CV Sigve Hamilton Aspelund 042013

1. CURRICULUM VITAE
Sigve Hamilton Aspelund, 04-2013
Name : Sigve Hamilton Aspelund
Position : President
Geoscientist consultant/Petroleum engineer consultant
Nationality : Norwegian
Contact details: Phone: +47 92 64 71 29, email: ace.odin@lyse.net
Summary: Senior Petroleum Engineer/ geoscientist with onshore/offshore
work experience in the oil and gas industry. Having developed
excellent consulting experience across Norway and
International, I’m now looking for a permanent position with a
long-term career goal of becoming VP of exploration &
production. 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 KPOC, NNPC, BP, ENI,
Total, Shell, Talisman 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
My personal profile: Adaptation accomplished realist,
outstanding organizational skills and business sense, desire to
achieve concrete results toward perfectionism, prefer hard
work, ultimate realist, possess practical properties combined
with highly developed intelligence, sees quickly new
opportunities and use this to his own benefit, hard working, fair,
very independent, convinced that morality is more important
than anything else, resourceful, action-oriented person, eager to
expand own knowledge, expect to reach targets, responsible,
industrious, resolute and energetic, natural leader and has a
natural talent as a presenter
Specialties:
Production enhancement & optimization of surface and
subsurface operations
Risk advising & engineering
Engineering
Subsea technology
International activity
Drilling: Quality, Health, Safety & Environment engineering
Emulsified polymers
Networking
Team building
Integrated operations
Marketing & business development
Exploration geoscience (Geology, geomodeling and drilling)
Reservoir engineering: Increased Oil production and
petrophysics
Advising
Technologist: Information Technology
Oral presentations: Teaching and presentation
Realist: Mathematics, physics and technology

2. CURRICULUM VITAE
Sigve Hamilton Aspelund, 04-2013
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:
M.Sc. thesis: Edward Lorenz strange attractors, a course at
M.Sc. level
Languages : Norwegian (mother tongue), English (fluent)
Education :
2003: Rogaland University (HiS-Høgskolen i Stavanger)
Post-qualifying education
Reservoir engineering
Including Eclipse reservoir simulation engineering
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 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: Managed data information, onshore and offshore personell, increased oil
production in exploration and production industry, organized and held courses and team
buildings.

3. CURRICULUM VITAE
Sigve Hamilton Aspelund, 04-2013
Relevant work experience:
08.2009-today: Aspelund Consulting Energy Offshore Development International
&National
Petroleum engineer project manager with applied science program
Geoscientist freelance consultant
President
List of Consulting & Advisory assignments:
• Financial: Client wanted to understand within which time lag the
gas/oil production can be increased or decreased in upstream in
the North Sea. Client: A. T. Kearney Inc via Gehrson Lehrman
Group
• Responsible for revision at Aspelund Consulting Offshore
Development International & National
• Presented at a seminar in Aberdeen. Topics: Drilling, well
control, HSE and risk. Client: CNOOC
• Topics:
• Rig Selection and basic planning steps
• Exploration and production licences
• Exploration, development and abandonment
• Well planning and design
• Drilling pipes, casing, collar, kelly, tubing
• Oil & gas delivery pipes
• Drilling bits
• Drilling personnel
• Drilling economics
• Drilling cost estimates
• Communications and safety issues
• Crisis management
• Risk evaluation
• Risk definition
• Mapping of HSE & risks
• Cause assessment
• HSE analysis
• Risk reduction
• Barriers
• Accidents
• Offshore blowouts
• Economics in accidents
• Collapse of rigs
• Sunk rigs
• Pressure in fluids at rest
• Hydrostatic pressure
• Atmospheric pressure
• Pore pressure
• Darcy`s law
• Hole sections and well trajectory
• Units
• Primary well control
• Secondary well control

