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Properties of Saturated Rocks of Interest to Petrophysicists and Geophysicists

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The Physical Control of Solids in Drilling Fluids

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Earth Stresses: Their Relationship to Petroleum Production

Residual Oil Saturation Determination

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Well Blowout Control

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Mechanics of Drilling at the Bit

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Relative Permeability and Wettability

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Completion Fluids

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Field Handling of Polymers

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Primary Cementing

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InSitu Combustion

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Well Design
Water Treatment Injection and Disposal

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Reservoir Definition

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Directional Drilling

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Oil Country Tubulars

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Well Stimulation

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Analysis and Production of Miscible Flood Performance

Sour Gas Designs and Operation
Flow of Gas and Aqueous Solutions of Surfactants (Foams)
Measurement While Drilling

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Drilling and Completion Fluids

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Naturally Fractured Reservoirs

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Well Blowout Control

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Open Hole Logging

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Design and Interpretation of Pilots

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The Use of Steam for Enhanced Oil Recovery

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Technology Transfer

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Well Testing

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Reservoir Mechanics of Chemical Flooding

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Applications of Simulators and Computers to the Drilling Process

The Use of Reservoir Simulators

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New Developments in Artificial Lift

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The Control of Sand Entry into the Wellbore

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Wettability and Relative Permeability

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Horizontal Drilling

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Monitoring Performance of FullScale

Application of Rock Mechanics to Drilling and Completion Practices
Primary Cementing
Water Quality Issues - Handling and Treatment of Produced and Injected Waters

1988 North America

Reservoir Conformance Enhancement-Polymers, Gels, and Foams

1988 North America

Use of Computers in Production Operations

1988 Europe

Reservoir Characterization

1988 Europe

Horizontal Well Production

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Reservoir Engineering and Completion Aspects of Horizontal Wells

Stimulation-Advances in the Development and Application of New Technology for Reservoir Damage Control; Prevention, Analysis
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1989 North America

Naturally Fractured Reservoirs

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Scientific and Engineering Impact on Environmental Regulations

1989 North America

Advances in Reservoir Management and Field Applications

1989 Europe

Modelling of Naturally Fractured Reservoirs

1989 Europe

Development of Smaller Hydrocarbon Reserves in Mature Offshore Areas

1989 Europe

Design of Completions and Their Operations Efficiency in the Offshore Environment

1990 North America

Borehole Stability

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Rheology of Fracturing and Gravel-Packing Fluids

Advances in Formation Evaluation and Reservoir Characterization
EOR Operations in Low Oil Price Environment

1990 North America

Maintenance and Utilization of "Old" Wellbores

1990 Europe

New Development in Stimulation Techniques

1990 Europe

Automation of Production Operations

1990 Europe

Advances in the Field of Fluid Flow and Phase Behavior in Hydrocarbon Recovery Processes

1991 North America

Advances in Measurement While Drilling (MWD)

1991 North America

New Developments in Artificial Lift

1991 North America

Applications of Reservoir Characterization to Modelling and Reservoir Management

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Expert Systems for Engineering Applications

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Improved Reservoir Description

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Application of Technology to Waste Management in Exploration and Production Operations

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Preserving the Environment From the Impact of Drilling Fluids

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Managing Uncertainties in Field DevelopmentPlanning and Reservoir Modelling

1991 Europe

The Operational Impact of Production Chemistry

1992 North America

Special Core Analysis and Applications to Reservoir Engineering

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Gas Reservoir Engineering

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Advances in Drilling Fluids

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Multiphase Flow, Pumping, and Separation Technology

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Current Coil Tubing Technology

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Completion of Horizontal Wells (Production Engineering)

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Horizontal Well as a New Basis for Reservoir Description

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Advances in Well Test Design and Interpretation

Sand Control and Gravel Packing
Factors for Successful Reservoir Performance Using Water Injection

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Wellbore and Formation Damage Related to Completion Practices

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Reservoir Fluids: Phase Behavior and Physical Properties

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Slim-Hole Production & Exploration

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Pore Pressure Estimation and Detection

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Advances in Conformance Control

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Advances in Hydraulic Fracturing

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The Role of Reservoir Monitoring and Surveillance in Reservoir Management

Trends in Subsea Production Systems

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Dynamic Drill String Behaviour - Cost or Opportunity?

