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ATC 2012
3-5 December 2012
Houston, TX

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Monday Program

Tuesday | Wednesday | POSTERS

 

07:15–08:45 Topical Breakfast

Tickets are USD $35

Lawson Brigham, Distinguished Professor of Geography & Arctic Policy at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, and a Senior Fellow at the Institute of the North in Anchorage

The Arctic Council’s Arctic Marine Shipping Assessment: An Overview and Roadmap Forward

The Arctic Marine Shipping Assessment (AMSA) of the Arctic Council was conducted between 2005 and 2009. Canada, Finland and the United States led the effort under the Council's Working Group on Protection of the Arctic marine Environment. In this luncheon you’ll hear a review of the findings and recommendations of this major Arctic study and also a look ahead to the challenging implementation strategies of a selection of the AMSA recommendations.

 

09:00-10:30 Plenary Session

Chairs: P. Delaittre and J. Hogg

Mark Shrimpton, Senior Associate, Socio-Economic Services with Stantec Consulting, Canada

Addressing Arctic Aspirations

Shrimpton

This presentation will help companies planning and implementing Arctic activities learn how to facilitate positive relationships with local people. Mark will review best practice responses to the aspirations and concerns of Arctic peoples related to petroleum and mining activity. The presentation will describe and explain typical local expectations and review initiatives that have facilitated resource access in the Arctic and other Northern regions. His talk is based on work in Canada, Greenland, Norway and Russia.

 

Marc Blaizot, Senior Vice President, Total SA

Rejuvenating Arctic Exploration: Less Ice, More Hydrocarbons

BlaizotThe Arctic areas, located north of the Polar Circle, offer significant potential for new hydrocarbon discoveries (25% of the world is “Yet to Find”) Until now, exploration has been quite limited due to many climatic constraints, although very important finds have been made in Alaska, on the Yamal Peninsula and in the Barents Sea (both in Russian and Norwegian sectors). Starting from this scattered geological evidence, we will attempt to identify and forecast the huge remaining prospectivity of these environmentally fragile arctic zones where extensive international cooperation will be essential both for exploration and, if successful, developments.

 

11:00-12:20 Morning Technical Sessions

Included with conference registration

Physical Environment: Ice and Snow Properties

  • Cone Penetration Testing in Polar Snow — A. McCallum, A. Barwise, R. Santos
  • Allowable Loading of Drill Rigs on Frozen Muskeg — J. Oswell, S. Stancliffe, V. Karambelkar, R. Coutts, M. Wood

Physical Environment: Codes and Standards

  • Assessment of International Standards for Safe Exploration, Production and Transportation of Oil and Gas in the Barents Sea — G. Cammaert
  • Limit State Design Methodology for Offshore Pipelines against Ice Gouging - Industry Guidelines from the ICEPIPE JIP — G. Davies, K. Mørk, M. Marley
  • The Arctic Regulatory and Stakeholder Experience — G. Pavia, S. Blue
  • Arctic Standards - A Comparison and Gap Study — G. Ghoneim

Physical Environment: DOE

  • Effect of Residual Oil Saturation on Recovery Efficiency during Polymer Flooding of Viscous Oils — K. Kamaraj, G. Zhang, Y. Liu, R. S. Seright
  • North Slope Decision Support System: Multi-Objective Planning for Ice Road Routes — S. Bourne, J. Haleblian, K. Brumbelow, A. Tidwell, W. E. Schnabel
  • North Slope Decision Support System: Technological Aspects — S. Bourne, J. Haleblian, K. Brumbelow, A. Tidwell, W. E. Schnabel
  • Snow Management to Augment Fresh Water Supplies in the Arctic — S. Berezovskaya

Physical Environment: Geohazards

  • Geotechnical Investigations of the Clay Soils on the Oil and Gas Condensate Perspective Structures of Okhotsk Sea Self —N. A. Kuten, D. Zdobin
  • Integrated Methodology for Mapping and Monitoring Permafrost and Seasonally Frozen Ground — G. R. Walter, M. Necsoiu, S. A. Stothoff
  • Ice-Soil-Pipeline Interactions Using Coupled Euler-Lagrange (CEL) Ice Gouge Simulations - Results from DNV Ice Pipe JIP —R. Banneyake, M. Hossain, A. Eltaher, T. Nguyen, P. Jukes

12:30–13:45 Topical Luncheon

Tickets are USD $50

Hazel Munoz, Community Relations Representative, ConocoPhillips Alaska Western North Slope Operations

A Message from the People of the Arctic

Hazel Munoz works in ConocoPhillips Alaska Business Unit as a Community Relations Representative.  She serves as a liaison between the Alpine Oilfield, nearby village of Nuiqsut and other villages within the arctic slope region of Alaska.  The Alpine field is the United States’ only industrial facility completely on Native owned land.   

