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9:30
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David Bamford - Director - Finding Petroleum
Chairman's introduction
David Bamford is well known around the oil & gas industry both as an explorer and a geophysicist. He holds a Physics degree from the University of Bristol and a Ph.D in Geological Sciences from the University of Birmingham.
Since 2004, he has been a non-executive director at Tullow Oil plc, being recruited for this position especially for his exploration knowledge. He serves on the Nominations and Remuneration Committees, and was chairman of the latter, and Senior Independent Director, for 3 years prior to his retire from the board at the end of April 2014.
He was on the board of Premier Oil from May 2014 to May 2016.
He retired from BP plc in 2003, his last four positions being Chief Geophysicist (1990-1995), Business Unit Leader (General Manager) for first West Africa and then Norway (1995-1999), and finally Head of Exploration until 2003.
He has served on the boards of Paras Ltd, a small exploration and IS/IT consulting company in which he held 22% equity, until its sale to RPS Energy in 2008 and Welltec a/s, a Danish well engineering company, as the nominee of the private equity investor Riverside.
From 2012 to 201 he was on the board of ASX-quoted Australia Oriental Energy as a non-executive director.
He was a founder of Richmond Energy Partners, a small oil & gas research house, and several media companies that focus on the oil & gas sector, and has served as an advisor to Alliance Bernstein, Opus Executive, the Parkmead Group plc, and Kimmeridge Energy LLP. Since retiring from BP, he has undertaken asset and company valuation projects for investment banks, hedge funds and small oil companies.
Finding Petroleum
Finding Petroleum was established to help the oil and gas industry network, and stay up to date on the latest technological developments. It does this via hosting regular events and with an online social network of nearly 10,000 members.
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9:40
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Robert Waterhouse - Managing Director - Rosha Resources Ltd
Review of non-seismic exploration methods and technologies – and their application
Talk Description.
- From “Dad” Joiner (who discovered the East Texas field in the 1930s) to thermal imaging
- A range of scientific methods which can theoretically be used to search for petroleum deposits
- Commercial exploration tools built on these scientific methods – and how these tools are currently being applied
- Possible lessons for improving the currently low rate of discovered volumes
Robert has previously been involved in marketing non-seismic exploration technology to international E&Ps, and he is currently focused upon executive search and executive coaching for senior management at natural resources and other companies. His career spans the private, public and civil service sectors. He studied the History of Science in his degree.
Rosha Resources Ltd
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10:15
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Gordon Stove - Co-Founder & Managing Director - Adrok
Why electromagnetics have the potential to massively add value to seismic exploration
Talk Description.
- What electromagnetic survey is about
- How the technology has advanced over the past few years
- Why oil companies are reluctant to use it
Goal:
To develop and implement innovative technologies to help find hydrocarbons and minerals vital to the world’s health and welfare.
Responsibilities:
Strategic Technology Planning and Innovation in Upstream Oil & Gas, as well as Mining.
Coaching and managing staff
Financial management and wealth creation
Overseeing key operations in our provision of Geophysical Survey Services
Intellectual Property creation and protection
Technology and Product development
Health & Safety – ensuring that our staff returns home safely every day.
Background:
Gordon has over 10 years’ experience in developing and applying geoscience technologies. He is co-founder and shareholder of Adrok Ltd and since Adrok’s inception Gordon has managed technology developments and the company’s global services business. Gordon’s a Member of the Energy Institute, PESGB, EAGE, SEG, AAPG, the Scottish Oil Club, Institute of Directors and the Caledonian Club. Gordon supports young entrepreneurs as a Business Mentor for Business Mentoring Scotland, as well as for the Prince’s Trust Youth Business Scotland. Gordon holds a BSc (Hons) in Geography from the University of Edinburgh, is a PRINCE2 Registered Practitioner and completed the School of CEOs.
Adrok
Adrok Group, based in Edinburgh, provides subsurface imaging and mapping solutions, using its atomic dielectric resonance (ADR) scanner, to help understand the structure and content of the subsurface. The same technology has been used to analyse and classify blood, and image the human body.
