CALL FOR PAPERS IS CLOSED
The Call for Papers is closed, and author notification is targeted to be sent out in July.
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ABSTRACT CONTENT
A proper review of your abstract requires that it contain adequate information on which to make a judgement. Written in English and containing a maximum of 450 words, abstracts should be summarised into four (4) specific paragraphs:
- Objective/Scope: Please list the objective and/or scope of the proposed paper (25-75 words).
- Methods, Procedures, Process: Briefly explain your overall approach, including your methods, procedures and process (75-100 words).
- Results, Observations, Conclusions: Please describe the results, observations and conclusions of the proposed paper (100-200 words).
- Novel/Additive Information: Please explain how this paper will present novel (new) or additive information to the existing body of literature that can be of benefit to and/or add to the state of knowledge in the petroleum industry (25-75 words).
Do not include title or author names in the body of the abstract. Title and author information will be requested separately through the submission system.
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TECHNICAL CATEGORIES
The paper proposal categories below are used to direct the paper proposals (abstracts) to the appropriate subject matter experts for evaluation. A primary choice is required, however, a secondary choice is optional.
Geoscience
| 1. Petroleum Geology |
- Basin Evolution and Modelling
- Depositional Systems and Diagenesis
- Hydrocarbon Maturation and Migration
- Outcrops, Analogues, and Structural Geology
- Regional Geology and New Exploration Frontiers
- Seal Analysis
- Stratigraphic Forward Modelling
- The Petroleum System: Source to Trap
- Uncertainty in Petroleum Systems Analysis
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| 2. Geophysical Data Acquisition and Processing |
- Depth Imaging
- Multi-Component Seismic
- Multi-Physical Data Integration
- Near-Surface Geophysics
- Non-Seismic Methods
- Passive Seismic
- Seismic Data Acquisition Technologies
- Seismic Data Processing
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| 3. Geophysical Imaging and Inversion |
- Advanced Seismic Depth Imaging
- Amplitude versus Offset (AVO)
- Borehole Geophysics
- Earth Model Building, Velocity, and Geophysical Modelling
- Full Waveform Inversion
- Rock Physics Modelling
- Qualitative Interpretation – Seismic Attributes
- Seismic Anisotropy, Elasticity, and Attenuation
- Seismic Attributes and Spectral Decomposition
- Seismic Inversion
- Quantitative Seismic Interpretation
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| 4. Geoscience Reservoir Characterisation |
- Biostratigraphy
- Bore Hole Geology
- Carbonate and Clastic Diagenesis
- Chemo-Stratigraphy Applications
- Faults and Fractures Characterisation
- Geochemical Fingerprinting of Hydrocarbons
- Hydrodynamic Modelling
- Petroleum Geochemistry and Source-Rock Analysis
- Pore Networks
- Reservoir Characterisation
- Reservoir Heterogeneity
- Sedimentology, Facies Prediction, and Mapping
- Sequence Stratigraphy and Reservoir Characterisation
- Stratigraphic Traps
- Unconventional Hydrocarbon Reservoirs
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| 5. Geoscience Static Reservoir Modelling |
- Advances in 3D Numerical Reservoir Modelling
- Geostatistics and Uncertainty Analysis in Reservoir Modelling
- Integrated Geostatistical (Stochastic) Seismic Inversion in 3D Reservoir Modelling
- Numerical Modelling of Fractures
- Reservoir Geomechanics
- Upscaling Petrophysical Modelling
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| 6. Innovations in Geoscience |
- 4D Seismic
- Applications of Engineering Geophysics
- Innovative Workflows
- Optimising Project Turnaround Performance
- Sparse Ocean Bottom Seismic for FWI
- Technological Deployments
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Reservoir Engineering
| 7. Reservoir Development and Management |
- Carbonate Reservoir Development
- Clastic Reservoir Development
- Digital Fields and Advanced Technologies
- Field Development and Optimisation
- Field Management in Congested/Limited Surface Locations
- Formation Water Management in Gas Fields
- Fractured Reservoir Development
- Reservoir Data Integration and Assessment
