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MESSAGE FROM
THE CHAIRPERSON
Dear Industry Colleagues,
On behalf of the Society of Petroleum Engineers, and the Programme Committee, we are delighted to announce the second
edition of the Kuwait Oil and Gas Show and Conference (KOGS) that will take place 12–15 October 2015.
The event is held under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Jaber Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah, Prime Minister of
the State of Kuwait, and chaired by Nizar Al-Adsani, Chief Executive Officer of Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC). The
Chairman of the Executive Committee is Hashim S. Hashim, Chief Executive Officer of Kuwait Oil Company.
Based on the great success of the first edition of this event, KOGS 2015 incorporates a large-scale international gathering of
exhibitors and a broad-spectrum technical conference, encompassing the up-, mid-, and down-stream sectors of the oil and
gas industry.
With the theme “Future Hydrocarbon Resources: Innovations, Technology and Opportunities”, KOGS fosters an
intensive programme that will aim to stimulate and facilitate the international and regional petroleum sector by focusing
on technology, engineering and the opportunities facing the complex challenges of the current oil exploration, production,
processing, refining, transport, and marketing in the world, where advanced techniques, non-conventional strategies, and
optimised and enhanced processes are needed. The multidisciplinary conference is envisioned to be a platform for oil and
gas professionals, who are involved in both the technical and non-technical functions within the industry. Together, the
conference and exhibition will form the single biggest gathering of the oil and gas industry in Kuwait. Provide attendees
the opportunity to learn from your experience and, share best practices by submitting a technical paper proposal for
consideration before 2 February 2015.
We anticipate a highly successful and engaging technical programme and look forward to your valued participation.
Regards,
Hosnia Hashim
Conference Programme Chairperson
Vice President–Operations, Kuwait Foreign Petroleum Exploration Company
KOG 2015 COMMITTEES
KOGS 2015
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Conference Chairperson
Nizar Al Adsani, Kuwait Petroleum Corporation
Executive Committee Chairperson
Hashem Hashem, Kuwait Oil Company
Conference Programme Chairperson
Hosnia Hashim, Kuwait Foreign Petroleum Exploration Company
Programme Co-Chairpersons
Lionel Levha, Total
Mohamed Al Marri, Chevron
Host Committee Chairperson
Khalid Al Assousi, Kuwait Petroleum Corporation
Conference Coordinator
Maria Capello, Kuwait Oil Company
A. Salim David Khemakhem, ZADCO
Ali Abdullah, Kuwait National Petroleum Company
Ali Al Shammari, Kuwait Gulf Oil Company
Anwar Salman Khalaf, National Oil and Gas Authority
Badria Farhad, Kuwait Oil Company
Calvin Mathews, WorleyParsons
Christopher McDonald, Petrofac
Intisaar Al Kindy, Petroleum Development Oman
Jose Pereira, Partex
Khalid Al Asousi, Kuwait National Petroleum Company
Khaled Nouh, Baker Hughes
Mohammad Al Zamanan, Kuwait Petroleum Corporation
Mohammed Al Mutairi, Kuwait National Petroleum Company
Mohammad Husain, Equate
Marwan Moufarrej, Schlumberger
Oswaldo Rueda, Fluor
Shaikh Mohamed Al Khalifa, AEM
Shukri Al Mahrous, Kuwait National Petroleum Company
Tarek Khalil, Weatherford
Vugar Mammadov, Halliburton
Walid Al Nader, Kuwait Shell
KOGS 2015
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Conference Chairperson
Nizar Al Adsani, Kuwait Petroleum Corporation
Executive Committee Chairperson
Hashem Hashem, Kuwait Oil Company
Conference Programme Chairperson
Hosnia Hashim, Kuwait Foreign Petroleum Exploration Company
Programme Co-Chairpersons
Lionel Levha, Total
Mohamed Al Marri, Chevron
