21/12/2025
Christmas Party - SPE Trondheim Section ✨🎄
On December 10th, we hosted our annual Christmas Party, bringing together members, students, and industry professionals for a festive evening of learning, networking, and community building 🤝🎓
We were honored to welcome three outstanding speakers who shared valuable insights across drilling, subsurface, digitalization, and strategy:
🎤 Sigve Hovda
CEO, ComputerWell & Professor at NTNU
In his talk “Realtime Digital Twins in Drilling – A Step Change is Coming Soon”, Sigve discussed how real-time digital twins combined with AI are transforming drilling operations—enhancing drilling speed, reducing non-productive time, and improving long-term production through integrated real-time architectures ⚙️
🎤 Ida Ianssen Lundh
SVP Subsurface, OKEA
In her speech “Turning Challenges into Champions: The OKEA Way”, Ida shared insights into OKEA’s strategy as a leading mid- and late-life operator on the NCS. She discussed extending the lifetime of existing infrastructure, record-breaking drilling achievements, active exploration strategies, and how bold ideas combined with relentless ex*****on help shape the future of energy 🚀⚡
🎤 Dr. Ashkan Jahanbani
Associate Professor of Reservoir Engineering, NTNU
Ashkan presented “ML-Powered Reservoir Simulation and Optimization”, highlighting how machine learning-based proxy models can support faster and more informed decision-making in reservoir simulation and recovery optimization, while also addressing challenges related to interpretability and generalization 📊
🎯 Board Updates & Elections
During the evening, we also held board elections and role transitions. We are pleased to announce that Ilya Vassilyev has taken on the role of Chair President, Rashad Nazaraliyev has stepped in as Program Chairperson, Svetlana Erofeeva is now serving as Treasurer, and we warmly welcome Ali Hamdan as a new member of the SPE Trondheim Section board 👏
Beyond the technical and strategic discussions, the evening was a wonderful opportunity to connect, exchange ideas, and strengthen the SPE community, all in a warm and festive Christmas atmosphere and great dinner as always🎁🎄
A sincere thank you to our speakers, everyone who joined us, and all our members for being an active part of the SPE Trondheim Section throughout the year ❤️
🎅🎄 We wish you all a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays, and we look forward to many inspiring events in the year ahead!❤️
pssh… 👀✨ and let’s just say - the next event is already right around the corner
Stay tuned!
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SPE Trondheim Section 💙
