Paparazzi Ethnography

Remember to Remember, an essay collection of Henry Miller comes to mind when recalling my first visit in June 2010 to the Research Council Norway, in Oslo, to discuss Petrosam (Social Science Research related to the Petroleum Sector). After more than a few years, I finally stumbled across the misplaced fieldnotes taken during a meeting with Morten Anker and 
Daniel Buikea Fjaertoft on the eve of the new project:

The photos, below, retrace my Oslo project on Intermediary Expertise, in this instance landing on the doorsteps of consulting firm ECON or ECON Pöyry as was then labeled after purchase by Finnish firm of the latter name, Pöyry.

I had blown into town with Octavia Shadowz, after meeting with Eduardo Tomaz, IHS CERA, Paris, and 
Mark Henderson, Credit Swiss, London, the latter occasion taking place at Swissotel The Howard on Temple Place, Aldwych, along the Thames — where we talked natural gas markets over Colas, referring to his recent exchange with energy guru, Director of Oxford Energy Institute, Jonathan Stern, with whom I would meet several days later at Paddington Station over coffee.

At any rate. Petrosam 1, and also Petrosam 2, the follow-up program to P1, as the latter now is referred to since the beginning of P2. At the time, in 2010, Oslo, I had introduced myself to a group of individuals working in oil and gas analysis.

On the industry side, Jens Petter Aabel, BNG Energy Holdings, and 
Johan Nic Vold, former Shell executive now Managing Director for the annual Holmenkollen event, Oslo Energy Forum, on behalf of Energy Policy Foundation of Norway.

On the government side, e.g., Research Council Norway’s (RCN) Kari Druglimo-Nygaard, and Director, Siri Helle Friedemann, both of whom actively direct Petromaks, the technical program on petroleum, and with whom I traveled to Murmansk later that summer, and then again bumped into fall 2012 in Houston, Texas, at the home of Consul General Norway, Jøstein Mykletun, who held a banquet in honor of Norwegian Embassy sponsored Trans Atlantic Science Conference, and more recently, traveling to Arkhangelsk this past summer 2013, greeted warmly again by Kari and Siri at their RCN sponsored Arctic technical conference co-organized with Ural Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences and Arkhangelsk Science Center leader, Vladimir Pavlenko .

In this milieu — I had meet also with Ingrid Berthinussen, Climate and Pollution Agency, and Hanne-Grete Nilsen, Ministry of Environment, and then, Marianne Fagerli, Norwegian Parliament, all of whom referenced Petrosam — and finally at Pöyry.