Call for Papers

• Alliance and Partnering
• Business and Commercial Perspectives of ESG Initiatives
• Contracting and Procurement Strategy
• Cost and Schedule Estimation
• Economic Evaluation and Decision Making
• Fiscal Terms
• Hedging
• Insurance
• Market Analysis
• Mergers/Acquisitions
• Opportunity Framing
• Policy and Regulation
• Political Uncertainty, Geopolitics
• Project Management
• Scenarios/Risk Analysis and Management
• Stage Gated Project Approvals
• Supply and Demand Forecast
• Time to Market
• Uncertainties and External Influences 
• Value of Information/Decision Frameworks

• Business, Finance and Social Economic
• Carbon Offset Sourcing and Quality
• Carbon Pricing
• Carbon to Products
• Changing Regulatory Environment
• Energy Efficiency
• Energy Infrastructure
• Green Energy Policies and Programmes
• Greenhouse Gas and Climate Change Policies
• Low Carbon Economy Strategies and Governance
• Policies and Strategies
• Sustainability: Environmental Issues and Solutions
• Sustainable Energy Management and Policies
• The Circular Carbon Economy Framework
• The Economics of CCUS

• Collaborative Environment
• Competency Measurement and Development
• Corporate Knowledge Retention and Monetisation
• Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
• Experience Gap
• Human Resource Market Intelligence
• Knowledge Sharing
• Leadership and Management
• Mentoring and Coaching
• Outsourcing
• Recruitment
• Remuneration
• Succession Planning
• Training and Development
• Workplace/Environment
• Young Professionals (YP’s)

• Community Development
• Community Engagement
• COVID Management
• Emergency Response
• Environmental Planning
• Environmental Protection and Rehabilitation
• Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG)
• Mental Health Support
• Native/Land Title
• Land Access
• Process Safety
• Regulatory Aspects Risk Management
• Safety Cases
• Security Management

• Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning/Deep Learning
• Industrial Cybersecurity
• Data Analytics and Information Management
• Data Mining and Analysis
• Digital Twin Data Management
• Digitalisation Initiative
• Hybrid and Remote Working
• Internet of Things (IoT)
• Mobility and Digital Oilfield
• AI Governance
• Blockchain Applications in Oil and Gas
• Edge Computing
• Real-Time Data Analytics

• By Passed Pay Identification
• Chemical Tracers
• Core Analysis (RCA & SCA)
• Dynamic Modelling
• Fluid Dynamics
• Fluid Properties and Sampling
• Formation Damage
• Geochemistry
• Geomechanics
• Petrophysics and Formation Evaluation
• Phase Behaviour
• Pore Pressure Prediction
• Relative Permeability
• Residual Oil and Gas Saturations
• Sedimentology and Depositional Modelling
• Seismic Acquisition and Processing
• Static Modelling
• Well Monitoring

• Coal Seam Gas/Coal Bed Methane
• Exploration Potential
• Flowback and Post Flow Modelling in Tight Reservoir
• Formation Testing
• Fractured Basement
• Gas Hydrates
• Hydraulic Fracturing
• Naturally Occurring Hydrogen
• Production Data Analysis in Unconventional Reservoirs (PDA)
• Shale Gas/Oil
• Tight Gas/Oil
• Underground Coal Gasification

• Geothermal Exploration and Resource Assessment
• Geothermal Reservoir Characterisation and Modelling
• Geothermal Drilling and Well Construction
• High-Temperature Wells and Well Integrity
• Geothermal Reservoir Management and Reinjection Strategies
• Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS)
• Geothermal Production Optimisation and Flow Assurance
• Geothermal Surface Facilities and Power Generation
• Direct Use and Emerging Geothermal Applications
• Geothermal Project Development and Case Studies

• Associated Gas Management and Disposal
• Brownfield Rejuvenation and Redevelopment
• Contaminants
• Deepwater Developments
• Dynamic Appraisal
• Economic Evaluation and Decision Making
• Front End Evaluation
• High Pressure High Temperature (HPHT)
• Integrated Reservoir / Asset Development
• Marginal Field Development
• Multidisciplinary Field Development
• Parallel Appraisal/Development
• Phased Developments
• Project Governance
• Project Management (Greenfield and Brownfield)
• Reducing Development Cycle Time
• Regulatory and Approval
• Reserves Estimation and Production Forecasting
• Unconventional Field Development
• Value of Information

• Batch Drilling
• Blowout Modelling and Remediation
• Cementing
• Coiled Tubing Drilling
• Cost Estimation and Escalation
• Directional Drilling and Geosteering
• Drill Cuttings Reinjection
• Drilling Automation and Smart Drilling Systems
• Drilling Fluids
• Deepwater Wells
• Horizontal Wells
• HP/HT wells
• Multilateral Technology
• Drilling and Completion Operations
• Safe Work Practice in Drilling
• UBD/MPD
• Well Control
• Well Design
• Well Integrity
• Wellbore Stability/Wellbore Strengthening

• Artificial Lift
• Coiled Tubing Operations
• Complex Completions
• Corrosion and Oilfield Chemistry
• Fibre Optic Technologies
• Field Operations and Well Operations
• Flow Assurance
• Gas injection
• Hydraulic Fracturing
• Hydraulic Modelling/Simulation
• Inflow Control Devices/Valves
• Multilateral Technology
• Open Hole Completions
• Production Chemicals
• Sand Control and Gravel Packing
• Smart Wells/Intelligent Completion
• Thru-Tubing Intervention
• Tubulars
• Water Injection, Water Disposal
• Well Integrity
• Well Monitoring
• Well Stimulation
• Workovers and Interventions

