Call for Papers
The Call for Papers is now closed.
The SPE Latin American and Caribbean Petroleum Engineering Conference (LACPEC) facilitates the technology and societal needs of Latin America and the Caribbean as these needs relate to the petroleum engineering discipline.
The program committee invites you to submit your technical advancement, new method, case study, or practical application as a conference technical paper. Please submit your paper proposal online by 4 May 2010.
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Abstract Submission Categories
- Deepwater Developments
- Deepwater Offshore Production
- Deepwater Offshore Exploration
- New Technologies for Deepwater Production
- Drilling and Completions
- New Developments in Drilling
- Extended-Reach Drilling
- New Developments in Well Completions
- Emerging Technologies
- Non-Fossil Energy Resources
- Ultra-Deep Drilling (HP/HT)
- Carbon Capture and Sequestration for EOR/IOR
- Production & Facilities
- Separation Facilities
- Chemical Technologies
- Management of High Water-Oil-Ratio Fields (Facilities Perspective)
- Field Automation
- Production Improvement and Optimization
- Facilities & Pipes Integrity
- Gas Technologies
- Modeling and Simulation for Gas Reservoirs
- Gas-Reservoir Management
- Technologies for High-Gas-Production Reservoirs
- Gas-Condensate Reservoirs
- Technologies for Processing and Transporting Natural Gas and Liquids
- Petrochemicals
- Risk Analysis in Evaluation of Oil & Gas Projects
- Heavy Oil
- Heavy-Oil Recovery: Nonthermal Mechanisms
- Heavy-Oil Recovery: Thermal Mechanisms
- Well Designs for Heavy-Oil Systems
- Artificial-Lift Systems for Heavy Oil (Viscous Fluids, Sand, and Gas)
- Advances in Transport Technologies
- Emerging Technologies in Processing Heavy Oil
- Mature Fields
- Recovery Methods for Mature Fields
- Key Technologies for Mature Fields
- Seismic Applications for Mature Fields
- Horizontal/Multilateral Well Applications for Mature Fields
- Reservoir Management for Mature Fields
- 100 Years of Talara Basin Development: The Oldest Mature Field in LAC
- Reservoir Characterization/Reservoir Description
- Use of Reservoir Surveillance
- Seismic and Petrophysics
- Advances in Simulation, Modeling, and History Matching
- Applications in Mature Fields
- Naturally Fractured Reservoirs
- Smart Fields
- Data Acquisition, Control, and Monitoring Systems
- Measurements Relevant to Smart Fields
- Unconventional Resources
- Tight/Ultratight Gas Reservoirs: Identifying, Characterizing and Forecasting
- Tight/Ultratight Gas Reservoirs: Technical and Operational Challenges
- Coalbed-Methane Reservoirs
- Ultraheavy Oil/Bitumen
- Water Management
- Scaling and Souring Issues
- Produced-Water Challenges: Reinjection or Disposal?
- Water Management
- Water Clean-Up (Conversion to Potable/Agricultural Water)
- EHS & Social Concerns
- Environmental Issues in Sensitive Areas
- Stakeholders roles when dealing with social and environmental issues
- Potential Social Implications for new discoveries in sensitive areas
- Environment Protection in Sensitive and Nonsensitive Areas
- Health & Safety
- Community Relationships
- Sustainable Development
- Reduction of Emissions
- Heavy Oil Production
- Water Separation
- Transport from difficult locations
- Lifting systems
- Dilution
- Emulsions
- Integrity
- Corrosion
- Production lost
- Environmental problems
- Emissions
