise from ConocoPhillips Alaska to focus on implementing CTD technology in the Greater Ekofisk Area.

Martijn brings two decades of extensive reservoir engineering expertise within the Greater Ekofisk Area, covering roles in Production Engineering, Well Planning, Field Management, and Forecasting. Between 2013 and 2016, he served as a Reservoir Engineer and Voidage Coordinator on Alaska’s North Slope. In 2021, Martijn joined the CTD Team, concentrating on deploying CTD technology in the Greater Ekofisk Area.

As a Reservoir Engineer, Eugene worked in many projects at the NCS, Iraq, Algeria and Libya from exploration to mature field re-development.
He holds a good combination of expertise in reservoir modelling and simulation, uncertainty analysis, data analytics and assisted history matching and hands-on experience with well planning and daily reservoir management.
His previous work experience was with Equinor and ConocoPhillips. Now with Harbour Energy

2015-2018 Eni Norge: Reservoir Engineer, expat at Eni HQ in San Donato Milanese (2018-2019) on rotation program working with different fields
2018-2024 Vår Energi: Reservoir Engineer, Reserves and Volumes Coordinator (2021), Well Delivery Lead (2022), Goliat Lead (2024)

He held a B.Sc degree in Mechanical Engineering from INSA de Toulouse (France) and a M.Eng degree in Petreoleum Engineering from Dalhousie University (Canada).

In the past 17 years he has been working for Equinor, Sval and AkerBP within reservoir and production engineering. His experience spans from exploration (prospect evaluation, exploration drilling and well testing) to end of field lifetime (gas well de-liquification with foam).

Mr. Dirdal holds a Master of Science in Petroleum Engineering, with a specialization in Reservoir Engineering, from the University of Stavanger. Unlike many of his peers, he has consistently contributed to the service provider side of the industry, bringing extensive experience in R&D and Sales through his work with Halliburton and NOV. With nearly two decades in the energy sector, Mr. Dirdal now serves as Vice President for NCS & Europe and Vice President of Digital at RESMAN, where he is also a member of the Board.

Teodor Damian is a seasoned technical leader with over 20 years of experience spanning the whole upstream value chain, having held key positions in reservoir engineering, project management and team leadership. He has been with Shell since 2006 and currently serves as the Subsurface Lead for the Ormen Lange field in Norway. In his current role as the Reservoir Evaluation Domain Lead for the SPE IRM Technical Section, Teodor is focused on fostering cross-disciplinary collaboration to develop the best industry practices that enhance reservoir evaluations and make the field development decision-making process more robust.

Saeed Fallah. Works as VP Subsurface Brage in OKEA. Has a PhD in reservoir physics and his hobby is to increase production.

Benedicte holds a Msc degree in Petroleum Technology from NTNU. She has 18 years of experience within Reservoir Technology, 16 of them as a consultant on short and long-term assignments for a large variety of oil companies. She has worked with the Breidablikk field for 6 years, first as a consultant (Petoro and Equinor) and then later as a Equinor employee since 2022.

Knut Arild holds a MSc in Petroleum Engineering from Texas A&M University. He has 25 years’ experience within Production Technology, the last 12 years in different Field Development Projects in Equinor.

Babak Moradi has over 15 years of experience from EOR core scale to giant fields with more than 800 wells, from unconventional coalbed methane fields to carbon capture and storage projects. He has been involved in studies of more than 50 fields located in the Middle East, South East Asia, Australia, North Sea, Latin America and Africa. Babak has authored 40 scientific publications and published a textbook. His strong background in mathematics and programming helps him to turn data into knowledge.

- MSc in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Miskolc in Hungary
- MSc in Renewable Energy Development from Heriot-Watt University
- 15 years of experience as a reservoir engineer
- Worked with diverse projects incl. M&A, exploration-support, brown field development as well as on-site reservoir engineer in Germany, Denmark and the NCS

Mahmood Akbar is an advisor reservoir engineer in AGR. He has 30+ years experience from from the oil industry covering among other things
- Reservoir simulation
- Reserves reporting and auditing
- CO2 geological storage

Geir Evensen gained his PhD in Applied Mathematics at the University of Bergen, Norway. His experiences include data assimilation in ocean and weather models and ensemble-based history matching within petroleumreservoir models.

He has published the two most cited methodological publications on data assimilation (Evensen, 1994, 2003) and he has published two books on data assimilation: (Evensen, 2009) and the more recent open-access book(Evensen et al., 2022).

He is a chief scientist at the Norwegian Research Center (NORCE) and holds a secondary position at the Nansen
Environmental and Remote Sensing Center in Bergen, Norway.

He invented Ensemble Kalman Filter (EnKF), which is the method of choice for the assimilation of observations in dynamical models in most Earth Sciences disciplines, and EnKF variants are increasingly being used in operational weather forecasting systems at the international meteorological services.

He invented Ensemble Smoother (ES) for history matching of petroleum-reservoir models, and its iterative variants have become the most used methods for history matching in the reservoir engineering community.

He invented Fast Model Update (FMU), an ensemble-based reservoir modeling and management workflow connecting geophysics, geological modeling, and reservoir simulation. The work with FMU also won him the Norwegian Petroleum Diretorate’s Increased-Oil-Recovery price in 2020.

Torbjørn Ek, joined Equinor in 2012, has since worked in Research, Field development and for the Troll asset. Currently task leader in Next Generation Modeling, hosting a portfolio including the research and development activity such as Fast Model Update (FMU), OPM Flow, ResInsight and Webviz.

Remus join Equinor in 2013 and spent 9 years in the R&D team. Since 2021, he is the Leading Advisor Assisted History Matching and Optimization. He also has a part time professorship position in the Department of Petroleum Engineering, in the group of Petroleum Geoscience Engineering. Remus’s main research topics are: Assisted History matching and Robust Optimization for Reservoir Management, Value of Information, Decision and Risk analysis and Geostatistics.

Redouane Kheireddine holds a PhD in Oil and Gas Engineering and is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at NTNU, where he is part of the BRU21 program. His research specializes in developing AI-driven automatic optimization routines that leverage simulators to identify optimal field development plans FDPs for both conventional and unconventional petroleum assets.

Prior to joining NTNU, Dr. Kheireddine held the position of Research Project Manager at SONATRACH, where he led several key reservoir engineering projects. He is also a recipient of the EU-funded Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) postdoctoral fellowship, and was recently awarded NTNU's prestigious Discovery Fellowship to further support his research efforts.

• Graduated from NTNU in 2012 as a Reservoir Engineer.
• Master thiesis written in collaboration with Shell Global Solutions - Research Centre Rijswijk
• Worked 3 years for Shell Norway as Reservoir Engineer on the Draugen Field
• 6.5 years in Lundin Energy Norway as Reservoir Engineer;
o Active involvement in wireline & MDT during exploration
o Planning, executing and interpreting DSTs
o Building advanced models and history matching
o PVT & SCAL analysis and model implementation
o Lead reservoir engineer in operating asset
o Expert & lead on integrated ensemble based modelling & assisted history matching including 4D seismic
• Subsurface Advisor for Lundin Energy in Geneva, reporting to the company's Chief Operating Officer
• Transferred to Aker BP as part of the Lundin-Aker BP transaction.
• Took on the role as Subsurface Manager for Edvard Grieg, Solveig & Troldhaugen