Programme & Speakers

Frode Uriansrud is the Leader of the Advisory Group Injection (AGI) in Equinor.  AGI is a multi disciplinary competence group in collaboration between Subsurface, Drilling&Well and environmental risk.

He is a geologist based in Bergen, Norway.  He started with two years site survey geologist/geophysicist experience (Geoconsult), then four years as a Researcher in Marine Environmental Contamination at Norwegian institute for Water research (NIVA).  The past 15 years with Equinor as Operations/wellsite geologist, Project manager field development and Specialist injection and overburden.

15 years’ experience related to injection wells with AGI, since 2007 in: well monitoring, well design, Investigations, QA/QC, Teaching – training courses (Equinor internal) and Governing documentation.

Frode is presenting on the 24 August on ‘Safe and efficient injection of produced water – A cross disciplinary challenge – From geological understanding to topside water treatment’.

Obinna is a Lead Production Engineer with Harbour Energy in the UK. He has 20 years’ experience in the oil and gas industry spanning a mixture of technical  and operations roles in both the service and operator arms of the industry; from a number of geographical locations. His main interests are in well productivity, formation damage diagnosis, production enhancement (including stimulation), well completions, flow assurance and pressure transient analysis. He has authored some SPE papers in this area. He holds an MSc. degree in Petroleum Engineering from Heriot Watt university.

Obinna is chairing the completions session on 23 August alongside Bjarne Salmelid

Sam leads Scaled Solutions’ Core Flood Team at their Flagship Laboratory in Livingston, just outside Edinburgh, and is also the company’s Lead Geologist. She specialises in formation damage diagnosis, core analysis and chemical testing for the oil, gas and energy industry, utilising core flooding coupled with SEM/EDX and Micro-CT imaging for formation damage assessment.

Sam has over a decade’s worth of experience in solving clients’ formation damage problems, testing chemical treatments, and designing core flood studies to solve complex production or injection challenges. Her special areas of interest are drilling fluids, completion fluids and breakers, EOR, water injection and CCUS.

Sam is presenting in the Drilling session on the 23 August at 9.15

Niall Fleming is a specialist in production technology for Equinor, based in Norway.  His main interests are well productivity, formation evaluation and completion damage.

For Equinor, Niall has held positions as leading advisor for well productivity and stimulation; lead production engineer on North Komsomolskoye in Siberia, production engineer on Bacalhau offshore Brazil, and latterly production engineer on BMC-33, a deep water Brazil field.

Niall holds a PHD degree in geology from Imperial College London.  Also executive editor for SPE Production & Operations, serves on the JPT Editorial Review Committee and has been a member of the organising committees for several SPE conferences and workshops.  In 2015 he was awarded the SPE A Peer Apart award and is a four time recipient of SPE’s outstanding technical editor award.

Niall is presenting in the Drilling session on the 23 August at 10.55.

Mojtaba Moradi holds a PhD in Petroleum Engineering from Heriot Watt University in Scotland after having received a BSc in same from the Amirkabir University of Technology in Tehran. His love of Scotland kept him at Heriot Watt university for a further year as a Consultant Reservoir Engineer working in the Centre of Enhanced Oil Recovery and CO2 Solutions.

He then joined Tendeka in 2017 as a Reservoir Engineer performing full field reservoir simulation studies as well as performing integrated well & reservoir modelling, history matching, uncertainty analysis and production forecasting, in particular, for wells equipped with flow control technologies. Mojtaba enjoys mentoring and supporting junior engineers.

Mojtaba is presenting in the Completions session on the 23 August at 13.05.

Bjarne is Fluids Technical Advisor at Baroid Halliburton where he has had various roles within the organization in Africa and Europe. Throughout his 28 years of oil field experience in different service companies, he has had technical and operational responsibilities within pumping services, drilling fluids and completion fluids. His expertise is withing reservoir and completion fluid related issues.

He received a Petroleum Engineer degree from Stavanger University and has authored several technical papers relating to fluids and formation damage.

Bjarne is chairing the Completions session on 23 August alongside Obinna Ugoala from Harbour Energy.

Stine is Lead Engineer PeTech in Equinor ASA currently heading up a R&D project portfolio related to Recovery Processes. She has 20+ years in company experience within production engineering task related to well performance and optimization during field start-ups and daily operation. Supported both NSC and international assets.

