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ONS 2008: Press sees Norway from toe to tip
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Journalists from the UK, US, Canada, Russia, Sweden,
Austria, Venezuela and Brazil took part in the trip.STAVANGER
Petroleumworld.com, April 30, 2008
With a focus on topics from the conference programme the ONS press trip took place in late April, at its peak numbering 22 international journalists. The trip, which took the visitors from one end of Norway to the other, was a success for all those involved, according to ONS president and CEO Kjell Ursin-Smith.
The ONS has arranged press trips ahead of every show since 1982. Many of the new and significant topics at this year’s conference were covered, says Ursin-Smith.One of these topics is renewable energy, which will have its own park in the ONS 2008 exhibition. It was therefore natural to take the journalists on a visit to the island of Utsira, north-west of Stavanger. Here the world’s first hydrogen society is to be found, albeit in a small-scale experimental form.
“ We had a fantastic trip to Utsira for which the mayor of Utsira, Jarle Nilsen, was our host and representatives from StatoilHydro and Siemens talked about their renewable energy projects,” says Ursin-Smith.
Jarle Nilsen, the major of UtsiraEarlier in the day the group was hosted by ConocoPhillips. An ever-present theme at ONS is technology development, and the journalists were shown around ConocoPhillips’ centre for integrated operations. Ursin-Smith describes the many operations as “state-of-the-art interaction between onshore and offshore.”
From Stavanger the trip continued to northern Norway, stopping en route in Oslo where the group met Liv Monica Bargem Stubholt, state secretary in the Ministry of Petroleum and Energy. She briefed the group on Norway’s energy policy and an interesting discussion ensued on renewable energy versus traditional oil and gas activities.
A notable feature of the trip was a visit to northern Norway where the group stopped off in Tromsø in Troms county before continuing to Hammerfest in Finnmark county. Here the journalists visited the LNG processing plant for the Snøhvit field in the Barents Sea. The plant, which came on stream in autumn 2007, is operated by StatoilHydro.
“ This must be seen in the context of the dedicated LNG park and LNG seminar at ONS 2008,” Ursin-Smith emphasises. The visit was much appreciated by the journalists, as was a trip inland to see the spectacular nature of this region inside the Arctic Circle.“The feedback from participants on this year’s press trip has been very good and we are therefore very pleased,” says Ursin-Smith.
Meetings were also held with representatives for industrial development in Troms and in Finnmark, and a presentation was given by Eni of its plans for the Goliat oil field in the Barents. In Tromsø the group also visited Kongsberg’s aerospace centre where they were given a demonstration of a satellite monitoring programme for tracking environmental changes.
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