1993 Middle East

Interdisciplinary Approach to Reservoir Characterization

1993 Asia Pacific

Near-Wellbore Stimulation

1994 North America

Emerging Applications of Cost-Effective Computing in Reservoir Engineering

1994 North America

Pollution Prevention for Exploration and Production Operations (Related Technologies)

1994 North America

Emerging Applications of Logging Technology

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Perforating

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Gas Condensate Reservoirs

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Management of the Drilling Process - What Next?

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High Pressure High Temperature Completions

1994 Middle East

Well Testing

1994 Asia Pacific

Borehole Stability and the Role of Rock Mechanic

1995 North America

Horizontal Well Evaluation and Performance Assessment

1995 North America

Risk and Confidence in Reserves Valuation

1995 North America

Multidisciplined Analysis and Solutions to Rejuvenating Old or Marginal Fields

1995 North America

Profitable Development of Deepwater Prospects

1995 Europe

The Evaluation, Development and Management of Layered Reservoirs

1995 Europe

Coiled Tubing Technology and Applications

1995 Europe

The Handling, Treatment and Disposal of Produced Water

1995 Middle East

Horizontal Wells: Problems and Solutions

1995 Asia Pacific

Challenges in Gas Reservoir Management

1995 South America and Caribbean

Artificial Lift in the 90's and Beyond: The Economic Survival of Oil Wells

1996 North America

Maximizing Returns in Well Construction - Low Cost Drilling?

1996 North America

SPE/SEG Optimizing Reservoir Development and Production Through Application of Geophysics

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Applications of Borehole Imaging Technologies

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Frac-and-Pack and Other Sand Control Methods

1996 Europe

New Advances in Productivity Optimization Technologies

1996 Europe

Upscaling From the Laboratory to the Field

1996 Europe

Drilling Fluids Optimization - A Multidisciplinary Approach

1996 Middle East

The Handling and Treatment of Produced Water

1996 Asia Pacific

Innovation in Developing Low Profitability Marginal Offshore

1996 Asia Pacific

Production and Handling of Waxy Crudes/Condensates

1996 South America and Caribbean

Heavy Oil Resources - Technology, Challenges and Opportunities

1997 North America

3D Reservoir Characterization Tools: Are They Changing the Industry?

1997 North America

Emerging Applications of NMR Technologies in Formation Evaluation

1997 North America

Multilateral Completion Technology

1997 North America

Advances in the Use of Floating Production Systems

1997 Europe

Multiphase Production

1997 Europe

Advances in History Matching and Reservoir Monitoring

1997 Europe

Advanced Well Geometries - How Do They Impact Oilfield Management?

1997 Middle East

Coiled Tubing Applications to Advanced Wells

1997 Asia Pacific

New Trends in Gas Transportation Technology

1997 Asia Pacific

Risk Assessment and Management of Uncertainty

1997 South America and Caribbean

Mooring Technology for Deepwater Offshore Drilling, Workover, and Production

1998 North America

Dynamic Reservoir and Production Optimization Using Intelligent Wells

1998 North America

The Role of Fluids in Drilling and Completing High Angle and Horizontal Wells

1998 North America

Impact of Pore-Scale to Well-Test Scale Data Relationships

1998 North America

Hydraulic Fracture Diagnostic Methods

1998 Europe

SPE/EAPG Forum: Well Placement Using Advanced Geoscience & Visualization Techniques

1998 Europe

Technical Solutions for Offshore Field Life Extension

1998 Europe

Oil Recovery by Gas Injection: From Design to Operation

1998 Middle East

Managing Mature Reservoirs - Extending the Plateau

1998 Asia Pacific

Integrating Well Testing and Reservoir Characterization

1998 Asia Pacific

Advances in Drilling Technology and Operations

1998 South America and Caribbean

Integrated Drilling Solutions

1999 North America

Reservoir Engineering Aspects of Multilateral and Advanced Wells

1999 North America

Advances and Future Directions in Cased-Hole Measurement Technologies

1999 North America

Cementing for Harsh Environments

1999 North America

Environmental Concerns for the New Millennium

1999 Europe

Sand Prediction and Control

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Natural Gas Hydrates in Production Operations

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Stimulation and Conformance Control in Unconventional Wells

1999 Middle East

Enhancement of Well Productivity

1999 Asia Pacific

Stacked, Comparmentalized Reservoirs- Evaluation and Development

1999 Asia Pacific

Frac-Pack Completions - Applications and Techniques

1999 South America and Caribbean

Deepwater Well Challenges

2000 North America

Appraisal and Development of Deepwater Reservoirs

2000 North America

Flow Assurance for Subsea Operations

2000 North America

Geomechanics and Reservoir Management

2000 North America

Risk, Options, and Portfolio Management in theOil and Gas Business

2000 Europe

Advancement of Spooled Tubing Technology in Oilfield Applications

2000 Europe

Fractured Reservoirs

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Impact of Drilling Operations on the Environment

