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Sigve Hamilton Aspelund, 03-2015
Name : Sigve Hamilton Aspelund
Position : Sivilingeniør teknisk realfag /
Petroleum engineering team leader consultant
Nationality : Norwegian
Contact details: Phone: +47 98 49 77 80 Email: ace.odin@lyse.net
Summary: Norwegian senior petroleum engineering team leader
(29.01.76) with onshore & offshore work experience (8 years) in
the oil and gas exploration and production industry since 2001.
Having developed excellent consulting experience across
Norway and International, I am now looking for a permanent
position within a relevant field. My broad experience includes
geo modeling and simulation, special core analysis,
sedimentology and supervision of well drilling, increased oil
production, enhanced oil production, water and gas injection,
artificial lift (Gas lift), well completion/ work over operations,
offshore production engineering operations (FPSO/IPF/WHP),
artificial lift selection, reservoir engineering, quality, health,
safety and environment and project risk advising. It has been
gained through working for major Oil & Gas companies
including CNOOC, Cairn, Vanco, KPOC, NNPC, BP, ENI, Total,
Shell, Talisman, Norsk Hydro and Statoil. Additional experience
as resource coordinator and have achieved management
onshore and offshore personell and data, increased oil
production in exploration and production industry, organized
and held courses and team buildings.
Masters degree in petroleum technology with applied science
program from the university college of Stavanger and the
bachelor degree from NTNU, university of Bergen and the
university college of Stavanger.
Language: Norwegian (mother tongue), English (fluent)
Education:
2003: Rogaland University (HiS-Høgskolen i Stavanger)
Post-qualifying education while working offshore:
Reservoir simulation 1 (3.1)
Reservoir simulation 2 (Pass) (Eclipse)
Reservoir geophysics and visualization (D)
Well testing (3.7)
1999-2001: Rogaland University (HiS)
Sivilingeniør (M.Sc.) Teknisk realfag
Petroleum engineering with applied science programme
Thesis: Edward Lorenz strange attractors, a course at
M.Sc. level (Non-linear differential equations)
1999: Candidatus Magisterii (B. Sc.) degree gained at NTNU
from studies at Norwegian University of Technology and
2. CURRICULUM VITAE
Sigve Hamilton Aspelund, 03-2015
Science (NTNU), HiS (petroleum engineering) and
University of Bergen (UiB)
1998-1999: Petroleum engineering (HiS)
1998: University of Bergen
Examen philosophicum
1997-1998: Royal Norwegian navy: Naval diving school and security
guard
1995-1997: NTNU
Elementary courses in mathematics and physics
Accomplishments: Advising service and operating companies, managed data information,
onshore and offshore personnel, increased oil production in exploration and production
industry, organized and held courses and team buildings.
Software experience: RMS (Reservoir modelling system), Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word,
Microsoft Power Point, GeoNext, PI process book & PI excel, Oil Field Manager (OFM), SAP,
Eclipse, STAR, Mintra & Empreda, Share point, Flow manager, Labview, mBal, Prosper, GAP,
GoToMeeting, Unix & Itris.
Relevant work experience:
08.2009-today: Aspelund Consulting Energy Offshore Development
International & National
Entrepreneur
List of Consulting & Advisory assignments:
• Professor: Global geo political Oil & gas management &
Distribution course. Client: Kazakh Humanities and Law
University, Astana, Kazakhstan via University of Business and
International Studies Geneva & London
• Developed an Exploration and Production course. Iraq:
Delayed
• General management
• 07.2014-09.2014: Petroleum engineering team leader: Oil
Plus. Newbury. England.
• Business development proposal: Reservoir simulation:
H2S analysis with CMG (Geochemistry/ HSE)
• Senior production engineer: Digital oilfield planning for
Rumaila field in Iraq. Project in Iraq: Cancelled. Client: BP via
NES Global Talents. Dubai
• Advisor: Well Intervention Services. Client: Coleman research
• Course director: Managed pressure-drilling systems. Multilateral
wells. Coiled tubing underbalanced drilling.
Client: JSC Ontustik Munaigaz, Neftserviceholding LTD, OJSC
Surgutneftegas, Gazprom Mining Orenburg Ltd, BelNIPIneft
“Belorusneft” via Capital Business Events. Stavanger
• 11.2012 – 03.2013: Project risk engineer. Client: TOTAL via
IDEA consultants. Kongsberg
• Course director: Drilling, well control, HSE and risk. Client:
CNOOC via Petromentor. Aberdeen.
