Reidar B. Bratvold, University of Stavanger

Is a Professor of Petroleum Investment and Decision Analysis. He works at the University of Stavanger and at the Norwegian Institute of Technology where he is teaching and supervising graduate students doing research in decision analysis, project valuation, portfolio analysis, real-option valuation and behavioural challenges in decision-making. Prior to academia, he spent 15 years in the industry in various technical and management roles including as Vice President in Landmark Graphics Corporation in Houston, Managing Director of Smedvig Technology Software Solutions (now Roxar), Senior Scientist with IBM, and Reservoir Engineer with Statoil. He spent his early working years as a roughneck and roustabout in the North Sea.

Simon Seaton, SPE CEO and Executive Vice President

As CEO, Simon Seaton is responsible for overall management of SPE. He works with the Board of Directors and senior staff to develop strategic and business plans and formulate the organization’s goals, objectives, policies, and programs. He also organizes and directs the global staff organization, which includes offices in Dallas, Houston, Calgary, Kuala Lumpur, and Dubai, to ensure the accomplishment of SPE’s mission.

Clare McIntyre, General Manager, Shell Norway

Clare joined Shell in Norway in 2012, and has held roles within Upstream Commercial, as Business Opportunity Manager for Conventional Oil and Gas and Deepwater projects, and in strategy development for New Energies. Since 2021 she has been Asset and Development Manager for the Ormen Lange gas field in Norway, as a member of the Norway Leadership Team. Prior to joining Shell, Clare spent eight years in public policy and foreign policy roles in the Canadian government. Her professional experience spans multi-party diplomatic and commercial negotiations, major capital project delivery, Upstream asset management, and leading transformational change.

Tobias Müller, Equinor

Tobias has a background in business mathematics from the University of Leipzig (Germany). For over 5 years, Tobias has been working in the energy industry for Equinor in Norway. He is based in Harstad. Since starting in Equinor, he held several subsurface engineering positions with a focus on digital solutions, especially within robust reservoir optimization, area portfolio analysis and production monitoring. Recently, he assumed the role of a project leader for the Decision Optimization project within Equinor’s research department. Since 2022 he is a member of the SDP.

Steve Begg, University of Adelaide

Steve Begg is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Adelaide. His focus is on tools and processes for decision-making under uncertainty; project/asset and portfolio economic evaluations; and psychological factors in eliciting expert opinions – particularly, bias identification, impact quantification and mitigation. Prior to academia he spent 19 years in industry in a variety of technical and management roles related to uncertainty (risk) and variability assessment/modelling, economic evaluation, and decision-making.   He has twice been a Distinguished Lecturer for the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) on uncertainty & decision-making topi s.  In 2016 he received the SPE’s global award for his work on biases in decision-making. Steve is a founder member of the SDP and served on its Board 2014-2017. He is co-author, with Reidar Bratvold, of the book “Making Good Decisions”, and has given many industry short courses and workshops on decision-making topics.

Vibeke Haugen, VP Subsurface, Equinor

 Vibeke has a phD in oceanography from university in Bergen. She has been trained as a reservoir engineer after she started in the Oil and gas industry more than 20 years ago. She has held several leadership positions in Equinor in Norway but also internationally. She has a broad experience working in assets and has also spent 8 years heading up technology development and implementation within subsurface.  Currently she is the VP of all subsurface activities in the Gullfaks areas.

Bjørn Egil Ludvigsen, Aker BP

Reservoir engineer at Aker BP, with three decades of expertise in reservoir simulation. He has contributed to numerous field development and production optimization projects globally. His previous work includes involvement in developing the MEPO software for history matching and uncertainty assessment, and he has been a proponent of probabilistic methods for decision-making since then. Currently, he is engaged in a research project focused on leveraging the advantages of artificial intelligence in reservoir simulation.

Jarle Haukaas, SLB

Jarle Haukås is a Product Analyst in SLB's Reservoir Modeling and Engineering Program. He is based in Stavanger but works closely with the software development team in Abingdon, UK, looking after Petrel Uncertainty and Optimization and Agile Reservoir Modeling workflows. Prior to his current position, he spent 14 years in Schlumberger Stavanger Research, developing solutions for integration of 3D and 4D seismic in reservoir modeling and engineering workflows. He holds a PhD in Applied Mathematics from the University of Bergen (2006) on the topic Compositional Reservoir Simulation.

Benedicte Vik Onanes & Sarah Riordan, Equinor

Benedicte Vik Oanes, is Principal Engineer, Reservoir Technology/ Leading Advisor Drainage Strategy. She holds an Msc degree in Petroleum Technology from NTNU. She has 19 years of experience within Reservoir Technology. She has worked with the Breidablikk field for 6 years. From June 1st Benedicte holds a new position as Leading Advisor Drainage Strategy.

Sarah Riordan is Leading geologist. She holds a PhD in petroleum geology from the University of Adelaide, Australia and has been building geomodels for over 25 years.  She has a background in sedimentology and began her career working as a production geologist in Australia. Since moving to Norway in 2010 she has specialized in geomodelling for both hydrocarbon field development and CCS research projects.  

Muhammad Nur Ali Akbar, Prores & Ardian Pradhana Putra, Vår Energi 

Muhammad Nur Ali Akbar

Senior Reservoir Engineer at Prores AS, based in Norway, with 10+ years extensive expertise in reservoir characterization and management, SCAL analysis, integrated petrophysics, and reservoir simulation. He has worked on oil & gas and CCS projects across Norway, Hungary, Croatia, Tanzania, and Indonesia assets. Before joining Prores AS, he worked at MOL Group based in Hungary and began his career at LAPI ITB and the Indonesia R&D Centre for Oil and Gas (LEMIGAS). He holds a BSc in Petroleum Engineering from ITSB and an MSc in Petroleum Geo-Engineering from the University of Miskolc. Akbar has authored multiple technical papers and received international recognition from SPWLA, SPE, and EAGE. He served as President of the SPWLA Indonesia Chapter (2017–2019) and was selected as an SPWLA Distinguished Speaker for 2022–2023.
 

Senior Reservoir Engineer at Vår Energi ASA, with 15 years of experience specializing in reservoir simulation and reservoir management. He holds a bachelor’s degree in petroleum engineering from Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB) and a master's degree in Petroleum Engineering from Heriot-Watt University. Ardian began his career in Indonesia, working with ExxonMobil, Mandala Energy, and Neptune Energy before joining Vår Energi in Norway. His expertise spans dynamic reservoir modeling, field development planning, and production optimization. 
  

Lucas Mosser, Aker BP

Lukas is a data scientist at AkerBP. He leads Aker BPs generative AI initiatives for subsurface. He holds a PhD at the intersection of generative AI and subsurface inverse problems.

Remus Hanea, Equinor

Remus is the leading advisor Reservoir Technology, Assisted History Matching and Optimization/Decision Making in the Subsurface Discipline Excellence department in Equinor. His background is in Applied Mathematics, and he has 15 years of experience in Uncertainty Quantification, Data Assimilation and Optimization and Decisions Making with applications in Atmospheric sciences, Hydrology and in various Energy domains (mainly O&G). He also has a part time professorship position at University of Stavanger. in the Department of Petroleum Engineering, in the group of Petroleum Geoscience Engineering. Remus ’s main research topics are: Assisted History matching and Robust Optimization for Reservoir Management, Value of Information, Decision and risk analysis and Geostatistics. Remus teaches a specialized course for PhD and MSc students on Inverse Modeling, Data Assimilation and Optimization with applications in Reservoir Management, is supervising MSc and PhD students.