Call for Papers

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• Submission deadline is 24 November.

Technical Categories

Health

• Biohazards, chemicals, and other workplace hazards
• Community health outreach
• Emergency response
• Ergonomics
• Fatigue management
• Fit-to-work programmes
• Health impact assessment
• Industrial hygiene
• Infectious diseases
• Occupational illnesses
• Health performance measurement
• Preventative medicine
• Psychosocial hazards and treatments
• Radiation management and control
• Sickness absence and return-to-work management
• Strategic health management
• Thermal stress and extreme temperatures
• Working hours and work schedules

Safety

Personal Safety

• Behavioural safety
• Human factors
• Control of falling tools and equipment
• Lifting operations management
• Managing major incidents risks and response and media response
• Social responsibility
• Working at heights

Process Safety

• Confined space safety management
• Management of change—plant expansion and rejuvenation
• Managing process safety in company and asset acquisition
• Operational safety
• Process safety and asset integrity
• Process safety in joint venture management
• Risk management
• Safety in projects
• Transport safety—land, air, marine, equipment, and people
• Well operations safety

Environment

• Air emissions
• Biodiversity
• Carbon and greenhouse gas management, including carbon capture and sequestration
• Chemicals
• Clean energy (solar, wind etc.)
• Decommissioning
• Energy efficiency
• Environmental remediation
• Environmental risks and impact assessment
• Innovative solutions
• Monitoring, reporting, and performance
• Regulatory changes and challenges
• Sensitive environment
• Solid waste, including drilling, and (Naturally Occurring Radioactive Material) NORMs
• Sound and marine life
• Spills
• Water management, including produced water
• Water use
• Other environmental issues
• Shale gas, unconventional oil, and NORM

Security and Social Responsibility

• Ethics and human rights
• Indigenous people, grievance and claims management, resettlement
• Integrating social responsibility into management systems to mitigate risks
• Interaction of social responsibility issues with other aspects of safety, security, health-freshwater, and major resource utilisations, in heavy security areas
• Public consultation, engagement of stakeholders, conflict management, community outreach
• Social impact assessment and management
• Social performance indicators and reporting for greater transparency
• Supply chain
• Sustainability

General Guidelines

1. Obtain necessary clearance from your management.

2. The paper proposal must be a minimum of 200 words and no more than 300 words in length and should include a description of the proposed paper, results and conclusions, and the technical category most applicable to your paper.

3. The paper proposal must be received by 24 November.

4. Do not include title or author names in the body of the paper proposal. Title and author information will be requested separately through the submission system.

5. Please note that, if accepted, your paper proposal may be published, as submitted, in conference information media, including the SPE website.

6. 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. Manuscripts will be due at SPE no later than 15 April.

Changes, Cancellations, and Withdrawals
SPE and the Programme Committee consider an accepted proposal as a commitment to present. If extenuating circumstances prevent the author from making the presentation, it is that author’s obligation to find an alternate presenter and notify their SPE programme lead and their session chair(s) (if applicable).

Withdrawals must be made in writing to the SPE office as soon as possible. Under no circumstances can a submitted paper proposal be changed once it has been submitted. The failure of SPE conference authors to have at least one designated individual present the paper at the conference will result in the conference paper being permanently withdrawn from the SPE technical paper archive in OnePetro. Cancellations, particularly after a paper has been accepted and publicised, are viewed by the Programme Committee as highly unprofessional.

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 paper proposals and the presence of commercialism in the paper will result in it being withdrawn from the programme.

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

To All Authors
An agreement to present a paper at this SPE 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.

For more information, contact Frances Leon, SPE Africa Programmes Manager at fleon@spe.org.