Host Committee Chairperson
Khalid Al Assousi, Kuwait Petroleum Corporation
Conference Coordinator
Maria Capello, Kuwait Oil Company
Abdulla Al Awadhi, Kuwait Oil Company
Abdullah Fahad Al Ajmi, Kuwait National Petroleum Company
Ahmed Al Kharaz, Kuwait Oil Company
Ahmed Khalaf, Halliburton
Ali Garrouch, Kuwait University
Anwar Nazzal, Baker Hughes
Anwar Al Mutlaq, Shell
Bader Aman, Halliburton
Badria AbdulRahman, Kuwait Oil Company
Christopher McDonald, Petrofac
Daniel Palmer, GlassPoint
Fowzia Abdullah, Kuwait University
Ghada Al Amer, Kuwait Foreign Petroleum Exploration Company
Hassan Al Shammari, Kuwait Oil Company
Hossam Mesbah, Weatherford
Hussain Al Khayat, Kuwait University
Jamal Al Humoud, Kuwait Oil Company
Jan Paul, OMV E&P GmbH
Jawad Azeem, Calsep FZ-LLC
Jonathan Spanswick, WorleyParsons
Khalid Al Khayyat, Kuwait National Petroleum Company
Khlood Al-Mutairy, Kuwait Petroleum Corporation
Klaus Mueller, Shell
Lynda Memiche, Baker Hughes
Malcolm Pritchard, Fluor
Marcos Roberto, Total
Mohamed Al Shatti, Kuwait Petroleum Corporation
Mohamed Hassan, Schlumberger
Mohammed Al Otaibi, Kuwait Oil Company
Moudi Al Ajmi, Kuwait Oil Company
Musaed Al Rasheed, Kuwait Oil Company
Nasser Al Attar , Kuwait Oil Company
Raj Rajan, Alberta Innovates Technology Futures
Saleh Al-Ghamdi, Chevron
Sami Al-Juhaim, Kuwait Oil Company
Suad Al Radwan, Kuwait National Petroleum Company
Waleed Al-Khamis, Kuwait Oil Company
Yasir Hajri, Petroleum Development Oman
PAPER PROPOSAL SUBMISSION DEADLINE : 2 FEBRUARY 2015
PAPER SUBMISSION TOPICS
Records from over four thousand years ago
suggest that petroleum taken in buckets from
pitch pits in Persia were used by the elite in
society for its medicinal properties and for
lighting. From this humble beginning, the
demand for oil and its associated products
has increased as the world’s population has
expanded exponentially, with a demand
of energy predominantly related to the
transportation sector. However, it is broadly
recognised that production capacity is unlikely
to be able to keep pace with the energy demand
forecasts, particularly over the next 5 years.
In recent times, the evolving nature of the
market and the significantly increasing
project costs, has led to a decline in return on
investment for oil producers. This fact, coupled
with the impact of the ‘financial crisis’ has led
to a slowdown in capital investment in the oil
industry. The need to exploit and maximise the
benefits to be gained from oil reserves must
therefore be combined with optimum solutions
to enable the extraction of oil, its processing, and
delivery, with the ultimate aim of meeting the
predicted demand.
The challenge to be addressed is to find cost
effective ways of ‘improving time to market’ of
oil products. In essence we are looking for the
modern day equivalent of the instant delivery of
a ‘bucket of pitch’ to meet demand.
Current exploration and production have left
the “easy oil” as a thing of the past, from the
standpoint of finding as well as producing the
resource. Hence, there is an ever increasing
need for new and innovative technologies to
find and produce the resources needed in
today’s world. The research and technology
development enable the paramount
breakthroughs and the innovations that will
allow to bring new resources into production,
and to produce them more efficiently.
Innovation and subsequent development of
these new technologies will require a paradigm
shift in the approach of the future. An ecosystem
needs to be developed and fostered involving
various stakeholders and agents, that allows
the incubation of ideas, that through research
and development departments can progress to
prototypes and workflows which can then be
tested in the laboratory followed by practical
application in field tests and trials for proof of
concept and ultimately commercialisation and
wide scale deployment.
