Lindefjeld has an Engineering degree from the University of Wyoming, USA. More than 30 years of experience from ConocoPhillips, in a range of technical and management positions. Since the merger of Conoco and Phillips have been responsible for the R&D activities in Norway and the UK

Abstract of the presentation: 

Obtaining information about offshore arctic areas is often a challenge. The problem in many cases is not the lack of information itself, but the inability to asses its quality and to identify the more reliable sources.

ArcticWeb is a project started in Norway and sponsored by 6 oil companies: StatoilHydro, ConocoPhillips, BG Group, ENI, Lundin and Shell. The goal of the project is to create a web framework that would continuously harvest predefined information from the Key Data Owners ? authorities and institutions recognised for producing and maintaining reliable and high quality information related to Arctic areas.

The information itself is to be used by Oil and Service companies for the purposes of early field development, environmental risk analysis, emergency preparedness and more. It would be presented to the users via search and map interfaces, for exploration, analysis and ordering. The project is managed by AconaCMG and the portal is based on Kadme?s Whereoil technology.

For the moment Arctic Web is opened for beta testing by the sponsor companies and only harvests information on the Norwegian offshore from the sources like: Norwegian Petroleum Directorate, Norwegian Coastal Authority, Norwegian Mapping Authority, Geological Survey of Norway, Norwegian Meteorological Institute, Norwegian Directorate of Fisheries, Norwegian Directorate for Nature Management, Norwegian Polar Institute and Norwegian Clean Seas Association for Operating Companies.

Arctic Web would open for production use at the beginning of 2010. The intention is to further expand both data and geographical area of the project towards circumpolar coverage.