• 11.2012 – 03.2013: Project risk advisor. Client: FMC
Technologies via IDEA consultants. Kongsberg
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Sigve Hamilton Aspelund, 03-2015
• Chairman: Doing more with drilling data. Client: Finding
petroleum. Stavanger
• Course director: Production, geology, geo modelling, reservoir
simulation, drilling and HSE. Client: NNPC via Petroconsult.
London
• 03-04.2012: Petroleum engineer advisor: RCC. Stavanger
• Course director: Introduction to oil & gas industry. Client:
Kebabangan Petroleum Operating Company/ ARN. Kuala
Lumpur. Malaysia.
• Presentation: Offshore safety related to computer interfaces and
information. People and the digital oilfield Client: Finding
petroleum. Stavanger
• Presentation: Offshore security & HSE. Bringing businesses
from east and west together. Client: TransEuropean Centre.
Stavanger
• 2009-2012: Petroleum engineer advisor: Client: Gerson
Lehrman Group. New York
• 08.2010-11.2010: Lectured: Akademiet. Stavanger and Sandnes
• 08.2009-11.2009: Lectured: Stavanger Offshore Technical
School
06.2011-11.2011 Ocean Rig, Forus, Norway
QHSE engineer
Procedures & Technical description review/revision
Engineer at Corcovado (Drilling ship) Location: Greenland
Operator: Cairn Well: Attamik 2
- Risk assessment
- Work permit system and Safe Job Analysis
- Care card system
- Focusing on drilling safety: Bit type, drilling parameters, well
control/volume control, kick prevention, hole cleaning, mud data
& DDR.
- Care philosophy, procedures and procedure exam
Investigated market for best available technology for ”dashboard”
system solutions for HSE.
Well control project for Petroleumstilsynet (PTIL).
Technical contact with customer relations management system
(CRM). and Fast Track project implementation vendor
Data management & generel management
Organized two care for safety seminars and held Care Card
presentations with offshore safety officers from Leiv Eiriksson,
Eirik Raude, Olympia, Corcovado, Poseidon and Mykonos and
onshore QHSE department at Hummeren hotel in Tananger with
team building (Gocart racing at Stavanger carting)
Safety officer at Olympia (Drilling ship). Location: Ghana
Client: Vanco Well: Dzata 2A
Technical contact with KPI information technology vendor and
operational performance management and reporting system
vendor
Annual procedure revision/ review
IADC data reporting
KPI reporting (defining and designing KPI for well operations)
General QHSE engineering and risk management
11.2008-07.2009: Oilfield Technology Group, Forus, Norway
Production engineer consultant
Client: StatoilHydro (Grane), Bergen, Norway
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Sigve Hamilton Aspelund, 03-2015
• Production engineer: Production steering of offshore wells.
Client: StatoilHydro
o Management of offshore process personell
o Well testing and analysis. Displaying results in OFM.
o Production analysis with Flow manager and SAP
o P&I plan
• OTG group project: Subsea technology development
• OTG project leader: Analysis of drilling waste management
market for Swath
• OTG project: Data management
• Hazid/ Hazop meeting. Snorre project. Client: GDF Fabricom
03. 2007- 10.2008: Talisman, Stavanger, Norway
Production engineer
Project leader: Responsible for optimizing oil production at Varg
Eclipse 100 simulations
Sub project leading: Subsurface within integrated operations
(TENAS operation project)
Production supervising with PI process book designing and real time
allocation programming with PI excel
Responsible for:
• Annual and monthly reports
• Well allocation including production analysis
• Well testing and well test analysis
• Weekly production & injection planning and morning meetings
with the communication tool GoToMeeting
• Real time production analysis with PI process book
• Production optimizing with Prosper and GAP
Planning and management of well operations:
o Mechanical operations: Increased oil production from 600 Sm3
/d
to 1200Sm3
/d in a well by increase reservoir pressure by
increasing water injection and changing the choke, stabilized 2
slugging wells by changing gas lift valves (Stabilized total
production)
o PLT, Water shut off and perforations (Increased oil production
from 100 Sm3
/d to 250 Sm3
/d).
• Production optimizing including field visits offshore at Petrojarl
Varg and Varg A
• Organized a team building, presentations and a seminar
• Production forecasting
Attending multidisciplinary team work: Representing for PTIL and
partners, exploration and development
01.2006-02.2007: IOR Chemco, Forus, Norway
Reservoir engineer
• Analysing of the world marked (High water cut reservoirs and
sand producing reservoirs)
• Consultant: Project within petrophysics and geology for Badger
Explorer. Data collection and data base development.
