Produced Water Management 2026

PhD in Organic Chemistry from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Experience from oil and gas industry for more than 25 years and is working with Equinor within Research and Technology. Areas of experience

• Produced water treatment
• Online Oil-in-Water analyzers
• Production chemicals

Eilen Arctander Vik is the Research Director at Aquateam COWI. She holds a Ph.D. (1982) and M.Sc. (1979) in Environmental Engineering from the University of Washington, Seattle, and a Master of Science in Chemical Engineering from NTH (1975).

Arctander Vik co-founded Aquateam in 1984 together with three colleagues from NIVA. After nearly 30 years in Aquateam, she joined Aquateam COWI in 2013. Her earlier experience includes eight years at NIVA, as well as positions at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health and the Research Council of Norway.

Her core areas of expertise include technology qualification and the development of water-treatment technologies for drinking water, wastewater, and effluents from petroleum and other land-based industries. She also works in environmental risk assessment—developing guidelines for chemicals and contaminated soil—and in ecotoxicology, where she established and operated Aquateam’s GLP laboratory.

Arctander Vik has extensive experience as project manager for numerous international R&D projects. She has authored handbooks, training materials, and contributed to the development of guidelines for corrosion control, humic substance removal, chemical management, water hygiene, and produced-water treatment for the petroleum industry.

Dr Labaky is the Global Concept Solutions Engineering Manager for Produced Water at SLB. His experience spans over 30 years, covering both surface and subsurface water management.

Dr Labaky’s interests are centered on the treatment and reuse of Produced Water in Oil & Gas applications, with the aim of enhancing hydrocarbon recovery in a more sustainable manner. His solutions are designed to reduce dependency on fresh water supply and the associated transportation requirements from and to production sites. This in turn translates into lower carbon emissions and lower operational costs. He has successfully managed projects across North & South America, Australia, Asia and the Middle East.

He holds a PhD in Hydrogeology from the University of Waterloo, Canada and is a registered Professional Geoscientist in the Province of Ontario.

I am a Production Chemist with 36 years in the oil & gas industry for Shell International, 3 years in geothermal industry for Ennatuurlijk Aardwarmte in the Netherlands and 1,5 years for ZL EOR Ltd. advising their Middle East operations regarding EOR polymer flooding. Currently working for EBN at the Porthos CCS project in the Netherlands with a focus on CO2 composition specification.

Johanne Jakobsen er Operations Engineer i OKEA, der hovedansvar er daglig oppfølging av drift på Brageplatformen. Har tidligere jobbet med engineering i Aibel. Faglig bakgrunn: B.Sc i kjemiingeniørfag fra HVL og M.Sc i prosessteknologi fra UiB.

Dr Ming Yang is a Principal Consultant at TUV SUD National Engineering Laboratory (NEL). He has over 34 years of work experience in the Oil & Gas industry. He is well known for his expertise on the subjects of oil in water measurement and produced water management.

He joined NEL in 1998, before that, he worked at Heriot-Watt University between 1991 and 1995 and University of Manchester between 1995 and 1997.

Bahar is a PhD candidate at NTNU, where she explores crude oil separation from produced water under subsea high-temperature, high-pressure (HTHP) conditions using flocculant-assisted gas flotation. Her research focuses on understanding how a broad range of fluid properties influences the removal efficiency of crude oil droplets and solid particles during HTHP flotation. She began working with industrial wastewater treatment in 2017 during her MSc, gaining experience with membrane filtration, flotation, coagulation and flocculation, electrochemical processes, and adsorption. She is currently a member of the SUBPRO-Zero research group.

Master of Science Chemical Process Technology, NTNU from 2008. Been working in Equinor for 17 years, now located in Oslo. Have experience  within process engineering , project development and execution, and most recent within process optimalisation and operational support. Has been working with oil-water separation, produced water and sea water treatment.

Ole Morten Isdahl is the Chief Technology Officer at Moreld Minox, where he leads the research and development of advanced water treatment and gas processing technologies.

He has played a central role in the design and implementation of the company’s nextgeneration systems for offshore applications. With a background in petroleum engineering and process design, Isdahl has extensive experience ranging from conceptual development and pilot-scale testing to technology qualification and commercialization. He works closely with industry partners globally to demonstrate new technologies from pilot scale to field deployment, ensuring both practical value and operational reliability

Vastly experienced in the fields of separation and produced water treatment in the oil & gas industry, Glen has been managing the Brownfield Optimisation and Environmental services business streams for NOV since 2006 and the Environmental business since the start of 2012. He is also responsible for the strategic growth of NOV's brownfield services globally.

M. Sc. Chemical Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology 1999. 25 years of experience from the O&G industry. Background as a process engineer focusing on offshore topside process system design. From 2006 and onwards, working with produced water in general and more specifically with Compact Flotation Units (CFU). Work responsibility ranging from overall responsibility for process design of the units in the earlier years to concept selection and managing the development of the technology trough multi-national R&D projects the later years. Author of several papers and presentations related to CFU technology. Inventor of several patents / patent applications.

James Vanjo-Carnell is an engineering professional with 18 years of experience in the oil and gas sector, specializing in produced-water treatment and separation technologies. He currently serves as NOV’s global produced water product line manager, leading the development and deployment of advanced solutions for both onshore and offshore applications.

During more than a decade at NOV, he has driven innovation in retrofit solutions, hydrocyclones, degassers, flotation systems, deep-bed filtration, and polishing technologies, as well as system optimization and field data interpretation.

He previously held key engineering roles at BP, Opus Maxim Ltd., and Chambers Process Engineering, working across separation system design, troubleshooting, CFD modeling, and hands-on process engineering

Bart has over 30 years industry experience with an extensive experience in fluid dynamics in oil and gas. After 5 years with oil services company Stork, he worked 22 years for gas processing equipment supplier Twister in various roles ranging from fluid dynamics specialist, project manager, to ultimately heading the technology department. Bart joined Mokveld Valves in 2024, supplier of the Typhoon Valve System, as specialist for low shear technology. Bart holds a MSc in Applied Physics and a Professional Doctorate in Engineering in Computational Mechanics, both from the Technical University of Eindhoven.