Energy Norway 2023

Venue: Tjodhallen 

09:00 Registration at Tjodhallen 

09:45 Start workshop – welcome by Tina Puntervold (UiS) 

Speakers:

• 10:00 Kirsti Veggeland (Norwegian Petroleum Directorate): Water management challenges
• 10:25 Marlene Louise Lund (Equinor): eCalc™ – Energy and emission calculations for better decisions
• 11:15 Aruoture Voke Omekeh (NORCE): Water production: Effect of wettability alteration and accelerated oil production 
• 11:40 Skule Strand (UiS): Why Smart Water is the solution for reduced CO₂ emission/water production
• 12:05 Ali A. Eftekhari (DTU): Reducing produced water and CO₂ emission of upstream operations by CCUS and IOR/EOR: a thermodynamic perspective
• 13:20 Zachary Alcorn (UiB): Increased Reservoir Sweep Efficiency using Foam Mobility Control
• 13:45 Arne Stavland (NORCE): Reduced CO₂ emission – does it open a new route to conformance control? 
• 14:10 Felix Feldmann (NORCE): Snorre conformance control – impact on oil recovery and CO₂ footprint
• 15:00 Ingebret Fjelde (NORCE): Can produced water be used as IOR fluid?
• 15:25 Ravi Kumar Chhetri (DTU): Subsea biofilm treatment of offshore produced water
• 15:50 Kåre Langaas (Aker BP): Autonomous well control – key for water management?
• 16:15 Discussion (host: Ying Guo)

16:45 End of workshop 

17:00-19:00 Ice breaker at Jernaldergården (“Iron age farm”) 

09:00 Registration at Tjodhallen 

10:00-10:50

• Klaus Mohn, rector University of Stavanger
• Alejandro Escalona, NCS2030 director
• Rune Volla, director Research Council of Norway

10:50-12:00

• Torgeir Stordal, Norwegian petroleum directorate (NPD): "The resource potential on the NCS"
• Gunnar Lille, OG21: "Technology that halves greenhouse gas emissions"  
• Torfinn Harding, UiS Business School: "Is restricting oil supply a viable climate policy? Quantifying supply-side climate policies"
• Questions
• Poster announcement – 1 minute per candidate  

12:00-13:00 Lunch

13:00-14:15

• Jostein Dahl Carlsen, CEO and President, Gas and Oil Technology Collaboration Programme, IEA: “A changing European Energy Security Paradigm in the global quest for reduced C02 emissions - role of early market innovation hubs”
• Adam Gniazdowski, Head of Unit for Natural Gas, Polish Ministry for Climate and Environment: "Energy security in the gas market – a Polish perspective"
• Sunniva Rose, Chief Communications Officer of Norsk Kjernekraft AS: "Nuclear Energy in Norway?"
• Ola Vestavik, Reelwell: “Geothermal closed loop technology”
• Questions

14:45-16:00

• Marta Rós Karlsdóttir, The National Energy Authority of Iceland
• Steinar Midthun Kolstø, WintershallDea: "Building a CCS value chain for Europe"
• Lesley James, Memorial University of Newfoundland: “An Integrated Approach to Net Zero in Remote Regions”
• Lorena Moscardelli, University of Texas at Austin: “Subsurface H2 Storage in Texas: Opportunities and Challenges”
• Questions

16:20 – 16:50 Hosted by Tor Øyvind Skeiseid 

• Andreas Bjelland Eriksen (Ministry of Petroleum and Energy)
• Gunnar Lille (OG21)
• Torgeir Stordal (NPD)
• Nicholas John Ashton (Equinor)

16:55 End of conference day 1  

19:00 Conference dinner at Hotel Victoria

09:00-10:10

• César Patiño (IEA) – “From Subsurface to Surface integration for a NET ZERO target”
• Geoff Johnson, Ithaca Energy: “From offshore polymer pilot to full-field EOR development, the Captain story”
• Erik Saenger, Bochum University of Applied Sciences: “Computational Rock Physics»
• Questions

10:30-11:40

• Viktoriya Yarushina, IFE: “Potential leakage mechanisms and their relevance to CO2 storage site risk assessment and safe operation”
• Spyridon Bellas, Twinn2Set, Institute of GeoEnergy, FORTH: “Trapping the Gases: Exploration for Potential On- and Offshore Underground Geo-Storage Sites (CO2, CH4, H2) in Greece; An Overview”
• Sverre Planke, Volcanic Basin Energy Research: "Permanent sequestration of gigatons of CO₂ in continental margin basalt deposits”
• Questions
• Poster announcement – 1 minute per candidate

11:40-12:50 Lunch

12:50-14:05

• Chunming Rong, UiS: “Federated Knowledge Cloud for Digital Subsurface”
• Alexander Shadchnev (Slb): “Digital Subsurface Integration”
• Reidar Bratvold, UiS: “Probabilistic Production Forecasts: Optimistic and Overconfident – Over and Over Again”
• Tao Yang, Equinor: “Digital Subsurface: A Success Story From Idea to Implementation”
• Questions

14:35-15:50

• Alejandro Escalona, NCS2030: "NCS sustainable energy hubs, challenges and opportunities”
• Harald Linga, SFI-SWIPA P&A: “Innovation-driven R&D for well barriers and P&A”
• Fionn Iversen, FME Hyvalue: "The potential for hydrogen as an energy carrier in the future energy mix"
• Morten Jeppesen, DTU Offshore: “The Danish Offshore Technology Centre: Tailormade R&D solutions for the energy transition”
• Discussion

15:50-16:05

• Skjæveland Award with Merete Vadla Madland, prorector UiS
• Summing up with Camilla Vavik Pedersen, Equinor