Offshore staff

STAVANGER, Norway – A total of 68,174 people visited ONS 2018.

ONS President and CEO Leif Johan Sevland was happy with the numbers and the quality of the attendees: “Our ambition with ONS 2018 was to be an arena for discussions on energy, environmental issues, security and technology, and to facilitate collaboration across industries and academic disciplines.

“With that, I think we have succeeded and I hope we are one step closer in finding more sustainable solutions for the future.”

Among statistics issued on the event, the conference program featured 620 speakers compared with only 88 in 20110, while the number of delegates at the conference has 10% higher than for ONS 2016, with 3,635 participants over three days.

Speakers included Patrick Pouyanné, chairman and CEO of Total, and Eldar Sætre, president and CEO of Equinor.

Energy in future societies was the main topic at the ONS 2018 Centre Court arena, discussions including carbon capture storage and cleaner oil and gas production were discussed.

ONS’ 27 technical sessions attracted 2,296 delegates over four days. Among the 158 presentations were the challenges and cost-inflating bottlenecks on the Norwegian continental shelf (NCS).

Other topics included P&A, greenfield developments, reducing emissions, extending lives of current installations, and improvement of uptime.

There were 1,124 exhibitors from 37 countries throughout the nine exhibition halls, including a record 28 E&P companies. Some of these were new players on the NCS.

In addition, there was a new Digitalization Zone which outlined digital opportunities for the industry.

Another new feature was Meet at ONS – an in-house built matchmaking tool – which ‘matched’ visitors, exhibitors and speakers based on their profiles and which allowed participants to request and schedule on-site meetings at designated areas throughout the exhibition.

The facility led to 800 meetings at ONS.

More than 4,000 young visitors attended ONS Young, hearing about career opportunities, gaining insight from representatives of the industry, and meeting personnel from Equinor, Shell, Wintershall, ConocoPhillips, and Aker BP.

08/31/2018