Behind every technology, research, and strategy is an intellectual who has spent hours analysing information or perfecting an application. We thank you for your efforts on advancing the industry and invite you to submit a paper proposal of your work. This is the opportunity to be published and share your expertise and innovations to leaders from the E&P industry.
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Technical Session Categories
Carbon Capture Management and Storage
Completion and Well Interventions
Drilling
Emerging Ways of Working: People and Automation
Green and Brown Field Development Projects
Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
Production and Well Operations
Reservoir
Subsurface Contributions to Energy Transition
SPE must comply with all applicable sanction laws, including those of the United States and the United Kingdom. This includes screening individuals and entities against applicable lists of restricted parties to determine whether SPE is prohibited from, among other things, providing services to or receiving services from such parties.
As a result, your abstract will go through a compliance review and if identified one or more authors or the entity they represent is listed on the SDN sanction list, we must regretfully inform you that your paper will not be considered in forming the conference programme. We appreciate your submission and your understanding of KOGS 2026 legal compliance criteria.
As a result, your abstract will go through a compliance review and if identified one or more authors or the entity they represent is listed on the SDN sanction list, we must regretfully inform you that your paper will not be considered in forming the conference programme. We appreciate your submission and your understanding of KOGS 2026 legal compliance criteria.
Paper Proposal Submittal Guidelines
1. It is essential that you obtain clearance from your management BEFORE paper submission.
2. All abstracts must be a minimum of 225 words with a 450-word maximum in length. Include a description of the proposed paper, results/conclusions, and the technical category applicable to your paper.
3. The paper proposal must be received by the deadline of Monday 6 October 2025
4. Submit your paper online. The link will be available here shortly.
5. Do not include the title or author names in the body of the abstract. The title and author information will be requested separately through the submission.
6. Do not include tables, figures, bibliographic lists, or subscripts in your abstract.
7. Please note that, if accepted, your paper proposal may be published – as submitted – in conference information media, including on the SPE website.
8. 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 programme and will not be allowed to present. Draft Manuscripts will be due at SPE no later than Monday 12 January 2026
9. All accepted authors must complete their conference registration in order to be included and confirmed in the technical programme.
10. Please note: if you are interested in having a technical paper published without presenting at a conference, you should submit the paper as an unsolicited manuscript. For more details, please visit www.spe.org.
Important Guidelines
Changes, Cancellations and Withdrawals
SPE and the Programme Committee consider an accepted abstract as a commitment to present.
If extenuating circumstances prevent the author from making the presentation, it is that author’s obligation to find an alternative presenter and notify their SPE Programme Lead and their session chair(s) (if applicable). Withdrawals must be made in writing to the SPE office as soon as possible. Under no circumstances can a submitted abstract be changed once it has been submitted. Cancellations, particularly after a paper has been accepted and publicised, are viewed by the Programme Committee as highly unprofessional.
Copyright
All authors of papers presented at the conference will be required to complete and submit a copyright release form to SPE or submit the copyright exemption form where applicable.
SPE Conference Dual Submission Policy
As of 1 May 2013 authors will be allowed to submit abstracts to only one conference at a time. An abstract must be declined by a programme committee prior to being submitted to another conference for consideration. In the event it is detected that an abstract has been submitted to more than one conference, all versions/copies of that abstract will be removed from consideration.
Any paper previously presented at a conference and published in OnePetro may not be re-submitted for publication at another SPE conference. The author may present the subject matter at subsequent conferences at the invitation of the programme committee, but the paper will not be included in the conference proceedings.
A Word About Commercialism
SPE has a stated policy against use of commercial trade names, company logos or text that is commercial in tone in the paper title, text, or presentation slides. Use of such terms will result in careful scrutiny by the Programme Committee in evaluation paper proposals and the presence of commercialism in the paper will result in it being withdrawn from the programme.
Plagiarism Check
We expect authors to credit all sources used in their writings and not to represent work of others as their own. Authors found to have plagiarised the work of another are subject to having their paper removed from the conference programme and from OnePetro. Future submissions from authors found to have plagiarised will be scrutinised carefully. In the case of students found to be plagiarising the work of others, SPE may inform the student’s university.
In an effort to further improve SPE’s technical quality standards, all submitted conference papers will be checked for plagiarism.
Company Approval
It is the responsibility of the author to obtain company clearance, to ensure the company understands that if the proposal is accepted, you will be required to travel to the event to present. All travel expenses (airfare, hotel, registration) associated with attending the conference are the responsibility of company or individual attending.