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Opening Remarks, by KOC CEO, Mr. Jamal Jafaar
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Welcome Address, by DCEO (NK), Ms. Badria
Abdul Raheem
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“5th Edition of a
Successful Experience: KOC Sharing Best Practices Conference”
by Conference Chair, M FD (NK), Mr. Bader
Al-Munaifi
“Challenges,
Successes and Beyond in the current oil scenario”
Proposed
Panelists:
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Panelist 1: KOC CEO
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Panelist 4: KNPC CEO
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Panelist 2: Shell (TBD)
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Panelist 3: BP (TBD)
Moderator: M FD (SEK)
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PIP Practices Implementation
Projects: Early Wins
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PIP 1: Data & Knowledge Management
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PIP 2: Reservoir Management
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PIP 3: Well & Reservoir Surveillance
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Pip 4: Resource & Uncertainty Management
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PIP 5: Well Type Selection &
Delivery Optimization
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PIP 6: Production & Development
Optimization
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PANEL 1
Collaboration of the Oil Industry
with Private Sector: Wins and Challenges in the Middle East
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PANEL 2
Empowerment and Self-Empowerment of Women in Engineering
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Soft Skills Workshop 1
Digital Prestige and Networking: How
to boost your Professional network and presence on line (aimed to G16/17)
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Soft Skills Workshop 2
Business Etiquette: What works at the corporate
environment (aimed to G14/15)
1.
Challenges and Successes in Project Planning and Execution
Most companies would tag a project
as successful if the project is completed on time and on budget.
But the success of a project starts long before the contract is awarded
to the contractor. The
identification of the project if conceived well ahead of time the project would
develop smoother and follow the proper systematic steps; however, many projects
identifications start late and thus are rushed into the execution phase which
results in challenges that could have been easily overcome at earlier stage of
the project than having to deal with them with live contract and construction.
The phases of the projects always
have two engineering phases Basis Engineering (FEED) and Detailed Engineering.
Other phases include budgeting,
contracting, procurement and construction. In a fast moving world, corners must
be cut and cycles must be reduced.
The Basic Engineering phase is critical and cutting it short will have serious
implications on the project later phases, as it optimizes the value of the whole
value chain, identifying risks and uncertainties involved,
aiming to ensure an effective integration subsurface-surface.
The Detailed Engineering is a key
phase where a complete definition will optimize the subsequent phases of
budgeting, contracting, procurement, and construction.
Cost optimization strategies are hence inherent to the whole planning and
monitoring activities of the oil and gas sector.
The focus of this session covers
several subjects, listed below.
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Outlook into the Energy and oil future: A focus in the GCC
countries
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Planning Engineering & Project Management
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Value chain optimization in a low-price environment
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Contracts and Procurement
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Expediting Projects Execution
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Cost Optimization strategies
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Integration Subsurface-Surface: Challenges and Solutions
2.
Challenges and Successes in Exploration
The current low oil price has negatively impacted the exploration
activities which are usually the first to suffer from cutbacks, the case for
providing cost effective solutions therefore becomes even more important. The
integration of all the disciplines involved in exploration activities, from
Geology and Geophysics to Petro physics and Geochemistry, and the establishment
and sharing of Best Practices focusing on exploration themes becomes of
paramount importance. The risks and uncertainties that are stacked ever higher
against a successful outcome in exploration must be clearly understood and
minimized and the timeline from exploration to production must be reduced.
KOC has set a very challenging target for exploration as part of
the 2030 strategy, which requires an integrated effort, and the highest level of
technology to explore the challenging conventional as well as unconventional
reservoirs. The increasing complexity of future potential hydrocarbon traps, the
combination of conventional and unconventional reservoirs, low porosity
reservoirs, highly fractured reservoirs, deep, thin, stratigraphic traps and
drilling in a challenging environment HPHT are some of the main reservoirs
related challenges. The introduction of high channel count, point source and
point receiver acquisition over the last decade have contributed to better
understanding of the reservoirs as well as the value of attributes and
properties extracted from the seismic data. Remaining challenges such as dealing
with the immense increase of data for processing and interpretation will
eventually be overcome.
This session will focus on those practices that enable a better
understanding of the reservoir and its behavior during the discovery,
development and production phases, offering the potential to realize direct
benefits through improved recovery and better prospect and reserves evaluation.
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Reservoir Engineering, Field Development and EOR Case Studies
Although the application of
cutting edge technologies have played an instrumental role in identifying new
reserves in unconventional and highly challenging areas, their commercial
viability becomes more difficult especially with lower oil prices. Optimizing
and enhancing reservoir performance using primary and secondary recovery methods
is important to establish a baseline that can be used to assess the technical
and commercial feasibility of tertiary/EOR recovery methods to increase
production from residual and bypassed oil.
Establishing appropriate field development strategies and robust
reservoir management practices requires reliable data in relation to reservoir
properties and field performance that can be used to carry out integrated
geological and reservoir modeling studies. Utilizing best-practices with respect
to reservoir engineering and field development prior to the implementation of
technically and commercially viable EOR methods is essential to maximize oil
production and recovery. This will ultimately assist in achieving the desired
production targets as per the 2030 strategy of Kuwait Oil Company (KOC). Even a
marginal increase in oil recovery from mature fields can result in significant
economic gains.
