Mr. Rettedal has both and MSc in Mechanical Engineering and an MSc in Economics and Business Administration from Trondheim and Bergen Universities respectively. He began his professional career at Alcatel Cable Norway (1993-96) working as a Project Engineer. Mr Rettedal joined Statoil in 1996 working first as a Senior Subsea Engineer then Operations Engineer at Statfjord and later as a Production Supervisor at Statfjord C. He also worked as Turnaround Manager at Statfjord C later working as platform Manager. In 2007 Atle became Vice President of Subsea Technology and Operations. Atle currently hold the role of Vice President Field Evaluation and International Business Development. He has been in this role since 2009.

Andrew is a chartered engineer who joined BP in 1983. He worked in Alaska on the Prudhoe miscible gas project in the early nineties before returning to the UK to support BP's global miscible gas strategy. He later combined this with managing the centralised reservoir engineering team including the laboratories in Sunbury. More recently he was responsible for BP's EOR R&D development as director of the Pushing Reservoir Limits and is now the PRL R&D manager. PRL has won the annual BP Helios award for Innovation twice now for the creation of new EOR technologies and has become a BP flagship technology program.

Wafik Beydoun is the General Manager for Total’s E&P Technology and R&D, with worldwide interactions in E&P technologies encompassing academia, R&D labs/institutes, service companies, and other oil and gas companies. His previous assignments for Total include geoscience research in the United Kingdom, operations and interpretation projects in France, chief geophysicist and then southern area exploration manager in Angola. Following the merger of TotalFina and Elf Aquitaine, he was appointed manager of Total’s Geophysical Operations and Technology Department in France, overseeing worldwide geophysical operations and technology. In 2003, he became senior negotiator in Total’s E&P New Ventures and Asset Management Division. Beydoun’s first job was at Arco’s Research and Technical Services in Plano, Texas (1987–1991). He graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with an MSc in Earth sciences (1982) and a PhD in geophysics (1985). He has over 70 publications and communications.

Babur Imirzalioglu is currently Global Manager for Maintenance and Integrity Execution programme in Shell Exploration and Production business. He works in Shell International E&P Center in Rijswijk, The Netherlands. He is 46 years old and of Turkish nationality and married with one daughter. He has been with the Shell Group for more than 21 years and he is the Group Global Expert on Maintenance and Integrity and member of the Global Discipline Leadership Team. He has worked in Turkey, Gabon, U.K., Netherlands and Thailand in operations, maintenance, Health Safety and Environment, projects, learning and development positions.

Erwin Kroemer, holds a MSC and PhD in geochemistry and reservoir engineering, from the technical university of Aachen, Germany. He started his career in 1976 as exploration geo-chemist in Uranium exploration in Eastern Canada. Since 1981 he has worked with Mobil Oil in various positions and countries as reservoir engineer. This including 4 years in Mobil's technical research center in Dallas as reservoir simulation advisor and researcher, followed by 5 years in Norway on the development of Haltenbanken area fields. After the merger with Exxon he worked in the Central Technology department in London, consulting on simulation studies and reservoir development plans in all European affiliates including various EOR applications. Between 2004 and 2008 he again worked in Norway working as Senior Advisor in field management, development and recovery optimization of ExxonMobil’s non operated assets (incl. Statfjord, Snorre, Grane, Kristin and several other fields). Since 2009 he is the responsible sub-surface consultant for all ExxonMobil assets in the Netherlands, for over 160 NAM operated oil and gas fields including the giant Groningen gas field.

Francisco Nepomuceno Filho graduated in Geology from the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil. He has an MSc in Geophysics from the University of Texas, USA and a PhD in Mining Economics from the Universidade de Campinas, Brazil. He has worked at Petrobras for over 30 years serving as Superintendent of Operational Units in the Amazon (1982-1987) and as Head of the Geophysics Department of CENPES (the Research & Development Center of Petrobras), where he was also the Head of the Exploration Division (1990-1994). He acted as Portfolio Analysis Advisor to the Managing Director of BRASPETRO, the former international Exploration & Production subsidiary of Petrobras (1997-1998). He was also Head of the Economic Evaluation Department (1998-2001) at BRASPETRO. He was a Senior Lecturer of Portfolio Analysis and Economics at Petrobras University (2002). From June 2002 until February 2003 he was the Technology Manager of the Exploration Business Unit. He was Executive Manager of the Corporate E&P Area until June 2009 when he was appointed Head of Petrobras E&P London Office.

