• 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: Advances in Acid Stimulation of Carbonate Reservoirs legal compliance criteria.

The abstract should be about 250-450 words and include the following elements:

• Title: provide a short and informative with familiar terms.
• Objectives/Scope: Please list the objectives and/or scope of the proposed presentation.
• Methods, Procedures, Process: Briefly explain your overall approach, including your methods, procedures and process.
• Results, Observations, Conclusions: Please describe the results, observations and conclusions of the proposed presentation.
• Novel/Additive Information: Please explain how this presentation 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.

Tips for Writing an Abstract

• Your title should avoid words “new” and “improved”.
• Avoid literature overview in your objective.
• Answer the “what” and “how” in your method.
• Highlight the importance of your findings in your observations.
• Avoid repeating your results and observations in your conclusion.
• Focus the application of your findings on how to improve the industry needs in an efficient and environmentally safe manner.
• Highlight specifics about your innovations.
• Provide succinct, relevant and convincing information.

Selection Criteria

Your proposal should demonstrate that your presentation will:

• Contribute solid technical knowledge in a particular area or present relevant and interesting information
• Present information that is technically sound
• Present new knowledge or experience that has not been published previously
• Not be commercial in nature and will not promote specific companies, products or services