Director analyses and framework, Oljedirektoratet

Digitalization and value creation on the Norwegian continental shelf

Value creation is the driving force behind the work in the NPD,  and digitalization will play an important role in the future. Resources on the NCS is a good basis for continued high value creation from the oil and gas industry for a long time to come. Dragvik will present the activity on the shelf in 2019 in the context of digitalization.

Kjell Agnar Dragvik has a background from Statistics Norway and the Ministry of Petroleum and Energy. He has worked here since 1997, where he has e.g. worked on shelf prognoses, projects linked to development and operations, economic value estimates of production licenses and field developments. Dragvik was a manager during the period from 2004 to 2011. After one year as a project manager in Gassco, he was hired by the directorate in the autumn of 2014 as director of analysis and framework.

CIO and SVP Corporate IT, Equinor

How IT enables Equinor’s transformation journey

Cofounder and CEO, Earth Science Analytics

Artificial Intelligence for Geoscientists

Digitalisation, data liberation, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, automation, and cross-discipline integrated solutions are enabling the next wave of improvements for sub-surface workflows and E&P business practices. Such ongoing technology development will reshape the way we work, and how we make decisions based on data. It is essential for E&P companies to adopt digital technologies and to take part in the transformation so they can maintain and/or strengthen their competitive edge.

Our objective is to enable previously unthinkable subsurface workflows using artificial intelligence, data science and cloud computing. We aim to increase workflow efficiency, increase prediction quality, achieve true integration of data and disciplines, in order to discover new exploration opportunities and increase production.

Eirik is cofounder and CEO of Earth Science Analytics. He has 20+ years’ experience from the E&P industry. He has held various technical and managerial roles in oil companies including Statoil, and 4 years as Exploration Manager in Rocksource. He has worked with exploration, field development, and production on the Norwegian Continental Shelf as well as internationally. He holds a MSC in Petroleum Geology and a PhD in sedimentology from the University of Bergen, and is now laser focused on implementation of AI and data-driven analytics in petroleum geoscience.

- Ole Bjørn Tøllefsen, Senior Account technology strategist, Microsoft
- Izabela Hawrylko, Solution Specialist Data & AI, Microsoft
- Erik Winge, Head of Onshore Operations Center, Neptune Energy
- Petter Åke Mathisen, Commercial Manager Veracity Energy, DNV GL

The Power of Partnerships. Microsoft & Neptune Energy & DNV GL

In the recent years, Microsoft has gone through an organizational and cultural transformation and become world’s largest cloud services provider. With our solutions and services within Office365, Dynamics 365, PowerApps and Azure, we are leading the way towards more digital future. And we are not doing this alone. One of the most important aspects of our business approach is to build a strong partner ecosystem and make it easy for others to build solutions on top of our platform. For us, what matters the most and what we are striving for is the success based on the power of partnerships. Focus on customer-partner-Microsoft partnerships has been in the center of our business philosophy for many years. Lately, we have managed to take these partnerships to the new heights and one of the best examples of such successful partnerships you will learn more about during our presentation.

Through a close dialogue with Neptune Energy, one of our key customers in the Energy sector, we defined a need for a better control of activities that are carried out in a close proximity of their offshore platforms. With a defined use case, we went on to engage our ecosystem to find the right partner – DNG GL that had the right expertise and capacity to deliver the project and solve Neptune’s challenge creating for the customer a real business value.

Ole Bjørn Tøllefsen is a senior account technology strategist in Microsoft. He is working closely with Norwegian Oil and Gas customers by helping them to assess, transform and optimize their technology stack.

Izabela Hawrylko is a Solution Specialist at Microsoft with the focus on data analytics and AI within oil and gas, retail and construction industries. She is also a co-founder and leads Microsoft startups Norway team.

Head of People Development at Aker BP and Adviser and Instructor at Sopra Steria

Digital license

Aker BP er et selskap som har gjort seg vel bemerket på digitaliseringsfronten og har dette høyt oppe på sin agenda. En av de viktigste oppgavene for å få verdi ut av den digitale transformasjonen er å gjøre folk i stand til å ta i bruk nye verktøy, se nye muligheter og jobbe annerledes. For å få til et løft for å få alle ansatte på et grunnleggende nivå ble det gjennom 2019 lansert og kjørt Digitalt Førerkort ved hjelp av Sopra Steria.