Rebecca R Christensen, is the Technical Manager for GDF Suez E&P Norge AS. With 25+ years of experience in Oil and Gas operations, she has experienced many styles of organization and ways of working. She has been closely involved in the development of the direction of integrated operations and the design of the Gjøa facilites. She is currently responsible for development the technical and maintenance organization, management requirements, systems and applications Rebecca, was educated in the US and has a degree in Chemical Engineering

Charles Hendry has been Member of Parliament for Wealden since 2001. He is currently Shadow Minister for Energy. Before this, Charles was Shadow Minister for Energy, Industry and Postal Affairs in the Business and Enterprise team and Energy Science and Technology in the former DTI team. Charles was the Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party (2003-05) and Shadow Minister for Young People (2002-05) and Shadow Minister for Industry and Enterprise (May – December 2005). From 1992-97, Charles was Member of Parliament for High Peak, Vice-Chairman of the Conservative Party (1995-1997) and Chairman of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Homelessness (1992-1996). Following the 1997 General Election, Charles was appointed Chief of Staff to the Rt Hon William Hague during his leadership of the Conservative Party, before establishing and leading the Business Liaison Unit at Conservative Party headquarters.

Ashanendu Mandal is a post-graduate in Chemical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur. He has done his B. Tech degree in Chemical Engineering from Calcutta Unviersity in 1981. He has also acquired an MBA degree in Finance from Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), New Delhi. Mr Mandal started his career in 1983 as a Production Engineer in ONGC, an upstream company in India. His first posting was at Offshore in Mumbai High, the largest oilfield in Arabian Sea. He has around 20 years of working experience in offshore and onshore oil fields. For the past 6 years he is looking after the marketing activities in ONGC. He is presently working as Chief Engineer (Production)-Marketing.He is also a project guide for MBA students.

Dr Amado is a Senior Reservoir Engineer at Petrobras America in Houston, Texas. He has over 15 years of experience in Reservoir Engineering in Exploration and Development Projects in GOM, Southern North Sea (UK) and West Africa. Previously he worked for Shell EP international and Schlumberger Geoquest Reservoir Technologies, where he had assignments in Mexico, UK, Brazil and USA. He has participated in several committees for the SPE, chairing technical sessions, coordinating conference committees and working as a Technical Editor of the SPE Reservoir Engineering and Evaluation Journal. Dr Amado holds a PhD from University of Leoben in Austria and MSc from Unicamp in Brazil, both in Petroleum/Reservoir Engineering. Dr Amado has worked as a consultant for CSIRO in Australia for the Genesis 2000 project and was an associate professor at State University of North Fluminense, in Macae, Campos Basin, Brazil. He is also the author of the book Working Guide to Reservoir Exploration and Appraisal.

John has 32 years experience in the energy industries. He initially spent 12 years in oil & gas business, working in the North Sea, S E Asia, South America and the USA. He has since spent 20 years as a consultant to organisations including government agencies in five countries, the European Commission’s Energy Directorate and the Office of his Highness the President of The UAE. Work on strategies relating to the energy sectors includes oil & gas, conventional and nuclear power generation, renewable energy and energy trading.

Eric Fidler currently serves as the Director of Oil & Gas Sales & Marketing for Rockwell Automation. During his 30-year-career in the global exploration and production environment, Fidler has held numerous positions with Rockwell Automation, including Business Solutions Leader, Gulf Coast Region; Manager, Manufacturing & Process Solutions, Americas and Petroleum and Mining Manager, Asia Pacific. In his current post, he draws on his knowledge and experience in applied automation and information solutions to create bundled system solutions and establish strategic alliance partnerships. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Based in Aberdeen, Mike Affleck is the General Manager for Welltec UK. Welltec is the world’s leading provider of robotic solutions for oil and gas wells. Since starting his career in a design engineering role with IFP in Rueil Malmaison, France, Mike has held a range of Field Engineering, Operations and Managerial positions primarily in the service sector. Mike holds a Bachelor of Engineering Degree (Mech Eng) from the University of Bath and has 19 years oilfield experience.

Dr. Knudsen is a senior scientist at SINTEF Materials and Chemistry and adjunct professor at Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He has an MSc in Chemistry from the Norwegian University of Technology in 1990 and a PhD within the field of Materials Technology in 1998. Dr Knudsen has about 15 years of experience as a research scientist working with corrosion and corrosion protection, and project management of multidisciplinary research projects. Dr. Knudsen will give the presentation on behalf of Torbjørn Sotberg, Force Technology.

Anton Leemhuis is responsible at TNO for new business development of oil & gas production optimization, with specific emphasis on the North Sea and Middle East. During his years at TNO, Anton has worked in technical and commercial roles on the development of a wide range of production optimization technologies, ranging from ESPs, to gas coning controllers, and production monitoring systems. Projects done at present in the area of monitoring are with North Sea independents and oil and gas majors.

Erlend Glommen has an MSc in Reservoir Engineering from Trondheim and an MBA from Heriot-Watt in Scotland. He began his professional career in Saga Petroleum in 1998 working as a reservoir engineer. He joined IPRES in 2003 working first as a consultant on well and field development planning projects. He later was instrumental in the development of the full range of IP Suite of software tools that cover decision support for the whole value chain, as well as reserves reporting and production forecasting. Erlend has worked as project manager on integrated decision support projects with key clients nationally and internationally. He has also conducted numerous training courses in work processes and methodology related to decision support for major oil and gas companies as well as for the University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim. Erlend currently holds the position as IP Suite Manager in IPRES and is also a member of the IPRES board.