• Management:
• Representation at ONS
• Reporting (Inteligel progress at IRIS) to Norwegian Research
Council, Total, Statoil and Norsk Hydro
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Sigve Hamilton Aspelund, 03-2015
• Screening of Espoir operated by Canadian Natural Recourses
• 05-11.2006: International Research Institute of
Stavanger: Petrophystical measurements: PV,
permeability, porosity and RRFw
• Project research: Optimisation of mSand (chemicals for sand
consolidation) utilizing Labview for analysis
• Field manager: mGel reservoir stimulation for increased oil
recovery at Gullfaks C including: Quality assurance of treatment,
photographing onsite and reporting
• Application to ONS innovation award (Was nominated to the
award)
• Articles published at OTC (Offshore & Energy) and ONS
(Scandinavian oil and gas magazine)
• Representation at IOR 2006 in Tulsa Oklahoma (SPE)
• PowerPoint designing for sales meetings and reporting
• Presentation for potential customers in Aberdeen
• Contact developing (Gained 15 business meetings in Aberdeen
over a short period)
• Marked analyzing of the British shelf (High water cut sand
reservoirs)
• Screening of projects including well log investigation and
reservoir evaluation: Brage (Norsk Hydro), Gullfaks (Statoil)
• Further information at following web site: forskning.no >
Intelligent gelé skal redde oljefelt
02.2003-12.2005: Geoservices, Offshore, Norway
Mudlogging geologist (Petroleum engineer)
• Management: Well monitoring/supervising: Pit volume control
and gas control
• Maintaining sensors and repairing equipment
• Reporting of geology
• Geology: Catching samples, lithology analyse, cuttings and
cavings description and calcimetry analysis and core handling
• Shows evaluation
• Side Wall Cores descriptions / Core descriptions
• Logistics: Sending equipment and samples onshore.
• See projects last page
03.2002-09.2002: ResLab, Forus, Norway
Laboratory engineer
Special Core Analysis:
Measurement of petrophysical data: Permeability, porosity and
capillary pressure/resistivity curves plots in excel
09.2001-02.2002: Roxar, Forus, Norway
Geoscientist
Reservoir Modelling: System helpdesk (RMS 6.2)
Used Unix system to create customers licenses
Software error localization: Importing Eclipse grid files for inspection in
RMS 7.0
• Seismic cubes
• Simulation grid
• Geo modelling/heterogenetiy
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Sigve Hamilton Aspelund, 03-2015
• Well design
Company:
Geoservices:
Operator:
Statoil
Installation:
Deep Sea Trym
Well/ responsibility:
34/10-4-2H Drilling & geology:
Year:
2003
Norway: Statoil Deep Sea Trym 24/10-M-3BH 2003
Total Scarabeo 6 25/5-C-1H 2003
Norske Shell Deep Sea Trym 6407/9-E-2H 2003
Statoil
Statoil
Transocean
Searcher
15/9-E-3H
15-9-E-1H
2004
2004
Statoil Snorre B 34/4-I-1H 2004
Statoil
Statoil
Transocean
Searcher
15/9-E-4H
6506/12-Q-2H
2004
2004
Statoil West Navigator 65/07-3-4 2004
Statoil Stena Don 6608/10-B-4BH 2004
Talisman Gyda 2/1-A16 AY1 2004
Statoil Borgland Dolphin 34/10-F-2 Y1H 2004
Statoil Kvitebjørn 34/11-A11 2004
Talisman Gyda 2/1-A16 AY1/T2 2004
Eni Norge Ocean Vanguard 6406/1-3 2004
HPHT Statoil West Alpha 6506/11-P-3 H 2005
BP Vallhall IP 2/8-G-10 T3 2005
Statoil Snorre B 34/4-K-7 H 2005
Statoil Sleipner A 15/9-A-23 A 2005
BP Ula 7/12-A-5 B 2005
BP Vallhall 2/8-G-11-T4/TS 2005
BP Ula 7/12-a-05b-t2 2005
Statoil Sleipner A 15/9-A-19 2005
Statoil Sleipner A 15/9-A19T2 2005
IOR Chemco
Talisman
Talisman
Ocean rig
Ocean rig
Hydro
Statoil
Talisman
Talisman
Vanco (Ghana)
Cairn (Greenland)
TR. Leader
Gullfaks
Petrojarl Varg
Varg A
Olympia
Corcovado
6605/8-1
Increased Oil Recovery
Production engineering
Production engineering
Safety engineering
Safety engineering
2005
2006
2007-
2008
2011
2011
Other relevant courses and certificates:
2015:
How Norway is controlled: From opposition to position (Politics), Online
Theme meeting about equal rights, domestic violence and bourgeois feminism (Politics) – Victoria,
Stavanger
Transport and communications at Norwegian Government (Politics) - Time, Bryne
2014:
People and Subsea Data – Digital energy journal, Stavanger
Municipal policies (Politics) - Sandnes
School policy (Politics) - Sandnes
State budget (Politics) - Sandnes
Entrepreneurial enterprises/ business (Politics) - Sandnes
Election and party work (Politics) - Sandnes
