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At the forefront of petroleum geoscience

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Convenors:

Caroline GillShell UK Limited

Matt BrettleStatoil Production UK

Jon GluyasUniversity of Durham

Cliff LovelockShell UK Limited

John UnderhillHeriot Watt University

Confirmed Keynote Speaker:

Al TuckerBrent Asset Manager, Shell

Advances in Production Geoscience as an enabler for maximising economic recovery and ensuring a future for the UKCS 5-7 June 2018Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen

Out of adversity comes opportunity. A significant change is required in the North Sea petroleum industry to keep it profitable and growing, and geoscience has the opportunity to lead the way in delivering this change. New plays, fields, technologies and alliances are required in order to increase recovery and reduce the cost of delivering hydrocarbons. In 2014 the Maximising Economic Recovery UK report suggested that 12-24bn barrels of oil equivalent remained to be produced from the North Sea. This conference aims to show how geoscience is helping to develop and recover as much of this remaining hydrocarbon as possible. It will showcase the range of solutions maximize economic recovery from the UKCS.

Specific themed sessions may include: • Near Field Exploration• New field developments• Short radius sidetracks• Infill drilling• Production from secondary reservoirs• The value of surveillance• Existing infrastructure - hosts for new opportunities,

making it last longer, novel maintenance, alternative uses (wind/CO2 disposal)

• Shallow gas (fuel source) and water (for injection)• Novel drilling technology as an enabler for difficult

geology• Exploiting difficult fluids• Use of new technology or first application of

technology to the UKCS• Enhanced Oil and Gas recovery• Adding value from co-produced fluids• Decommissioning

The focus of the meeting will be on Geoscience, Reservoir Engineering and Petrophysics with the recognition that successful integration across the subsurface and surface disciplines is at the heart of a successful shift in future fate of the UKCS.

Call for Abstracts:Please submit paper contribution to abstracts@geolsoc.org.uk and copied to caroline.gill@shell.com by 15 December 2017.

For further information please contact:Sarah Woodcock, The Geological Society, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1J 0BG. Tel: +44 (0)20 7434 9944

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