19 TECHNICAL CATEGORIES
Downstream: Refining Technology, Operations and Marketing (REF)
- Refining and petrochemical integration, supply chain management and feedstock maximisation
- Improving refinery economics: decreasing costs and increasing profitability
- Development and advancement of refining technology and processing
- Decarbonising the gas processing value chain with renewables
- Innovation and R&D in refineries
- Marketing and distribution of refined products: efficiency, safety and security
- Marketing and distribution: new efficient ways to approach your customers
Upstream: Exploration of Conventional Resources (CONV)
- Prospected evaluation and basin modelling
- Formation evaluation
- Reservoir characterisation
- Rock physics, properties and seismic inversion
Gas/LNG Processing, Operations and Technology (GAS)
- Gas (and associated liquids) processing
- Gas liquefaction, regasification, FLNG
- LNG, LPG, CNG and Chemical Gas production challenges
- Efficient utilisation of gas flaring
- Sour gas field developments, sulphur disposal
- Advances in gas sweetening and dehydration
- Innovation in design, production and operation of gas fields
- Enhanced Gas Recovery
- R&D related to production and processing of Gas/LNG
Offshore and Marine Production, Technology and Operations (MAR)
- Offshore infrastructure: production platforms, artificial islands design, piling, flow lines, umbilical connections
- Floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO), offshore support vessels (OSV), and remotely operated underwater vehicles (ROV)
- Shallow and deepwater exploration: subsea wells, subsea fields, subsea projects and developments
- Deep-water HPHT well design, drilling fluids stability
- Innovative offshore and marine technology
- Engineering, procurement and construction offshore
- Assessment, evaluation and integrity management of existing offshore structures
- Decommissioning of offshore rigs
- Marine fuels, green shipping, hydrogen as a marine fuel, LNG as a marine fuel
- Bunkering developments and infrastructure
Hydrogen, biofuels, alternative fuels, nuclear and renewable energy (ALT)
- Production and usage of grey hydrogen, blue hydrogen and blue ammonia
- Production and usage of green, yellow and pink hydrogen
- Hydrogen fuel and electric vehicle innovation
- Smart mobility innovation
- Battery, energy storage, charging and infrastructure
- Synthetic fuels
- Nuclear power, reactors, infrastructure
- Biofuels: feedstock, technology, production and usage
- Solar energy: technology, operations, integration with existing facilities, case studies
- Wave power, geothermal
- Wind power: technology, operations, integration with existing facilities, case studies
- Oil and gas projects supported by renewables, green electrification
Digitalisation of Oil and Gas (DIGI)
- Industrial Internet of Things (IIOT), connected performance, integration of mobile devices
- Digital twins
- Big Data, machine learning and advanced analytics
- Protecting oil and gas facilities: cyber and infrastructure security
- Artificial Intelligence (AI), robotics, Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), mixed reality, blockchain
- Deployment of drones
- 3D printing
- Digital transformation initiatives and best practices leading to performance and efficiency enhancement
Project Management and Execution (PM)
- Successful project execution: engineering, procurement, supply chain, construction and management, cost optimisation, value engineering
- Agile project management
- Risks and challenges of brownfield projects
- Tackling oil, gas and petrochemicals mega-project challenges
- Project risk assessment and management
- Project contract management, management of the contractors, turnkey projects
- Cost/benefit analysis, cost estimation, cost control
- Early production project approach
- Claims, disputes and arbitrations
- Risks associated with project delivery systems, types of tender and types of contracts
- Building Information Modelling (BIM) in managing projects
People and Talent Development (PPL)
- Leadership and career development
- People management and continuous development: team building, mentorship and sponsorship of employees, training and skills development, developing work ethics, talent retention
- Performance management: appraisals, total rewards and compensation, incentive plans and executive compensation, managing employee benefits, employee loyalty programmes
- Talent acquisition strategies, promoting oil and gas industry to the next generation
- Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiatives
- Diversity, inclusion, belonging: in-house women programmes, equal pay, returnship programmes
- Worker protection, employee rights and responsibilities
- Strategic HR management and planning, change management
- Workplace learning: technology, e-learning and virtual development, knowledge transfer between employees
- Strategic company management
- Innovation in people development
- Millennials and Generation Z: building a future netzero ready workforce Innovation in people development
Oil and Gas Field Development (FD)
- Unlocking the potential of mature fields
- Integrated development planning and field development case studies
- Integrated development for marginal fields
- Field surveillance and testing
- Production optimisation case studies
- Reservoir engineering, monitoring and testing technologies
- Enhanced oil recovery (EOR): technology advancements and innovative strategies
- Smart and digital oilfields: improving operational capabilities of assets
