Session Managers:
• Addy Yusop, Principal, Energy & Industrial Services, BG Oilfield
• Qasman Metussin, Senior Production Technologist, Brunei Shell Petroleum

Stretching the Limits, Cost-Effective and Value-Driven Sand Control for Sustainable Production, this session examines the technical challenges and solutions for managing produced solids at surface within production facilities. Focus will be placed on the design, selection, and integration of high-efficiency separation technologies, including multiphase cyclone systems, for effective solids removal under varying flow regimes. Key topics include separation efficiency, solids carryover, erosion prediction and mitigation, and the impact of sand production on facility operability and equipment integrity. The session will also address automated solids handling, continuous sand quantification, and applying real-time monitoring data to optimize production and reduce intervention frequency. Field case studies will demonstrate how engineered surface solutions can debottleneck facilities, maintain throughput, and reduce total cost of ownership, enabling reliable and sustainable production from sand-prone assets.

Session Managers:
• Abbas Khaksar, Global Geomechanics Advisor, Baker Hughes
• Vikash Kumar, Staff Well Engineer, Brunei Shell Petroleum

Modern sand management should integrate subsurface and surface facilities through system thinking or a Produce-to-Limit strategy. By linking reservoir characteristics & geomechanics principles, downhole sand control, surface infrastructure, integrated operating envelopes, standard practices and innovative thinking, operators can maximize recovery while protecting well integrity and facilities.

This session explores the technical synergy required to maintain safe operating envelopes and prevent system-wide failure through case studies. Focus areas include driving project value through cross-disciplinary optimization, integrated change management, real-time monitoring for end-to-end performance optimization, maintaining barrier integrity, data-driven workflows, balancing sand exclusion with surface tolerance, and cross discipline ways of working that maximize total project value over field life.

Session Managers:
• Ertiawati Bt Mappanyompa , Staff Production Technologist, PETRONAS Carigali Sdn. Bhd.
• Sunanda Magna Bela , Principal Wells Completion & Completion Superintendent, PETRONAS Carigali Sdn. Bhd.
 
 As operators pursue increasingly complex and marginal reservoirs, effective sand management is essential to sustain production, protect asset integrity and ensure economic viability. Challenging reservoirs—including heavy oil, thinly laminated formations, deepwater and HPHT environments, mature fields, and high drawdown or water prone systems—pose elevated risks of sand production, erosion, and equipment failure. In these contexts, sand management strategy selection can be project defining. It can make or break a project. This session will examine integrated sand management approaches across the full production system, from reservoir to surface facilities. Focus areas include sand failure characterisation, sanding risk prediction under dynamic operating conditions, and fit for purpose completion and production solutions. Case studies will highlight data driven workflows, advanced modelling, innovative materials, and real time monitoring technologies enabling safe, reliable and cost-effective development of challenging reservoirs.

Session Managers:
• Pedro Saldungaray, Technical Advisor - International Business, Carbo Ceramics
• M Rizwan Rozlan, Staff Completions Engineer, PETRONAS Carigali Sdn. Bhd
• Mohd Azuwan Maoinser, Chair, Petroleum Engineering Department, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS
• Oleksandr Kovalov, Subject Matter Expert, RL ProTec Sdn Bhd

As the oil and gas industry increasingly targets more demanding environments—such as deepwater developments, high-fines reservoirs, complex geomechanics, depleted brownfields and high-temperature, high-pressure (HTHP) conditions, sand control challenges have become more complex and less predictable. These conditions often expose the limitations of conventional sand control and completion practices, which may not always deliver the most reliable or value-driven outcomes.

This session will explore innovative approaches to sand control and completion design, with a focus on better integration across screen architecture, flow behaviour, placement strategy, and overall engineering methodology. It will examine advanced modelling techniques (including numerical, mathematical, simulation-based, and AI-driven approaches) alongside emerging technologies, design methods and research or pilot initiatives aimed at enhancing sand control performance.

Topics of interest include improving inflow performance, mitigating erosion risks, and developing more fit-for-purpose completion solutions. Emphasis will be placed on practical field applicability, sound engineering judgement, and innovation in design rather than reliance on any single technology platform. Ultimately, these advancements aim to enhance well integrity, extend production life, reduce intervention frequency, and support more resilient and efficient reservoir management.