• Chemical Flooding
• EOR/IOR on Conventional and Unconventional Reservoirs
• Fast Tracking EOR Implementation
• Field Implementation, Surface Facilities and HSE Challenges
• Gas Injection/CO2 Flooding
• Gas Pressure Maintenance
• Miscible Methods
• Near Well Bore IOR
• Reservoir Management
• Sweep Improvement and Profile Modification
• Thermal Methods
• Waterflooding/WAG

• Automated Field Optimisation
• Contaminants and Inerts
• Corrosion and Erosion
• Cryogenic Applications
• De-Bottlenecking Facilities
• Deliverability and Swing Management
• Emulsion and Solids Management
• Facilities Concepts
• Facility Pipelines
• Fuel Efficiency
• Gas Storage and Transport
• Gas to Liquid Technology
• Hazardous Materials and Waste Management
• Hostile and Remote Environments
• Hydrate Control
• Inspection, Maintenance & Repair
• Liquid Storage and Disposal
• Membrane Separation
• Multiphase Pumping
• Not-Normally-Manned/Unmanned
• Offshore Structures & Equipment
• Onshore Pipeline Transportation
• Onshore Process and Plant Equipment
• Process and Flow Modelling
• Production Optimisation and Management
• Reliability and Integrity
• Syngas Production
• Transportation Technology
• Utilities Equipment
• Water Management/Produced Water Treatment

• Control Systems and Data Transmission
• Deepwater Systems
• Flow Assurance
• Hydrate Control
• Light Well Intervention
• Production Management
• Subsea Compression
• Subsea Inspections and Maintenance
• Subsea Pipelines and Trunklines
• Subsea Processing
• Subsea Production Chemicals
• Subsea Technology/Development
• Subsea Tieback Technology
• Subsea Umbilicals, Flowlines and Risers
• Subsea Wellheads

• Control Systems and Data Transmission
• Deepwater Systems
• Flow Assurance
• Hydrate Control
• Light Well Intervention
• Production Management
• Subsea Compression
• Subsea Inspections and Maintenance
• Subsea Pipelines and Trunklines
• Subsea Processing
• Subsea Production Chemicals
• Subsea Technology/Development
• Subsea Tieback Technology
• Subsea Umbilicals, Flowlines and Risers
• Subsea Wellheads
• Workovers and Interventions

• CCS/CCUS and EOR/EGR
• CCS/CCUS and Wells
• Changing Regulatory Environment
• CO2 Capture and Transportation
• CO2 Utilisation
• Commercial Arrangements/Project Financing
• Design for CO2 Injection
• Geological CO2 Storage
• Injection Strategies
• Integrated CCS MMV (Measurement, Monitoring and Verification) Strategies
• Leakages and Integrity
• Legacy Wells
• Policy and Regulations
• R&D & Innovative Technologies
• Safety, Security, Health and Environment
• Storage Resource Management
• Public Perception and Community Engagement
• Lifecycle Assessment of CCUS Projects

• Decarbonisation Challenges
• Decarbonising Existing Assets/Operations
• Direct Air Capture
• Electrification
• Emissions Management and Mitigation
• Facility Design and Future Proofing
• Marginal Abatement Cost Curve Assessments
• Carbon Footprint Reduction in Supply Chain
• Renewable Energy Integration

• Energy Storage
• Energy Transport and Fuel Technologies: Biofuel, Hydrogen, Ammonia, Methane
• New Trends and Technologies
• Policies and Strategies
• Power Generation Technologies Research and Applications

• Barrier Plug Materials
• Cost Estimation
• Decommissioning Technologies
• End of Field Life Management
• Environmental Impact Management
• Facilities Decommissioning
• Hazardous Materials Management
• Liability
• Monetising Decommissioning
• Policy and Regulation
• Remedial Activities
• Subsea Field Abandonment
• Waste Management and Recycling
• Well Abandonment

Please note that abstract submissions should be formatted into four (4) specific paragraphs:

• Objectives/Scope: Please list the objectives and/or scope of the proposed paper. (25-75 words)
• Methods, Procedures, Process: Briefly explain your overall approach, including your methods, procedures and process. (75-100 words)
• Results, Observations, Conclusions: Please describe the results, observations and conclusions of the proposed paper. (100-200 words)
• Novel/Additive Information: Please explain how this paper will present novel (new) or additive information to the existing body of literature that can be of benefit to and/or add to the state of knowledge in the petroleum industry. (25-75 words)

The following guidelines apply:

• DO NOT include title or author information in your abstract
• Word Minimum: 225
• Word Maximum: 450

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• Obtain the necessary clearance from your management, your partners, and customers BEFORE submission
• Authors whose paper proposals are accepted will be required to provide a manuscript for inclusion in the conference proceedings.
• Authors who do not submit a manuscript and the associated publication forms by the manuscript due date will be withdrawn from the program and will not be allowed to present per SPE’s No Paper, No Podium policy
• If accepted, your paper proposal may be published, as submitted, in conference information media, including on the SPE website.
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