Brit Tone Bergman leder People Development i Aker BP hvor en essensiell del av rollen er å tilrettelegge for og å løfte digital kompetanse i selskapet. Brit Tone ledet tidligere Deloitte Consulting i Stavanger og har jobbet med ulike strategiske aspekter av digitalisering for flere industrier og tjenesteområder. Hun har før dette en lengre bakgrunn innen finans og prosjektledelse i Equinor. Hennes fokus og interessefelt er læring og utvikling av mennesker og mener at transformasjon ofte feiler fordi man ikke i stor nok grad lykkes i å ta inn det menneskelige aspektet ved siden av verktøy-, forretningsmodell- og prosess-endringer.

Torbjørn har over ti års erfaring som rådgiver, prosessleder, fasilitator og konseptutvikler. Han er utdannet regissør fra Den Norske Filmskolen, og hans erfaring favner film, tv, spill, brukeropplevelse, tjenestedesign, forretningsutvikling, endring og innovasjon. Torbjørn vektlegger iterativ og utforskende tilnærming til forretnings- og tjenesteutvikling, med fokus på brukeropplevelse, verdirealisering og gjennomførbarhet. Torbjørn er en strategisk og inspirerende designleder, kreativ og faglig sterk konseptutvikler, analytisk, systematisk, med god innsikt i teknologi, forretning og organisasjon.

Implementation Manager for Digital Field Worker on the Norwegian shelf, Equinor and Solution Architect, Bouvet

Digital Field Worker at Johan Sverdrup

Johan Sverdrup, as a digital flagship of Equinor, is a vehicle for digital innovation to improve safety, value-creation, quality and carbon efficiency. The Johan Sverdrup project has a strong mandate to drive digital solutions and new ways of working that may be scaled-up for the benefit of the company as a whole. The Digital Field Worker concept represents one such area where Johan Sverdrup has been a key driver for innovation. The vision is to enable field workers to work on-line in the same way as we who work at office locations take for granted when and where that gives value. The concept will now be implemented at other Equinor operated fields at the NCS,​ at onshore facilities, internationally and Offshore wind.

We will present the Equinor​ Digital Field Worker concept and how it gives Johan Sverdrup improvements in safety, efficiency, quality and reduced emissions. The Digitial Field Worker concept was introduced during the building phase of the platforms and offshore during the Hook up and Commissioning Phase that started May 2018. When the field started producing in October 2019, it was a well-established practice. The solutions supporting new ways of working in the field with the use of handheld devices will be demonstrated before we round off with reflections on what the future will bring for Digital Field Worker.

Head of Digitalization and Improvement in Vår Energi and Director of Atea Stavanger

Building the foundation to deliver on the digital transformation promise

When a young, yet old, company wants to profit from digitalization to realize its ambitious business plans; where does it start?

This was the challenge facing Vår Energi early 2019, after the merger between Eni Norge AS and Point Resources AS.

Astrid Huglen will share how the company has over the past year built a strong strategy and foundation to accelerate its digital transformation,- with the end user and value creation at the very core of all activity.

Vår Energi is one of the largest exploration and production (E&P) companies on the NCS, with an average production per day of 300,000 barrels of oil equivalents (boepd). Astrid Huglen is heading Digitalization and Improvement in Vår Energi, coming from leadership positions across the value chain in her 14 years of experience in the oil and gas industry.

Director Business Development, Fortinet

Protecting Operational Technology (OT) in a converging IT/OT/IoT world

Operational technology (OT), deployed within companies of all sizes, is vital to public safety and economic well-being. Digitization and removal of the traditional air-gap between IT and OT leaves Industrial Control Systems vulnerable. This session will look at some advanced best practices about how to efficiently secure converging IT/OT infrastructures with real-time integrated detection and protection touching the following:

• Automate assets discovery and detect intrusions using OT Intrusion Detection System
• Secure IT/OT convergence using advanced (Micro) Segmentation (Access vLANs)
• Automate OT threat response with IDS integration into Network security management

The session will focus on the current OT cyber security challenges within the Energy world and how the industry could address those threats/risks.

Antoine joined Fortinet as BD Director to lead the OT strategy and revenue growth in EMEA. With 20 years’ experience in product management, sales and marketing, Antoine mostly worked for industrial clients together with General Electric, ALSTOM, and ALTRAN. In his last product management role with General Electric Automation and Controls (GE A&C), he was leading the digital solution portfolio including the cyber security products and solutions for GE Industrial Control Systems.

