Date: 21. - 22. april 
Time: 09:00
Register by: 14. april
Location: Meeting room Valhall - Prof Olav Hanssens vei 10, Havtil Entrance Stavanger

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Note:  All attendees must bring a picture ID to attend the seminar. We only accept passport, Norwegian driving licence and national ID card (within Schengen). If you do not bring valid ID, you may be denied entry.

  🔍 What's on the agenda?

Prepare for a high-energy program spanning the NCS basins and emerging plays, including:

• Sodir play assessment – strategic perspectives on maturing and underexplored plays
• Challenging the basics on the NCS: Structural development, deposition, and migration
• The Othello discovery and Page well – new learnings that reshape play understanding
• Injectite play concepts – risks, rewards, and overlooked potential
• Key insights into Quaternary reservoirs, with compelling examples from Peon
• Paleozoic play opportunities across the North Sea
• Unravelling Jurassic and Triassic reservoirs in the Lofn discovery:
  Petrology, reservoir quality, and diagenesis
• Åsgard turbiditic play in the Northern North Sea
• Dimensions and controls of chlorite-coated intervals in the Tilje Formation
• Exploration successes and failures in underexplored plays of the Vøring Basin –
  Challenging geological paradigms
• Barents Sea tight gas potential: Storgalten, Norvarg, Ververis
• Hydrocarbon seeps and new young source rocks in the Western Barents Sea
• Møre Basin – deeper prospectivity and how to expand the petroleum envelope
• Inner basins prospectivity – what does it take to expand the petroleum envelope
• Alternative source rocks onshore and offshore Norway – expanding the source rock toolbox
  
  

  💡 Why attend?

• Gain cutting-edge play concepts you can apply directly to exploration and appraisal
• Learn from real-world case studies—including what didn’t work and why
• Engage with experts from industry and academia, fostering cross-disciplinary thinking
• Be inspired to challenge established assumptions and see familiar basins in a new light
  
  

Explore deeper. Think broader. Challenge the obvious.  

The FORCE Underexplored Play Seminar is your arena for bold ideas, critical discussion, and the next generation of exploration success.

👉 Join us and be part of the conversation shaping tomorrow’s discoveries.

Program day 1

08:30 Registration & coffee

09:00 Norwegian Offshore Directorate play assessment

Norwegian Offshore Directorate

09:45 "Challenging the basics on the NCS: Structural Development, Deposition and Migration"

Wim Lekens, Geoprovider

10:15 Break

10:30 Injectite play perspectives

Rene Jonk, UoA

11:00 Sinkites and their implications for exploration

Jan Erik Rudjord

11:30 Key insight into Quaternary reservoirs with examples from Peon

Helge Løseth, Equinor

12:00 Lunch

12:30 Paleozoic Play, North Sea

Norman Urrez, UiS

13:00 Unravelling Jurassic and Triassic Reservoirs in the Lofn Discovery: Petrology, Reservoir Quality and Diagenesis

Julianne Konowsen Skadberg Gravdal, Equinor

13:30 Advanced MAZ and OBN Seismic Imaging Reveals Undetected Upper Jurassic Stratigraphic Traps in the Southern Viking Graben (SVG), Norway

Eric Mueller, Jens Beenfeldt, TGS EH Geoscience

14:30 Break

14:45 Dimensions and controls of chlorite coated intervals in the Tilje Formation

Christian Haug Eide, UiB

15:15 Exploration Successes and Failures in Underexplored Plays of the Vøring Basin: Challenging Geological Paradigms

Daria Daudina, OMV

16:00 End of day

18:30 Dinner @ SUMO Hall Toll, Stavanger

Program day 2

09:00 Welcome

09:05 Barents Sea Tight Gas Potential - Storgalten/Norvarg/Ververis

  Sofie Knutdatter Arntzen , Aker BP

09:35 Hydrocarbon seeps and new young source rock, Western Barents

Rune Mattingdal, Norwegian Offshore Directorate

10:05 Break

10:25 A multi-scenario-based workflow for early identification, de-risking, characterizing and ranking structural prospects

Marianne Leon-Stackow , Eliis

10:55 Othello discovery and Page well

Gustavo Lopes, DNO

11:25 Lunch

12:30   Inner basins alternative source rocks and implications for prospectivity  

  Sylvia Nordfjord, Equinor  

13:00 Alternative source rock onshore and offshore Norway

Jon Halvard Pedersen, Aker BP

13:40 How modern digital interpretation solutions can leverage and revive legacy seismic data to revisit under-explored areas

Pierre Le Guern, Eliis 

14:10 Wrap up with Q&A

14:40 End of conference

FORCE seminars have previously been fully booked with waiting lists so you are encouraged to sign up as soon as you know you will attend.

Participation fees Stavanger:
FORCE members: NOK 2000,-
Non-members: NOK 4000,-
University/Students: NOK 500,-

Important information:

You can register as a FORCE member and pay "FORCE member" price if you are an employee of a member company.
All FORCE member companies are listed here.

Payment is made online by credit card or VIPPS. Please note that no refunds will be given after you have signed up.
If you for any reason cannot attend the workshop, you are welcome to send a representative, just inform the FORCE Secretariat as soon as there are changes. 

If you need to cancel your registration, please use the confirmation e-mail you received when you signed up.

If the seminar/webinar is cancelled, your payment will be refunded. 

For other questions, please contact the FORCE Secretariat

Norwegian Offshore Directorate org.no: 870917732