Super Basins 19: Exploration in Ukraine
preparing for the day when Ukraine can rebuild
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Ivan Karpenko
» Head of Regional Exploration
» Naftogaz Group
Felipe Rodriguez
» Independent consultant: Petroleum Systems Analysis
» Independent consultant
Full Agenda
Friday, April 28, 2023
Webinar
Online
At our first Ukraine webinar on Apr 28, we will hear from Ivan Karpenko, head of regional exploration at Naftogaz Group (state-owned NOC) - leading a team of explorers looking for hydrocarbons in frontier deep-water Black sea and mature plays in Dnieper-Donets basin.
Ukraine has three major petroleum-rich regions - the Dniepr-Donets Basin, the offshore Black Sea, and the Carpathians. Geological settings vary widely in Ukraine - multiple conventional and unconventional plays, thermogenic and biogenic from shallow to ultra-deep.
This webinar is timed to come a few weeks before the international Ukraine Recovery Conference (URC 2023) in London on June 21-22. This is organised jointly by the governments of UK and Ukraine.
Comment from David Bamford:
In the past, several oil & gas Majors have either entered Ukraine – Shell and Chevron for example – or seriously thought about it – as BP did in the first couple of years of the 21st Century. I was coming up to retirement then but I remember we did a great deal of technical and commercial work but eventually chose not to proceed because the economics didn’t ‘work’ (which may be code for not figuring out how to re-patriate dollars from Ukraine to the UK!).
Now things are different.
We hope that we are not too far from the day when Russian troops leave Ukraine. Then there will need to be massive efforts to rebuild. It will help Ukraine greatly if it is able to develop its own hydrocarbon resources, preferably tied with CO2 sequestration projects.
And we can ask the question: at a minimum does Ukraine have the reserves and prospective resources to reconstruct itself in the short term or could it in fact become a major supplier of hydrocarbons, especially gas, to the rest of Europe?
Karl Jeffery is editor and co-founder of Digital Energy Journal, and conference producer of Finding Petroleum. He is also publisher of Carbon Capture Journal and Tanker Operator, and co-founder of Digital Ship, a publishing and events company covering digital technology for the deep sea maritime industry. He has a BEng in chemical engineering from Nottingham University
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Talk Description
Ukraine has three major petroleum-rich regions - the Dniepr-Donets Basin, the offshore Black Sea, and the Carpathians. Geological settings vary widely in Ukraine - multiple conventional and unconventional plays, thermogenic and biogenic from shallow to ultra-deep. |
Ivan Karpenko Iis a Head of Regional Exploration at Naftogaz Group (state-owned NOC) - leading a team of explorers looking for hydrocarbons in frontier deep-water Black sea and mature plays in Dnieper-Donets basin. He has been at Naftogaz since 2016 as a senior upstream analyst, project manager and regional exploration team lead. He has also worked with PETROPLY and Regal Petroleum in Kiev. He has a Phd in Petroleum Systems of the Southern Border of Dnieper-Donets basin from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kiev.
Naftogaz Group
Naftogaz Group is the Ukrainian National Oil Company. It engages in a full cycle of field exploratio
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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 joined the board of Premier Oil in May 2014.
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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Felipe is a former head of the basin analysis department with Naftogaz of Ukraine based in Kiev (Aug 2021-Apr 2022) and formerly with BP ((2012-2021) where he supported the Egypt Exploration and Reservoir Development teams and participated in 2 offshore gas discoveries and 2 blocks access. He was also based in Moscow with BP, where he was involved in discovering the 15.5 TCF GIIP Zinichev field, the biggest discovery in the world of 2021. Before that he was in Madrid in Cepsa as Head of the Petroleum Systems Department and in Argentina in Repsol working in conventionals and in Vaca Muerta.
A dedicated Geoscientist with 21 years' of experience in the Oil & Gas industry. A proven track record of discoveries and execution of projects at different scales from regional exploration to reservoir development worldwide. Excels in basin modelling, geochemistry, play concept development, prospect risk assessment, field charge history and reservoir subsurface evaluation. Highly adaptable to different working environments with broad international experience. Fluent Spanish, English and French, intermediate Russian. A people focused individual, who works collaboratively with stakeholders and teams. A problem solving approach, coupled with commercial awareness, creativity, attention to detail and a drive to achieve, ensures high quality delivery of business objectives.
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