CRAFTED BY SEASONED ENGINEERS, EXCLUSIVELY FOR TECHNICAL SPECIALISTS
At the intersection of innovation and expertise, the EGYPES Technical Conference occupies a central position within the Egyptian, African, and Mediterranean oil, gas, and wider energy landscape, serving as a hub of technical enrichment catering to engineers, technical experts, and digital champions.
With its comprehensive programme, the EGYPES Technical Conference is the ultimate platform for energy sector engineers to push the boundaries of excellence, to navigate the ever-evolving realms of cutting-edge innovative technologies and to showcase project expertise and technical insights.
Delve deep into the latest advancements, best practices, and innovative solutions that are shaping the energy landscape. Whether you’re a seasoned energy professional looking to reach new heights or a young talent just starting your energy journey, the EGYPES Technical Conference programme is your launchpad for endless possibilities, invaluable knowledge gathering and career progression.
Monday 19 February 2024
Tuesday 20 February 2024
Wednesday 21 February 2024
ADDRESSING 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
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