Oil and Gas

Oil and Gas Wednesday, 14th March 2012, South Gallery, Room 3/4

The demand for oil and gas is expected to increase steadily in the coming years. BP estimates that the world has sufficient proven reserves for over 40 years of oil and 60 years of gas, at today’s consumption rates. Increasingly these reserves are located in frontier locations such as deepwater and arctic regions. These locations provide significant challenges to the industry in a range of respects, not least of which are the meteorological and oceanographic (metocean) conditions that must be overcome in order to explore, develop and produce the resources.

This session will focus on the latest developments in metocean monitoring and analysis in frontier regions, including: novel sensing systems, real time observational networks, forecasting services and the potential threats and opportunities presented by future changes in climate.

View a video of Colin Grant, conference chairman, talking about the Oil and Gas session.

Confirmed Presentations and Speakers

Morning session
	Session Chairman: Colin Grant, BP - Subsea & Floating Systems Upstream Engineering Centre
09:15	Introduction	Colin Grant, BP
09:30	Keynote Address - The U.S. IOOS Response to the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill: The Critical Role of Modern Ocean Observing Networks	Scott Glenn, Rutgers University
10:00	Gulf Of Mexico Deepwater Current Structure Observations	Andy Brown, CSA International
10:30	Survey of Experience with Integrated Metocean and Structural Integrity Monitoring on 25 Deepwater Floating Production Platforms	Tom Johnson, BMT SMS
11:00	Break & Exhibition
11:30	Worldwide Internal Soliton Criteria	Gus Jeans, Oceanalysis Ltd
12:00	Surveys on sea ice - from an HSE perspective, the new OGP 447 guidelines	Rune Nilsen, Shell
12:30	Lunch & Exhibition
Afternoon session
	Session Chairman: Colin Grant, BP - Subsea & Floating Systems Upstream Engineering Centre
14:00	The development of standards and guidelines for the use of satellite based ice information in the oil and gas sector	Kim Partington, Polar Imaging Ltd
14:30	Coupled Modelling of the Caspian Sea	James Farley Nicholls, Imperial College
15:00	Break & Exhibition
15:30	Ocean radar to monitor sea currents for offshore structures - West Africa Project	Laurent Vigier, Actimar
16:00	Satellite Monitoring During Drilling of the Zaedeus Exploration Well Offshore French Guiana	Martin Insley, Tullow Oil
16:30	Satellite ocean front maps reveal dynamic surface currents: improved metocean for offshore oil and gas	Peter Miller, Plymouth Marine Laboratory
17:00	Session Close