Gas & Oil Technology
Showcase and Conference

In current environment of market fluctuations and the profit margin is being highly sensitive to oil prices. It is imperative for the professionals and managers of oil and gas industries to meet and exchange ideas, present success stories, and lessons learnt. The organizing committee from Dragon Oil is pleased to invite you and your colleagues to submit paper proposals to the second gas and oil technology showcase. You may submit paper proposals for any of the following technical disciplines. Upon paper acceptance, only digital form of the presentation will be sufficient. Paper manuscripts are not required.

1. Geophysics
2. Drilling and Completion
3. Reservoir Characterization and Modeling
4. Operation Excellence Practices
5. Integrity Management
6. Surface Facilities and Pipelines
7. Project Management
8. Petrophysics
9. Digital Technologies
10. Production Operations
11. Exploration Techniques
12. HSE Best Practices

Submit your abstract by clicking here .

Fostering a corporate mind-set to effectively adopt new technology is considered essential to be an effective and cost conscious operator in the current era. Technological innovation is critical to not only to efficiently deliver new projects but also to address the challenges posed by legacy wells and associated well abandonment operations. Implementation of new technology often focuses on hardware and downhole equipment but also the application of software and data analytics will form an increasing integral part of optimising drilling and completion operations. Within this context, this panel shall discuss these and other appropriate topics including:

• Drilling technology
• Completion technology
• Well abandonments
• Sand control
• Wellbore stability
• Drilling through depleted zones with high overbalance
• Data management and work processes

Reservoir characterization and modeling represent the corner stone for optimum reservoir development and exploitation. Well defined set of workflows has been developed over time, and being in practice for the last three decades. Structurally and depositionally challenging reservoirs (such as strike slip faulted reservoirs with fluvial dominated delta comprising massive system of braided distributary channels with considerable lateral extent as meandering streams) poses a challenge to these existing workflows.
Some of the foreseen challenges in these reservoirs:

• Fault modeling process and how would flower shaped faults affects the grinding process.
• How the faults is affecting the sand discontinuity and probability of finding its extension
• Initialization of multiple water oil contracts reservoirs with variable up-normal pressure regimes.
• Modeling of the behavior of multiple reservoir compartments with different reservoir fluids to the different pressure lines and a single processing facility.

This technical panel is planned to call upon industry leaders to address some of these challenges and offer their experience and others on how to tackle the above-mentioned issues as well other challenges. The panel will allow industry professionals to discuss and challenge the presented ideas in order to open the door for more advances in this important area of the reservoir development.

In today’s challenging environment of the global oil and gas industry, technology and innovation are widely needed for all developments especially the offshore ones. They are becoming key elements to ensure safe, reliable and economic production operations along the produced fluids’ journey from pore to process.

Operability and integrity of the surface facilities and the infield flowlines and pipelines are always associated with challenges. Considering these challenges and reflecting on the cutting-edge technologies from internet to cloud and to data analytical skills, shouldn’t the oil and gas industry develop and apply new approaches to optimize operating costs? Where do we stand with coupling surface facilities with simulation models? Have we looked into all Flow Assurance related issues and addressed them timely and properly? Are we using the latest technologies to improve facility performance during life cycle? What are the best practices to debottleneck our facilities and flowlines? How to assess the management of aging pipes and facilities? What are the lessons learnt from each exercise and how to utilize them?

This session will focus on sharing and discussing “stepping-up in the new norm” ideas and approaches that can be put into priority when considering and probing the ways to preserve asset integrity. It also provides a unique opportunity for the participants, delegates and audiences to engage in an open dialogues on best practices pertain to the challenges facing the design, installation and operability of the infield flowlines, pipelines and surface facilities.

Digital Technologies are a powerful enabler helping to increase field production, infrastructure reliability and cost reduction, which ultimately increase the reserves recovery and profitability. This is particularly true as a recent survey including over 300 upstream companies across 18 countries reveals that more than 70 percent of companies plan to invest significantly more in new digital areas such as high-performance computing, wearables, artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, blockchain, and virtual reality over the next three to five years.

Executives are now seeing the transition to cloud not only as a catalyst for stronger computing power and higher performance, but also as the path to faster application deployment, lower cost of service, and fuel for their digital transformation.

This digital transformation helps accelerate the optimization of the five most critical and largely universal issues in Oil and gas companies around the world:

1. Data management and modeling (Surface and Subsurface)
2. Production Optimization
3. Maintenance and operational challenges
4. Integrating old and new infrastructure
5. Managing Workflows / Collaborative environments

This panel will discuss the latest insights about these technologies and how fast are they being deployed in the UAE compared to the rest of the world.

Managing today’s Talents to ensure sustainable future operations is a very critical topic considering the change of the workforce demographics as more baby boomers are leaving the industry taking all the knowledge & expertise with them and new generations starting their careers in one of the most complex industries.

The ups and downs that the industry went through in the past 15 years has resulted in many of the experienced people shifting the industries to go and settle in more stable environments and hesitation from the new generation was also seen as many of school graduates are opting to choose studies related to renewable energy rather than O&G. Hence the knowledge needs to be captured and transferred to the new generation to ensure continues development of the industry rather only running the traditional exploration and production.

Another perspective of diversity is gender diversity, with more women in leadership roles in the O&G, we started to observe that more organizations are supporting this move not only for prestigious purposes or to cope with the global trend of gender balance but also out of true believe in the women capabilities specially in Leadership. We believe that this move can be supported by building and empowering women through all career phases to be able to take more leadership roles successfully.