Dear Colleagues,
On behalf of the local advisory committee, it is my pleasure to welcome you to the 74th EAGE Conference and Exhibition, incorporating the SPE Europec in Copenhagen.

The theme of this conference - “Responsibly Securing our Natural Resources” - explores how we can pursue new intellectual and geographical boundaries to meet the unprecedented global demand for natural resources while considering environmental and financial interests, and the requirements for safe operations.

Our industry is brimming with creative thinkers, bright innovators, pioneers that seek to push the technological boundaries and imaginative scholars that strive to understand intimately that which we cannot see with our own eyes. We have long applied such zest to both frontier projects and established endeavors. The demands on our industry are greater than ever. While the resources we pursue to meet the needs of modern society requires increasingly advanced and costly technical solutions, we find that we must operate with increased transparency and act safely, ethically and responsibly.

I am confident that this conference will show how we, geoscientists and engineers, are prepared to take up the challenge and harness our best minds and talents to responsibly securing our natural resources for the future.

Denmark is a nation that places ultimate value in the security, safety and welfare of people as a basis for innovation to support sustainable future. The country is an ideal place to discuss such a theme - it brought forth some the bravest, pioneering explorers of the world in the Viking age and gave birth to fairytale hope from its poet H. C. Andersen. I hope you will enjoy the charms and modernity of Copenhagen, as much as you revel in the exciting speakers, presentations and workshops which we shall prepare with the EAGE Technical Program Committee.

Troels Albrechtsen
Chairman, local advisory committee