Minutes
from the  FresCo meeting 17th of December 2002 at  NPD office, Stavanger

Participants:
Kjell Sigve Leirvik, Statoil
Jan Erik Kittilsen, BP
Alan Burns, TFE
Arild Haugen, OD
Kristian Kolbjørnsen, DNO 

Agenda:

1. Election of chairman for the committee

Kristian Kolbjørnsen (DNO) was elected for  2003.

2. Mandate Fresco

            It was agreed that the framework given by the steering committee  when the FresCo committee was established was wide enough for us to establish the following guide lines:

 Main tasks for the FRESCO Committee 

• Responsible for arranging the Annual Seminar

• Stimulate cooperation and promote research both towards research institutes and universities, and also against the service industry (contractors).
• Establish a network both towards other research organisations/initiatives such as NRC, OG21.
• Map, monitor and announce current national and international industry research programmes.
• Define topics based on input from the technical committees (SINGS), and annual meeting.
• Receive and chase research proposals from NRC, universities, research institutes, service industry, oil companies and FORCE groups/seminars.
• Review and distribute interesting proposal to the relevant committee(s) in FORCE and seek an opinion within given deadlines.
• Encourage establishment of consortia.
• Active market FORCE as a catalyst for interesting projects within IOR and exploration.
• Facilitate funding for projects.

3. Feedback from the technical committees  (ref minutes last meeting

     http://www.force.org/fresco/meeting101002.htm.):

Earth and Reservoir Modelling: No projects

Advanced Wells: 1 Project in june , no response within deadline 1.12.02

Recovery Group: 4 Projects in june, no response within deadline 1.12.02 . Arild will contact Arne Skauge and get an immediate feedback since most projects belong to this group.

Seismic group: No projects
Uncertanty: No Projects
Vizualisation: 1 project in june, no response within deadline
Sed/Strat: No projects in june, but several received after and have been  coordinated in the new Norwegian Sea Consortium (see Agenda pt 4 below).
Structural Geology: No projects except as mentioned under Sed/Strat
Reservoir Characterization: No projects except as mentioned under Sed/Strat 

Arild and Kristian will look into  the possibilities of establishing a more systematic follow-up system such that processing in the various group(s) of the respective project proposals can be monitored  

Projects are also received after the deadline (mid june), and are continously  distributed to the groups and published on the web. 

4. Status/discussion proposed consortium (Norwegian Sea - 18th Round and beyond)

Kjell-Sigve and Arild gave  a status for this Consiortium that sems to generate enough interest to materialize. Kjell Sigve will be the project leader. 

5. Seminar 2003

 - Subjects will focus on challenges within Exploration in the Norwegian Sea and Exploration and IOR in the North Sea.

 - Organizing committee. Kjell Sigve will check if Statoils Phil Mullis could join the organizing Committee as chairman. Various other committee-candidates were suggested and will be contacted by Arild and/or Kristian. TFE and BP will nominate their candidate within the first week of January 2003. In the meantime Alan Burns and Jan Erik Kittilsen will be contact persons.

- Two days are reserved in Valhall: 31.3 – 1-4  and mid May. The committee will decide on their first meeting January 14^th.    

6. Feedback from meeting ITF

Arild gave a short summary of the meeting last week with ITF (se enclosure) 

7 Status "Other companies should also be invited to participate in the

FRESCO committee"

Arild had received no responses from the companies he had talked to and will now  contact individuals directly to get  engaged committee members. 

8 AOB

No decision for date on next meeting. Will be called upon demand and most likely in connection with the Annual Seminar.

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