This topic will encompass the case histories,
stories of success, and envisioned paths related
to managing the innovation in oil and gas
through R&D and technology development by
all actors involved: academia, research centres,
technology organisations, and operating and
service companies related to the up-, mid- and
down-stream sectors, with a special focus on the
Middle East.
successes, and learnt lessons of the industry
in the strengthening of relationships with local
communities, its own workforce and the HSSE
matters.
Maximising resources for incrementing
production levels, and even to maintain
production plateaus is an enormous challenge
for the petroleum industry. Additionally, the new
difficulties that arise from the natural depletion
of reservoirs, continued use of old technologies
and evaluation techniques further compound
the challenges.
Unlocking the workforce capabilities
Talent handling: selection, hiring, retention,
training, and leadership training
Diversity
Women and youth development and
empowerment
Experienced workforce: challenges and
opportunities
New and innovative processing methods, drilling
techniques, geophysical studies, and reservoir
static and dynamic modelling are required to
produce, enhance, and monitor the production
of hydrocarbons from complex reservoirs
conditions, with augmented water-cut and
aging facilities. Detailed reservoir and crude
characterisation studies, enhanced oil recovery
(EOR), and sub-surface modelling case studies
are core to the success and advancement of
the oil and gas industry. The need to improve
methods and technologies for ultimate
hydrocarbon recovery is relentless and would
continue to grow as the petroleum industry
moves further into “not easy oil”.
Effective CSR
Enhanced trust and credibility strategies
Internal and external communications
New initiatives in CSR
This topic will address all these aspects with
respect to existing and future challenges
to sustain the growth and sustainability of
production profiles. Particular emphasis will
be placed in showcasing successful cases and
also learnt lessons related to current and future
production challenges in giant fields.
Energy, ecosystems, and people are
intrinsically interdependent. The close links
established among these factors have to be
understood, enhanced and integrated, to
enable the very sustainability of the oil and
gas industry. Furthermore, the sustainability
landscape is broad and rapidly evolving
towards greater standardisation processes,
driven by a worldwide interest in greener and
safer procedures in our industry, as well as
incremental improvements in the internal
enhancement of the workforce and the liaisons
and support to the surroundings communities.
The oil and gas industry is faced with
transcendent strategic challenges, related to the
environment, health and safety risks, and its
socio-economic impacts. This topic aims to
showcase the most recent case histories,
HSSE (Environment, Safety)
CO2/CCS
Green technology
Waste management
The oil and gas industry is evolving and
transforming, forcing companies to reassess
strategies, operations and business models, and
make difficult decisions targeting a better future.
The strong margins enjoyed by the downstream
sector from 2000 to 2008 became a thing of the
past in the global recession, from which many
producers as well as refiners are still struggling
to recover. Meanwhile, petrochemical industry
is expanding benefiting from recent market
developments and game changers.
The oil and gas industry encompasses a range
of different activities and processes which jointly
contribute to the transformation of underlying
petroleum resources into products valued by
customers. These different activities are inherently
linked with each other. The downstream is then
faced with several challenges that are pushing
for significant trade patterns’ changes. These
include among others; the shift of the center of
demand towards emerging markets especially in
Asia, increased sensitivity to higher prices, varying
seasonality, subsiding and heavily controlled
retail prices in many developing countries, tighter
products specifications to meet environmental
needs, rising maintenance costs, severe
guidelines into reduction of contamination as
well as emissions, old refineries as well as surplus
capacity in mature markets, fuel efficiency, new
products avails from GTL as well as new exporters
like USA, and the emergence of some NOCs as
new super-effective and international players in
the industry.
CALL FOR PAPERS TOPICS
These recent developments have supported the
drive towards creating synergies to push efficiency
and other industry best practices in down-stream’s
various activities to become more apparent, as
investors, stakeholders, and the final consumers
demand more, whereas the tight profitability is
further affected by the environmental, political,
geographical, and economical restrictions that
follow a global incremental trend.