4. CURRICULUM VITAE
Sigve Hamilton Aspelund, 04-2013
• Tertiary well control
• Formation pressure
• Normal formation pressure
• Abnormal pressure
• Salt beds
• Mineralisation
• Tectonic causes
• Formation fracture pressure
• Leak-off tests and procedure
• Rig components
• Introduction to petroleum geology
• Sedimentology
• Classification of sedimentary rocks
• Texture in granular sediments
• Grain size
• Sorting
• Grain shape
• Packing
• Sand and sandstone and classification
• Porosity
• Permeability
• Controls on Porosity and Permeability
• Diagenesis
• Changes of porosity with burial depth
• Completion/ workover fluids
• Foam drilling fluids
• Oil based muds
• Synthetics
• Water based muds
• Casing
• Conductor
• Surface casing
• Intermediate casing
• Production casing
• Liner
• Cementing
• Wire line operations
• Measurement while drilling
• Systems
• Directional tools
• Gamma ray tools
• NGT tool
• SP log
• Sonic tool
• Density tool
• Neutron tool
• Daily drilling report
• Material balance equations
• Drilling fluid economics
• Drilling fluid properties
• Pressure
• Hydrostatic pressure
• Pump pressure
• Imposed pressure

5. CURRICULUM VITAE
Sigve Hamilton Aspelund, 04-2013
• Pressure imposed by the pump
• Pressure imposed by the formation
• Kicks
• Swabbing of formation fluids into the borehole
• Insufficient mud density
• Poor well planning
• Lost circulation
• Recognition of kicks
• HPHT subsea technology
01.11.2012 – 03.2013: Project risk engineer: Pre-engineering FMC organization.
Client: Total. Fields in Angola and Shetland
o System: SharePoint and excel
Project risk advisor at the Subsea field developments CLOV:
Cravo, Lirio, Orquidea and Violeta discoveries and GIRRI: Rosa
and Girassol fields operated by Total (Angola). Client: FMC
technologies
The essential purpose of risk management in projects and
tenders are to improve project and tender performance via the
systematic and iterative process designed to identify, analyze,
evaluate, and treat project related risk elements. Risk elements
are compiled, recorded and managed throughout the tender
period and project life cycle.
• Establishment of project risk management plan in accordance to
FMC project risk management process
• Establishment and maintenance of a risk register based on risk
analysis done in tender phase (if available), lessons learned and
project risk assessment methodology
• Ensuring that projects work according to FMC global risk
management process for projects
• Facilitate risk meetings and co-ordinate risk responses
• Monitor and control that the risk strategies are implemented in a
timely manner
• Coordinate and participate in risk evaluation, development of
mitigation plans, monitor, summarize and report risk status
• Compile record and follow up risks out of tolerance level in the
risk register
• Create a project risk management close out report
• Support projects or tenders with risk analysis (quantification and
/or bowtie) upon request
• Report updates and improvements for process, methodology
and tools as a result of feedback from the organization and / or
changes in external conditions, to the local process owner
• Chaired: Doing more with drilling data in Stavanger. Client:
Finding petroleum
• Presented at a seminar in London: Production, geology, geo-
modeling and reservoir simulation in London. Client: Nigerian
National Petroleum Corporation via Petroconsult
• Reservoir types and classification
• Geo modeling techniques
• Geo modeling inputs

6. CURRICULUM VITAE
Sigve Hamilton Aspelund, 04-2013
• Geophysical data derivatives in geo modeling
• Use of geostatics in geo modeling
• Fundamentals in geo modeling
o Structural modeling
o Stratigraphic modeling
o Reservoir property modeling
• Fundamentals of sequential indicator simulation (SIS)
and sequential Gaussian modeling (SGS) modeling
• Limitation of geo modeling
• Up scaling and its effects
• Uncertainty analysis
• Quality control
• Geo modeling application types
• Effects of geo model on overall reservoir modeling
• Networked at ONS
• Cultural project. Client: Suncor
• Advisor: Development drilling for, and production of, oil and gas
in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico. Economics of drilling and
execution risk (Mexico gulf). Client: Maven
• Advisor: Offshore operation: Management , offshore drilling
rigs : Client : Athenum partners
o Exploration & production
o Seismic interpretation & logging
o Wireline operations
o PLT
o IOR operations
o Offshore equipment
o QHSE cultures
o Subsea ROV inspections
o NORSOK standard
o International standard
o International environment
03.2012-04.2012 RCC Consultant (Petroleum engineer)
Presentations:
- Oil and gas industry & life cycle
- Structural/ design
- Piping/ layout
- Procurement
- Materials/ corrosion
Employee training:
- Mechanical/ drilling
- Process
- Electronics & telecom/ HVAC
- Petroleum engineering; Drilling, production & reservoir
- QHSE

