Dear Colleagues,
On behalf of the programme committee, it gives me great pleasure to invite you to submit a paper proposal to the 2012 SPE Intelligent Energy International Conference.
Our industry faces a number of ongoing fundamental challenges. Firstly, the accelerating decline rate of existing reservoirs and the smaller size and complexity of newer ones require increased technology intensity and integration to enhance reservoir understanding, improve production management, and increase recovery. Secondly, operations are ever more challenging as we continue to move to deeper, harsher, or more remote locations. Thirdly, to address the demographic challenges in our industry, a large and more diverse number of employees will be hired into our industry and will need to be trained, deployed and supported.
The industry is constantly looking for means to improve drilling operations, enhance production management and recovery rates, mitigate risks, and improve safety, quality and efficiency. In addition, the industry needs to accelerate the development of people while leveraging knowledge and expertise across the breadth of oil and gas operations.
At the 2006 conference, we looked at technologies and tools to enable intelligent integrated operations. In 2008 we focused on the process, people and organizational aspects to accelerate implementation. In 2010, excellent examples of value creation from many companies were demonstrated and we better understood the challenges of moving to an ‘adoption at scale’ phase. In 2012, we will look at the entire transformation cycle, set our vision to achieve the sustainability stage of making Intelligent Energy ‘business as usual’ in our industry, and understand the decisive actions required to get there.
The programme committee invites you to share your experiences and results along this transformative journey. We look forward to reading your paper proposals and meeting you at the conference.
Sanjay Kanvinde, Schlumberger
Programme Committee Chairperson