This topic will address how the industry is
leveraging the integrated business model, to
operate across the oil and gas value chain, from
exploration to marketing and transportation, and
focus on the new refining wave expected from
the Middle East and Asia in the next few years,
that will exert mounting pressure on margins
and trade forcing the global refining industry to
establish synergies and partnerships across the
full downstream chain, to create value, reduce
risks, and optimise operations.
This topic will also showcase recent progress
achieved and synergies envisioned or
implemented for:
Petrochemical
Refinery
Gas-to-Liquids
Power Generation
Transportation
Commercialisation
Distribution
Shale gas, oil, and condensates. Coalbed
methane. Tight gas and complex gas. Heavy oil.
These terms were referred as unconventional
resources for the oil and gas industry not so long
ago, but are now part of the industry daily targets
and activities.
In fact, interest in developing unconventional gas
and oil has accelerated to unprecedented levels
in recent years. From an emerging resource 10
years ago, and a mostly an overlooked resource
20 years ago, unconventional gas and oil are
now the new conventional resources that have
become core business of many large independent
producers and a growing number of major
operating companies.
For all of the described reservoirs and resources,
formerly called unconventional, major oilfield
players are systematically evaluating each
unique project, tapping into the people, global
infrastructure, processes, and partnerships it
takes to successfully and economically overcome
the challenges posed by extreme temperatures,
pressures, depths, and other “unconventional”
conditions, as many times the unconventional
aspect of these resources is their location or
specific characteristics.
A. Mega Project: Management and Execution
B. Value Chain Optimisation
C. Increase in Cost of Projects
D. Planning as a Key Element in Success
E. Collaboration and Partnerships
F. Project, Facilities, and Construction (PFC)
A. Focus on R&D
B. Digital Oil Fields/Smart Fields
C. Piloting New Technology
D. Product Innovation
E. Exploiting Innovation
F. Showcasing R&D Around the World
A. High Water Cut Issues
B. Revamping Aging Facilities
C. Water Management; from Well Site to Facilities to
Export
D. EOR
E. Subsurface Modelling of Giant Fields
F. Geo Physical Innovations
G. Drilling Challenges
H. Rock Properties (Petro-Physics)
I. Reservoir Characterisation: Case Histories
J. Offshore Drilling Challenges
K. Well Surveillance for the Future
L. Carbonate Reservoirs
M. Maximising Ultimate Recovery
N. ERD (Extended Reach Drilling)
O. Exploring Mature Basins
P. New Tools for Well and Field Monitoring
A. CO2/CCS
B. Unlocking the Manpower Capabilities
C. People and Talent (Development, Competency, Skill,
Women Empowerment, and Youth Development)
D. Local Content in Country Value
E. Green Technology
F. HSSE, CSR, and Sustainability
G. Processes and Workflow
H. Waste Management
I. New Training Trends
J. The Leadership Factor Of The Oil and Gas Equation
K. Attrition and Retention Strategies
L. Sustainability in a Global Context
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A. Targeting Refining and Petrochemical Integration
B. Transportation and Marketing Challenges
C. Collaboration in Petrochemicals
A. Heavy Oil and Extra Heavy Oil
B. Fracking
C. Shale Gas
D. Shale Oil
E. Tight Gas
F. From Cole to Olefines
G. HP/HT Reservoirs
H. Country and Project Case Studies
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SUBMIT A PAPER
Technical and poster presentations for the
conference will be selected from paper
proposals submitted to the conference
programme committee. Early submission
is particularly important to ensure that the
committee members have ample time to
review the paper proposals. Late paper
proposals will not be accepted.
Authors are strongly encouraged to submit
their paper proposals electronically at
www.kogs2015.com
PAPER PROPOSAL
SUBMISSION DEADLINE :
2 FEBRUARY 2015
KUWAIT’S
INDUSTRY OUTLOOK
Kuwait is one of the most compelling industry
environments in the region. An OPEC member,
it houses the world’s sixth largest oil reserves
and is the fourth largest exporter of total
oil products. Production currently stands
at approximately 2.5 million bpd. By 2020,
Kuwait aims to reach a production capacity
of 4 million bpd and has announced a series
of large-scale ventures to make this happen.
