Offshore Production Technology Summit 2011

January 2011

London
Maximising growth through innovation

2010 Programme

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Day One26th January 2010
08:00
Registration and morning refreshments
08:50
Chairman's welcome and introduction

Wafik Beydoun, General Manager Upstream Research, Total France
09:00
Welcome address

Charles Hendry MP, Shadow Minister for Energy, United Kingdom
09:15
Offshore production outlook
World offshore oil and gas production analysis
  • Project financing and funding forecast for the offshore sector
  • The impact of new technology developments upon the industry
  • The effect of the economic downturn on projects
  • Supply and demand dynamics

John Westwood , Chairman, Douglas Westwood United Kingdom
09:50
Offshore field developments
What is the Business case, now and in the future?
  • Will the technical risk be acceptable? Will we get this sanctioned in the Licensee partnership?
  • Low pressure on mature fields with increasing water and gas amounts
  • Smaller and more remote fields on deeper water
  • Heavier and more complex or cold oils, difficult to transport and separate

Atle Rettedal , Vice President Field Evaluation, Statoil Norway
10:35
Interactive Session
Asset development with focus on risk management and decision processes
  • How to integrate all involved disciplines
  • Consistency and Quality Assurance
  • How to manage the value chain to improve the decision process

Erlend Glømmen, Manager IP Suite, IPRES Norway AS Norway
 
Interactive Session
Asset integrity management
  • Extending the working life cycle of the asset and reducing maintenance costs
  • Employ maintenance and inspection strategies

Ole Øystein Knudsen, Senior Scientist, Sintef (representing Force Technology) Norway
 
11:15
Pre-arranged one to one meetings and morning refreshments
12:35
Shell's global maintenance, integrity and execution programme
  • Adopting common standards of measuring Maintenance & Integrity performance
  • Identifying Safety Critical Elements (SCEs) to prevent or limit the consequences of Major Accident Hazards.
  • Defining performance required of a SCE and the verification tasks to check they are meeting performance criteria
  • Ensuring a strong competency in setting maintenance priorities

Babur Imirzalioglu, EP Maintenance, Integrity and Execution Team Leader, Shell Netherlands
13:10
Networking luncheon
14:00
Interactive Session
Asset life cycle management
  • Reduce annual operational expenditure
  • Streamline and reduce contracting services
  • Increase production up time & decrease maintenance spending

David Delvin, VP, European Energy & Chemical Sectors, Celerant Consulting United Kingdom
 
Interactive Session
Adding value to offshore operations with real-time production monitoring
  • Production monitoring is the basis of production optimisation of oil and gas assets
  • Early event detection, prevention of down-time, and doing predictive maintenance

Anton Leemhuis, Oil & Gas Production Optimization, TNO Netherlands
 
14:35
Future outlook
Perspective Activity in the UK Continental Shelf to 2040
Perspective of new field developments, field development expenditures and operating expenditures
  • Financial modelling of new field developments, exploration and COP
  • Perspective of oil/gas/total hydrocarbon production to 2040
  • Sensitivity of volume of new activity to oil and gas prices

Prof Alex Kemp, Professor of Petroleum Economics, Aberdeen Centre for Research in Energy Economics and Finance (ACREEF) United Kingdom
 
Safety
Safety in offshore oilfields
  • Establishing teamwork in operations, engineering, maintenance and safety
  • Using a leadership example and building on success
  • Keys to success and how to measure them

Ashanendu Mandal, Chief Engineer, Production, ONGC India
 
15:10
Pre-arranged one to one meetings and afternoon refreshments
16:55
Enhanced oil recovery
Maximising economic oil recovery through pushing reservoir limits
  • Examine new LoSal and Bright Water EOR technology
  • More detailed understanding of the behavior in oil reservoirs
  • New methods to drain oil reservoirs more efficiently and completely
  • Injecting water or gas into reservoirs to maintain reservoir pressure

Andrew Cockin , Pushing Reservoir Limits R&D Manager , BP United Kingdom
17:30
Chairman's closing remarks and drinks reception

Wafik Beydoun, General Manager Upstream Research, Total France

Day Two27th January 2010
08:00
Registration and morning refreshments
08:50
Chairman’s welcome

Wafik Beydoun, General Manager Upstream Research, Total France
09:00
Subsea electric technologies : Challenges and perspectives
  • Current state of the art in the indsutry
  • Examples of pilots and field tests
  • Future outlook and perspectives
  • Basic refresher and challenges

Wafik Beydoun, General Manager Upstream Research, Total France
09:35
Carbonate reservoir characterisation
Production in the pre-salt layer of Brazil’s Santos basin
  • Developments in Brazil's pre-salt reservoirs
  • Enhanced oil recovery as a result of good characterisation
  • Aim to raise recovery rates to 50% up from a current maximum of 30%
  • Innovations in Co2 injection

Francisco Nepomuceno, Manager EP International, Petrobras Brazil
10:10
Interactive Session
Universal adoption of standardized business processes: optimizing the bottom line
  • Business benefits of a standardized approach to offshore business processes: Why is this important?
  • Best practices for deployment and adoption of standardized business processes: Making It Stick
  • Case studies from offshore companies: What kind of success is possible?

Clark Swain, Senior Vice President, North America, Nimbus

Russell Hollingworth, Reliability Team Leader , Marathon Oil
 
Interactive Session
Well intervention
  • Robotic solutions for oil and gas wells
  • Advanced technology for both onshore and offshore wells
  • Optimise oil and gas production while reducing environmental risks

Michael Affleck, General Manager, Welltec United Kingdom
 
10:45
Morning refreshments
11:15
Achieving value through integrated operations
Case study: the Gjoa field successful implementation and operations
  • Collaboration - removing physical barriers between teams
  • Earlier, improved and informed decision making
  • Proactively managing and optimizing operations
  • Building one version of the truth

Rebecca Christensen, Technical Manager, GDF Suez E&P Norge AS Norway
11:50
How to develop small or stranded offshore assets- what are the main hurdles?
  • Examples of successful and non successful approaches to develop small or stranded fields
  • Analysis of the economics, infrastructure and other factors that impact successful developments
  • What has to change to make the development of small offshore-fields more attractive?

Erwin Kroemer, Senior Reservoir Engineering Advisor, ExxonMobil United Kingdom
12:25
Interactive Session
Leading asset performance management in the offshore production industry




  • Role based visualization driving cross discipline collaboration
  • Examples of where operating companies are meeting the challenge
  • Industry Leading Asset Performance Management Practices

Eric Fidler, Director of Oil & Gas Sales & Marketing , Rockwell Automation USA
 
Interactive Session
Unconventional gas in Europe: tomorrow's solution?
  • Overview of recent Coal and Shale Gas projects
  • Potential unconventional gas resources in Europe
  • Future outlook for unconventional resources

Jan Roelofsen, Senior Product Manager International Exploration & Production Data, IHS Switzerland
 
13:00
Networking luncheon
14:00
Carbon capture storage
Analysis of the Lacq CCS pilot project
  • The transferable technology innovations from onshore to offshore CCS projects
  • Develop monitoring tools, techniques and methodology in order to establish the long term viability of geological CO2 storage
  • Explore developments in carbon transport in CCS operations

Nicolas Aimard, CCS R&D Project Manager, Total France
14:35
Open Discussion: Pertinent points highlighted throughout the event.

Wafik Beydoun, General Manager Upstream Research, Total France
15:10
Chaiman's closing remarks and close of the Offshore Production Technology Summit 2010

Wafik Beydoun, General Manager Upstream Research, Total France

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