First EAGE Workshop on East Canada Offshore Exploration
Welcome to the First EAGE Workshop on East Canada Offshore Exploration
New Date: 15-17 November 2021 - Online
We are excited to announce the First EAGE Workshop on East Canada Offshore Exploration that will take place as a fully virtual event.
The recent successes in bid auctions in the offshore and deep offshore Newfoundland and Labrador have renewed the interest in the province and East Canada offshore potential in general. The area poses various geological and operational challenges, which are to be addressed through an effective collaboration between stakeholders, including Canadian federal and provincial authorities, IOCs, independent operators, geological, geophysical and drilling service companies as well as academia.
We are confident that the latest advances in geological and geophysical sciences, as well as drilling and specific HSE and operational requirements in difficult environment will be a major feature of the workshop. It will offer a unique opportunity to share and transfer knowledge on potential and proven plays, petroleum systems, geodynamic context of the North Atlantic (West and East) and Labrador Sea as well as economic conditions under which development projects can be launched in such environment.
Meet our Keynote Speakers
Mr. Torstein Hole
President, Equinor Canada Ltd.
Torstein Hole was appointed Country Manager for the Canada business unit in Developmentand Production International from 1 September 2019.
Hole comes from the position as Senior Vice President, Corporate Safety and Security.
Hole joined Equinor in 1985. He has held various senior leadership positions, among them SVPof US onshore, SVP of Operations West, Operations South and Operational development inNorway, SVP of Strategy and finance in Development and Production Norway, and variouscontroller/business development positions in earlier years.
Hole holds a master's degree in finance from the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration.
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Mr. Jim Keating
CEO, Oil and Gas Corporation of Newfoundland and Labrador
As CEO of the Oil and Gas Corporation of Newfoundland and Labrador, Jim Keating is responsible for the development of the province’s offshore oil and gas resources and is the executive lead for Bull Arm Fabrication.
Prior to assuming this role, Jim was Executive Vice President at Nalcor Energy. Over the past 15 years he has led the development of the province’s offshore interests since inception in 2007. He has also been the executive responsible for Churchill Falls Labrador Corporation, Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro’s Projects and Engineering Division, and Energy Marketing. Jim also led the team that established the province’s first large-scale wind energy projects in St. Lawrence and Fermeuse.
Dr. Alison Malcolm
Associate Professor of Geophysics, Memorial University of Newfoundland
Alison Malcolm is an Associate Professor in the Earth Sciences Department at Memorial University of Newfoundland. She earned her Bachelor's degree in geophysics from UBC in 2000 and her PhD in 2005 from the Colorado School of Mines. After some time as a postdoc she spent six years as an Assistant Professor of Geophysics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology before moving to Memorial in 2014. She has supervised a dozen graduate and undergraduate students and published more than 50 papers and another 60 Conference Papers. Her research interests include seismic imaging, reservoir monitoring, nonlinear elasticity, and uncertainty quantification.
Important Dates
| Abstract Submission Deadline | 2 August 2021 |
| Registration closes | 15 November 2021 |
| Onsite Networking Reception Session | 15 November 2021 |
| Workshop Online (CST) | 15-17 November 2021 |