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Plenary and Panel Sessions

Opening Ceremony

Monday, 14 May, 0900-1000

Opening remarks by:

  • H.E. Dr. Mohammed bin Saleh Al Sada, Minister of Energy and Industry, Qatar
  • Said Mubarak Al Mohannadi, Director of Operations, Qatar Petroleum; Conference Chairman
  • Egbert Imomoh, 2013 SPE President; Chairman AFREN plc

Executive Plenary Session

Monday, 14 May, 1100-1300

“Production Optimisation Challenges: Meeting Global Energy Demand”

Moderator:  Nasser Al-Jaidah, CEO, Qatar Petroleum International

Executive Speakers:

  • Jakob Thomasen, CEO, Maersk Oil
  • Mohammed Y. Al-Qahtani, Vice President, Petroleum Engineering & Development, Saudi Aramco
  • Rich Kruger, President, ExxonMobil Production Company
  • Saad Al-Kaabi, Director Oil and Gas Ventures, Qatar Petroleum
  • Sharbini Suhaili, Vice President, PETRONAS Carigali
  • Wael Sawan, Executive Vice President, Managing Director Pearl GTL & Country Chairman, Qatar

Closing Session

Wednesday, 16 May, 1615-1715

Moderator:  Egbert Imomoh, 2013 SPE President; Chairman AFREN plc

Executive Speakers:

  • Barton Cahir, President and General Manager of ExxonMobil Qatar
  • Saad Al-Kaabi, Director Oil and Gas Ventures, Qatar Petroleum 
  • Said Mubarak Al Mohannadi, Director of Operations, Qatar Petroleum; Conference Chairman
  • Sheikh Faisal Fahad Al-Thani, Acting Managing Director, Maersk Oil Qatar
  • Stephane Michel, Managing Director Total E&P Qatar

 

Panel Sessions

Monday, 14 May, 1630-1800

Session 1: Redefining NOC/IOC/Service Provider Relationships

  • Hans-Christian Freitag, Vice President Marketing & Business Development, Baker Hughes
  • Yves Kervren, General Manager ,Technip
  • Sheikh Faisal Al-Thani, Deputy Managing Director, Maersk Oil
  • Ibrahim Al-Othman, CEO, GDI
  • Khalid Said Ali Al-Rumaihi, Manager, Exploration & PSA Oil Development, QP

The recent evolution in oil prices and in worldwide geopolitics have nurtured a significant evolution in the relationship between national oil producers, international oil companies and service contractors, with roles being redefined as the respective power and levers have been redistributed. A panel of representatives of the different players in the industry will discuss how each one can handle the new challenges and benefit from the new opportunities generated by this new scene.

Tuesday, 15 May, 1000-1130

Session 2: Strategies and Technology for Fast tracking Field Development

  • Frederic Paux, Vice-Director, Development Engineering Division, Total
  • Ali Al-Shahri, Manager for Northern Area Reservoir Management Department, Saudi Aramco
  • Pete Richter, Unconventional Marketing and Technical Manager, Schlumberger
  • Clare Harris, VP Gas Development & Technical, Shell
  • Abdulla Ibrahim Al-Emadi, Project Manager (EMP), QP

The petroleum industry is facing new challenges as the range of reservoir characteristics is expanding with more emphasis on tight gas, shale gas, and HPHT reservoirs.  To address these new challenges, technology is evolving quickly and bringing a new dimension to overall drilling, completion, and stimulation strategies.   Integration of multidisciplinary teams has been effective at leveraging technology, and lessons learned from basins around the world have accelerated the learning curve and allowed for fast tracking of field development.  For example, the ~25 year learning curve in the Barnett shale was reduced to less than 4 years in the Haynesville shale.  Techniques such as LWD, horizontal drilling, pad drilling, multistage completions, multistage stimulation, fracturing “factories”, simultaneous fracturing, microseismic monitoring, I-Field, and many other approaches have been key enablers.  And, there is a clear trend of knowledge developed in multistage completions in shale gas expanding to other formations such as tight carbonates.  But, one solution does not address all challenges.  Local priorities and key market drivers will lead to a different local optimum solution.  The challenge is to identify the strategies and technologies that bring value for the specific reservoir conditions and local market drivers.  Integration of multidisciplinary teams is critical to success.  And, continued advances in strategies and technologies in drilling, completion, and stimulation are needed to effectively develop unconventional reservoirs.

