Paper proposals should be submitted by 17 February 2010 online at http://manuscripts.spe.org/ppms

For Russian submissions please go to http://www.spe.org/russianabstracts/jsp/main.jsp

You can submit paper proposals using one of the six technical disciplines detailed below:

1. Health Safety & Environment - Obligation, Responsibility and Care
2. Geology & Geophysics - Role of modelling at all stages of geological prospecting work
3. Reservoir Engineering - Integrated approach for improving recovery
4. Well Construction - Drilling & completion
5. Facilities, Construction and Projects - from smart design to effective implementation
6. Production Operations - Optimization for the life of the field

Each topic is detailed below with the guidelines for submissions appearing below

Proposals are sought for papers that share best practice and innovative solutions for proactive risk based approach to health, safety and environment in the region. The conference will highlight diverse applications of tools and techniques used for enabling incident free and fully compliant operations in the high risk environment of the oil and gas exploration and production. Areas to be covered include:

• Health risk assessment and controls
• Worksite hazard management
• Road transportation management
• Contractor management
• Asset integrity and process safety
• Waste management (including zero discharge on Russian Shelf and Caspian)
  Land remediation
• Early warning, early response and preparedness for medical, hazardous facility or oil spill emergencies.

Geological and geophysical surveys  include a wide variety of activities from basin analysis and modeling up to the development of geological models of the fields. Such activities may also include development of sedimentation models, geochemical surveys, data acquisition planning, interpretation and processing of seismic data, well logging and correlation with core data. Topics of interest include:

• Basins modeling
• Exploration and development of unconventional fields
• Set of geophysical research methods for complex reservoirs and traps
• Seismic planning for specific geological tasks
• Near-surface heterogeneity and velocity reconstruction in the area of permafrost
• Integration of geological and geophysical data while building the geological and hydrodynamic models

• Risks analysis at the exploration stage

As the title of our conference indicates, it is not enough to have the latest technologies, one must be innovative in their use and also implement them through operating processes that continuously strive to be best practice. This approach is especially true for drilling & completion activities, after all, the main reason that we construct & complete wells is to produce hydrocarbons that are the life blood of our industry.  Drilling & completing wells represents one of the largest parts of our investment and it is important that we continually innovate and improve. The world class Russian Oil & Gas Conference 2010 provides the opportunity for well construction experts to exchange their collective knowledge and experiences with the aim of creating new best practices, which is even more vital in this financially challenging period for our industry. Topics of interest include:

• slimhole drilling and sidetracking
• underbalanced drilling in depleted reservoirs, unstable argillite drilling
• drilling in heavy oil (slant rigs, SAGD wells)
• offshore drilling for the Russian Shelf
• drilling with oil based mud
• extended reach drilling
• optimal horizontal well placement in production zone
• cementing in permafrost, cementing in depleted reservoirs
• completion techniques for wells with gas and water

Abstracts are requested for the design, construction, operation, repair and maintenance of oil and gas facilities and infrastructure. Application of new equipment, technologies and new ways of working; to rejuvenate or cost effectively expand existing facilities, or generation of breakthroughs for development of new remote & demanding environments.  Of special regional interest are topics regarding:

• Conceptual and integrated design (coupled reservoir-well-facilities modeling)
• Optimization  of existing facilities for hydrocarbons transportation  and treatment
• Real-time data acquisition and field automation
• Produced water handling and utilization of stranded or unconnected gas production
• Associated gas utilization
• Energy solutions
• Organizational procedures
• Equipment modularization
• Infrastructure for arctic and remote field development

Facilities & infrastructure covers all land and offshore oil & gas surface facilities, including processing equipment & installations, power & automation systems, pipelines.

Once an oilfield is equipped with wells and surface facilities the capital investment is mostly complete and production begins, providing revenue to offset the capital expenditure.  Focus then shifts to operating expenditure which will continue to the end of the field’s life.  Project profitability will depend on optimizing this expenditure and is usually expressed in $/ton of oil or $/1000 cubic metre of gas.  For ROGC 2010 we are seeking abstracts describing how innovation and best practice helps to increase hydrocarbon production and reduce the operating expenditure.  This issue becomes critical when oil and gas prices are weak or uncertain and profitability is at risk. Topics of interest include:

• SMART wells: use of intelligent wells with permanent downhole monitoring and control
• SMART fields: use of automation in control and monitoring of wells and surface   facilities; enhanced data gathering
• reservoir monitoring & testing (multiphase metering, production allocation)
• artificial lift equipment optimization, debottlenecking facilities
• sand control:  practical experience in Russia and Caspian Region
• solutions for oil production with high and varying gas oil ratio
• new methods of oil and gas separation, treatment and transport
• best practices, based on years of experience in Russian and other CIS in recovery increasing for mature fields: waterflooding management, infill drilling, sidetracking
• real estimation of EOR methods effectiveness

Papers about management issues in Production Operations are also of great interest in helping raise standards in Russian and other CIS countries to international levels.

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Guidelines

• Obtain necessary clearance from your management
• The paper proposal should be submitted by 17 February 2010 and online at http://manuscripts.spe.org/ppms
  For Russian submissions, please go to http://www.spe.org/russianabstracts/jsp/main.jsp
• The paper proposal must be no more than 300 words and should include a description of the proposed paper, results/conclusions, and the technical category most applicable to your paper
• Authors of paper proposals selected for the conference will be notified by the beginning of April 2010
• If your paper proposal is accepted, it may be published, as submitted, in conference information media, including on the event website
• Your paper proposal may be accepted for either technical presentation or poster presentation. If your paper proposal is accepted you will be required to produce a technical paper (manuscript) in both English and Russian to support your technical presentation
• The manuscript will be included on the Conference Proceedings CD-ROM and be made available in the SPE electronic library
• The manuscript is to be submitted by 22 July 2010
• Failure to submit your manuscript by this deadline will result in your presentation being withdrawn from the Conference Programme and the author will not be allowed to present.
• Detailed instructions on the preparation of manuscripts, slides and posters will be sent to the corresponding author of each accepted paper. SPE assumes no obligation for expenses incurred by authors for travel, lodging, food, or other incidental expenses.

Recommended Structure of Paper Proposal

Description of the Paper
Outline the scope and nature of the work upon which the paper is based on (e.g., field data, laboratory data, core analysis, or computer work). If the paper is an overview, please indicate the area of problem coverage.

Applications
Describe the potential applications for the methods and techniques presented

Conclusions
Present the short overview of the results and major conclusions. Indicate how your paper varies from the manuscripts on the similar subject published before. Please indicate if new information, field data, research data, calculations are included in your paper.

Technical Contribution
Please indicate up to three items which shows the technical and/or scientific contribution of your work to the petroleum industry to describe significance of your paper.

Additional guidelines for paper proposal are available at http://www.spe.org/spe-app/spe/papers/authors/paper_proposal_guidelines.htm

Commercialism
The Society of Petroleum Engineers has a policy against the use of commercial trade names, company names or language that is commercial in tone in titles, text or slides. Use of such terms will result in careful scrutiny by the Programme Committee in evaluating paper proposals and the presence of commercialism may result in it being withdrawn from the Conference Programme.

Copyright
All authors of papers 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.

Deadline for Submissions
The paper proposal should be submitted by 17 February 2010 online at http://manuscripts.spe.org/ppms 

For Russian submissions please go to http://www.spe.org/russianabstracts/jsp/main.jsp