Kuwait is also focusing more on natural
gas exploration and development to meet
domestic demand, and is planning one of the
largest downstream projects in the Middle East
at Al Zour.
PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Technical and poster presentations for the conference will be selected from paper proposals submitted to the conference programme committee.
Early submission is particularly important to ensure that the committee members have ample time to review the paper proposals. Late paper
proposals will not be accepted.
ABSTRACT CONTENT
COMMERCIALISM
A proper review of your abstract requires that it contain adequate
information on which to make a judgment. Written in English
and containing 450 words, paper proposals should include the
following:
Enter a title that is concise, yet descriptive of the primary content
and application of the proposed paper.
Objectives/Scope: Please list the objectives and/or scope of the
proposed paper. (25-75 words)
Briefly explain your overall
approach, including your methods, procedures and process.
(75-100 words)
Please describe the results,
observations and conclusions of the proposed paper.
(100-200 words)
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)
TECHNICAL CATEGORIES
Use the topics to indicate the topic that best describes your paper
proposal. A primary choice is required; however, a secondary
choice is optional. Paper proposals are evaluated on the basis
of the information supplied on the paper proposal form in
accordance with the following criteria:
The proposed paper or poster must contribute to petroleum
technology or be of immediate interest to the oil and gas
industry, and should contain significant new knowledge or
experience in the oil and gas industry.
Data in the paper proposal must be technically correct.
The proposed paper or poster may present information about
equipment and tools to be used in exploration and production.
Such paper proposals must show the definite applications
and limitations of such equipment and should avoid undue
commercialism and extensive use of trade names.
The substance of the proposed paper or poster must not
have been published previously in trade journals or in other
professional or technical journals.
Use of such terms will result in careful scrutiny by the
programme committee in evaluating paper proposals and the
presence of commercialism in the paper or poster may result in it
being withdrawn from the conference programme.
GUIDELINES FOR ACCEPTED PAPER PROPOSALS
Your paper proposal could be accepted for presentation in a
technical or poster session.
Authors whose abstracts are accepted will be required to provide
a manuscript for inclusion in the conference proceedings.
SPE operate a “no paper, no podium” policy whereby if a
manuscript with the associated forms is not received by the due
date, it will be withdrawn from the programme and not allowed
to be presented.
Detailed instructions on the preparation of manuscripts and
presentations will be sent to corresponding author of each
accepted paper.
COPYRIGHT
All authors of papers or posters presented at the conference will
be required to complete and submit a copyright release form
to the Society of Petroleum Engineers or submit the copyright
exemption form where applicable.
SUBMITTAL
Obtain the necessary clearance for the proposed paper from
your management.
Submit your paper proposal online. It is critical that all
information requested on the form be provided in full and in the
order requested.
Any issues concerning clearance should be
outlined when the paper proposal is submitted.
An agreement to present a paper at this SPE conference carries an obligation to participate in the event.
Manuscripts will be required. Authors whose paper proposals are accepted will be expected to provide a
manuscript for inclusion in the Conference Proceedings. Authors who do not submit a manuscript and the
associated forms by the due date will be withdrawn from the programme and not allowed to present.
PAPER PROPOSAL SUBMISSION DEADLINE : 2 FEBRUARY 2015
Society of Petroleum Engineers
2015
K GS
2nd Kuwait Oil & Gas Show and Conference
Paper proposals can be submitted in the following ways:
(a) Recommended: Online at www.kogs2015.com (select call for papers tab).
(b) Send an email including all the author and paper information outlined below and attach your abstract as a Word document. Send to [email protected].
Note that the abstract must not exceed 450 words and you must indicate a technical category to which the paper belongs.
If the paper is selected for the programme, the information submitted on this form will be published in the registration brochure. Please type or carefully print the
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