- Reservoir Monitoring and Surveillance
- Risk Assessment in Reservoir Management
- Well Design and Architecture
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| 8. Reservoir Simulation |
- Complex Well Modelling and Optimisation
- Geothermal Reservoir Modelling
- High Performance Computing, Algorithms, and Uncertainty Quantification Methods
- History Matching and Predication
- Naturally Fractured Modelling
- Next Generation Simulators
- PVT/SCAL/CORE Studies Integration and Saturation Modelling
- Reservoir Model Resolution and Upscaling
- Streamline Simulation
- Tight/Shale Reservoir Modelling
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Integrated Reservoir Engineering and Geoscience
| 9. Integrated Reservoir Development and Management |
- Contaminants and Formation Damage
- Far Field Petrophysics
- Geosteering, and Well Placement and Optimisation
- Integrated Reservoir and Production Modelling
- Reconciliation and New Approaches in Reservoir Modelling
- Reservoir Benchmarking
- Reservoir Heterogeneity
- Reservoir Quality and Prediction
- Rock Facies, Rock Types, and Flow Units
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| 10. Reservoir Description and Dynamics |
- Advanced Pressure Transient Modelling: Complex Wells, Completions, Fluids
- Field Well Testing
- Modelling of Faults and Fractures
- Upscaling Petrophysical Properties and Models
- Well Interferences
- Well Testing Advancement
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| 11. Formation Evaluation |
- Advancements in Open-Hole (Wireline and LWD) and Cased-Hole Logging
- Complex Lithology Evaluation
- Deep Water Petrophysics
- Downhole Coring
- Fracture and Microseismic Evaluation
- Impact of Drilling and Drilling Fluid on Logging
- Integrated Formation Evaluation
- Low Resistivity Low Contrast Reservoir Evaluation
- Open-Hole and Cased-Hole Logging Conveyance
- Petrophysical Advancements in Carbonate and Clastic Reservoirs
- Petrophysical Characterisation of Reservoirs based on In-situ and 4D Rock Analysis
- Reservoir Characterisation based on Drill Cuttings
- Reservoir Fluid Geochemistry
- Reservoir Saturation Monitoring and Surveillance
- Rock Petrology and Mineralogy
- Rock Typing, Permeability, and Saturation Height Function Modelling
- Surface Data Logging
- Well Integrity Evaluation
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| 12. Rock and Geomechanics |
- Borehole Stability Prediction and Assessment
- Cap Rock Evaluation for Well Abandonment
- Fracturing
- Geomechanics and Modern Developments
- Geomechanics for Shale and Tight Reservoirs
- Geomechanics Modelling
- Natural Fracture Characterisation
- Numerical Methods in Geomechanics and Geotechnics
- Reservoir Geomechanics
- Rock Mechanics
- Sanding Prediction and Assessment
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Drillling and Completions
| 13. Optimisation of Well Planning and Execution |
- Advancements in Drill Bits and Drilling Tools
- Complex Well Planning
- Extended-Reach Drilling
- Geomechanical Considerations
- Innovative Well Planning Models
- Lost Circulation Prevention
- Performance Drilling and Optimisation
- Real-Time Operations
- Remote Drilling Engineering
- Stuck Pipe Prevention
- Well Intervention and Optimisation
- Well Modelling and Simulation
- Wellbore Quality Considerations
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| 14. Challenges in Well Construction and Completion |
- Casing Annulus Prevention
- Cementing Practices
- Deep Wells
- Drilling with Casing
- High Pressure/High Temperature Drilling
- Managed Pressure Drilling
- Multistage Fractured Horizontal Wells
- Naturally Fractured Reservoirs
- Plug and Abandonment
- Sand Control/Unconsolidated Reservoirs
- Sour/Corrosive Environment
- Underbalanced Drilling
- Well Control
- Well Integrity
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| 15. Advancements in Drilling and Completions Technology Applications |
- CT Drilling
- Drilling and Completions Equipment
- Drilling Systems Automation
- Intelligent Completions
- Laser-Based Technology
- Multistage Fracturing
- Nanotechnology
- New Rig Designs
- Smart Drilling
- Stimulation
- Tubulars
- Wellbore Fluids (Mud/Cement/Frac)
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Surface Operations (Upstream-Midstream)
| 16. Project Management and Quality |
- Data Transfers and Coherence for Quality Control
