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Panel Sessions

Monday, 7 December • 1430–1600 hours

Al Majlis Hall

SESSION 1: ENVIRONMENTAL SOLUTIONS AND SUSTAINABILITY (FLARING REDUCTION, CCS, DRILLING TECHNOLOGY, EFFICIENCY IMPROVEMENT)

Sustainability in the oil and gas industry is also about developing energy resources in environmentally responsible and acceptable ways and the full recognition that our industry is an essential part of the solutions in curbing local pollutions and in reducing GHG emissions. This panel session will discuss the latest challenges and technological developments, best practices and novel solutions in E&P operations addressing:

  • Global carbon management initiatives.
  • Footprint minimisation in drilling and completion operations.
  • Flaring reduction / elimination during testing and production.
  • Latest technological developments in Cleaner fuels such in Fischer Tropsch synthesis and gasification processes.
  • Insights on the rapidly developing marketplace for industrial large scale CO2 capture and geological storage CCS - (logistics, costs and re-use for EOR).
  • Opportunity for our industry to play a major part in driving continuing progress to meet the climate change challenge.

Session Chairpersons:

  • Ali Al-Hauwaj, Manager Exploration Department, Saudi Aramco
  • Ibtisam Al-Riyami, Corporate Planning Manager, Petroleum Development Oman           

Speakers:

  • David Eyton, Group Vice President Research and Technology, BP
  • John Gale, General Manager, Greenhouse Gas R&D Programme, International Energy Agency
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  • Marco Rasi, Vice President Engineering, ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company 
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  • Mohamed Husain, Deputy Chairman and Deputy Managing Director Planning & Gas, Kuwait Oil Company
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Tuesday, 8 December • 0830–1000 hours

Al Majlis Hall

SESSION 2: GLOBAL WORKFORCE CAPABILITY AND CAPACITY

It is always difficult to predict the workforce and skills demand in an atmosphere of uncertainty. History, however, has taught us that fostering and retaining skilled and experienced staff always pays off in sustaining the industry growth. The turmoil our industry went through in the last few months has been a   tough test on our capacity to keep attracting, retaining and training young talents. This panel session will discuss:

  • Lessons learned from the past how staff reduction has impacted the safety record and maintenance.
  • Raising the awareness of high school and university students that our industry existed for a century and will exist for the next one.
  • Sustaining the support of the academic institutions and how to efficiently handle large academic initiatives (QSTP, Masdar, Kaust, etc.).
  • Strategies that the industry is implementing to ensure successful recruiting and training of graduates to inject sufficient new blood in our workforce in the years to come.
  • The challenge of assuring the competency of staff to sustain production from existing businesses and to drive human progress

Session Chairpersons:

  • Ali R. Al-Jarwan, General Manager, Abu Dhabi Marine Operating Company
  • Hashim Mustafa El-Rifaai, Chairman and Managing Director, Kuwait Oil Development Company

Speakers:

1345–1515 hours

Al Majlis Hall

SESSION 3: GLOBAL GAS OUTLOOK: NEW GAS CHAINS

Natural gas is expected to be the fastest-growing major fuel source, growing more than 50 percent by 2030, when it will have overtaken coal as the second-biggest global fuel source. Much of the demand for natural gas will come from the power-generation sector, reflecting the fact that gas is not only an efficient fuel source, but has important environmental advantages as well since it produces fewer emissions than oil or coal. The steady rise in natural gas demand in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific will require increases in imports to those regions and will be met by liquefied natural gas (LNG) imports, re-gasification facilities, adequate shipping and extensive pipeline infrastructure (largely from Russia and the Caspian region). This panel session will share their view on the future direction of gas markets and discuss how:

  • The gas business will respond to the current economic downturn.
  • Technology can significantly transform and enlarge non-conventional sources of supply to world markets such as tight gas and shale gas as well as increase LNG mobility through floating LNGs and increase efficiency via novel cryogenic methods removing CO2and H2S.
  • Development of the global market for liquefied natural gas, LNG, can become a clear demonstration of the power of innovation.
  • International partnerships are essential to fostering technologies that increase supplies, strengthen security and reduce environmental impacts.
  • Evolving commercial models and investment in LNG and infrastructure would meet growing energy needs via gas export opportunities for Gulf countries and sour gas innovative solutions.
  • Strengthening global energy security can be achieved by helping to diversify supplies.
  • Production of unconventional gas (in USA and outside) will impact the worldwide gas market, and particularly LNG.

Session Chairpersons:

  • Hamad Rashid Al-Mohannadi, Managing Director and CEO, RasGas Company
  • Arshad Sufi, Vice President Middle East, BG Group

Speakers:

Wednesday, 9 December • 0830–1000 hours

SESSION 4: RENEWAL OF RESERVES: EXPLORATION, IMPROVED RECOVERY AND UNCONVENTIONAL

Despite the growing interest in alternative energy, fossil fuels are expected to remain the predominant source of the world’s energy for many decades to come. Consequently, even with the current economic downturn, the energy industry will need to continue to deliver oil and gas at an increased rate, and, in addition, to develop innovative technologies to deploy them quickly and in an environmentally friendly way.

The industry’s record for recovering oil is just over 30% of the in place volume. Raising this to 45% would add over 500 billion barrels to world recoverable volumes, equalling nearly two decades of production at current rates.

Increasing hydrocarbon recovery in existing fields and developing future energy resources is becoming more challenging, energy intensive and expensive.

Tapping new resources with such serious constraints highlighted above can possibly be achieved by integrating the approaches of audacious exploration, efficient IOR/EOR, and a sustainable unconventional exploitation.

This, on its own, will require even more sophisticated technological and project management expertises, together with stable investments along all the value chain, from R&D to Development phases devising funding models able to cope with the very volatile economic environment.

This panel will share views on:

  • How will exploration evolve to deliver?
  • How to successfully apply Improved and Enhanced Oil recovery techniques.
  • How to increase the production efficiency and reliability to reduce the decline and extend the life of the fields.
  • Opportunities for exploiting the unconventional resources basket: Heavy and Ultra Heavy Oil, Oil and Tar sands, Shale oil and gas, highly sour gas reservoirs and coal bed methane.
  • Technology development and advances that would explore and access efficiently these resources in an environment friendly way.

Session Chairpersons:

  • Federico Arisi Rota, Senior Vice President Exploration, Petroleum Engineering & Unconventional, Eni E&P
  • Khalid Al-Rumaihi, Manager Exploration and PSA Oil Development, Qatar Petroleum

Speakers:

  • Abdulla A. Al-Naim, Vice President Exploration, Saudi Aramco
  • Hashim Hashim, Deputy Managing Director, South and East Kuwait, Kuwait Oil Company
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  • Patrick Pouyanné, Senior Vice President Strategy, Business and Growth, Total
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  • Raoul M. Restucci, Executive Vice President, Middle East and South Asia, Shell E&P International
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