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LACPEC is the preeminent technical event for the region and is designed to meet the existing, emerging, and future technical and social needs for the upstream petroleum industry. It features more than 160 technical paper presentations, ePosters, and panel sessions.

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 13 September 2011. Read more.

Suggested Technical Themes

Deepwater Developments

• Advances in Deepwater Production Equipment
• New Technologies for Deepwater Exploration and Production
• Multiphase Flow in Deepwater Developments
• Geohazards in Deepwater Developments
• Wet and Dry Completion Systems

Drilling and Completions

• Advances in Drilling—Maximum Reservoir Contact Wells
• New Developments in Drilling/Extended-Reach Drilling
• New Developments in Well Completions (including Intelligent Well Completions)
• Geomechanical Challenges in Drilling and Well Completions
• Best Practices/Lessons Learned in Drilling and Well Completions

Digital Oilfield

• Data Acquisition, Control, and Monitoring Systems
• Measurements Relevant to Smart Fields
• Data versus Information
• Robotic Data Analysis
• Development and Deployment of Data-Driven Models
• Automation and Expert Systems
• Management-by-Exception (Controlling or Exceptional Factors in a System)
• Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for Production Management
• Quantifying the Value of the Digital Oil Field

Emerging and New Technologies

• Non-Fossil Energy Resources
• Ultra-Deep Drilling (HP/HT)
• Carbon Capture and Sequestration for EOR/IOR
• Controlled Source Electromagnetic (CSEM) Systems
• Application of Advanced 3D Seismic Technologies
• Application of Nanotechnologies in Exploration and Production
• Artificial Intelligence Applications
• Smart Fluids Systems

EOR/IOR/Mature Fields

• Development and Operational Strategies for 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
• Low Salinity Waterflooding
• EOR/IOR Case Histories in Mature Fields

Flow Assurance/Production Chemistry

• Ultra-Deep Production
• Well Integrity
• Safety and Environment Challenges
• Hydrate Control
• Advances in Asphaltene Control
• Corrosion Prevention and Risk Assessment
• Scale Prediction and Inhibition
• Erosion, Foaming, and Emulsions
• Sampling and Monitoring Technologies
• Geochemical Modeling
• Reservoir Souring
• Compositional Analysis of Fluids
• In-Situ Production Technologies

Gas Technologies

• Modeling and Simulation for Gas Reservoirs
• Viscous and Diffusive Flow Behavior in Gas Reservoirs
• Core Analysis Protocols for Conventional and Shale Gas Reservoirs
• Gas-Reservoir Management
• Gas-Condensate Reservoirs
• Sampling Procedures and PVT Analysis for Gas Reservoirs
• Maximizing Natural Gas Liquids Production

Heavy Oil

• Heavy Oil Recovery—Thermal and Non-Thermal Mechanisms
• Heavy Oil Production Challenges for Deepwater Operations
• Well Designs and Surface Infrastructure Systems for Heavy Oil (including Artificial-Lift Systems)
• Emerging Technologies for Processing Heavy Oil
• Handling Heavy Oil Production with Hazardous Gases (CO2, H2S)
• Water Coning in Naturally-Fractured Heavy Oil Reservoirs
• Uncertainty and Risk Analysis for Screening and Selection of Heavy-Oil EOR Technologies
• Pilot Projects In Heavy Oil—Lessons Learned, Case Histories, and Trends

HSE, Social Concerns, and HR

• Issues in Environmentally Sensitive Areas (e.g., Operations, Seismic Acquisition)
• Stakeholders Roles When Dealing with Social and Environmental Issues
• Potential Social Implications for New Discoveries
• Environment Protection
• Health and Safety
• Community Relationships
• Sustainable Development
• Reduction of Emissions

Naturally-Fractured Reservoirs

• Modeling of Naturally and Induced Fracture Systems
• Case Histories for Naturally-Fractured Reservoirs
• New Technologies for Fracture Detection in Naturally-Fractured Reservoirs
• Management of Gas and Water Coning/Channeling in Naturally-Fractured Reservoirs
• Effect of Stress State(s) on Naturally-Fractured Reservoirs
• Production Performance of Wells in Naturally-Fractured Reservoirs
• EOR/IOR in Naturally-Fractured Reservoirs

Production and Facilities

• Separation Facilities
• Chemical Technologies
• Management of High Water-Oil-Ratio Fields (Facilities Perspective)
• Field Automation
• Production Improvement and Optimization
• Integrity of Tubulars and Surface Facilities
• Measurement and Control of Produced Fluids
• Maintenance and Reliability of Production Installations

Reservoir Characterization/Reservoir Description

• Reservoir Surveillance
• Rock and Fluid Characterization
• Integration of Seismic and Petrophysical Data
• Upscaling/Downscaling from Pore to Seismic/Simulation Scales
• Advances in Simulation, Modeling, and History Matching
• Quantifying Uncertainty in Reservoir Models
• Evaluation of Bypassed Oil
• Waterflood Design

Reservoir Management and Testing

• Pressure Transient Testing in Dry, Wet, and Gas-Condensate Reservoirs
• Evaluation of Reserves
• Cost Saving Approaches for Reservoir Testing
• Reservoir Limits Testing/Analysis

Risk Analysis and Evaluation of Oil and Gas Developments

• Cost of Uncertainty
• The perfect information
• Prioritizing Risks
• Risk-Based Management
• Reliability Estimation of Reservoir Models
• Probabilistic Risk Analysis in Oil and Gas Projects Portfolio
• Risk-Based Production Facilities Rationalization in Exploration Projects
• Probabilistic Risk Analysis in Well Drilling and Workovers
• Risk Analysis in Selecting Field Development Options
• A Real Option Evaluation Approach 

Unconventional Resources

• Tight/Ultratight Gas/Oil Reservoirs: Technical and Operational Challenges
• Coalbed-Methane Reservoirs
• Ultra-Heavy Oil/Bitumen
• Gas Shale Plays
• Liquids-Rich Shale Plays

Water and CO2 Management

• Scaling and Souring Issues
• Produced-Water Challenges (Reinjection/Disposal)
• Water Management
• Water Clean-Up (Conversion to Potable/Agricultural Water)
• CO2 Mitigation in Oil/Gas Production Activities
• CO2—Challenge or Resource?