7. CURRICULUM VITAE
Sigve Hamilton Aspelund, 04-2013
Resource coordinator: Nominating/ managing applicants & relevant
candidates to available positions:
Engineering & management:
- Interface coordinator
- Petroleum engineering
- Electro instrument & telecom/ HVAC
- Technical safety, HSE/ HSEQ/ Quality/ QA/QC
- Structural design
- Process
- Piping/ layout
-- Subsea marine operations
- Procurement
- Mechanical/ drilling
- Materials/ Corrosion
- Document/ LCI
- Planning
- Cost engineer
Evaluating candidates curriculum vitae
Software: Itris
06.2011-11.2011 Ocean Rig
QHSE engineer (Petroleum 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.
- Software: STAR, Mintra & Empreda
- 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 information technology vendor and
operational performance management and reporting system

8. CURRICULUM VITAE
Sigve Hamilton Aspelund, 04-2013
vendor
Project lead: Annual procedure revision/ review
IADC data reporting
KPI reporting
General QHSE engineering and risk management
Software:
Star
Mintra administrator
Empreda
• Advising: Offshore Drilling Rigs: Management, Operations, and
environment: Client : Gehrson Lehrman Group
o Safety cultures
o Employee training
o Engineering and innovation capabilities
o Management and strategic positions
o Corporate cultures
o Key operational benchmarks
• Advising: Drilling (Alaska) Client : Maven
• Advising: Natural gas compression (Canada) Client : Maven
• Introduction of oil & gas industry course in KL Malaysia Client:
(Asian Resource Network/ Kebabanang Petroleum Operating
Company)
• Advising: European oil production industry
Client : Gehrson Lehrman Group
• Advising: Norwegian drilling waste management market
Client : Gehrson Lehrman Group
• Held an Offshore safety related to computer interfaces and
information presentation at the seminar People and the digital
oilfield
• Administrative project – Client : Frank`s international
• Advising: Norwegian oil industry service – Client : Gerson
Lehrman Group
• HSE presentation at the seminar: Bringing businesses from east
and west together by TransEuropean Centre at Rica Forum
08.2010-11.2010 Akademiet
• Management: Mathematics, physics & chemistry
• Created the open Linkedin groups: Networking for creating
opportunities, Networking for creating business and Networking
for creating leaders
• Creating international network
• SEO business development for international companies
08.2009-11.2009 Stavanger Offshore Technical School
Petroleum engineer
Management: Held courses for up to 100 students

9. CURRICULUM VITAE
Sigve Hamilton Aspelund, 04-2013
• Production technique 1 & 2
• Drilling technology
• Geology and formation evaluation
• Health, Safety and Environment for the oil industry
• Well control
• Drilling fluids
• Operating and control systems
• Mathematics
• Chemistry process
• Alternative energy
• Business development management
11.2008-07.2009: Oilfield Technology Group
Production engineer consultant (Petroleum engineer)
Client: StatoilHydro (Grane)
• Management: Production steering of offshore wells
• Management of offshore process personell
• Well testing and analysis. Displaying results in OFM.
• Production analysis with Flow manager
• P&I plan
• Analysis of drilling waste management market for Swath
• Subsea technology development group project
03. 2007- 10.2008: Talisman
Production engineer (Petroleum engineer)
Project leader: Responsible for optimizing oil production at Varg
Eclipse 100 simulations
Management of offshore process and service personell
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 Sm 3/d
to 1200Sm3/d in a well by increase reservoir pressure by
increasing water injection and changing the choke, stabilized 2

10. CURRICULUM VITAE
Sigve Hamilton Aspelund, 04-2013
slugging wells by changing gas lift valves (Stabilized total
production)
o PLT, Water shut of 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 all multidisciplinary team work: Representing for PTIL and
partners, exploration, development ++
01.2006-02.2007: IOR Chemco
Reservoir engineer (Petroleum engineer)
• Analyzing 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
• Screening of Espoir operated by Canadian Natural Recourses
05-11.06: International Research Institute of Stavanger: Petrophystical
measurements: PV, permeability, porosity and RRFw
Project research: Optimisation of mSand (chemicals for sand
consolidation)
• 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

