Evening Prep Program – Presentations

Evening 1: March 27^th

Session 1

6.00: Brit Ragnhildstveit (Statoil Houston): General information about the UT Svalex trip

6.20: Ron Steel: Svalex route and introduction to Svalbard geology

6.45: Scott Tinker: Global energy and the oil and gas industry

7.10: Tadeusz Patzek: The Physical Limitations of Growing Hydrocarbon Production

7.35: Short break

Session 2

7.45: Larry Lawver: UT Plates:Svalbard’s place in Arctic reconstructions, Triassic to present

8.10: Danny Stockli: Compressional & extensional basins and the West Spitsbergen Foldbelt

8.35: Martin Jackson: Origin & evolution of allochthonous salt sheets

Evening 2: April 17^th

Session 3

6.00: Rong Fu: Climate change in the Arctic

6.25: Jon Olsen: Natural fractures in rock & their importance for production

6.50: Kitty Milliken: Reservoir quality assessment & understanding the rocks

7.15: Peter Flaig: An icehouse to greenhouse transition in Permian through Triassic sediments, Central Transantarctic Mountains

7.40: Short Break

Session 4

7.50: Phil Bennett: Intro to permafrost: Geology and microbiology

8.15: Eric Van Oort: Arctic well construction

8.40: Svetlana Ikonnikova and Eric Potter: The impact of integrated teams: Examples from unconventional gas plays

9.10: Finish