• Innovative and emerging technologies
• Well completion practices for ALS
• QHSSE issues and concerns
• Monitoring and optimization
• Best practices and lessons learned
• Alternative deployment methods
• Operations and maintenance reducing MTBF, OPEX, and downtime
• Sizing and implementation challenges
• Offshore ALS
• Aggressive applications
• Design methodologies
• ALS method specific discussions
• Confirming and maintaining competencies
• Operational philosophies
• ALS problems and their solutions
• Mature fields
• Supply chain: effects on cost optimization
• Automation and smart wells
• Operational philosophy

Additional topics

Within each of these sessions, presentations and interactive discussions will delve deeper into each area and may include such topics as:

• Viscous fluids
• Sand and gas handling
• Artificial intelligence and neural networks
• Optimization trends
• Offshore and onshore – shared technology
• Sucker rod pumps
• Gas lift
• Progressing cavity pumps
• Electric submersible pumps
• Hydraulic pumps
• Reservoir studies
• Case studies, including success stories or disasters
• Life cycle cost analysis
• System reliability
• Troubleshooting and root cause analysis
• QHSSE contribution
• Green systems
• Supply chain management and local content
• Coal seam gas and oal bed methane
• Smart wells implementation
• Well design and equipment selection criteria
• Construction
• Installation, operation, and maintenance
• Application and operational challenges
• Work force profiles