Global Hotspots
...are we at a nodal point?
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Nick Norton
» Senior Energy Advisor, Energy Security Team
» Foreign & Commonwealth Office, UK Government
Neil Hodgson
» VP geoscience
» Searcher Seismic
Stanislaw Mazur
» Principal Consultant
» Getech
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Tuesday, April 22, 2014
London
The Geological Society
Is global exploration at a nodal point? No, we are at "LE CRUNCH"!
Let’s consider the three main exploration themes of the moment, namely Deep Water, the Arctic and Onshore/Unconventionals:
Deep Water:
· Are we beginning to run out of prolific plays/basins?
· Aren’t exploration drilling costs spiralling out of control?
· Aren’t development projects unreasonably expensive, typically late and over-budget, and failing to deliver promised production (leading to weak cash flows, NPV losses, reserves downgrades)?
Of these, the most important are the spiralling costs!
The Arctic:
· Can we only explore safely in the Arctic at prohibitive costs?
· Is it true that there are no known development technologies that can deliver production safely and economically in ice-prone environments?
Onshore/Unconventionals:
· Shale gas and shale oil exploitation continues apace in the USA (and Canada).
· Isn’t shale gas and oil exploration in NW Europe in general and the UK in particular going to be disappointing, contentious, long-term?
· Aren’t China and Russia (and perhaps parts of Africa and Australia) going to be the ‘hot’, if not the only, places onshore?
We invite insightful contributions on these topics – please contact David Bamford directly.
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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.
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Dr Nick Norton is the Senior Energy Advisor to the Climate Change and Energy Department of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Nick has 30 years experience in the energy industry working for BP and latterly consulting which included finance and business development roles in the coal, petrochemicals, upstream oil & gas and renewable sectors. Most recent geographical experience has included Russia and Iraq.
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Ivan Sandrea is a senior advisor to the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies and a global consultant.
Ivan’s previously served as President and COO for the Energy Intelligence Group (EIG) in London. Prior to joining EIG, Ivan was Vice President of Global Strategy and Business Development, and Vice President of International E&P Strategy for Statoil (4 yeas). During his career at Statoil he established world class units within the firm covering both business intelligence and strategy development (London and Oslo). Prior to his position at Statoil, he was Head of Oil Supply at the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), and was responsible for the supply and oil balance sections of the OPEC Monthly Report and the supply section in the annual World Oil and Industry Outlook reporting directly to the Secretariat and the Economic Commission Board (Austria). At OPEC, Ivan also acted as the technical liaison with non-OPEC countries and represented OPEC at the UNECE Expert Group on Resource Classification in Geneva. Ivan is also familiar with the financial community and before working at OPEC was Associate Vice President for Oil & Gas Equities at Merrill Lynch. He is trained as a petroleum geologist and began his career at BP Exploration International where he worked in exploration, operations, and commercial positions in Venezuela, Norway and Egypt.
Ivan is currently active as a Senior Research Advisor at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies (UK); member of the Oxford Energy Policy Club; co-founder, Board Member, and lecturer of strategy at the Executive Energy MBA program at Vienna’s Wirtschaftsuniversität (WU) in Austria; member of the UNECE Expert Group on Resource Classification (Geneva);Board Member of KleineHerzen (Austria), a non-profit organisation dedicated to supporting orphans children in Russia and Ukraine. He has published over 16 papers and contributed to a number of books and publications.
He was recently appointed as a trustee to the Energy Policy Research Foundation, Inc. (Washington, D.C.). EPRINC, a non-profit think tank established in 1944, provides research and analysis of contemporary petroleum issues.
Ivanholds a BSc. in geology from Baylor University, a MSc. and MBA from Edinburgh University and attended the BerkleyExecutive Leadership Program. He is married and has one son.
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Fiona is a geologist with over 25 years of experience in the oil and gas industry including time at Mobil, Amerada Hess and BG. She joined Rockhopper in 2010 immediately following the Sea Lion discovery and was an integral member of the senior team which managed the appraisal of the Sea Lion field and discovered the Casper, Casper South and Beverley fields. Fiona was appointed to the Board in March 2013.
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Neil Hodgson is VP Searcher Seismic, a company which provides high quality exploration data and leading edge tech to the global exploration industries. He is formerly executive VP geoscience with Spectrum ASA, and exploration manager at Matra Petroleum, Premier Oil and GB Group.
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