11. CURRICULUM VITAE
Sigve Hamilton Aspelund, 04-2013
02.2003-12.2005: Geoservices
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 analyze, 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
Laboratory engineer (Petroleum engineer)
Special Core Analysis:
Measurement of petrophysical data: Permeability, porosity and
capillary pressure/resistivity curves plots in excel
09.2001-02.2002: Roxar
Geoscientist (Petroleum engineer)
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
• Well design
Other relevant courses and certificates :
2013:
Introduction to Subsea Technology - Connection System
Autocad/TCE
Teamcenter: Review and approve
Introduction to subsea technology: Completion/ workover
Introduction to subsea technology: System overview in production
Subsea technology: Production control systems
Subsea Technology: Processing Introduction
Standardization course
Subsea: Front End Engineering
Subsea technology: Introduction to MPS
Document review: Introduction to NDT & MRB
Create and maintain SAP project BOM
SAP basic navigation
Field development: Subsea technology production systems
2012:

12. CURRICULUM VITAE
Sigve Hamilton Aspelund, 04-2013
FMC technologies corporate compliance program & PLAN - Traincaster Tutorial for Eastern Region
users
Introduction to Subsea technology: Foundations & structures
FMC technologies corporate compliance program
2011: Offshore safety course – Falck Nutec
2010: Workshop: The future of innovation – University of Stavanger
2010: Seminar: People, Planet, Profit – University of Stavanger
2010: The economy game – Skape
2010: Business presentation strategy – Skape
2010: Sales and service – Skape
2010: Advanced business development course – Skape
2009: HSE seminar: A safer working day – Bureau Veritas
2009: Seminar: Bringing businesses from east and west together – Transeuropean centre
2009: Introduction to business development – Skape
2009: Networking – Skape
2009: Political industry course – Sandnes
2008: F.A.S.T. Fekete RTA – Stavanger
2008: Oil Field Manager – Stavanger
2008: PI process book & PI excel – Stavanger
2007: Mbal, Prosper & GAP – Petroleumexperts, Edinburgh
2007: Gas lift course – Schlumberger Aberdeen
2007: PI process book – Stavanger
2007: Offshore safety course – Falck Nutec
2006: Water shut off – Randy Seright, SPE IOR06 Tulsa Oklahoma
2005: Data engineer – Geoservices
2005: HSE training course – Geoservices
2005: Basic safety and emergency and evacuation course for Ula/Valhall – BP
2004: Kick sheet – Geoservices
2004: Secondary well control course – Geoservices
2004: Primary well control course – Geoservices
2004: Offshore work permit and safe job analysis course – Internet course
2004: Helicopter evacuation and Statoil internal course – Nutec
2003: Mud logging training course – Geoservices
2003: Offshore safety course – Nutec
2001: Presentation Technique – Os (Roxar)
2001: RMS, reservoir modelling system, heterogeneity – Roxar
2001: RMS, reservoir modelling system, simulation grid – Roxar
2001: RMS, reservoir modelling system, streamlines – Roxar
2001: RMS, reservoir modelling system, introduction – Roxar
1998: Fiberoptics, computer network and telephone network – RSD
1998: Electronics course – RSD
1998: Excel spreadsheet – RSD
Offshore experience:
Geoservices:
Norway Statoil Deep Sea Trym 34/10-4-2H 2003
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 Transocean 15/9-E-3H 2004

13. CURRICULUM VITAE
Sigve Hamilton Aspelund, 04-2013
Searcher 15-9-E-1H
Statoil Snorre B 34/4-1-1H 2004
Statoil Tr. Searcher 15/9-E-4H 2004
6506/12-Q-2H
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
3-1/11-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
Hydro TR. Leader 6605/8-1 2005
Comment: I have experienced both wildcats with a very fast drill rate and advanced production wells
and been lucky to work with many different reservoirs both sandstone and chalk.
2006: IOR Checmo: Statoil Gullfaks:
Water shut of treatment with emulsified polymers
2007-2008 Talisman: Varg/Petrojarl Varg:
Improved oil recovery methods: PLT & gas lift
2011 Ocean rig: QHSE engineer
Olympia (Vanco) (Ghana) & Corcovado (Cairn) (Greenland)