• The technical programme is comprised of informal presentations.
• There will be no paper publication in SPE OnePetro, hence manuscript submission is not required.
• Only presentations that have been authorised for release by speakers/discussion leaders are compiled by SPE staff and distributed to attendees post-workshop.

• Obtain necessary clearance and travel approval from your management.
• SPE policy prohibits the paying of any SPE honorarium or any travel or lodging expenses connected with speaker participation. All speakers are required to register and pay the workshop registration fees. 
• The abstract should be formatted into four specific paragraphs, as per the online submission form. The combined word count must be between 250 and 450 words in length.
• The abstract should provide a brief description of intended presentation topic with key challenges, learnings, and best practices. It should be formatted to address the following and kept to a word count of 450 words:
             - Novel/Additive Information
             - Objectives/Scope
             - Methods, Procedures, Process
             - Results, Observations, Conclusions
• Your abstract will be reviewed and approved by the Workshop Steering Committee. An email confirmation will be sent on acceptance/selection of the abstract.

Changes, Cancellations, and Withdrawals

SPE and the Workshop Steering Committee consider an accepted abstract as a commitment to present. If extenuating circumstances prevent the presenter from making the presentation, it is the presenter’s obligation to notify the SPE and session chair(s), if applicable. Withdrawals must be made in writing to the SPE office as soon as possible.

Sanction Laws

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 presentation will not be considered in forming the workshop programme. We appreciate your submission and your understanding of SPE Workshop: Developing and Producing Tight Gas for Sustainable Energy Security legal compliance criteria.

Click here to view and download a sample abstract.

• SPE has a stated policy against use of commercial trade names, company names, or language that is commercial in tone in the abstract and presentation title, text or slides. Use of such terms will result in careful scrutiny by the Programme Committee in evaluating abstracts and presentation materials.