Stine is chairing the Injection session on 24 August alongside Dave Knox of Newpark

Olav Martin Selle is a Specialist in Production Technology for Equinor, Subsurface, Competence Centre International, Production Technology based in Stjørdal, Norway. His specialty is well chemistry and is giving specialist support within scale management, chemical sand consolidation, chemical water/gas shut-off, well damage/stimulation.

He has worked for 42 years in the industry, 29 years with Equinor and 13 years with SINTEF Petroleum Research.

At Equinor he started at their Research Centre with formation damage and “green” chemistry before he came to Operations and was responsible for well chemistry at Heidrun and Norne. Later he became responsible for qualifying chemical EOR projects for Heidrun. He is now giving specialist support within well chemistry to several fields within the company including the start-up of Njord Fields.

Olav is presenting in the Production session on the 24 August at 14.45.

David Lavery is a Senior Well Log Analyst with Metrol with over a decade of experience in downhole data analysis and wellsite operations. He has a Masters degree in Aero-Mechanical Engineering and is a chartered engineer with the Institute of Mechanical Engineers.

His focus is on transforming downhole gauge data to reveal what is happening below the surface.

David is presenting in the Production session on the 24 August at 13.40.

Knut Hovem is a Senior Completion Engineer at Lundin Energy Norway and worked on the Solveig development. The Solveig water injection wells are the subject of the presentation.

Before then he was with Neptune Energy and work on Gjøa P1 and Duva development.  Knut has worked for BP in GOM, Azerbaijan and Angola. He has also been a completion advisor for Woodside in Australia.  

He is currently working on Solveig phase 2 and the Rolvsnes development.

Knut is presenting in the Injection session on 24 August at 09.15.

I am 42 years old, married and father of two. I grew up on small island of the south coast of Norway, but I have lived my grown up life in the oil capital of Norway, beautiful Stavanger. After a BSc in Mechanical Engineering and a MSc in Industrial Economics, both with the University of Stavanger, I started as trainee engineer for Halliburton Norway in 2005. After a few years working with sand control and stimulation services, on- and offshore, I joined Equinor in 2009 where I have held various position in Norway and in USA within operations, technology, business development and then leadership positions. I am now heading what we call Discipline Engineering within Drilling & Well which is home to chief engineers, subject matter experts and technical engineering recourses supporting Equinor globally within drilling, completions and interventions.

Oddbjørn is giving a keynote address on 24 August at 08.35 on ‘With the licence to challenge and transform’.

Philip is the Managing Director of DuneFront responsible for its global software, consulting and training operations. With over 15 years of sand control experience, he previously worked in field engineering and product champion roles in both completions and pumping services, including a variety of new technology projects across downhole tools, screens and software products. He received a Masters of Mechanical Engineering (MEng) from Imperial College London, is an active member of SPE and has authored a number of technical papers, presentations and patents relating to completions and sand control.

Phil is presenting in the Completions session on 23 August at 14.50.

David Murray is a Lead Engineer and a Subject Matter Experts on Drilling Fluids and Cement based in the UK. He has worked for Shell for 33 years, 10 years were spent in Production Chemistry before moving to Well Engineering where he held the position of Team Lead in Front End Design for Subsea NPNT Wells which included the Arran Project.

Dave is presenting in the Drilling session on the 23 August at 10.20.

Phil Jackson is a Well Productivity Advisor based in the UK supporting global operations. He has worked for BP for 12 years, spending 8 of those years as a Senior Fluids Specialist in Azerbaijan and GoM.   Prior to joining BP, he spent 13 years with Halliburton/Baroid in various international roles.

Phil is co-chairing the Drilling session alongside Kirsty Houston, plus presenting on the 24 August at 10.50.

Morten Hansen Jondahl is the project leader of the JIP project Best practice for inflow control technologies at Ranold. He holds a PhD in Process, Energy and Automation from University of South-Eastern Norway (USN), and a MSc in Geosciences and petroleum technology from Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). He has experience working with measurements while drilling (MWD) at Halliburton and well interventions in Equinor.

Morten is presenting in the Production session on 24 August at 15.20.

Artur Latypov, Project Manager – WPRS, Schlumberger

Artur Latypov is a well construction and intervention professional with 12 years of experience focusing on the introduction of multilateral technology on different geographies and scenarios to extract maximum value from both brown and green fields.

Areas of interest: Energy transition, Asset value maximization. Recovery factor improvement. Field of life extension. Multilateral technologies; Smart wells; High value well architectures; Complex technical solutions. Electrification of infrastructure. Getting control and sensing deeper to the reservoir.