- Integrity Management
- Interface Management
- Joint Development Areas (JDA)
- Project Management Systems—Integrated Planning
- Risk Management and Management of Change
- Standards and Quality Management
- Value Engineering
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| 17. Concept Engineering, Construction, and Commissioning (The 3 Cs) |
- Complex Facilities
- Concept Selection—Scoping and Feasibility
- Cost Management Systems—Cost Reporting and Control
- Design and Engineering
- Electrical and Non-Electrical Utilities, Drainage Systems
- Floating Production Storage and Offloading Development
- Handover and Project Closure
- Integrated Planning
- Offshore Development
- Operations Readiness
- Power Generation
- Practices of Expertise and Assurance to Add the Value of Engineering
- Procedures Development for Commissioning
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| 18. Facilities Discipline Engineering |
- Civil and Structural Engineering
- Disposal Systems
- Environmental Engineering
- Instrument, Control, Electrical
- Integrated Facilities
- Machinery and Rotating Equipment
- Materials and Corrosion
- Measuring Equipment Control Devices
- Mechanical Engineering
- Pipelines
- Process Engineering
- Process Safety
- Subsea and Offshore
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| 19. Asset Life Cycle Maintenance and Integrity |
- Chemical Management
- Computerised Maintenance Management Systems
- Corrective Maintenance and Intervention
- Corrosion Inhibition
- Corrosion Management
- End of Life Monitoring, Recycling, and Facilities Removal
- Equipment Strategies and Sparing Philosophy
- Flow Assurance
- FMAE, Criticality, and Reliability-Centred Maintenance RCM
- Hydrate Inhibition
- Integrity Strategy
- Mercury Management
- Modelling Applications to Enhance Reliability, Availability, and Maintainability
- Mothballing and Preservation
- Pipeline Maintenance (Including Pigging)
- Preventative Maintenance and Inspection Programmes
- Produced Water Management and Disposal
- Rotating Equipment Life Cycle Optimisation
- Sand Control and Sand Management
- Shutdowns and Turnarounds
- Slugging
- Spare Part Handling, Cataloguing, and Storing
- Storage and Transportation
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| 20. Processing |
- Advances in Operational Efficiency in Oil and Gas Processing
- Bacteria Management
- Crude Oil Processing
- Dehydration
- Flow Assurance
- Mixing Fluid Streams
- Novel Technologies in Oil and Gas Processing
- Processing Advanced Technology
- Production Chemistry
- Scale Management
- Smart Chemicals
- Smart Energy Efficiency Applications
- Sulphur Recovery
- Water Treatment and Management
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| 21. Operation Facility Management |
- Autonomous Operation
- Control Systems
- Exception Based Surveillance
- Innovation in Operation Management
- Integrated Flow System Modelling
- Integrated Reviews
- Metering and Allocation
- Monitoring
- Operational Excellence and Efficiency
- Opportunity Identification and Opportunity Maturation Process
- Scheduling and Execution
- Unmanned/Remote Operations
- Waste Management
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| 22. Case Studies |
- Concept Selection and Front-End Engineering Design
- Deepwater
- Digitalisation in Midstream Oil and Gas Processing
- Energy Optimisation
- Facilities Decommissioning and Abandonment
- Handling NORM
- Infrastructure
- Minor Projects, Major Projects, Integrated Projects
- Novel Technologies in Oil and Gas Processing
- Onshore and Offshore
- Process Control and Instrumentation
- Process Optimisation
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Midstream Gas
| 23. Gas Value Chain |
- Contaminants
- Flare Gas Recovery
- Gas Cycling
- Gas Processing
- Gas Sweetening/Sour Gas Development/H2S Removal and Disposal
- Gas Transition i.e. Hydrogen
- GHG Management
- GTL (Gas to Liquids)
- Innovations in NGL Recovery and LNG
- LNG Processing
- Market, Pricing and Application
- Regulatory
- Transportation/Pipelines/Storage
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IOR/EOR
| 24. IOR/EOR |
- Chemical Flooding
- Conformance Technologies
- Emerging EOR Technologies
- EOR for Unconventional
- EOR Monitoring and Surveillance
- EOR Well Design
- EOR/IOR Modelling and Simulation
- Gas Injection (CO2, N2, Foam, etc.)
