The Industry Technology Facilitator (ITF) is seeking proposals on the oil and gas innovations which can make the biggest impacts in transforming costs and increasing efficiencies for its Technology Showcase 2016.
The event, held in collaboration with Oil & Gas UK, comprises both a conference and an exhibition on Wednesday, March 9 2016 at the Aberdeen Exhibition & Conference Centre.
It has the support of a number of organisations including the Oil & Gas Authority along with global operators and service companies that are hosting technical sessions including Shell, Baker Hughes, TOTAL, AMEC, Centrica, EnQuest and GE Oil & Gas.
Dr Patrick O’Brien, CEO of ITF said: “The role of technology in addressing cost pressure challenges should not be underestimated; there are many examples where innovations have made marginal fields more profitable or delivered efficiencies to squeeze more life from older assets. The Showcase provides the opportunity to hear directly from operators about their current challenges and needs and discover the solutions being engineered to directly target those problems.”
Abstracts are being sought from technology developers addressing key focus areas:
- Technologies for Well Plugging and Abandonment
- Well Construction and Drilling Automation
- Asset Integrity, Reliability and Production Efficiency
- Technologies for Marginal Developments and Small Pools
The morning plenary session on ‘technology’s role in transforming costs and increasing efficiency now’ will focus on North Sea infrastructure and current plans and the second session on ‘changing the technology paradigm’ will profile speakers from alternative industries sharing their wisdom and experiences.
Oonagh Werngren Oil & Gas UK’s operations director, said: “In what continues to be a lower oil price world, it is vitally important that the oil and gas Industry demonstrates that it can address cost and efficiency through the development and implementation of both new and existing technology. The Technology Showcase is designed specifically to draw those innovators with bright ideas together with industry to address key challenges it faces in areas including drilling, ongoing operations and the decommissioning and abandonment of wells. With clear challenges in the room there is an opportunity for supply chain companies to offer their ideas and innovations in an effective way.”
Exhibiting at the 2016 Technology Showcase will give technology innovators the opportunity to be part of an industry-supported, collaborative event that will showcase their pioneering technologies and R&D capabilities to key individuals from operating companies and strategic industry groups.
Technology developers and academics interested in speaking at the event should submit an abstract by Friday, January 8.
For further information on the conference programme, sponsorship opportunities, to book exhibition spaces and view the recap video visit: http://showcase.itfenergy.com