Transport in government (Politics) - Sandnes
Geochemistry – Oil Plus, Newbury, UK
OLI Stream analyser – OLI systems, Online course, USA
Company ethics courses – Oil Plus, Newbury, UK
Board work (Politics)
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Sigve Hamilton Aspelund, 03-2015
2013:
Local chapter board (Politics):
Leader (Politics), Online
Treasurer (Politics), Online
Member responsible (Politics), Online
Second leader (Politics), Online
New opportunities (Politics), Online
Secretary (Politics), Online
Study leader (Politics), Online
Director (Politics), Online
Election 2013 (Politics), Online
Elderly care and health (Politics) - Online
Freedom (Politics) - Online
Transport (Politics) – Stavanger
Safety (Politics) - Sandnes
Economic politics - Sandnes
Hostile Environment Training – Control risks, United Kingdom
Introduction to Subsea Technology - Connection System – FMC, Kongsberg
AutoCAD/TCE – FMC, Kongsberg
Team centre: Review and approve – FMC, Kongsberg
Introduction to subsea technology: Completion/ work over – FMC, Kongsberg
Introduction to subsea technology: System overview in production – FMC, Kongsberg
Subsea technology: Production control systems – FMC, Kongsberg
Subsea Technology: Processing Introduction – FMC, Kongsberg
Standardization course – FMC, Kongsberg
Subsea: Front End Engineering – FMC, Kongsberg
Subsea technology: Introduction to MPS – FMC, Kongsberg
Document review: Introduction to NDT & MRB – FMC, Kongsberg
Create and maintain SAP project BOM – FMC, Kongsberg
SAP basic navigation – FMC, Kongsberg
Field development: Subsea technology production systems – FMC, Kongsberg
2012:
FMC technologies corporate compliance program – FMC, Kongsberg
PLAN - Train caster Tutorial for Eastern Region users – FMC, Kongsberg
Introduction to Subsea technology: Foundations & structures – FMC, Kongsberg
FMC technologies corporate compliance program – FMC, Kongsberg
Health (Politics) - Sola
Speech and debate (Politics) - Sola
Samhandlingsreformen (Politics) – Sandnes
2011:
Offshore safety course – Falck Nutec, Sandnes
Online company courses – Ocean Rig, Forus
2010:
Seminar: People, Planet, Profit – University of Stavanger
The economy game – Skape, Stavanger
Business presentation strategy – Skape, Stavanger
Sales and service – Skape, Stavanger
Advanced business development course – Skape, Stavanger
2009:
HSE seminar: A safer working day – Bureau Veritas, Stavanger
Seminar: Bringing businesses from east and west together – Transeuropean centre, Stavanger
Introduction to business development – Skape, Stavanger
Networking – Skape, Stavanger
Political industry course – Sandnes
2008:
F.A.S.T. RTA, Fekete – Stavanger
Oil Field Manager – Schlumberger, Stavanger
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Sigve Hamilton Aspelund, 03-2015
PI process book & PI excel – OSIsoft, Stavanger
2007:
Mbal, Prosper & GAP – PetroleumExperts, Edinburgh
Gas lift course – Schlumberger Aberdeen
PI process book – Stavanger
Offshore safety course – Falck Nutec, Stavanger
2006:
Water shut off – Randy Seright, SPE IOR06 Tulsa Oklahoma
2005:
Data engineer – Geoservices, Sandnes
HSE training course – Geoservices, Sandnes
H2S course, Offshore
Basic safety and emergency and evacuation course for Ula/Valhall – BP
2004:
Kick sheet – Geoservices, Bergen
Secondary well control – Geoservices, Bergen
Primary well control – Geoservices, Bergen
Offshore work permit and safe job analysis course – Internet course
Helicopter evacuation and Statoil internal course – Nutec, Sandnes
2003:
Mud logging training course – Geoservices – Aberdeen, United Kingdom
Offshore safety course – Nutec, Sandnes
2001:
Presentation Technique – Roxar, Os
RMS, reservoir-modelling system, heterogeneity – Roxar, Sandnes
RMS, reservoir-modelling system, simulation grid – Roxar, Sandnes
RMS, reservoir-modelling system, streamlines – Roxar, Sandnes
RMS, reservoir-modelling system, introduction – Roxar, Sandnes
1998:
Electronics – RSD, Hundvåg
Excel spread sheet – RSD, Hundvåg
Fiberoptics, computer network and telephone network, Hundvåg
Education:
Subjects (Grades in parenthesis 1.0 is the best):
University of Stavanger (HiS/UiS) 1998-2001+2003
2003:
Reservoir simulation 1 (3.1)
Reservoir simulation 2 (Pass) (Eclipse)
Reservoir geophysics and visualization (D)
Well testing (3.7)
2001: Sivilingeniør (M.Sc.)