2000 Middle East

Achieving World Class Drilling Performance

2000 Asia Pacific

Fast Track: Exploration to First Oil

2000 Asia Pacific

Drilling and Completion in Hostile

2000 South America and Caribbean

Field Reactivation

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Real-Time Data in Drilling

Reconciling Real-Time Production Optimization with Reservoir Management
Sub-sea Well Design and Intervention
The Big Crew Change
Geosteering Technologies
Downhole Water Management
Wells - How Smart Can They Get?
The Application of Seismic Attribute Analysis and Geostatistics in Reservoir Prediction
Optimising Well Productivity with Modern Completion and Stimulation Practices
Underbalanced Operations vs Designer Fluids

2002 North America

Enhancing Recovery from Deepwater Reservoirs

2002 North America

The Offshore Facility of the Future

2002 North America

E-Well & Wellbore Robotics

2002 North America

Decision-Driven Asset Development & Management

2002 Europe

Deepwater Completions

2002 Europe

The Smart Oilfield

2002 Europe

Reducing Hole Stability Problems Increasing Well-Integrity Technologies and Practices

2002 Middle East

Produced Water Management (Postponed from 2001)

2002 Asia Pacific

The Continuing Role of Well Testing

2002 Asia Pacific

Delivering the 40,000 ft. ERD Well

2002 South America and Caribbean

Seismic for Reservoir Management

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Eliminating Wastes and Emissions From E&P

2003 North America

The Drilling Rigs of the Future

2003 North America

Reservoir Simulation A New Era

2003 North America

Decommissioning and Well Abandonment

2003 Europe

Multiphase Capabilities in Frontier Environments

2003 Europe

Accessing and Producing Remaining Oil

2003 Europe

Immersive Visualisation: A Way Towards Improving Decision-Making

2003 Middle East

Carbonate Reservoir DevelopmentFacing the Challenges

2003 Asia Pacific

Horizontal WellsSaviours or Trouble Makers?

2003 Asia Pacific

Production Optimization

2003 South America and Caribbean

Field Development Planning

2004 North America

Enhancing Value of Mature Fields: Technology or Efficiency

2004 North America

Natural Gas: The Next Imperative

2004 North America

The One-Trip Well

2004 North America

Well-Less Exploration and Minimal Appraisal

2004 Europe

Smart Drillling

2004 Europe

Sand Control and Management

2004 Europe

Tight Gas Development

2004 Middle East

Smart Wells: How Smart Can They Get?

2004 Middle East

Mature Reservoirs: The Appropiate Application of Technology

2004 Asia Pacific

Challenges in Completions for 2007 and Beyond

2004 Asia Pacific

Innovations for Gas Field Development

2004 South America and Caribbean

Adaptive Development and Management for Oil and Gas Fields

2005 North America

Technology Development-Who Pays and Who Plays

2005 North America

The Future of Drilling Producing Complex Wells

2005 North America

Deep and Getting Deeper-The Future of Deepwater Development

2005 North America

Reservoir to Sales Meter- The Future of Measurement, Automation and Remote Control

2005 Europe

Understanding and Modelling the Near Wellbore

2005 Europe

Making Our Mature Fields Smarter

2005 Europe

Risk Management and Intergrated Business Modelling

2005 Europe

Molecules on the Move:Physio-Chemical Effects on Multiphase Transport

2005 Middle East

Contracting Strategies for Well Construction and Maintenance

2005 Middle East

Complex Wells

2005 Asia Pacific

Stagnation or E-volution: Changing Production Management

2005 Asia Pacific

Stimulation for the Future-Increasing Production, "Reducing Cost"

2005 South America and Caribbean

Future Challenges in Carbonate Reservoirs Development

2006 North America

Surviving and Thriving in Deepwater

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Characterization and Modeling of Naturally Fractured Reservoirs

2006 North America

Enhanced Oil Recovery-What's Next?

2006 North America

CO2 Capture and Storage-A Dual Benefit for the Oil and Gas Industry

2006 Europe

Low Cost Reservoir Access/Intervention

2006 Europe

From Casing Design to Well Life Production?

2006 Europe

The Heavy Oil Challenge: Recognition, Evaluation and Mobilization

2006 Europe

Who Owns the Deepwater Riser and Who Solves its Production Problems?

