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ENEX draws international petroleum experts

ENEX, the petroleum industry’s exciting new event to be held at the TSB Stadium in New Plymouth, June 9-10 this year, will feature two days of presentations from petroleum experts.

Among the international speakers is Jeff Oslund, the Asia Exploration manager for Anadarko. Jeff will be travelling from Houston to speak at ENEX and will share Anadarko’s corporate experience in deepwater drilling around the world.

US-based Anadarko Petroleum, which is among the largest independent oil and gas exploration and production companies in the world, is a premier deepwater producer with interests in Alaska, Algeria, Brazil, China, Indonesia and East, West Africa and New Zealand.
Anadarko has recently given notice to Crown Minerals that before September it will drill, a well in its 32,830 square-kilometre petroleum exploration permit in the Taranaki Basin.

Other international keynote speakers at ENEX include:
John Conolly, the executive chairman of Rawson Resources (Australia); Steve Royston, the principal engineer, Oil & Gas Centre of Excellence, ABB (United Kingdom);
Stuart Cassie, director – Improve Services, WorleyParsons (Australia);
Zach John, Geomechanics coordinators - Australia-PNG-NZ, Schlumberger (Australia);
Brian Mulcahy, managing director, HIMA (Australia).

Further information: Visit the ENEX website www.enex.co.nz.

About the organisers
ENEX is a partnership between two well-established and successful New Zealand companies – Contrafed Publishing Co. Ltd, publisher of EnergyNZ magazine, and Conferenz Ltd, New Zealand’s leading event organiser.

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