Digital Subsurface Team Lead Exploration & Development, Neptune Energy

How Neptune Energy aims to reduce time from idea to production through digital transformation

The goal of digitalisation at Neptune is simple. It is how technology and smarter ways of working can enable safer operations, ensure optimised production efficiency and growth and enable faster value creation by accelerated exploration activities. Safer, faster better.

Our Digital Subsurface Programme aims for smart application of technology including:
• Standard and streamlined use of commercially available applications
• Niche applications to take us the extra mile
• Easy access to all subsurface data
• Centralised datahub based on OSDU
• High powered cloud based computing

In Neptune, we are working on building this advanced architecture with a tight group of new and established partners. Partnership is a key part of our strategy.

Therese Rannem holds a Master of Science in Petroleum Geophysics from NTNU. With her 10 years of experience in exploration for oil and gas, she knows the business and is familiar with areas that can be improved. Therese has now moved to IT and leads the Global Digital Subsurface Team in Neptune Energy.

Senior Business Consultant, Oil & Gas at TietoEvry

How to better manage cost and operating risk with Digital Oilfield Chemistry

Oilfield chemistry describes the chemical reactions and processes in fluids which is the origin of flow assurance and integrity problems such as corrosion, in-organic and organic deposition, separation, product quality etc. These issues impacts both production regularity and operation integrity and is a cause of increased operational cost, risk and potential loss in revenue. Interventions, treatments and preventative measures which often include mechanical, operational and chemical solutions result in different cost and success. Decisions and choices need to be data driven not only to control the operational cost but also discover the hidden cost of a non-data driven treatment strategy. We will discuss the benefit of data-driven decisions, risk management and automation in oilfield chemistry.

John-Arne Stokkan is a Senior Business Consultant at TietoEvry Oil & Gas and is the subject matter expert in oilfield chemistry for Energy Components. John-Arne holds a BSc in Petroleum Engineering from Høgskolen i Stavanger and MSc in Reservoir Chemistry from the University of Bergen. He has more than 20 years of experience as a production chemist developing chemical solutions and laboratory analytical services for oil and gas operations worldwide, and expertise in water treatments and production chemistry data management.

CEO and Founder, CYE

How to Protect Legacy Systems in a Hyper-Digitalized Era

• Founding team of the Israeli army Red-Team, Section 21
• Founding team of the Israeli army Incident Response Team
• B.Sc and M.Sc in Computer Science and Math from Tel-Aviv University
• US Department Of Homeland Security certification as world class ICS and SCADA cyber security expert
• Head of Hyver global cyber security experts community
• Trusted advisor of multiple Fortune 500 C-Level executives

Country Manager, Nutanix Norway

Deploy and management of edge and RoBo post COVID-19

The amount of data that is generated at the edge/RoBo is increasing every day. In many cases edge/RoBo solutions need to be onsite due to location, latency, amount of data generated and law of lands.

Due to COVID-19 travel restrictions, companies have to rethink how to deploy and manage onsite edge/RoBo solutions. This presentation will show how two Nutanix customers have implemented a 100% automated 1-click edge/RoBo solution during COVID-19 lockdown.

Kjell-Einar Anderssen is a IT industry veteran with more the 30 years in the IT industry. Today he is the Country manager for Nutanix Norway.

Chairman, Geoteric

Digitization - This mysterious concept we hear about everywhere

The oil industry is no stranger to digital innovation.  Since the 1980s, the industry has adopted digital technologies to drive greater efficiencies and open new ways of working. But today is different.  Disruptive technologies are driving changes in both industry and society.  Do we really understand what digitalization is, and what it means?

To us at Geoteric, we want drive greater efficiency, capture knowledge and integrate more data into the subsurface story.  To achieve that, we need to introduce new analysis techniques and workflows.  In this presentation, you will get a taste of what is now possible through the first of a new technology stream developed by Geoteric

Senior Security Consultant, Mnemonic

Cyber security in an offshore OT environment

In this presentation, Marie Moe will show practical examples on how to establish, operate and manage barriers against attacks on offshore plants.

Dr. Marie Moe cares about public safety and securing systems that may impact human lives. Marie is a senior security consultant at mnemonic, and has a PhD in information security. She is also an Associate Professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. She has experience as a team leader at NorCERT, where she did incident handling of cyberattacks against Norway’s critical infrastructure. Before joining mnemonic she worked as a research manager at SINTEF, where she did research on the cyber security of medical devices, the future power grid, and industrial automation and control systems.