Technical Tracks

Drilling and Completions
- Drilling
  - Managed Pressure Drilling (Mon. a.m.)
  - Directional Drilling (Mon. p.m.)
  - Geomechanics and Wellbore Stability (Tues. a.m.)
  - Advanced Tubulars (Tues. a.m.)
  - Special Drilling Applications (Tues. p.m.)
  - Drilling Fluids (Tues. p.m.)
  - Cementing and Wellbore Isolation (Wed. a.m.)
  - Emerging Drilling Technologies (Wed. a.m.)
  - Downhole Drilling Tools (Wed. p.m.)
- Well Completions
  - Completion Installation (Mon. a.m.)
  - Perforating/Unconventional Gas Completions (Mon. p.m.)
  - Completion Case Histories: Learning From the Test in the Industry (Tues. a.m.)
  - Sand Control Technology/Applications (Tues. p.m.)
  - Horizontal Well Completions (Wed. a.m.)
  - Deep Water (Wed. p.m.)
Projects, Facilities and Construction
- Decisions, Risks & Execution of Major Capital Projects (Mon. p.m.)
- Optimizing Oilfield Separation Processes (Tues. p.m.)
- Flow Assurance and Multiphase Flow (Wed. a.m.)
Production and Operations
- Production Monitoring and Control
  - Diagnostics, Conformance, and Commingled Production (Mon. a.m.)
  - Applications and Implementation of Intelligent Completions (Mon. p.m.)
  - Production: Data Analysis and Optimization (Tues. p.m.)
  - Surveillance, Prediction, and Analysis of Real Time Data (Wed. p.m.)
- Well Operations
  - Gas Well Operations and Liquid Loading (Mon. a.m.)
  - Multiphase Well Operations (Mon. p.m.)
  - Artificial Lift (Tues. p.m.)
  - New Technologies for Well Operations (Wed. p.m.)
- Well Stimulation
  - Acidizing Case Histories (Mon. a.m.)
  - Gas Well Stimulation (Mon. p.m.)
  - Fracture Diagnostics (Tues. a.m.)
  - Acidizing and Remedial Treatments (Tues. a.m.)
  - New Stimulation Technologies and Applications (Tues. p.m.)
  - Fracturing Case Histories (Wed. a.m.)
  - Fracturing Studies and New Insights (Wed. p.m.)
Reservoir Description and Dynamics
- Fluid Mechanics and Recovery Processes
  - Miscible Processes (Mon. a.m.)
  - Heavy Oil/Thermal (Mon. p.m.)
  - CO2 Sequestration I (Tues. a.m.)
  - Flow Through Porous Media (Tues. p.m.)
  - Recovery Mechanisms (Wed. a.m.)
  - Simulation Methods II (Wed. a.m.)
  - Imbibition and Wettability (Wed. p.m.)
- Formation Evaluation
  - NMR: New Developments in Rock and Fluid Characterization (Mon. a.m.)
  - Fluid Characterization (Mon. p.m.)
  - Rock Properties (Tues. a.m.)
  - Reservoir Surveillance (Tues. p.m.)
  - Advances in LWD (Wed. a.m.)
  - New Technology for Enhanced Formation Evaluation (Wed. p.m.)
- Reservoir Engineering
  - History Matching I (Mon. a.m.)
  - Heavy Oil, PVT and Fluid Properties (Mon. p.m.)
  - Field Studies (Mon. p.m.)
  - Simulation Methods I (Tues. a.m.)
  - Unconventional Gas (Tues. a.m.)
  - Fluid Flow (Tues. p.m.)
  - CO2 Sequestration II (Wed. a.m.)
  - History Matching II (Wed. p.m.)
  - Optimization and Uncertainty Management (Wed. p.m.)
- Reservoir Geology and Geophysics
  - Heavy Hydrocarbon Reservoirs (Mon. a.m.)
  - Reservoir Geoscience Case Studies (Tues. p.m.)
  - Reservoir Characterization (Wed. p.m.)
- Reservoir Monitoring
  - Well Testing For Reservoir Appraisal (Tues. a.m.)
  - New Techniques in Data Measurement and Analysis (Tues. p.m.)
  - Emerging Technologies in Reservoir Monitoring (Wed. a.m.)
  - Reservoir Surveillance Methods (Wed. p.m.)
Management and Information
- Digital Energy
  - Automated Oilfield (Mon. a.m.)
  - Digital Solutions for Operations (Tues. a.m.)
- Education, Training, and Professionalism
  - Long Term - Next 20 years - Petroleum Engineering (Mon. a.m.)
  - Young Professionals: Global Activities, Networking and Mentoring (Tues. a.m.)
  - Topics on Education, Training and Professionalism (Wed. a.m.)
  - Women's Issues in the Petroleum Industry (Wed. p.m.)
- Management
  - Management Perspective of Today's Volatile Business Environment (Mon. p.m.)
  - Management Response To Today's Volatile Business Environment (Tues. a.m.)
  - Reserves (Tues. p.m.)
  - Improvements to Decision Methodologies (Wed. a.m.)
Health, Safety, and Environment
- Managing Safety from Design to the Work Site (Mon. a.m.)
- Environmental Water Management (Mon. p.m.)
- Environmentally-Sensitive Areas (Mon. p.m.)

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