1. Business and Management

• Alliance & Partnering

• Contracting & Procurement (Win–Win Operator/ Supplier Relationships)

• Cost and Schedule Estimation

• Decision Making Under Uncertainty

• Economic Evaluation of Offshore Field Development Concepts

• Fiscal Terms

• Government Assurance

• Government Regulation

• Hedging

• Insurance

• Mergers/Acquisitions

• Oil and Gas Economics and Decision Making

• Opportunity Framing

• Political Uncertainty

• Project Management

• Reserves Management

• Risk Analysis (Probability)

• Scenarios

• Stage Gated Asset Development

• Time to Market

• Uncertainties and Market Forces

2. Completion & Production

• Artificial Lift

• Coiled Tubing Operations

• Complex Completions

• Damage Removal

• Early Production Facilities

• High Water Cut Stimulation

• Hydraulic Fracturing

• Open Hole Completions

• Pressure Maintenance

• Sand Control

• Separate Zone Production Technology

• Smart Wells/Intelligent Completion

• Thru-Tubing Intervention

• Well Stimulation Design

• Workovers

• Novel Production Technology

• Well Integrity Assurance

• Geothermal Reservoir Production

3. Deepwater & Subsea

• Compliant Towers

• Deepwater Drilling and Production

• Development of Marginal Offshore Fields

• FPSO Concepts and Developments

• Novel Floating Production Concepts

• Production Management

• Subsea Technology/Development

• Tension Leg Platforms; Spars and Semi-Submersibles

• Water Depth Frontiers

• Dual-Gradient Drilling

• Well Integrity Challenges

4. Drilling (Well Construction)

• Batch Drilling/CTD Drilling

• Casing Design

• Casing Drilling

• Cementing

• Coiled Tubing Operations

• Directional

• Drilling Automation & Smart Drilling System

• Fluids

• HT/HP

• Monobore Drilling

• Operations

• Pore Pressure Prediction

• Tubulars

• UBD/MPD

• Well Control

• Well Integrity

• Wellbore Stability

• Pad Drilling

5. Facilities & Operations

• Abandonment / Decommissioning

• Asset and System Integrity

• Corrosion and Erosion

• De-Bottlenecking Facilities

• Facilities Concept

• Floating LNG

• Flow Assurance and Thermodynamic

• FPSO’s

• Fuel Efficiency

• Gas to Liquids

• Hostile and Remote Environments

• Managing Solids

• Mobile Offshore Production Units

• Multiphase Pumping and Metering

• Not- Normally-Manned/Unmanned

• Pipelines

• Project Governance

• Project Management

• Rotating Equipment

• Water Disposal

6. Gas Supply

• Deliverability and Swing Management

• Gas Field Developments

• Gas Field Monetisation

• Gas Reserves Management

• Gas Storage and Transport

• Pipeline Transportation

• Sources of Supply & Demand

• Stranded Gas

7. Gas Technology

• Associated Gas Management and Disposal

• CNG

• Compression

• Compact LNG

• Cryogenic Applications

• Gas to Liquid Technology

• High CO2 / High Inerts/Sour Gas

• Hydrate Control

• Liquid Storage and Disposal

• Membrane Separation

• Onsite Electricity Generation

• Transportation Technology

8. HSE and Society

• Carbon Price Signals

• Community Development

• CO2 Sequestration

• Energy Efficiency

• Environmental Protection

• Greenhouse Gas Management

• HSE

• Land Title

• Regulatory Aspects

• Safety Cases

• Sustainability

• Well Integrity

9. Human Resources

• Benchmarking

• Competency Measurement and Development

• Experience Gap

• Leadership

• Management

• Outsourcing

• Recruitment

• Remuneration

• Supply and Demand Forecast

• Training and Development

• Workplace / Environment

• Young Professionals (YP’s)

• Gender Gap

10. IOR/EOR/EGR

• Chemical Flooding

• Fast Tracking EOR Implementation

• Field Implementation, Surface Facilities and HSE Challenges

• Gas Pressure Maintenance

• Gas Injection / CO2 Flooding

• Microbial EOR

• Miscible Methods

• Nanotechnology for EOR

• Near Well Bore IOR

• New Techniques

• Sweep Improvement and Profile Modification

• Thermal Methods

• Waterflooding

11. Knowledge Management

• Collaborative Environment

• Corporate Knowledge Retention and

• Monetisation

• Data Acquisition

• Data Management

• Data Security

• Getting the Most from the Big Data

• Global Best Practice: Effective IT

• Knowledge Sharing

• Remote Monitoring/ Witnessing

• Telemetry

• Value of Data Management

12. Oil & Gas Project Case Studies

• Recent or past notable oil and gas projects, with an emphasis on the full value chain of the project

• Low Cost Solution To Optimise Production

13. Onshore/Offshore Support

• EPC Capability & Capacity

• Offshore Support Vessels

• Pipelaying Capability & Fleet Capacity

• Rig Fleet Management

• Rig Capability & Fleet Capacity

• Rig Design and Reliability Advances

14. Reservoir Characterisation

• 4D Seismic

• Advanced Reservoir Geomechanics

• By Passed Pay

• Fluid Properties

• Formation Evaluation

• Geomechanics

• Geostatistics

• Laboratory to Simulator

• Open Hole and Cased Hole Logging

• Petrophysics

• Phase Behaviour

• Relative Permeability

• Residual Oil and Gas Saturations

• Sedimentology and Depositional

• Modelling

• Seismic Technology

• Thin Bedded and Low Resistivity

• Reservoirs

• Well Diagnostic

• Welltesting and Pressure Transient Analysis

15. Simulation, Artificial Intelligence & Modelling

• Assisted History Matching

• Finite Element Analysis

• Model Conditioning

• Network Modeling

• Numerical Simulation

• Streamline Simulation

• Stream-tube Modeling

• Up-Scaling

16. Surface and Sub-surface Integration and Optimisation

• Automated Field Optimisation

• Dynamic Appraisal

• Front End Evaluation

• Integrated Asset Development

• Integrated Production Model

• Multidisciplinary Field Development

• Parallel Appraisal/Development

• Phased Developments

• Real-Time Data

• Reducing Cycling Time

• Reservoir/Asset Management

• Reservoir Surveillance

• Simulation & Forecasting

• Digital Field

17. Unconventional Resources

• Coal Bed Methane

• Coal-To-Liquid

• Fractured Basement Resources

• Gas Hydrates

• Geothermal Energy

• Heavy Oil and Bitumen Resources

• Leveraging Existing Infrastructure

• Reuse of Facilities and Equipment

• Shale Oil/Gas

• Tight Oil/Gas

• Underground Gasification of Coal

18. Regional Focus Topics

• Mature Fields

• Natural Gas Resources

• Marginal Field Development

• Redevelopment of Mature Fields