This session is aimed at exploring
best practices for reservoir engineering, field development and field-scale EOR
implementation to achieve incremental oil recovery in accordance with KOC’s 2030
strategy.
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Reservoir Characterization
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Reservoir management strategies
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Integrated reservoir modeling
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Reliable Forecasts: progress and challenges
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IOR/EOR
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Field Development case studies of success
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Well Placement optimization
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Reservoir Surveillance
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Challenges in the management of Giant Oil Fields
4.
Well Drilling, Completion, Well Integrity, and Production
Enhancement
The era of easy drilling of oil
wells in the regions that were very well known for such an activity has come to
an end in the last decade or so. Many challenges have been faced while drilling
new type of wells and utilizing new technologies exploring new options to
maximize production and profits. Different success stories has been heard of
among different organizations in the market in many applications such as Pad
drilling, multilateral wells, successful well control events, smart completions
and many other areas of the business.
Difficulties arise with the
uncertainties pertinent to newly explored reserves, and the changed behavior of
old and aging reservoirs. Additionally, the global demands and regulations of
protection of the environment and the resources for next generations, adds even
more challenges to the existing ones. This conference provides an opportunity to
consider the challenges faced by the drilling industry and sharing the solutions
and best practices found in overcoming those.
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Drilling Successes
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Innovative Drilling
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Well Surveillance & Testing
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Fines management
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High performance completions
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Well productivity enhancers
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Well Control, Well integrity, Well Intervention
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Artificial Lift
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Operational workflows, challenges, successes, and way ahead
Operational excellence best
practices is a target for achieving success and this session will highlight the
recent accomplishments and best practices achieved in operations and
maintenance. Some of the topics addressed will be how to achieve operational
excellence through integrated approaches, overcoming current and future
challenges, and the successful strategies applied for cost and production
optimization. Maintenance and upgrading of the facilities in upstream and
downstream will also be showcased, as one of the key elements of the way ahead
in the operational side of the industry.
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Operational Excellence
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Operational facilities: Overcoming current and future
challenges
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Operational Cost and Production Optimization: Strategies and
Successes
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Maintenance and Upgrading of field facilities
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Production Operations & Facilities
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Gas, Heavy Oil and Non-Conventional hydrocarbons Development,
Transportation and Marketing
Exploring for gas was overlooked
in the past because of the challenge it posed and the relatively lower
economics. Gas exploration usually
mean deeper wells, high pressure and high temperature, aside from likelihood of
it being sour. The deeper the gas
the more the challenge it is to explore for, in terms of seismic surveys.
Other unconventional resources have a potential to grow but technical
expertise and knowledge needs to be developed which is not easy in the low oil
prices of today but this might drive the market to
find ways to lower the production cost of the unconventional resources.
In 2008, Kuwait started producing
sour gas, and a year later Kuwait started importing LNG during summers through
ships that have capability to re-gasify the LNG.
Other GCC countries followed suits with the import of LNG. Gas resource
is neglected in the region except for Qatar. Unlike the case in Europe or USA,
the gas transport network is very much under developed thus LNG has emerged as
quick solution to combat the high electricity demand during the summer.
Kuwait is planning yet further expansion in the LNG import along with
more vigorous plans to develop sour gas fields.
The sour service require special attention in the design, operation and
creation of public awareness about the high-risk areas. Sour gas poses a lot
challenges in material selection to combat corrosion. Sulphur handling and
disposal is also a major factor in dealing with the sweetening of sour gas.
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Challenges in gas exploration and production
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Shale, Tight Gas and Unconventional
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Gas resources in Kuwait and the region: current and future
challenges
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LNG Availability, Markets, Transportation and Trade
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Safe design, operation and maintenance for sour service's
infrastructure.
7.
HSSE in the Oil and Gas Industry
With rapid industrial growth and
ever increasing energy demands from emerging markets, the global oil and gas
industry is expanding like never before. However, this growth cannot come at the
cost of compromising our health, safety, security or the environment (HSSE). In
light of corporate social responsibilities, economic challenges and regulatory
pressures, health, safety, security and the environment is becoming the top
priorities for oil and gas companies, reflecting an attitude of zero tolerance
for incidents. Managing these risks associated with HSSE has become essential
for the long-term sustainability of oil & gas companies. Strong HSSE performance
is an indicator of a culture of trust and commitment from the workforce.
With the recent fluctuations in
the global oil prices, it has become imperative that organizations strive to
become leaners and more energy efficient to not only be sustainable but to
minimize costs and optimize profits as well. There is a need of cooperation
amongst key stakeholders - governments, regulators as well as the industry.
Long-term collaboration and dialogues to share experiences, lessons learnt and
best practices are essential to develop a lasting HSSE culture.
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Industrial Hygiene Management
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Occupational Health management in Oil & Gas Industry: the way
ahead
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Upstream and Downstream Oil Industry Air Quality Monitoring and
Compliance Management.