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10:50
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Coffee & Tea; Exhibits
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11:15
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Tony Bell - Area Geophysicist - PGS
Advanced Full Waveform Inversion (FWI) stabilization
Talk Description.
Inverse problems utilize model parameters to infer information about the observable data. We present two advanced methods of inversion. The first utilizes advanced stabilization methods in the inversion to generate high resolution and stable Earth models through the process of Full Waveform Inversion. Once an accurate model has been generated we demonstrate the use of wave equation reflectivity inversion to compensate for acquisition related illumination and amplitude variation; mitigating uncertainty in imaging.
Tony has over 25 years of experience gained within the seismic discipline, with roles covering both data acquisition and processing, working for both research organisations and contractors. The last 17 years have been focussed on the supervision of depth imaging projects from the major marine oil provinces throughout the world. His current position as Area Geophysicist at PGS involves supporting the Imaging & Engineering department within the EAME region.
PGS
PGS is a leading, international, marine geophysical company. Our business is technology driven and we provide a range of products and services including MultiClient data, as well as tailored acquisition, and imaging.
Our large, modern data library comprises ~850 000 sq. km 3D and ~670 000 km of 2D seismic data that targets areas of high prospectivity, where oil companies have potential to access acreage. Around 44% of the 3D data in our library and 60% of the 2D data have been acquired with multisensor GeoStreamer® technology. That proportion is growing.
PGS is the industry's most experienced provider of multisensor broadband data.
Worldwide, PGS operates three larger sales and imaging hubs in Europe and North America, and has local offices in 13 countries. The PGS headquarters is in Oslo, Norway and the PGS share is listed on the Oslo stock exchange (OSE: PGS).
PGS activities are organized into three business areas.
.Sales & Imaging promotes and sells seismic services including tailored acquisition contracts, MultiClient library data, and imaging services .New Ventures designs and markets new MultiClient campaigns and manages strategic projects .Operations & Technology plans, manages and executes all our acquisition projects, and develops new technology solutions
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11:50
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Phil Fontana - Chief Geophysicist - Polarcus
Using multiple sources in towed streamer acquisition
Talk Description.
- Savings in time and cost due to more efficient in-field operation, reduced number of vessel sail lines for any given survey area
- What improvement in overall data quality can we expect from increased trace density?
- Why traditional constraints on inline shot interval vs record length vs vessel speed have been removed due to use of continuous recording systems and processing breakthroughs in de-blending overlapping shot data
- Achieving the desired 3D spatial sampling using more than two sources in the cross line direction rather than a large number of more closely spaced streamers
Phil has over 32 years of experience in the field of marine geophysics. During that time he has held several senior level technical positions in marine seismic data acquisition at Western Geophysical, WesternGeco, Veritas DGC, and CGGVeritas. Prior to joining Polarcus in December of 2008, Phil held the position of Geophysical Manager for CGGVeritas' marine acquisition product line. Phil holds a BS degree in Geology and a MS degree in Geophysics from the University of Connecticut in the USA.
Polarcus
We have a pure play strategy focusing on the marine towed streamer seismic acquisition business, coupled with a strong commitment to minimize our environmental impact in the performance of our work. This clear strategy will ensure that our extensive experience and resources will be fully focused on the successful execution of seismic surveys, whether proprietary or multi- client, 3D or 4D, whilst leaving the lowest possible environmental footprint.
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12:25
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Dr Duncan Irving - Practice Partner, oil and gas - Teradata
New (and low cost) geophysical approaches from old data and even older mathematics: Data science meets geoscience
Duncan Irving is the Oil & Gas Consulting Team Lead, EMEA & APAC with Teradata. Duncan joined Teradata from the University of Manchester where he instructed in geophysical interpretation and geocomputational methods for the last seven years. He was involved in consulting and research projects involving user interactions with massive subsurface datasets and more general upstream data management, and he continues to maintain research links as an honorary lecturer. One long term project was with Teradata and he drove the development of Teradata's capabilities in the Upstream Oil and Gas area. This time provided him with a deep understanding of the capabilities of Teradata and how they can best be used in the petroleum industry.
