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The deadline for paper proposal submission has passed.

Submittal Guidelines

  1. Obtain necessary clearance from your management.
  2. The paper proposal must be no more than 300 words in length and should include a description of the proposed paper, results/conclusions, and the technical category most applicable to your paper.
  3. The paper proposal must be received by 23 June 2010.
  4. Please note that if accepted, your paper proposal may be published, as submitted, in conference information media, including on the event website.
  5. Authors whose paper proposals are accepted will be required to provide a manuscript for inclusion in the conference Proceedings. Authors who do not submit a manuscript and the associated publication forms by the manuscript due date will be withdrawn from the programme and will not be allowed to present.
  6. Please note: if you are interested in having a technical paper published without presenting at a conference, you should submit the paper as an unsolicited manuscript. For more details, please visit www.spe.org.

A Word about Commercialism

SPE has a stated policy against use of commercial trade names, company logos, or text that is commercial in tone in the paper title, text or slides. Use of such terms will result in careful scrutiny by the programme committee in evaluating abstracts and the presence of commercialism in the paper may result in it being withdrawn from the program.

Copyright

All authors of papers presented at the conference will be required to complete and submit a copyright release form to the Society of Petroleum Engineers or submit the copyright exemption form where applicable.

To all Authors: an agreement to present a paper at this conference carries an obligation to participate in the event. For detailed information on submitting a paper directly for peer review, visit www.spe.org/go/review.

Technical Categories

  • Anatomy of a Best well - how benchmarking & identifying what is best can help improve performance and or create growth opportunities.
  • Bits
  • Case Studies
  • Cementing and Zonal Isolation
  • Completions. Sand Control and Smart Wells
  • Deepwater
  • Downhole Tools and Hole Positioning
  • Drilling Automatio
  • Drilling Fluids
  • Field Development
  • Health, Safety and Environment
  • Managed Pressure and Underbalanced Drilling
  • Managing and Training for Performance
  • Novel Intervention Techniques
  • Performance Drilling – Optimisation and Efficiency
  • Rigs and Equipment
  • Special Techniques, e.g. Expandables
  • Tubulars and Connections
  • Unconventional Oil and Gas
  • Wellbore Quality: Hole Cleaning, Geomechanics and Wellbore Stability
  • Well Technology

For more information, contact spelon@spe.org or call +44 (0) 20 7299 3300.