EXPLORATION, TECHNOLOGY AND BUSINESS
Finding Petroleum conference – London January 20-21 2010
Exploration, Technology and Business is an event about the best places
to find oil and gas, the best technology to use and how to make the
finances add up.
The event will share highly accurate and useful business information -
exciting exploration hot spots, new technologies and financial
techniques.
It is designed to be as accessible as possible, whatever your
background.
London is home of some of the world's most technologically advanced and
innovative independent oil and gas companies, geophysicists and
financial people - working together to push the frontiers in oil and gas
exploration.
You can join them, meet them and share their knowledge - at the London
Finding Petroleum Exploration Technology and Business Conference on Jan 20-21.
Over 135 delegates registered so far - including BP, Shell, GDF Suez, Gulf Keystone Petroleum, Caithness
Petroleum, Vegas Oil and Gas, Blackstairs Energy, Sterling Energy, Northern Petroleum, Tullow Oil, Qatar Petroleum
International, Schlumberger, Halliburton, PGS, Bayern LB, TGS Nopec, Fidelity International, Société Générale and Standard Chartered Bank.
MESSAGE FROM CONFERENCE PRODUCER DAVID BAMFORD
| Speakers Include |
Angus McCoss, Exploration Director, Tullow Oil - on Tullow's recent successes in Ghana and West Africa |
Chris Matchette-Downes, VP Business Development, East Africa Exploration, on his company's opportunities in East Africa and the Western Indian Ocean |
Neil McMahon, Senior Analyst, Bernstein Research, one of Wall Street's "premier sell-side research firms", on exploration hotspots around the world and which companies are winning the global exploration race |
The conference director and moderator is David Bamford, a non executive director of Tullow Oil and a past head of exploration and head of West Africa with BP |
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Exploration in the future will take us to tougher areas, more complex geology, more difficult
reservoirs and, unless we are very smart, much higher finding costs.
It would be wrong, ironic and a great shame if, as companies increased expenditures coming out
of the current downturn, they find less barrels and molecules due to tough problems and rampant oil field service prices.
Our conference will reflect that innovation, the exercise of knowhow and the smart application of
technology, are all alive and kicking in the world of exploration and there have been some noticeable
successes, such as the Balmer Basin of Rajasthan, the Lower Tertiary of the Deep Water Gulf of Mexico,
the Albertine Basin of Uganda, the sub-salt of the Santos Basin, Brasil, deep water Angola, in the
Jurassic of the southern end of the West Siberia Basin
chasing unconventional gas onshore in the USA.
We will emphasise new technology - methods which are already providing results in the oilfield -
looking for stories about what people have done, how they did it and what they will do next, and the
oil operators, service companies and suppliers behind it.
We'll examine an interesting business outcome, the apparent sub-plot of the relative failure of the
majors to participate in all of this and their possible replacement at the ‘cutting edge’ of exploration
by the likes of Petrobras & BG, Cairn Energy, Tullow Oil, Anadarko Petroleum, and a host of small companies in the USA.
If we separate out 'true' new exploration the independents seem to be in the driving seat and coming up
with some really innovative plays, while the Majors plug away in more appraisal based activities in the
large basins; the business issue is that the latter then risk losing the plot on mid term organic growth.
We'll encourage minimal use of technical jargon, so that people from different disciplines can easily
share their experiences and views.
The conference is supported by an online social network at network.findingpetroleum.com, where you can
contact other speakers and delegates publicly and privately, blog about your experiences and share photos,
videos and powerpoints.
I look forward to seeing you there,
