Production Operations

• New and improved artificial lift
• Water availability, treatment, and disposal
• Measurement/metering
• Facilities design trends and improvements
• Dynamic slugging
• Latest trends in equipment and processes
• Cost and operating expense control
• Chemical injection
• Failure rate mitigation
• Multiwell pad design trends and improvements
• Real time monitoring and optimization
• Drilling and Completions
• Overcoming ultralong-reach lateral challenges
• Trends in completion practice
• Multistage completion system trends and improvements
• Casing string design challenges
• Drilling advances
• Integrated Completion and Production Monitoring Methods
• Downhole and surface microseismic monitoring
• Microdeformation monitoring
• Near-wellbore distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) and distributed temperature sensing
• Downhole pressure monitoring
• Integrating multiple technologies
• Geochemistry surveillance for frac height characterization
• Liquids-Rich Basins: Practice and Activity
• Play-specific challenges and solutions
• Overcoming infrastructure hurdles
• Case histories
• Reservoir Engineering in Low Permeability Plays
• 3D modeling of ultra-low permeability plays
• Oil-in-place estimates
• Reservoir characterization
• EUR and performance prediction
• Sweet spot identification
• Drawdown management
• Lateral and stage spacing
• Stimulation Design
• Optimizing the stimulation of low-permeability reserves
• Integrating geomechanics with engineering in stimulation design
• Diversion systems to improve placement effectiveness
• Fracturing materials (fluids, proppants, and additives)
• Strategic Decision Making
• Impact of a reduced margin environment
• Integrating multiple disciplines
• Increasing EUR with NPV optimization
• Mergers and acquisitions
• Multivariate analysis
• Tactics and Equipment
• Infrastructure process improvements
• Infrastructure equipment solutions
• Improvements in safety, spills, and emissions
• Method selection for the well life cycle