- Microbial Flooding
- Novel Technologies
- Salinity EOR
- Sustainable EOR Solutions
- Thermal EOR
- Tracer Studies
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Production Engineering
| 25. Well Production and Sustainability |
- Advanced Coiled Tubing Intervention
- Advanced Completion
- Artificial Lift
- Flow Assurance
- Fracturing and Stimulation
- Long Life Production Strategy
- Operating Envelopes
- Produced Water Management
- Production Portfolio Management
- Real-Time Operations and Monitoring
- Remote Operations
- Safe Casing Running Practices
- Sand Production Control
- Tracers Injection and Application
- Water and Gas Injection
- Well Abandonment
- Well Control
- Well Integrity, Intervention, and Surveillance
- Well Production Optimisation
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Unconventionals
| 26. Unconventional Resources Evaluation and Characterisation |
- Fluid Characterisation for Unconventionals
- Geomechanics for Shale and Tight Reservoirs
- Geophysics for Shale and Tight Reservoirs
- Innovative solutions for Streamlined G&G Processes in Unconventional Evaluation
- Petrophysics for Shale and Tight Reservoirs
- Predicting and Mapping Fluid Phase and Composition
- Shale and Tight Reservoir Characterisation
- Shale and Tight Reservoirs Emerging Plays Evaluation
- Shale and Tight Static Reservoir Modelling
- Unconventional Laboratories Testing and Analysis
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| 27. Unconventional Drilling and Completion |
- Multi-Pad Drilling
- Unconventional Well Construction Best Practices
- Efficiency and Cost Reduction
- Drill Well Completion
- Advances in Geosteering for Unconventionals
- Case Studies on Unconventional Wellbore Integrity/Failures/Casing Deformation
- Unconventional Drilling Challenges in High Pressure/High Temperature Environments
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| 28. Unconventional Stimulation and Operational Efficiency |
- Multistage Hydraulic Fracture Stimulation Best Practices (Logistics and Supply Chain)
- Multi-Well Pad Simultaneous Stimulation Operations
- Completion Technologies for Stimulation (MSF, PnP, CT Fracturing, and Diversion)
- Water and Sand Management for Hydraulic Fracturing
- Re-Fracturing
- Fracture Diagnostics and Monitoring
- Fracture Modelling
- Fracturing Fluids and Proppant
- Unconventional Operational Efficiency (Innovative Solutions, Technology Implementation)
- Coiled Tubing Operations and Technologies
- Cased Hole Logging and Perforations Technology Advancement
- Unconventional Well Testing Best Practices (Flaring, Produced Sand Management, etc.)
- Environmentally Sustainable Operations (Water Conservation, Recycling and Disposal)
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| 29. Unconventional Facilities and Midstream Operations |
- Unconventional PMT and Gas Operations
- Unconventional Facilities Engineering
- Unconventional Asset Life Cycle Maintenance and Integrity
- Unconventional Gas Processing
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| 30. Unconventional Production and Economics |
- Artificial Lift for Unconventional
- Decline Curve Analyses, Well Testing, and Rate Transient Analysis (RTA)
- Field Development Scenarios
- Recycle the Know-How and Best Practices Between Unconventional and Conventional
- Reservoirs Production Performance Prediction
- Unconventional Economics
- Unconventional Reservoir Simulation
- Unconventional Resources and EUR Estimation
- Well Interference and Optimal Spacing
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Overarching Themes
| 31. Health, Safety and Security |
- Asset Integrity
- Crisis Management
- H&S Management Systems
- Management of Contractors
- Marine and Aviation Safety
- Safety Leadership, Culture, and Human Factors
- Site Security and Mitigation
- Terrorism, Hijacking, and Kidnapping
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| 32. Social Responsibility |
- Corporate Social Responsibility/Community Development Projects
- Education and Capability Building
- Local Skills Development
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| 33. Lessons Learnt and Knowledge Management |
- Building Organisational Capability
- Business Continuity
- Centres of Excellence (COE) and Virtual Teams
- Data and Knowledge Sharing
- Knowledge Transfer and Management
- Lessons Learnt Culture
- Use of Social Visual Media
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| 34. Business, Commercial and Risk Management |
- Business Impact and Resiliency
- Commercial Structures (Tax Royalty, Production Sharing Agreements, Joint Ventures, etc.)