1330-1500

Session 3: Operations and Maintenance Strategies to Optimise Value

  • Basel Wakileh, Manager (Machinery and Reliability Engineering), Ras Gas Company Limited
  • Symon Hoy, Central Maintenance Manager, Shell
  • Jassim Abdulla Jassim Al-Mohannadi, Plant Maintenance Manager, Qatar Gas
  • Ahmed S. Nada, ME Region GM & Business Executive, GE

The oil and gas industry is characterized by unparalleled challenges at a time where the easy oil and gas era is rapidly coming to an end. Production in increasingly deep water, extreme environmental conditions, unconventional oil, shale gas, tight gas and many other techniques each pose their own challenges on developers, operators and service companies. The Operations and Maintenance strategies applied, need to be adapted to the challenges at hand and will be key levers in maximizing economic value of the assets. This involves technical solutions, but also has a particular impact on the maintenance and operations strategies applied over the production life cycle. Risk based techniques yield different outcomes depending on the intensity of the degradation processes and the margin impact of production losses for example. This panel session tries to solicit different approaches, techniques, tactics and strategies as applied by operators and service companies alike.

Wednesday, 16 May, 1000-1130

Session 4: Carbon Management: Problem and Opportunity

  • William Barrett, CO2 Business Manager, OXY
  • Roger Fernandez, U.S. Natural Gas STAR Program
  • Stevan Jovanovic, Clean Energy Technology Specialist, Linde
  • Donald R. Robinson, Vice President, Oil & Gas Technology, ICF International
  • Catherine Prinet, Manager, CCS Project Storage, Total

As world governments move ahead on efforts to set legally binding agreements on climate change mitigation, carbon management will likely be mandated.  Industry must position itself to address the technical hurdles associated with carbon management to be able to progress continued growth under a carbon controlled business environment. The panel session will present current global and regional efforts towards regulating carbon emissions and will explore technologies being used for capture and storage of CO2, including: enhanced oil recovery and storage in depleted oil reservoirs, reduction to zero emissions from gas fired power plants, review of case studies in carbon sequestration, geophysical monitoring of the carbon dioxide plumes, zero emission power plants, stimulation of horizontal wells completed in carbonate formations using carbon dioxide foams, and enhanced natural gas production with displacement using carbon dioxide.  The panel discussion would also like to invite papers on transportation of liquid carbon dioxide using LNG or LPG ships or of carbon dioxide gas hydrate using container ship and papers on oxygen based power plant combustion cycles for carbon dioxide capture.

1430-1600

Session 5: Human Capital Development

  • Rania El Khouly, Human Resource Director for the Middle East Region, Baker Hughes
  • Mohammed Aggour, Texas A&M
  • Ali N. Telefat, CT, Manager Corporate Training, QP
  • Salam Salamy, Senior Petroleum Engineering Consultant , Saudi Aramco     

The last ten years in the oil industry has seen the departure of experienced staff and replacement by less experienced staff and new graduates from College.  There has been much discussion about the experience gap that exists and challenges faced by the industry.  In addition, the inclusion of new generation tools, requirement of new skillsets multiple and limited number of graduates have compounded these challenges.  The industry must develop strategies for attracting and retaining new talent and transferring knowledge in an efficient and timely manner.  Both production and service companies need to collaborate with Universities and other educational institutions to attract new students for technical studies and further train and develop those who are already working in the industry.  In addition, retention strategies for senior, experienced staff need to be reviewed and adjusted be correlated with performance goals to cope with the high demand for qualified people.  Due to a broader international perspective and local content requirements, the industry faces further challenges in developing human capital. The industry is global so human resources need to be developed on a global basis.

The Panel session will cover:

  • Aging Workforce Competent Issues
  • Knowledge Transfer to Younger Generation
  • Performance & Competency Management
  • Mechanisms & Stats
  • University Perspective - Attracting new Students for technical studies
  • Broader International Perspective - Future Skills around Unconventional Resources
  • Attraction and Retention Strategies