SPE Western Regional Meeting
SPE’s 2009 Western Regional Meeting provides the opportunity for professionals in the oil and gas industry to meet and share ideas.
This conference offers a full set of topics on interdisciplinary work under the theme “New Solutions for Maximizing Recovery and Value,” and provides a platform to discuss solutions to the challenges faced by the diverse set of operators in the Western North America Region. These challenges and solutions are also widely applicable to operations in other parts of the world. The comprehensive technical and continuing education programs will include a collection of technical, poster, and panel sessions; short courses; field trips; an exhibition; and rewarding student activities.
Accepted technical topics include
- Carbon Management
- Natural Gas Supply and Storage
- Geothermal Resources
- Unconventional Resources
- Reservoir Management
- Waste Disposal and Environmentally Friendly Operations
- Innovations in Drilling
- Design and Operation of Facilities
- Heavy Oil and Thermal Recovery
- Problems of and Solutions for Small Producers
- Problems of and Solutions for Midsize Producers
- Energy Industry in the Western Region
Please Note: The following short courses have been cancelled:
- Revitalizing Mature Fields and Optimizing Ultimate Recoveries
- Fluid Characterization for Simulation of Miscible EOR Projects and CO2 Sequestration
- Geothermal Reservoir Management
- Reservoir Simulation
- Carbon Sequestration and Storage