- Cross Border Development and Production
- Economical, Commercial, and Political Risks
- Engaging and Managing Future Talent
- Enterprise Mobility
- Financing in Oil and Gas
- Government/Regulatory Framework and Incentives
- Labour Welfare
- Risk Assessment
- Strategic Resource Planning and Management in a Cyclical Industry
- Talent Retention and Management Workforce Diversity and Inclusion
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| 35. Molecule Management from Wellhead to Product Delivery |
- Adding Value to Molecules Through Downstream Opportunity
- Flexibility of Refining Operations and Bottoms Upgrades in Meeting Demands
- Refining Automation
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| 36. Saline and Hyper Saline Groundwater Treatment and Utilisation |
- Aquifer Numerical Modelling and Simulation
- Aquifer Test, Characterisation, and Hydrogeological Mapping
- CO2 Storage and Sequestration in Deep Saline Aquifers
- Groundwater Aquifer Sustainability and Protection
- Water-Rock Interactions and Oil-field Brines
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IR 4.0
| 37. Cloud Computing |
- Cloud Computing Security
- Cloud Infrastructure/Platforms/Services
- High Performance Computing (HPC)
- Private/Public/Multi/Hybrid Clouds Applications
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| 38. Big Data/Artificial Intelligence |
- Applications for the Oil and Gas Industry and Other Industries (Details for O&G domains)
- Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning/Deep Learning Applications for the Oil and Gas Industry and Other Industries
- Big Data Management/Analytics
- Data Engineering and Anonymisation
- Data Mining and Data Collection (Enabler for Data Analytics/AI)
- Data Security
- Edge Analytics
- Hybrid Data-Physics Modelling
- Practical ML Deployment/Lessons Learnt
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| 39. Robotics, Advanced Sensing, and the Internet of Things (IOT) |
- Automation and Mechanisation
- Digital Fields
- Digital Twins
- Distributed Fibre Sensing and Algorithms
- Distributed Sensing Networks
- Downhole Sensing and Mechatronics
- Drones and Robotics Applications in Oil and Gas
- Edge Computing and Remote Sensing
- High Temperature Electronics and Sensors
- IoT Applications in Oil and Gas
- Mobility
- Multiphysics Logging Tools
- Quantum Sensors
- Subsurface Photonics
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| 40. IR 4.0 Adoption and Scalability |
- AI Ethics
- Citizen Data Scientists
- Data Democratisation and Anonymisation
- Digital Transformation Strategy
- Human Factors Engineering in AI
- IR 4.0 Talent Development
- Project Collaboration Best Practices
- Subsurface Data Integration and Best Practices in Data Exchange (related to OSDU)
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| 41. Emerging Topics |
- Additive Manufacturing (3D Printing)
- Agile Prototyping
- Blockchain
- Cross Domain/Process Integration
- Cybersecurity for Operation Technology (OT) based on Artificial Intelligence
- DevOps/MLOps
- Hyper-Automation
- Immersive Technology (Augmented/Virtual/Mixed Reality)
- No Code Machine Learning (Auto Machine Learning)
- Quantum Computing
- Unconventional Computing (Quantum, Molecular, Cognitive)
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Sustainability
| 42. Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS), and Carbon Capture, Utilisation, and Storage (CCUS) |
- Bio Energy Carbon Capture and Storage (BBCCS)
- CCS in Aquifers
- CCUS and EOR
- Geomechanics for CCUS (Carbon Capture, Compression/Injection and Storage)
- Storage in Basalt
- Storage in Depleted Oil/Gas Reservoirs
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| 43. CO2 Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle |
- Advanced Materials
- CO2 to Chemicals
- CO2 to Synthetic Fuels
- CO2-Foam Drilling
- Conformance Control
- E-Fuels
- Fracking
- Leak Detection and Repair
- Supercritical CO2 in Industrial Processes
- Supercritical CO2 in Power Generation
- Zero Flaring
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| 44. Carbon Footprint Reduction Solutions/Processes |
- Direct Air Capture
- Efficient Carbon Management
- Efficient CO2 Capture Processes
- Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)
- Mobile CO2 Capture
- Nature Based CO2 Capture
- Oil/Water Separation and Water Shut-Off
- Reduce CO2 Emissions
- Water Cut Reduction Technologies—IOR, Downhole
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| 45. Sustainable / Green Energy |
- Bioenergy and Biofuels
- Decarbonisation and GHG Emissions Management and Control
- Emerging Green Energy Technologies
- Emerging Themes to Enhance Energy Efficiency
- Energy Efficient Designs Systems and Conservation Technologies
- Energy Saving Technologies and Systems
- Gas Storage
- Geothermal Energy
- Green Nanotechnology
- Green Power Systems
- Hydrogen Technologies
- Renewable Energy
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| 46. Environmental Issues and Solutions |
- Bioenergy and Bio-Fuels
- Life Cycle Analysis of Energy Sources (Solar Cells, Batteries, etc.)
- Produced Water Management and Disposal
- Produced Water Recycle and Reuse
- Produced Water Treatment
- The Food Energy Water (FEW) Nexus
- Waste Management
- Water Pollution and Control
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| 47. Policies, Strategies, and Governance |
- Green Energy Policies and Programmes
- Greenhouse Gas and Climate Change Policies
- Low Carbon Economy Strategies and Governance
- Sustainable Energy Management Policies
- The Circular Carbon Economy Framework
- The Economics of CCUS
- The Hydrogen Economy
- The Role of Governance and Regulations in Carbon Markets and Pricing
- Water Discharge Policies and Regulations
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| 48. Industry Transformation / New Energies |
- Collaboration across industries
- Maximising the technical knowledgebase of the O&G workforce
- Technical solutions towards new energies integration
- The role of Academia, Governments, industry, international organisations, and NGOs in the transforming process
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