Ms. Munoz’s background made her uniquely qualified in this role.  Growing up in Alaska’s north easternmost village of Kaktovik, on the Beaufort Sea coast, Hazel is part of a generation of Native Alaskans raised in the advent of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act. The Arctic Slope region boasts North America’s largest oilfield, Prudhoe Bay, and is steeped in mass quantities of other natural resources such as coal and natural gas.  As such, the region holds a history of extreme interest from industry and government agencies.  This provided for a real life education in the social and political climate surrounding industrial development. 

Hazel’s heritage is Inupiat Eskimo.  She lives in Anchorage, working a “slope” schedule, whereby her time is split between ConocoPhillips Alaska headquarters in Anchorage and its Alpine field, with regular visits to Nuiqsut. 

Ms. Munoz will share her experience growing up in two worlds:  one striving to uphold an ancient indigenous lifestyle — with all its beauty and traditional ways — and that of the 21st century energy sector. 

12:30–13:45 Topical LunchEON

Tickets are USD $50

Michael Borrell, Senior Vice President Eastern Europe, TOTAL S.A., Paris, France

Contributions of Total S.A. to the Russian Arctic

borrellTOTAL has many years of experience operating in Arctic conditions. This experience dates back to exploration wells in the Canadian Artic Islands in the 1970s and extends to more recent adventures in the U.S. Beaufort Sea, the Norwegian Barents Sea and onshore production from the Karyaga field in the Timan-Pechora Basin. The long experience and the TOTAL Group’s expertise in developing large complex fields and difficult LNG projects has lead to the selection of TOTAL, together with Statoil, as the principal partners of Gazprom for the development of the huge Shtokman field in the Russian Barents sea. The development of the Shtokman field leads the Group’s drive to build a significant position in the resource rich Russian Arctic region and will be described during the address. Experience gained during the Shtokman development will provide a strong basis for TOTAL to build its position going forward.

 

14:00–16:50 Afternoon Technical Sessions

Included with conference registration

Physical Environment: Metocean

  • A Climatological Study of Winds, Waves and Sea Ice during the 1999-2010 Open Water Seasons of the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas — R. A. Weinzapfel, J. Spain, G. Harvey, J. Andrews, L. Clamp, J. Dykas
  • A Model for Waves-in-Ice and Sea Ice Dynamics in the Marginal Ice Zone —D. Dumont, A. Kohout, L. Bertino, S. Sandven
  • Wave Propagation at Marginal Ice Zone — F. Petrie, B. Rousse, J. Cholley
  • Application of the Buoy Network in the Barents Sea — J. Mathisen, J. Bidlot
  • Consideration of Long-Term Natural-Climatic Factors in the Russian Arctic Energy Resources Development Strategy — A. Tsunevskiy
  • North Slope Trends in Storminess, Shoreline Erosion and Ice — N. J. Sultan, K. W. Braun

Arctic Regulatory Governance Panel

Moderators: S. Childs (Shell); E. Heggelund Tørstad (DNV)

Panelists: J. Walker (BOEMRE); S. Anders Eriksson (PSA); B. Dixit (NEB); J. T. Hammeken-Holm (Bureau of Minerals and Petroleum); E. Saebo (DNV)

The development of regulatory requirements for Arctic exploration and production must keep pace with the associated technology development. Experience has consistently incorporated industry collaboration with authorities in Arctic countries. The harmonization of the requirements through intergovernmental panels similar to the IPCC may be one of many options.

This Regulatory Regulatory Panel will address the issues involved in writing and maintaining the regulations governing Arctic petroleum exploitation, noting the significant variations of environmental conditions in the regions of interest.

The presentations will illustrate the past and current governance in Arctic design, construction, operations, R&D, and the anticipated future developments. Risk mitigation efforts and stakeholder concerns will be discussed for a viable and safe Arctic in line with practical “ALARP” principles.

Logistics and Marine Transport: Escape, Evacuation and Rescue (EER)

  • Enhanced Arctic Lifeboat Design and Operation — A. M. Barr, A. Browning, E. J. Sorensen, P. Schmidt, C. J. McHardy
  • Feasibility of Escape, Evacuation, and Rescue for Facilities in Arctic Shear Zone Environments — M. Totten, A. Marsden
  • The Design of Hovercraft to Support Offshore Operations in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas — J. Gifford, M. Cox, R. Barton
  • Criteria for the Next Generation of Cold Regions Evacuation Systems — G. Igloliorte, B. Quinton
  • ARKTOS Shear Zone Evacuation Craft Design Development — T. A. Hall, B. H. Seligman
  • Stereographic Analysis of Aerial Photographic Imagery for Arctic Development and Technology Planning — W. Spring, M. Hansen, J. Smith