Breakfast/Luncheon Program

Monday, 1 May
Breakfast/Luncheon

0730 - 0900

A Fresh Look at the Gulf of Mexico: How Oil and Gas Companies Can Adapt to the New Challenges of Operating Safely and Efficiently in the Deepwater

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0730 - 0900

New Business Opportunities in Brazil

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0730 - 0900

The Opportunity of a Lifetime: Assessing Mexico's Deepwater Auction and What is Next

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1215 - 1345

Brazil Oil and Gas Opportunities, Pre-Salt and Beyond

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1215 - 1345

Moho Nord, An Innovation Showcase

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Session Chairpersons
Philippe Charlez, Senior Technical Advisor, Total SA

Speakers
Andre Goffart, Senior VP, Development and Support to Operations, Total

Sponsored By
Society of Petroleum Engineers

The Moho Nord project is located 75 kilometers off the coast of Pointe-Noire in the Republic of the Congo in waters up to 1,200 meters deep. It is a new step in Total’s technological history to safer, more efficient, and more environmentally responsible operations. This oil development, launched concurrently with Moho Phase 1b in 2013, will add a further 100,000 boe/d of capacity. An innovation showcase, Moho Nord combines two floating units. A 60-meter-high TLP (Tension Leg Platform) supporting drilling facilities, surface wellheads and production topsides is paired with a FPU (Floating Production Unit) supplied by a subsea production system. It is a first for Total in West Africa. The advantage is that it can process two incompatible types of oil from separate Albian and Miocene reservoirs. In addition, Moho Nord’s highly viscous oil is extracted using two multiphase subsea pumps - the most powerful ever installed at such depths. And then the project pushed the envelope some more. To optimize drilling from the TLP, Moho Nord came up with an innovative technology that can move the drilling riser on the surface using a slider system, without halting operations. This innovation enables to bring the platform on stream faster while continuing to drill, more safely and for a shorter period of time, saving several millions of dollars on the drilling campaign. The Moho Nord development is also a significant environmental advance, combining the best available technologies including, an all-electric FPU generating all the energy the installation needs; produced water treatment and reinjection with zero discharges into the ocean; and, most important, no routine flaring, aided by a cold flare system. As part of the project, as in all countries where Total operates, Moho Nord promotes local content by encouraging development of the regional industrial base and supports long-term projects focused on education, health, economic development and the environment.

1215 - 1345

Kuwait Upstream Challenges: Strategic Directions 2030

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Tuesday, 2 May
Breakfast/Luncheon

0730 - 0900

Risk-based Cybersecurity and Measurable Effects on Offshore Assets

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0730 - 0900

Cost Reduction in Offshore Areas: A New Operator Led Framework for Delivering Focused Research and Development

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0730 - 0900

Industry Breakfast: Regional Developments in the Caspian: Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, and the Turkish Energy Corridor

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1215 - 1345

Financing Deepwater Development

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1215 - 1345

Deepwater Still Works!

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1215 - 1345

Petrobras Opportunities in a New Oil and Gas Scenario

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Wednesday, 3 May
Breakfast/Luncheon

0730 - 0900

UK North Sea: Strategy and Innovations to Late Life and Decommissioning

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0730 - 0900

Offshore Energy Development: What Comes Next

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0730 - 0900

PetroVietnam: Addressing Today’s Challenges and Planning for the Future

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0730 - 0900

Industry Breakfast: Mauritania and Senegal’s New Offshore Gas Developments

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1215 - 1345

Combat the Downturn with Disruptive Innovation and Agile Technology Maturation

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Session Chairpersons
Hani Elshahawi, Game Changer, Shell\|Kenneth Foote, Lead Researcher, Woods Hole Oceanographic

Session Moderators
Hani Elshahawi, Game Changer, Shell

Speakers
Patrick Sullivan, President and CEO, Oceanit

Sponsored By
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Oceanic and Engineering Society

This talk will discuss the ‘Mind to Market’ approach pioneered which brings disruptive thinking, science and engineering to create new knowledge and technology that impacts humans and society. The talk will highlight the art of disruptive innovation that enables navigation of the unknown, consistently finding the edges of thinking. A disruptive innovation process typically begins by internally asking fundamental science or engineering questions. For example, “can we turn cement into a sensor,” which became the basis of Nanite™ for downhole sensing and the internet of things. Or “can we control combustion on a nano-scale,” which became the underpinning of a new category referred to as “Nano-Energetics” that has yielded a host of new applications, like solid-rocket propellants or cancer therapies. Another example is the “prosthetic brain – can we bring a more normal quality of life to individuals with brain injury, stroke or Alzheimer’s?” Work on the prosthetic brain has fueled research breakthroughs in magnetoencephalography (MEG) brain sensors and strong artificial intelligence, we refer to as “anthronoetic artificial intelligence.” These innovations progress through a cascading process of Ideas, Programs, Projects and eventually Products. On this journey of discovery, we examine and develop many applications and ways to utilize insights, inevitably creating intellectual property and platform technologies. Since the Idea and Program phases have significant technical risk, we typically engage corporate partners somewhere between the Programs and Projects phases, where risk is low and we have demonstrable evidence of a disruptive innovation. This talk will also highlight some of the examples of disruptive innovation in the Oil and Gas world taking deep science to field deployment through an agile technology maturation program.

1215 - 1345

Offshore Energy Development: Bureau of Ocean Energy Management Perspective

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1215 - 1345

Secular Forces in Motion: Shaping the Industry to Come

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1215 - 1345

The Next Five Years of the Mexican Energy Reform: Actions, Challenges, and Opportunities

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Thursday, 4 May
Breakfast/Luncheon

0730 - 0900

Texas Board of Professional Engineers: Professional Practice Update/Ethics

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0730 - 0900

Center for Offshore Safety: Managing the Human Side of Safety – Strengthening Offshore Safety Culture

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1215 - 1345

National Offshore Wind Strategy: Facilitating the Development of the Offshore Wind Industry in the U.S.

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1215 - 1345

Center for Offshore Safety: Perspectives Regarding Safety, Safety Management, and Future Regulatory Activity from Senior Regulatory Leadership

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Sponsoring Organization Key

AAPG – American Association of Petroleum Geologists
AIChE – American Institute of Chemical Engineers
ASCE – American Society of Civil Engineers
ASME – American Society of Mechanical Engineers
IBP – Brazilian Petroleum, Gas and Biofuels Institute
IEEE-OES – Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Oceanic and Engineering Society
MTS – Marine Technology Society
SEG – Society of Exploration Geophysicists
SME – Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration
SNAME – Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers
SPE – Society of Petroleum Engineers
TMS – The Minerals, Metals, and Materials Society