3rd Aker Arctic Passion Seminar was held in Helsinki 6th March 2008

26-March-08

The traditional Arctic Passion Seminar was again held at the Company's own premises on March 6th, keynote speakers being this time Per Kjaerners from StatoilHydro reporting on Shtokman development plans and Steve Meheen from Frontier Drilling, whose paper was dealing with drilling developments in North of Alaska. The Seminar was opened by Mr. Paavo Väyrynen, Minister for Foreign Trade and Development of Finland. All the presented papers can be downloaded from here.

Following presentations are available on our website:

Program

Participants

Opening of the Seminarby Dr. Paavo Väyrynen, Minister for Foreign Trade and Development of Finland

Moving forward in the Arctic: Shtokman- Paving the way, Per A. Kjaernes, Asset Manager, StatoilHydro Shtokman project

Frontier Drilling USA, Inc., Klaus Backstrom, Captain, Frontier Drilling USA, Inc.

Challenges and Developments since the 2nd Aker Arctic Passion seminar_A, Mikko Niini, President, Aker Arctic Technology Inc.

Challenges and Developments since the 2nd Aker Arctic Passion seminar_B, Mikko Niini, President, Aker Arctic Technology Inc.

Ice Management for Ice Offshore for vessels in moving pack ice, Arno Keinonen

Ice Management- Field experiments and results of systematic ice model test, Sami Saarinen, Project Manager, Aker Arctic Technology Inc.

Icebreaking development, Reko-Antti Suojanen, Project Manager, Aker Arctic Technology Inc.

Transportation of iron ore from Baffin Island to Rotterdam, Göran Wilkman, Manager Marketing and Projects, Aker Arctic Technoloy Inc.

Arctic Passion Research Platform, Questionnaire

For more information, please contact:
Mikko Niini, Managing Director Aker Arctic Technology,
tel. +358 400 322 747 or +358 10 670 2499