The agenda

• Value through partnerships
• A golden age for gas?
• Gas development partnerships
• LNG leaders symposium
• Gas & LNG technology

• Projects & investment strategies
• Unconventional gas symposium
• Gas infrastructure development
• Russia, Caspian & CIS
• The Middle East

• Energy security and sustainability
• NOC-IOC symposium

• Creating win-win partnerships
• Human resources

• EOR and IOR

• Frontier and deepwater resources

• The Asian roundtable
• Latin America
• African opportunities
• Finance and capital raising
• The downstream plenary

• Realising deepwater potential
• Cost optimisation partnerships
• Global deepwater opportunities
• Pre-salt symposium

• Mitigating regulatory hazard
• Reservoir geology & drilling
• Well development and production design
• Well, asset and pipeline integrity
• Flow assurance

• Enterprise risk management
• Operational risk
• HSE risk management
• Government and regulation

• Contractual risk
• Financial and trading risk
• Risk pricing

Local content policies are becoming an important part of the petroleum policy in many countries.

• Understand the fundamental dynamics of NOC and IOC relationships
• Explore how to maximise mutual benefit
• Learn about the changing role of contractor and the oil service industry and how they are positioned to take advantage
• Understand the role of, and develop new strategies to improve legislation and regulations to achieve local content

About your workshop leader:

Willy H Olsen is an oil and gas advisor to the Norwegian Oil and Gas industry after retiring from Statoil. He is also an Associate Research Fellow at Royal Institute of International Affairs in London. Willy H Olsen had a number of positions during his 23 years with Statoil, including Managing Director of Statoil UK Ltd and Senior Vice President for Statoil’s activities in the Caspian. He was for several years a senior advisor to the President& CEO of Statoil and was head of the President's Office before his retirement. He is an educated economist and spent 15 years in journalism before joining Statoil in 1980.