2006 Asia Pacific

Hydraulic Fracturing Beyond 2010

2006 Asia Pacific

The Future of Smart Fields

2006 South America

Advanced Drilling Techniques

2007 North America

Unconventional Gas Resources

2007 North America

The Future of Profit Prediction

2007 North America

Challenges in Unconsolidated Reservoirs: Reservoir Performance

2007 Latin America

Reservoir Modeling for Asset Teams

2007 Europe

70% RecoveryA Dream or Reality: From Smart Water to Microbes

2007 Europe

Real Time Production Optimisation

2007 Europe

Mutating Mud in a Changing Drilling World

2007 Asia Pacific

Stranded Gas: The Next Challenge

2007 Middle East

Damage Removal of Unconventional Completions

2008 North America

Reservoir Geomechanics

2008 North America

Steam Generation

2008 North America

E&P Project, Facilities, and Construction Technologies That Will Make A Difference (R&D Meets Reality)

2008 Latin America

Offshore EOR: It's About Time

2008 Europe

Well Construction in 2020+

2008 Europe

Petabytes in Asset Management

2008 Europe

Revisiting Water Injection in the 21st Century

2008 Asia Pacific

Deepwater & Harsh Environment

2008 Middle East

2008 Forum Series in Middle East Naturally Fractured Carbonate Reservoirs

2009 North America

Artificial Intelligence in the E&P IndustryFuture Opportunities for Better Decision Making

2009 North America

Maximizing Oil Recovery in the 21st Century

2009 North America

The Future of Stimulation in Tight Gas and Shale

2009 Europe

CO2 Capture and Storage: Can the Oil and Gas Industry Support This Development and Deployment?

2009 Europe

The Fight to Reduce Drilling NPT: Technology, Processes & People Under Pressure

2009 Europe

Getting to Robust Production Forecasts

2009 Asia Pacific

Overcoming Barriers to Deliver 15 km Extended Reach Wells and Beyond

2009 Middle East

The Heavy Oil Challenge: Completion Design and Production Management

2010 North America

Getting to Zero-An incident Free Workplace: How do we get there?

2010 North America

Petrophysics Meets Well Testing

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Geosteering Technology

2010 North America

Lost Circulation and Wellbore Strengthening

2010 Europe

Accelerating the Time to 1st Hydrocarbons: Towards Robust Fast Tracking of Development Planning and Execution

2010 Europe

The Future of Reservoir Management

2010 Europe

The Automated Well Construction Factory

2010 Asia Pacific

Reservoir Simulation- Beyond Tomorrow

2010 Middle East

Advancing Well Integrity Technology

2011 North America

Reservoir Management 2020: Surveillance, Analysis and Optimization

2011 North America

Beyond Conventional Sand Control

2011 North America

Digital Rocks: Realizing Step Change in Value of Laboratory Data

2011 Asia Pacific

Economic and Sustainability Challenges in the Future Development of Sour Gas

2011 Middle East

Advanced Well Architectures to Optimize Reservoir Management

2011 Europe

Unlocking the Potential of Nanotech for E&P

2011 Europe

Shale Gas: Beyond Current Technologies and Going Global

2011 Europe

CO2 Geological Storage: Will we be ready in time?

2011 Middle East

Lifecycle Risk/Uncertainty Management, Reducing Surprises

2012 North America

The Future of Shale Oil Exploitation

2012 Asia Pacific

Excellence in Fracture Stimulation-The Present and Future of Affordable Energy

2012 North America

Horizontal Completions in Unconventional Reservoirs

2012 Middle East

Improving the Healthcare of Oil and Gas Fields-Sense, Compute, and Act

2012 Europe

Advanced Chemicals and Fluids for the Oilfield

2012 Europe

Next Generation Well Control

2012 North America

Water Management: Is an Ounce of Prevention Worth a Pound of Cure?

2012 North America

Novel Techniques for Reservoir Modeling

2013 Asia Pacific

70% Recovery: From nano to macro scale

2013 Middle East

Future Systems for Extreme Environments

2013 North America

Quest for a Reduced Environmental Footprint

2013 North America

Engineering Education for the Petroleum Industry

2013 North America

Artificial Lift In Deepwater

2013 Europe

Adaptive Well Construction

2013 Europe

Managed Pressure Drilling Niche Technology or the Future of Drilling?

2014 Europe

Zonal Isolation to the Extreme

2014 North America

Numerical Modeling in Unconventional Reservoirs

2014 Middle East

Overcoming Challenges in Developing Shale and Tight Gas Reservoirs