Technical Categories
1.  Business and Management

• Alliance & Partnering

• Contracting & Procurement (Win–Win Operator/Supplier Relationships)

• Cost and Schedule Estimation

• Decision Making Under Uncertainty

• Economic Evaluation of Offshore Field Development Concepts

• Fiscal Terms

• Government Assurance

• Government Regulation

• Hedging

• Insurance

• Mergers/Acquisitions

• Oil and Gas Economics and Decision Making

• Opportunity Framing

• Political Uncertainty

• Project Management

• Reserves Management

• Risk Analysis (Probability)

• Scenarios

• Stage Gated Asset Development

• Time to Market

• Uncertainties and Market Forces

2. Case Studies/Regional Focus Topic
 

3. Completion & Production Technology

• Artificial Lift

• Coiled Tubing Operations

• Complex Completions

• Damage Removal

• Fracture Conductivity/Diagnostics

• Fracturing Fluid & Proppant

• High Water Cut Stimulation

• Hydraulic Fracturing

• Hydraulic Modelling/Stimulation

• Open Hole Completions

• Pressure Maintenance

• Sand Control

• Separate Zone Production Technology

• Smart Wells/Intelligent Completion

• Thru-Tubing Intervention

• Well Completion

• Well Interventions and Abandonment

• Well Stimulation Design

• Workovers

4. Deepwater & Subsea

• Compliant Towers

• Deepwater Drilling and Production

• Development of Marginal Offshore Fields

• FPSO Concepts and Developments

• Novel Floating Production Concepts

• Production Management

• Subsea Processing

• Subsea Technology/Development

• Tension Leg Platforms; Spars and Semi-Submersibles

• Water Depth Frontiers

• Workovers

5. Drilling (Well Construction)

• Batch Drilling

• Blowout Modelling and Remediation

• Cementing

• Coiled Tubing Drilling

• Directional

• Drilling Automation & Smart Drilling System

• Fluids

• Horizontal Well

• HT/HP

• Operations

• Pore Pressure Prediction

• Tubulars

• UBD/MPD

• Well Control

• Well Integrity

• Well Operations

• Wellbore Stability

6. Facilities & Operations

• Abandonment/Decommissioning

• Asset and System Integrity

• Corrosion and Erosion

• De-Bottlenecking Facilities

• Digital Oilfield

• Early Production Facilities

• Facilities Concept

• Floating LNG

• Flow Assurance

• FPSO’s

• Fuel Efficiency

• Gas to Liquids

• Hostile and Remote Environments

• Maintenance

• Managing Solids

• Mobile Offshore Production Units

• Multiphase Pumping and Metering

• Not-Normally-Manned/Unmanned

• Oilfield Chemistry

• Optimise Production Management

• Pipelines

• Production Operations

• Project Governance

• Project Management

• Reliability and Integrity Assurance

• Rotating Equipment

• Water Disposal

• Water Management/Produced Water Treatment

7. Gas Supply

• Deliverability and Swing Management

• Gas Field Developments

• Gas Field Monetisation

• Gas Reserves Management

• Gas Storage and Transport

• Pipeline Transportation

• Sources of Supply & Demand

• Stranded Gas

8. Gas Technology

• Associated Gas Management and Disposal

• CNG

• Compression

• Compact LNG

• Cryogenic Applications

• Gas to Liquid Technology

• High CO2/High Inerts/Sour Gas

• Hydrate Control

• Liquid Storage and Disposal

• Membrane Separation

• Onsite Electricity Generation

• Transportation Technology

9. HSE and Society

• Carbon Price Signals

• Community Development

• CO2 Sequestration

• Energy Efficiency

• Environmental Protection

• Greenhouse Gas Management

• HSE

• Land Title

• Regulatory Aspects

• Risks, Regulations, Mitigations & Communities

• Safety Cases

• Sustainability

• Well Integrity

10. Human Resources

• Benchmarking

• Competency Measurement and Development

• Experience Gap

• Leadership

• Management

• Outsourcing

• Recruitment

• Remuneration

• Supply and Demand Forecast

• Training and Development

• Workplace/Environment

• Young Professionals (YP’s)

11. IOR/EOR/EGR

• Chemical Flooding

• Fast Tracking EOR Implementation

• Field Implementation, Surface Facilities and HSE Challenges

• Gas Pressure Maintenance

• Gas Injection/CO2 Flooding

• EOR/IOR on Conventional/Unconventional Reservoirs

• Miscible Methods

• Near Well Bore IOR

• New Techniques

• Sweep Improvement and Profile Modification

• Thermal Methods

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12. Knowledge Management

• Collaborative Environment

• Corporate Knowledge Retention and Monetisation

• Data Acquisition

• Data Management

• Global Best Practice: Effective IT

• Knowledge Sharing

• Production Data Mining, Analysis, & Forecasting

• Remote Monitoring/Witnessing

• Resources, Reserves, & Economic Evaluation

• Telemetry

• Value of Data Management

13. Onshore/Offshore Support

• EPC Capability & Capacity

• Offshore Support Vessels

• Pipelaying Capability & Fleet Capacity

• Rig Capability & Fleet Capacity

• Rig Fleet Management

14. Reservoir Characterisation

• 4D Seismic

• Advanced Reservoir Geomechanics

• By Passed Pay

• Fluid Properties

• Formation Damage

• Formation Evaluation

• Geochemistry & Rock Mechanics

• Geomechanics

• Geosciences & Geophysics

• Geostatistics

• Laboratory to Simulator

• Microseismic - Induced Seismicity

• Naturally Fractured Reservoirs

• Open Hole and Cased Hole Logging

• Petrophysics

• Phase Behaviour

• Relative Permeability

• Residual Oil and Gas Saturations

• Sedimentology and Depositional Modelling

• Seismic Technology

• Thin Bedded and Low Resistivity Reservoirs

• Well Diagnostic

• Welltesting and Pressure Transient Analysis

15. Simulation, Artificial Intelligence & Modelling

• Assisted History Matching

• Model Conditioning

• Network Modelling

• Numerical Simulation

• Reservoir Simulation & Numerical Modelling

• Stream-tube Modelling

• Up-Scaling

16. Surface and Sub-surface Integration and Optimisation

• Automated Field Optimisation

• Dynamic Appraisal

• Front End Evaluation

• Integrated Asset Development

• Integrated Production Model

• Multidisciplinary Field Development

• Parallel Appraisal/Development

• Phased Developments

• Real-Time Data

• Reducing Cycle Time

• Reservoir/Asset Management

• Simulation & Forecasting

17.  Unconventional Resources

• Coal Seam Gas/Coal Bed Methane

• Flowback & Post Flow Modelling in Tight Reservoir

• Formation Testing

• Gas Hydrates

• Geothermal

• Heavy Oil

• Hydraulic Fracturing

• Liquids from Coal

• Production Data Analysis in Unconventional Reservoirs (PDA)

• Shale Gas/Oil

• Tight Gas/Oil

• Tensile vs. Shear Fracturing - Stimulated Reservoir Volume

• Underground Coal Gasification

• Unconventional Field Development