Offshore Europe: Set to inspire the next generation

Full details of the conference sessions and speakers lined up for SPE Offshore Europe 2015 are now available on the event’s website.

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The choice of this year’s theme, inspiring the next generation, empowers the industry to address both the technical and people challenges facing the oil and gas business today to secure future success.  At the heart of this is a need to attract and encourage the next generation of talent into the industry. 

Over the four days of the world’s largest upstream oil and gas conference and exhibition outside North America, there will be a series of keynote sessions, technical sessions, topical lunches and breakfast briefings. A key message will be that the industry is far from over and that it has a long and bright future, despite the current tough market conditions.

The keynote program, chaired by Michael Engell-Jensen, executive director of the International Association of Oil & Gas Producers (IOGP), will feature 11 sessions focusing on the basic challenge of meeting energy demand while balancing concerns over climate change, security of supply and consumer affordability.

Topics to be addressed include: health; the safety and security of people and assets; well intervention; financing investments; oil spill response; and inspiring the next generation to join the industry. Speakers will comprise a mix of senior representatives from international operating companies and contractors, as well as trade association representatives, government regulators and academia.

The technical program, chaired by Charles Woodburn, Expro CEO, will feature more than 75 papers, demonstrating that the industry’s engineering, manufacturing and technology excellence is set to assure a long-term sustainable future. Speakers drawn from all over the world will discuss topics such as asset and well integrity, maximizing economic recovery, smarter field development, pipelines and risers, subsea processing, talent development, unconventional gas development, process safety, and decommissioning.

Planning is also well under way on the dedicated Deepwater Zone, the breakfast and lunch agenda, and on an ambitious ‘Inspire’ program aimed at the younger generation.