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Plenary & Panel Sessions

Monday, 24 October; 0900-1000 hours

Qantab Room

Opening Ceremony

Opening Remarks by:

  • H.E. Nasser bin Khamis Al Jashmi, Undersecretary, Ministry of Oil & Gas, Oman
  • Abdulsattar Al Murshidi, Well Engineering Director, Oman; Conference Chairman
  • Niels Espeland, Group Vice President, Weatherford Drilling International; IADC Executive Committee member

 

1030-1230

Qantab Room

Executive Plenary Session:
Major Improvements: What MUST We Do Differently

Moderator:

  • Abdulsattar Al Murshidi, Well Engineering Director, Petroleum Development Oman

Speakers:

  • Khalid Mugharbel, President Middle East, Schlumberger
  • Eamon Gorman, Group CEO, MB Petroleum Services
  • Erhan Saygi, MENA North Region Vice President, Weatherford
  • Ibraheem Assaadan, General Manager of Drilling and Workover, Saudi Aramco
  • Mr. Said Al-Adawi, Co-Founder and CEO, Intaj LLC

 

Tuesday, 25 October, 0900-1030 hours

Qantab Room

Panel Sessions:
NOC, IOC and Service Industry Collaboration

Speakers:

  • Andy Hendricks, President Drilling & Measurements, Schlumberger
  • Hans-Christian Freitag, VP Marketing Middle East, Baker Hughes
  • Humaid Al Balushi, Drilling Manager, MB Petroleum Services
  • Riyadh Moosa, New Technology Manager, Petroleum Development Oman

Operators usually tend to address their challenges/ problem statements in isolation from the contractors community. If at all the contractors are involved, they are not engaged in the initial stages and instead they’re exposed to the problem statements in the end phases, i.e. implementation phase, which narrows the value of their contribution.

In general, contractors and service providers have more resources and are often more experienced in certain technologies as they might have been exposed to similar challenges in different regions in the world. They usually tend to be more focused in one area and master it.

At the moment, there are no existing structured forums to engage and align service providers with the operators’ challenges.

A process in which operators’ challenges are shared with the contractors’ community at a wider context needs to be addressed. This process would benefit the operators in problems solving and facilitate the long term of the Technology Maturation Funnel. On the other hand, the service providers and contractors community will get the benefit of aligning their resources in the most demanded areas as dictated by the operators’ challenges.

Many problems to date remain unsolved; examples include tubular corrosion, associated water production and the implementation of intelligent/ remote systems for safer and more efficient operations. These could potentially benefit from the umbrella of the shared operators-contractors collaboration. This collaboration however should not neglect the involvement of the local universities and institutes. What is the best process available worldwide to engage and best utilise these institutes for both parties’ benefits? Can this be adapted in our business?

Such collaboration will serve making solid and consistent step changes thus building towards m major Improvements in all aspects of our industry.

 

Wednesday, 26 October, 1530-1700 hours

Qantab Room

Special Keynote Session

Moderator:

  • Chokri Benamor, General Manager Oman, Schlumberger

Learning from Other Industries

Speakers:

  • Musadik Malik, CEO, Boston Innovation Partners

Various industrial sectors adapt different types of set-ups/ processes for problems solving and technology implementation in order to address their challenges.

Some succeed and others don’t. Even for those who did succeed, the technology implementation process in most cases was slow and inefficient that it took a long time for the technology to reach maturation.

The learning’s from one industrial sector are not well transferred or communicated to other sectors; resulting in other sectors repeating the same inefficiencies in their processes.

The drilling sector in specific has long been known for its slowness to changes and new technologies. This is evident in the conventional rig designs still to date used, the conventional drilling fluids and the manual rig systems as opposed to the more modern and sophisticated automated systems.

This session is intended to identify and address a process/ set-up to minimise the gaps for cross-sector technology transfer and the key success factors for technology implementation. The ensuing process could be the ‘Step Change’ that will make our operations more efficient and will avoid us from climbing the same learning curves repeatedly.

Special Report: Post-Macondo Regulatory Trends

Speaker:

  • Steve Cromar, Chairman of Wells Expert Committee, OGP; UK Wells Operations, ConocoPhillips