Artur is presenting in the Completions session on 23 August at 13.40.

Mads Rødsjø joined Aker BP as VP Drilling and Well Operations in 2020 from the position as SVP Drilling and Wells in Aker Energy. In his current job Mads Rødsjø is responsible both the Jack-up and Semi Alliance operations in AkerBP.

He has previously held the positions as Head of D&W in OKEA and has also worked in a variety of positions for BP and Det Norske.

Mr Rødsjø has extensive experience with planning, execution and managing drilling and well operations in the North Sea both in Norway and UK. Experience range from Deepwater West of Shetlands to later the Ivar Aasen Development and multiple exploration drilling campaigns.

He holds a Master of Science Degree within Petroleum Technology from NTNU. Mr Rødsjø is a Norwegian citizen.

Mads is giving a keynote address on 23 August at 08.35.

Martin is the Discipline Lead and Distinguished Advisor for Reservoir and Well Enhancement at THREE60 ENERGY Ltd.  Previously he worked at bp, their NOJVs and partner companies for more than 37 years.  Technically, he has been involved in all aspects of pumping, well interventions and pressure control service, multi-laterals, CTD and snubbing.  More recently he has specialised in unconventional resources and fracturing in tectonic and HPHT environments.  Rylance has been an SPE Distinguished Lecturer in 2007, 2013 and again in 2018, he is a Distinguished Member of the SPE and received the SPE Completions Optimization and Technology Award for the SPE GCS in 2015 and the Global Award in 2021.

Martin is presenting in the Completions session on 23 August 2022 at 15.25 .

Kirsty graduated from Robert Gordon University with a Bachelors of Science in Biosciences and Chemistry in 1996 and has been in the fluids industry for the last 25 years; first in cementing and then in drilling fluids. Her career has spanned both Schlumberger and Baker Hughes, looking after operations in the North Sea, Greenland and the Falkland Islands. Kirsty moved from operations to a technical support role in 2009 with M-I SWACO and has looked after the Eastern Hemisphere as the Technical Services Manager concentrating mainly on Europe and Africa ever since.

Kirsty is on the forum technical committee, and chairing the Drilling session alongside Phil Jackson of bp.

David has 32 years in the Drilling and Completion Fluids industry, working in technical and management roles across the Eastern Hemisphere in both the supplier and operator sector. Currently Senior Product Line Director for Cleansorb, a Newpark Company.

David is on the forum technical committee and will co-chair the Injection session alongside Stine Bøhle Karlsen, Equinor.

Alex Morrison is a product manager for reservoir drilling and completion fluids at Halliburton, based in Houston. She has over 11 years of industry experience, working in operational and technical roles across the world. Alex has been involved in the design and implementation of reservoir drilling and completion fluids in multiple geographies and well types, from non-aqueous-based systems in extended-reach wells in Eurasia, to filter-cake breaker and displacement designs in Latin America. She holds several U.S. patents and has authored or co-authored numerous technical papers. Alex earned a MChem degree in chemistry from the University of Surrey, UK.

Alex is presenting on the 24 August at 11.25.

A graduate of University College Dublin Michael has 33 years’ experience working on formation damage and well inflow challenges. With a background in Geology and laboratory formation damage testing, Michael has led many developments in test design and added to industry knowledge in areas such as fines migration and core flood testing. More recently, he has pioneered the introduction of advanced numerical techniques for upscaling laboratory results and for well inflow modelling, holding three patents related to this process. Twice an SPE Distinguished Lecturer, Michael has served on numerous SPE event committees and is a regular contributor to industry events and publications.

Mike is co-presenting the post forum workshop on the 25 August with Allan Twynam, details coming soon.

Also presenting in the Production session on 24 August at 13.05.

Allan has a B.Sc. (Hons) in Geology from the University of Wales and was employed by BP Exploration for over 27 years in various fluids related roles in technology and engineering. Allan led the Drilling and Completion Fluid Laboratories at BP Sunbury, supporting global operations in his role as Senior Advisor Fluids and Formation Damage. He is regarded as one of the most experienced formation damage mitigation and fluids design specialists in the Industry. Allan has a long association with the SPE having published over 30 technical papers and received the North Sea Drilling Engineering Technology Award in 2015. Allan achieved SPE Distinguished Lecturer status before becoming a Distinguished Member in 2016.

Allan is co-presenting the post forum workshop on the 25 August with Mike Byrne and is leading the technical committee organising the Forum.