Call for Proposals

The program committee invites you to share your technical innovations and accomplishments by submitting a Paper Proposal or Presentation Only for consideration.

Call for Proposals closes 2 June 2024
Authors will be notified of the status of proposals by 2 July 2024

Questions: contact Jinny Bae at the SPE Canada office

SUBMIT A PAPER PROPOSAL SUBMIT A PRESENTATION ONLY PROPOSAL

Well Construction for Lifelong Integrity and Production Assurance

Casing, Cement and Well Design
Liner Design and Lifecycle Management; Flow Control Devices and Sand Control
Limitations and solutions for long laterals; liner flotation and extended reach
Wellhead Integrity
Thermal compatibility in Assets

Production Optimization & Monitoring: Challenges & Successes

Thermal Artificial Lift and Completion Design (Conversions, VIT/shifting, installation methods)
Artificial Lift Run life optimization/failure prevention
NCG / solvent considerations and integrity risks

Well Remediation and Interventions – Opportunities and Limitations

Failure Detection and Analysis; Data Analytics in Well Integrity
Casing and Cement Remediation and Repairs
Liner Remediation’s and Re-entries; re-drills and well replacement considerations; sidetracks
Well integrity Case Studies
Well Integrity Management Systems for problem identification and risk management

Production Liability Management

Regulatory and Liability Management
To reactivate, sidetrack or redrill…that is the question…
Well Suspensions and Abandonments

Geomechanical Impacts on Accessibility and Well Integrity

New Technologies and Failure Detection

Geothermal Well Design and Operations

Proposal Information

A proper review of your abstract requires that it contain adequate information on which to make a judgment. Written in English and containing maximum 450 words minimum of 225 words, all proposals must consist of 4 blocks and should include the following:

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)

General Guidelines

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 (3000-7000 words) 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.
An agreement to present a paper at this SPE conference carries an obligation to participate in the event. Please review SPE's Author Guidelines for Papers.
Invited Presenters whose Presentation Only proposals accepted will be required to present, however, no manuscripts are required.

A proper review of your paper proposal requires that it contain adequate information on which to make a judgment. Download our instructions guide to assist you with preparing your paper proposal.
Your paper or presentation only proposal could be accepted for presentation in a technical or ePoster session.
Detailed instructions on the preparation of manuscripts and presentations will be sent to a corresponding author of each accepted paper.

A Word on 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 Program Committee in the evaluation of paper proposals, and the presence of commercialism in the paper will result in it being withdrawn from the program.

Plagiarism Check

In an effort to further improve SPE’s technical quality standards, all submitted papers will be checked for plagiarism.

ORCHID ID

SPE is adopting ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID), a widely accepted unique identifier for authors, giving them control over their content and eliminating ambiguities. All SPE authors will be required to have an ORCID iD during abstract submission starting 1 January 2023.

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