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1. Sub-surface Drilling

• Rigless Well Operations & Intervention
• Formation Evaluation: Data Gathering / Geosteering
• Advanced Software Applications for Completion Modelling & Design: e.g. Tubing Calculation etc.
• Unconventional Reservoir Drilling e.g. sour gas,  HPHT, extreme environments, geo-thermal
• Material selection implications in a range of operating environments - conventional to extreme
• Advances in Drilling Technology: Extended Reach Drilling & Maximum Reservoir Contact & Multilaterals
• Case Studies..(positive and negative outcomes)
• Drilling Operations: workover etc.
• Advances in Completion Technology: Smart completions etc.
• Project Management for Drilling & Completion Operations
• Effective Workflow Processes for Drilling, Workover and Completions

2. Sub-surface Field Development

• Intelligent Fields / Digital Oilfields
• Improving sweep efficiency and recovery - IOR/EOR
• Development of Marginal Fields
• Case studies
• Reservoir Engineering issues e.g. SCAL, PVT
• Integrated field surveillance and Risk Management
• Risk management in an EOR development
• Sub-surface challenges seeking novel solutions
• Advanced Techniques for Enhancing Production
• Scale & asphaltene / wax management
• Water management, gas management,

3. Sub-surface Geoscience & Reservoir Engineering

• Case Studies ..e.g. green fields, mature fields
• Static & Dynamic Reservoir Modelling
• Fluid Characterization
• Reservoir Characterization
• Seismic acquisition processing & interpretation
• Information Management & Visualization
• Regional Geology, Geochemistry and Basin Modelling
• Novel Techniques …
• Formation Evaluation Interpretation
• Carbon capture and sequestration
• Unconventional resources e.g. heavy oil, shale gas, tight reservoir

1. Engineering, Projects & Contracting:

• Design and management of facilities for CO2
• Delivering successful major projects (Case studies)
• Shortening project's delivery cycles
• Energy efficiency enhancement and emissions reduction
• Contracting strategy in the changing economic environment
• The un-manned field
• Facility rejuvenation
• Execution of brown field projects
• Innovative offshore development concepts in shallow water
• Value of Standardization in surface facilities (design one - build many)
• Advances in  non-metallic materials and coating
• Materials for highly sour and CO2 environment
• Role of QA/QC in projects

2. Operations, Integrity and Maintenance:

• Asset integrity in challenging operating environments
• Oil field water management
• Production facilities optimization
• Advances in multi-phase technology
• Advances in risk based maintenance and integrity management
• Rig scheduling  optimization
• Operations, maintenance and integrity of pipelines
• Human capital: How to attract, develop and retain
• Advances in maintenance turnaround management
• Advances in chemicals management and alternatives
• Advances in facilities inspection, NDT
• Improvements in rotating equipment uptime
• Innovative ways of overcoming production constraints (produce the limit)
• Material failure analysis (case studies)

3. HSE:

• Minimizing environmental impacts (footprints)
• Challenges in construction and operation in sensitive and harsh environments
• Challenges of drilling and operations in Urban environments
• Human fatigue management
• Injury prevention by Ergonomic designs
• Process safety - achieving inherently safer designs
• H2S and CO2 risk management
• Radiation management
• Energy efficient designs
• Safety culture
• Heat stress management
• Crisis management
• Contractor HSE management
• Management of transportation risk - case study

1. Operations of the future 

• Reducing the footprint of drilling and production operations
• Breakthroughs in drilling, completion and workover for enhanced operation & environmental performances
• Innovative well designs capable of delivering much higher oil and gas recovery
• New materials and technologies most likely to modify our oil & gas operations by the next decade

2. Future Exploration & Geosciences approaches

• Subsalt hydrocarbon mega discoveries :  lessons for Middle East?
• The next trillion barrel in the region : where is it?
• Pushing the limits of Exploration technology
• Reservoir characterization and the geomodel of the future
• Will real time integrated field monitoring be the daily routine in twenty years?

3. The next generation of field developments and projects

• Breakthroughs in the development of marginal reservoirs
• Delivering capacity expansion projects in giant maturing fields
• Achieving excellence in mega-project delivery

4. Intelligent fields 

• Is full integration possible and how can it be achieved?
• Innovative ways to integrate real time data and business processes for improved performance

5. CO2 management

• Carbon capture: challenges and technology to unlock new opportunities
• CO2 capture, enhanced hydrocarbon recovery and sequestration
• "CO2 sequestration ready" gas plants in the Middle East, when?
• CO2 regional integration policies and infrastructure requirements - a must?

6. Conservation strategies in Hydrocarbon production 

• Improving hydrocarbon recovery while lowering GHG emissions
• Transition from hydrocarbon to renewable energy: opportunities to integrate alternative energies in oil & gas operations
• Improving process efficiency of the gas-to-X technologies: breakthroughs to be expected in the next 10 yrs?
• Gains of efficiency and reliability to be expected by integration of energy operations and centralization of power generation
• Unlocking stranded gas: innovative schemes ensuring CO2 capture and utilization as alternatives to hydrocarbon gas for reinjection
• Maximizing the use of production water and reducing water offtake

7. Enhanced Hydrocarbon Recovery

• Technologies and processes to achieve breakthroughs in ultimate recovery
• Innovative pilot designs and experience
• Extending the life of mature fields with enhanced recovery projects
• Future studies and challenges to enhance recovery

8. HSE 

• Stretching new HSE targets: new ways to achieve zero fatalities, zero flaring and zero water disposal
• Dealing with contaminated development
• Setting new HSE standards for the sour gas field developments of the next twenty years
• Managing environmental impacts of large scale field developments

9. New Organisational capabilities, emerging business models and Knowledge management 

• Challenges in addressing the great crew change
• The future skill requirements by 2020 : can we foresee today?
• Diversity challenges - role of women in engineering
• State of the art technologies to bolster multi-disciplinary team work
• Technology and knowledge migration
• Are there barriers preventing a successful knowledge transfer?

10. Other visionary ideas

• How should the oil & gas sector operate considering the climate change risk & emerging policies?