Thesis: Lorenz equations: An introduction at M.Sc. level (2.1) Supervisor: Paul Papatzacos
Fluid dynamics (1.4)
2000:
Fluid mechanics (2.0)
Statistical physics (2.2)
Petroleum physics (2.1)
Numerical linear algebra (3.0)
Numerical functional analysis (3.4)
Mathematical modelling 2 (1.3)
Experimental methods at laboratory (2.2)
Material physics (2.2)
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Sigve Hamilton Aspelund, 03-2015
PVT analysis (3.3)
Numerical treatment of differential equations (1.6)
Stochastically modelling (2.7)
Statistical physics 2 (1.9)
1999: Candidatus Magisterii (B. Sc.) (NTNU, HiS & UiB)
Well logging (3.5)
Petroleum geology (2.0)
Reservoir technology 1 (3.0)
Drilling and well fluids (2.0)
General chemistry (2.4)
Oscillations and waves (3.8)
Mathematics 5: complex analysis (1.6)
Introduction to reservoir simulation (2.5)
Mathematical modelling 1 (2.3)
Chaotically dynamical systems (1.2)
1998:
Numerical mathematics (1.2)
Thermodynamics (1.1)
Physics laboratory (1.9)
Chemistry and environment (3.4)
Computer science (Pass)
University of Bergen 1998 (UiB)
Examen philosophicum (2.6)
Norwegian University of Technical Science 1995-1997 (NTNU, Trondheim)
1997:
Electricity and magnetism (2.7)
Quantum physics and statistical physics (3.1)
Probability and statistics 1 (3.9)
1996:
General physics 2 (1.7)
Linear algebra (2.6)
Multidimensional analysis (4.0)
Differential equations and Fourier analysis (1.3)
Mechanics (2.0)
1995:
General physics 1 (1.8)
Introduction to analysis (2.0)
10. CURRICULUM VITAE
Sigve Hamilton Aspelund, 03-2015
PVT analysis (3.3)
Numerical treatment of differential equations (1.6)
Stochastically modelling (2.7)
Statistical physics 2 (1.9)
1999: Candidatus Magisterii (B. Sc.) (NTNU, HiS & UiB)
Well logging (3.5)
Petroleum geology (2.0)
Reservoir technology 1 (3.0)
Drilling and well fluids (2.0)
General chemistry (2.4)
Oscillations and waves (3.8)
Mathematics 5: complex analysis (1.6)
Introduction to reservoir simulation (2.5)
Mathematical modelling 1 (2.3)
Chaotically dynamical systems (1.2)
1998:
Numerical mathematics (1.2)
Thermodynamics (1.1)
Physics laboratory (1.9)
Chemistry and environment (3.4)
Computer science (Pass)
University of Bergen 1998 (UiB)
Examen philosophicum (2.6)
Norwegian University of Technical Science 1995-1997 (NTNU, Trondheim)
1997:
Electricity and magnetism (2.7)
Quantum physics and statistical physics (3.1)
Probability and statistics 1 (3.9)
1996:
General physics 2 (1.7)
Linear algebra (2.6)
Multidimensional analysis (4.0)
Differential equations and Fourier analysis (1.3)
Mechanics (2.0)
1995:
General physics 1 (1.8)
Introduction to analysis (2.0)