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17-18 November 2026 // ncs-strategy.no
17-18 November 2026 // ncs-strategy.no
Stavanger / Scandic Forus
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About
Oil companies on the NCS present exploration plans and strategies for 2026.
Europe is facing an energy crisis of unknown proportions, and energy rationing is likely to become reality across Europe this winter. How is the Norwegian Oil & Gas industry responding to this new reality?
For whom?
NCS Exploration Strategy is for anyone curious about the future of exploration on the NCS. The conference has never been more relevant than this year.
Who participates? Authorities, oil companies, service companies, and consulting companies, financial advisors, explorationists, business developers, and energy experts.
Why?
To provide a broader insight into short- and long-term exploration on the NCS and how companies build their portfolios in order to maximize reserves and position their companies to respond to the fluctuating oil price and outside pressure.
Main Sponsors
Sponsors
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Registration
Please contact Ingvild Ryggen Carstens, events@geopublishing.no, for information about pricing for start-ups, students, and out-of-work professionals.
Terms & Conditions:
GeoPublishing AS reserve the right to alter the program. Substitutions to your registration may be made at any time by contacting the organizers in writing on events@geopublishing.no.
Accommodation
Scandic Forus Stavanger
NB! Available rooms from 17-21 November
NOK 1 795 + VAT,- per night including breakfast
Location
Bjødnabeen 2
4033 Stavanger
+47 21 61 48 00
Program
DAY I
Session I - Energy Security
Moderator: TBA
Welcome
09:00 Ingvild Ryggen Carstens, Publisher & General Manager at GeoPublishing
Norwegian Offshore Directorate
09:00 Kjersti Dahle, Director Offshore New Ventures
Offshore Norge
09:25 Marita Bjelland-Botne, Lawyer/Legal and Exploration Manager
Ministry of Energy
09:50 Lars Erik Aamot, Director General
Coffee Break
10:15
Session II: Company presentations
Energy Security for Europe
10:45 Rosanna Cara, Upstream Research Principal at S&P Global
Harbour Energy
11:10 Pierre-Yves Raya, Senior Manager Exploration & Field Development
JAPEX Norge
11:30 Bérengère Savary Sismondini, Subsurface & Exploration Manager
TBA
11:50 TBA
Lunch
12:10
Session III - New ways of working
Keynote
13:10
Keynote
13:35 Lukas Mosser, Discipline Lead at Aker BP
Panel I - New ways of working
14:00
Moderator: TBA
Panelists: TBA
Coffee Break
14:45
Session IV - Company presentations
Concedo
15:15 Geir Lunde, CEO
OMV (Norge)
15:35 Francis Chevalier, Exploration Manager
Aker BP
15:55 Petter Sørhaug, SVP Exploration & Reservoir Development
Short Break
16:15
BD Panel
16:30
Moderator: Anders Wittemann
Panelists:
TBA
End Day I
17:30
Conference Dinner
19:00 - Aperitif
20:00 - Dinner
DAY II
Session V
WEPC
08:30 Anders Wittemann, Analyst
Westwood Global Energy
08:55 Alyson Harding, Technical Manager & Stephen Coomber, Senior Analyst
TBA
09:20 TBA
Coffee Break
09:45
Session VI - Company presentations
ORLEN
10:15 Chris Dart, Exploration Director
INPEX Idemitsu
10:35 TBA
OKEA
10:55 Morten Krogh, VP Exploration
TBA
11:15
Lunch
11:35
Session VII - Company presentations
TBA
12:40
Equinor
13:00 Kjetil Haugeland Helvig, VP Exploration and Portfolio
TBA
13:20
Vår Energi
13:40 Luca Dragonetti, SVP Exploration
Coffee break
14:00
Panel III - High Impact Exploration
Keynote
Graeme Bagley, Head of Global Exploration & Appraisal at Westwood Global Energy
14:30
Moderator: Graeme Bagley
Panelists:
Luca Dragonetti, SVP Exploration at Vår Energi
Olav Antonio Blaich, VP Exploration at Aker BP
Nick Ashton, VP Exploration & Portfolio at Equinor
Roy Davies, SVP Exploration & Production at Harbour Energy
TBA
End Day II
15:30
Program Committee
KARI LOKNA
Jørn Atle Erichsen
Kate Langaker
Carly Marshall
Tone Merete Øksenvåg
Eilif T. Ertresvåg
Anders Wittemann