He is a geophysicist and also has a PhD in glacial geophysics and geotechnical engineering (why frozen ground moves faster during climate warming and how this affects infrastructure). Duncan lives in the hills outside Manchester with his wife and three children. He is a mountaineer, fell runner and is a card-carrying member of the CAMpaign for Real Ale.
Teradata
Teradata is the world's largest company solely focused on creating enterprise agility through database software, enterprise data warehousing, and analytics. It's our passion and it's all we do. For the Oil & Gas Industry it must be "now", it must be safe, and it has to scale. Whether it is upstream reservoir data analytics, production and refining real-time data analysis, operations management, or back-office ERP provisioning Teradata has the technology platform, scalability, people and approach that will allow you to do more with your data - today.
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PGS is a leading, international, marine geophysical company. Our business is technology driven and we provide a range of products and services including MultiClient data, as well as tailored acquisition, and imaging.
Our large, modern data library comprises ~850 000 sq. km 3D and ~670 000 km of 2D seismic data that targets areas of high prospectivity, where oil companies have potential to access acreage. Around 44% of the 3D data in our library and 60% of the 2D data have been acquired with multisensor GeoStreamer® technology. That proportion is growing.
PGS is the industry's most experienced provider of multisensor broadband data.
Worldwide, PGS operates three larger sales and imaging hubs in Europe and North America, and has local offices in 13 countries. The PGS headquarters is in Oslo, Norway and the PGS share is listed on the Oslo stock exchange (OSE: PGS).
PGS activities are organized into three business areas.
.Sales & Imaging promotes and sells seismic services including tailored acquisition contracts, MultiClient library data, and imaging services .New Ventures designs and markets new MultiClient campaigns and manages strategic projects .Operations & Technology plans, manages and executes all our acquisition projects, and develops new technology solutions
Teradata is the world's largest company solely focused on creating enterprise agility through database software, enterprise data warehousing, and analytics. It's our passion and it's all we do. For the Oil & Gas Industry it must be "now", it must be safe, and it has to scale. Whether it is upstream reservoir data analytics, production and refining real-time data analysis, operations management, or back-office ERP provisioning Teradata has the technology platform, scalability, people and approach that will allow you to do more with your data - today.
Gordon Stove
Co-Founder & Managing Director
Adrok
United Kingdom
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Robert FE Jones
Director
Geoko Ltd
United Kingdom
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Mark Seymour
Sales Supervisor Marine Contract Africa
PGS
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Paul Murphy
Key Account Manager, Oil and Gas Division
Airbus Defence and Space
United Kingdom
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Alexander Chalke
Partner
Grosvenor Clive & Stokes
United Kingdom
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Joshua May
Business Development - Africa
PGS
United Kingdom
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Geoffrey Boyd
Field Development Consultant
Antium FRONTFIELD
United Kingdom
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Keely Harris
Asset & JV Manager
Impact Oil & Gas
United Kingdom
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David Contreras
Gegional Geoscience Manager
Polarcus
United Kingdom
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Joanna Wallis
Geophysicist
BG Group
United Kingdom
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Neil Simons
Consultant
Independent
United Kingdom
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Phil Fontana
Chief Geophysicist
Polarcus
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David Sendra
Associate Consultant
BlackRockQI
United Kingdom
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Stuart Fairhead
Consulting Geophysicist
Independent
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Dave Forecast
sales supervisor
Polarcus
United Kingdom
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Robert Kennedy
Managing Director
Caithness Petroleum Limited
United Kingdom
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Mark Robinson
Consultant
Independent
United Kingdom
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Zuzana Kralova
Polarcus
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Jo Firth
Senior geophysicist
CGG
United Kingdom
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Neil Dyer
Independent
United Kingdom
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Roger Doery
Retired
Retired
United Kingdom
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James Andrew
Busines Development Mgr EAME
CGG
United Kingdom
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Manouchehr Takin
Independent consultant
United Kingdom
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Richard Walker
Geophysical Consultant
Richard Walker Geoscience Ltd
United Kingdom
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george steel
director
Connect2 LLC
United States