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Air, Water, soil pollution and remediation strategies
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Sustainable Waste Management & Loss Prevention
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Energy Management and Energy Efficiency
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Paris 21 implications for the Oil Industry Development
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Safety & Security: New Challenges and Recent Successes
8.
Creativity, Innovation and Technology as Transformational
Factors
Innovation through creativity is
an important factor in the success and competitive advantage of organizations
with high productivity leading to a strong economy. The creativity and
innovation takes the form of reality through a strong transformational
leadership. The creativity lies with an individual, while the same becomes
innovation at a group level. Innovation under the hands of a leader identifies
the needed change with the coordination of subordinates, creating a vision to
guide the change through inspiration and executing the change through committed
workforce. The transformational leadership has four components; charismatic role
modeling, individualized consideration, inspirational motivation, and
intellectual stimulation.
The papers in this topic discuss
the pivotal role of creativity, innovation and technology in growing an
organization with numerous of technologies implemented on large scale to exploit
the technology value.
One of our main core values,
“Realizing value from technology” is exactly the aim of this topic, which is to
pursue a value-driven approach to research, identify, develop and deploy
appropriate core and enabling technology solutions through investments,
partnerships and technology transfer mechanisms.
Transformation leaders raise the
performance expectations of their workforce and seek to transform their personal
values & self-concepts and move them to higher level of needs and aspirations.
The ideas from creative minds will convert into technology management pilots
based on the challenges of the E&P core business activities. These pilots will
leverage to innovation level where the technological advantages fully realize.
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Research, Technology and Development: Challenges and Successes
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Best Practices dissemination and Communities of Practice
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NOC’s role in Research,
Technology and Development
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Renewable Energy
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Boosting Innovation and
Creativity in the corporate environment
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Adaptions and
cross-feeding from other industries about Innovation & Creativity
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Challenges and Successes Optimizing
our Human Capital
We are already used to the
sentence “The most important asset of an O&G company is the human capital”, but
are we really building and implementing the best practices in our industry to
motivate, retain and trigger the best of each individual in our workforce? This
session will explore the best practices and successes achieved in the main
topics of the optimization of the human capital, in particular those related to
training (technical, leadership and soft skills training), on-boarding,
Diversity and Inclusion, new trends in the detection of leaders, and retention
of knowledge. The session is also aimed to highlight the challenges posed by the
new styles of learning and how the corporate environment is adapting to the
millennial.
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Talent Development Strategies
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Leadership Development: what works?
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Enhancing the liaison between the Oil Industry & the
Educational Sector
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High-Potentials, Fast-Trackers, Promotion, and Succession
plans
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Diversity and Inclusion: Challenges and Successes
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Technical Knowledge: Acquisition, Sharing, Transfer and
Retention
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Styles of learning and the uplift of corporate training
strategies
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Data, Information, Knowledge and Processes in Oil and Gas
The Exploration and Production
(E&P) industry needs an ever-increasing data acquisition, computing and storage
technology for accurate, comprehensive, and well-managed data analysis and
interpretation. Equally importantly, the industry needs skilled & experienced
professionals for the processing, interpretation
and integration of these data, to enable informed decision-making, worth
millions of dollars every day to produce valuable oil and gas for the
energy-hungry world while generating profit.
There is vast opportunity for the
E&P service companies to develop software that leverages shared data and digital
field models, which complement each other while working seamlessly on
workstations, desktops and smartphones in safe and secure cyber-space.
While the industry publications
and conferences provide great platforms for sharing knowledge through case
studies, lessons-learnt and best-practices, their access needs to be improved
and massified while honoring intellectual property. Open resources on line, such
as Petro-wiki (SPE & AAPG), open e-learning, and free webinars are now
available, covering all E&P sub-disciplines. There exists huge potential in
nurturing mutually beneficial relationships between experienced professionals
with tech-savvy younger ones for evolving more productive and innovative
processes is making the E&P healthier and
more vibrant.
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Data security issues for the oil industry
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The future in Data and Information Management: Data
intelligence and self-learning
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What statistics are meaningful to the Oil and Gas industry
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From mainframes to clouds, to smartphones: Data availability
and portability
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Data Integrity
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Intellectual property in the XXI century: Challenges and
Innovations
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Collaborative and Wiki efforts for the oil sector
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Special Topics
The oil and gas sector requires
advanced and careful strategies related to its operations, as it handles
operations and resources geopolitically strategic. The proper handling and
anticipation of the risks inherent to the valuable assets of the sector in terms
of workforce, field facilities and resources, in the upstream and downstream, is
a key element for the success of the industry. This session will address special
topics, related to how we interrelate with the communities, in particular those
near by the operational areas, and the strategies and practices used to the
communication with the internal and external audiences. A particular emphasis
will be placed in the utilization of social media platforms as a tool to
maximize the communication in real time and to wide and diverse audiences.
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Relations with the Communities
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Challenges in portraying a positive image of the O&G sector
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New communication & media approaches in the oil industry
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The social media platforms: Experience and Success tracks