National Power New Zealand features post event workshop, which is a half day. The Current Upstream Issues – Pathway to Further Oil and Gas Discoveries will commence at 8:30am and finish at 12:30pm.
Refreshments will be served at appropriate times. Participants will receive all workshop materials.
Post-Conference Workshop:
Current Upstream Issues – Pathway to Further Oil and Gas Discoveries
Friday 27 February 2009
8:30-12:30
The “national gas reserves book” – how adequate are official statistics on gas reserves?
Implications of reserves uncertainties for downstream industries (including power)
Access to exploration opportunities – permit allocation policies and administratio
Towards critical mass – addressing shortfalls in essential services and skills at all points in the oil and gas value chain
Oil exploration and gas discovery – why oil’s economics are so superior
LNG as a “back-stop” – how valid and how likely?
About your workshop leader
Mac Beggs
Managing Director Geosphere
Dr Mac Beggs is the Managing Director of GeoSphere Ltd, a Wellington oil and gas exploration consulting firm, and also currently the Deputy Chair of the Petroleum Exploration and Production Association of New Zealand and Convenor of the Resource Frontiers Programme for the Centre for Advanced Engineering (CAENZ). A geologist by profession, prior to founding GeoSphere in 1997 he held scientist and management positions with GNS Science, and worked for several years as an
exploration geologist for a major oil company in the United States of America.