Completions (COMPL)
- Onshore and offshore well stimulation: hydraulic fracturing technology and operations
- Intelligent completions: design, implementation and performance
- Artificial lift innovation and technologies
- Well interventions and new technologies
- Well integrity management and surveillance
- Strategies for well production enhancement
- Reservoir damage: mitigation and treatment
- Completion fluids optimisation and filter cake breaker system
- Completions equipment for reducing costs and increasing productivity
- Tubulars and material selection
Downstream: Petrochemicals Technology and Operations (PET)
- Decarbonising the petrochemicals feedstock value chain with renewables
- Successful petrochemicals business models
- Olefins and aromatics: operations and technology developments
- Petrochemical and refining integration, supply chain management and feedstock allocation, diversification and maximisation
- Technology for effective conversion from crude to chemicals
- Strategy, long term planning and exit strategies for petrochemical operations
- Integration of bio-feedstock in petrochemical plants
- Bio-based petrochemicals
- Overcoming environmental challenges, plastic/petrochemicals recycling
- Biodegradable polymers: technologies, market trends, applications, environmental impact, case studies
Upstream: Exploration of Unconventional Resources (UNCONV)
- Unconventional resource assessment and evaluation, strategies for development
- Tapping into unconventional gas: coal, steam gas, shale gas, tight gas, methane hydrates
- Heavy oil, oil sands and shale oil
- Thin beds and tight reservoirs
- Nanotechnology applications
Midstream: Transportation, Storage and Infrastructure (MID)
- Oil and gas transportation, flow assurance, pipeline technology, subsea tiebacks
- Pipeline infrastructure, best practices in pipeline management
- Preventive maintenance, smart pipelines
- Legacy infrastructure for hydrogen transportation
- Oil, gas and hydrogen storage, tanks and tankers
- Innovative technologies for gas metering and monitoring
- Integrated shipping and logistics
- Smart shipping
Environmental Sustainability, Climate Change and Energy Transition (ENV)
- Reducing carbon footprint and greenhouse emissions
- Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) and Carbon Capture, Utilisation and Storage (CCUS) initiatives
- Circular Economy: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Renew
- Management of produced waters (PW) and drilling waste
- Oil spill preparedness and response, environmental protection
- Biodiversity and ecosystem services
- Remediation of contaminated land
- Flare recovery and reinjection
- Methane reduction roadmap
- UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
- Climate technology and innovation to reach the 1.5 °C pathway
- Environment related Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programmes
- Decarbonisation and energy transition, net zero, clean energy business models, R&D innovation and tech deployment
Oil and Gas Economics, Concession Agreements and Project Finance (FIN)
- Oil and gas supply and demand trends
- Current economics, market trends, fiscal policies, commercial contracts
- Concession agreements, oil and gas bid rounds
- Egypt as Eastern Mediterranean energy trading hub
- Project finance: IPOs, cryptocurrencies, smart financing, mergers & acquisitions, joint ventures, portfolio diversification
- Financing energy transition strategies and decarbonisation technologies
- Financing hydrogen projects
- Gas market deregulation
- Economics on acquiring fields
- Oil and gas technical patents
- Petroleum legislation
- Environmental, social, governance reporting framework
Health and Safety (HS)
- Safety culture and safety management systems, human factors and performance
- The role of leadership within HSE
- Preparedness and emergency response, mitigating risks
- Best practises and responses to COVID-19
- Occupational safety
- Process safety: accident prevention and lessons learnt
- Stakeholder engagement, community awareness, and health and safety related Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programmes
- Mental health and wellbeing, occupational health
- Use of digital technologies to improve HSE, wearable technology
- Innovation in HSE
Operational Excellence (OpEx)
- Improving asset integrity
- Improving energy efficiency
- Cost optimisation
- Advancements in asset maintenance strategies, managing asset life extension, improving reliability
- Six Sigma methods and applications
- Business Process Re-engineering (BPR)
- Intelligent automation and the role of technology to achieve operational excellence
Geoscience: Upstream Technology Developments (GEOT)
- New logging technologies
- Advancements in seismic surveys and technologies
- Data collection, management and analysis
- Well logging, remote sensing for new and existing wells
- New technology applications – case studies
Drilling (DR)
- Well engineering challenges and improvements, formation damage and production improvement
- Drilling technologies and downhole equipment
- Well cementing and zonal isolation
- Directional drilling and drilling bits advancements
- Drilling fluids: technology, environment, performance enhancement, digital solutions
- Drilling practices and wellbore stability
- Drill cutting treatment and handling technologies
- Drilling performance and cost optimisation
- Digital drilling solutions, automated drilling technology
- Managed pressure and underbalanced drilling
- Innovative rig designs
EGYPES 2024 TECHNICAL CONFERENCE TIMELINE