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Simon Marshall
Head of events - energy, oil and gas
ITE Group
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Robert Waterhouse
Director
Rosha Resources Ltd
United Kingdom
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John Cryan
Geophysicist
Consultant
United Kingdom
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Simon Marshall
Head of events - energy, oil and gas
ITE Group
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Martin Smith
Business Development Manager - Operations
RPS Energy
United Kingdom
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Peter Farrington
Geophysicist
Consultant Geophysicist
United Kingdom
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John Griffith
Upstream Advisor
JJG Consulting International Ltd
United Kingdom
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Paul Strachowski
Seismic QC
RPS Energy
United Kingdom
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Colin Clarke
Geophysicist
Consulting Geoscience
United Kingdom
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Alan Smith
Director
Luchelan Limited
United Kingdom
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Robert Heath
Retired
Seismic & Oilfield Services Ltd
United Kingdom
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Grahame Grover
Director
Cumbre Consulting
United Kingdom
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Mike James
Business Consultant
Moveout Data Seismic Services Ltd
United Kingdom
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David Webber
Seismic Operations Consultant
Seismic Operations Consultant
United Kingdom
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Charles Thomas
SEnior Vice PResident Africa & UKCS
EMGS
United Kingdom
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Darren McDonald
Managing Director
Moveout Data Seismic Services Ltd
United Kingdom
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Mike Rego
Managing Director
Septima Energy Pte. Ltd.
United Kingdom
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Javier Herbas
?Senior Geophysicist
ENGIE
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David Bamford
Director
New Eyes Exploration Ltd
UK
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Tim Brice
Chief Geophysicist Marine Acquisition
Shearwater Geoservices
United Kingdom
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Joshua Lowe
Geophysicist / Data Scientist
ENGIE
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Helen Turnell
Principal Consultant
NR Global Consulting Ltd
United Kingdom
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Chris Newton
Sales Manager
Shearwater GeoSolutions
United Kingdom
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Simon Fleckner
Geoscientist
Envoi Ltd
United Kingdom
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Alex Stedman
Software Sales Geophysicist
Open Geophysical
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Christian Bukovics
Senior Independent Director
Sound Energy Plc
United Kingdom
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Geoff Chambers
Lead Data Scientist
Evaluate
United Kingdom
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Aoife Carr
Senior Geoscientist
Ophir Energy
United Kingdom
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Oxana Bristowe
Director
Stand4More
United Kingdom
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Richard McIntyre
Sales Manager
Finding Petroleum
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Peter Dolan
advisor to the board of directors
ophir energy plc
United Kingdom
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Vibhusha Raj Sharma
StrategicFit
United Kingdom
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Karl Jeffery
Editor
Finding Petroleum
United Kingdom
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Dave Waters
Director and Geoscience Consultant
Paetoro Consulting UK Ltd
United Kingdom
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Andre Sharma
Petroleum Analyst
Svenska Petroleum Exploration AB
United Kingdom
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Avinga Pallangyo
Events Coordinator
Finding Petroleum
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Robert Parker
Consultant
Parker
United Kingdom
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Ali Elyaseri
Petroleum Economist
Svenska Petroleum Exploration AB
United Kingdom
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Jerome Foreman
Principle Geoscientist
Foreman Consultants
United Kingdom
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David Cleverly
Geophysicist
Perenco
United Kingdom
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John Sunderland
Retired
TGS-NOPEC-retired
United Kingdom
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Simon Cushing
Research Director
Gartner
United Kingdom
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Lesley Auchterlonie
Sales Area Manager EAME/CIS
PGS
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Duncan Irving
Head of AI and Automation
tietoEVRY
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Alice Sapcaliu
Project Manager
GBC Ltd
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Tony Bell
Area Geophysicist
PGS
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Hugh Ebbutt
Associated Director
WSS Energy Consulting
United Kingdom
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Adrian Kerr
GdF Suez E&P UK
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