Conference Day One: Monday 26 January 2009

08.50 Chairman’s Welcome & Opening Remarks

Plenary Sessions: Are Technology & Innovation The Answers To Today’s Drilling Challenges

Keynote Presentation:

09.00 Can Today’s Advanced Drilling Tools Make The Unfathomable Possible?

Today’s drilling environment has undergone an aggressive transformation in the development of technology and innovative practices to address the need for increased optimization in the drilling industry. The advanced drilling tools used today make these once unfathomable imaginings possible. This presentation will discuss those advances.

Omar Al-Husaini
Manager, Gas Development, Drilling & Workover
SAUDI ARAMCO

Omar has over 27 years experience in Drilling Engineering and Operations. He holds an MS degree in Petroleum Engineering and has written numerous technical papers on the subject.

09.40 How Far Are We From The Drilling Limit And How Can We Address Challenges And Deal With The New Situation?

Drilling The Limit (DTL) technology has achieved great success in cost and time savings. Now, more wells need to be drilled quicker in the face of such challenges as equipment and manpower shortages to achieve the goals. This presentation discusses the different strategies that drillers must develop and thinking changes needed to overcome these challenges to be as close as possible to the drilling limit.

Asim Al Zarouni
Manager, Drilling Department, E&P Directorate
ADNOC

Asim started as a Drilling Supervisor with ADMA-OPCO before moving to ADNOC as Senior Drilling Engineer. He then took the responsibilities of the Drilling Engineering Specialist with onshore E&P before taking his current role.

10.50 Can Drilling Technology Be Used To Overcome The Challenge Of Exploiting Difficult Oil?

The industry is under pressure to drill faster, deeper and more efficiently to meet the ever-increasing targets. Yet with the easy oil already exploited, oil and gas companies are looking to the latest technologies as the solutions to getting the oil out. Ahmed will explore the realities of implementing solutions in complicated projects.

Ahmed Abou Soliman
Manager, Drilling
ADMA

Ahmed worked in Egypt onshore and offshore drilling operations for GUPCO. In 1981 he joined ADCO in Abu Dhabi until 2007 before moving to ADMA.

11.30 Taking An Innovative Approach To Reducing Drilling Costs

There are many problems, such as how to reduce the cost of drilling, that need novel out-of-the-box solutions. To generate novel solutions, one needs to understand why it is so difficult to “get out-of-the-box”. This presentation will describe the symptoms and possible solutions that can help teams generate novel options to solve the difficult problems.

Dr Paul Lurie
Advisor on Novel Drilling & Innovation
BP EXPOLRATION

Paul has been working in the innovation field, for the last 40 years. He has been a BP Advisor on Novel Drilling & Innovation for the last five years and Chairman of the Innovation Board for the last two years. He has worked on a range of technologies, including slimhole drilling, multilateral wells,

Stream A – Pushing The Boundaries of Extended Reach Drilling Keynote Presentation: 13.10 Extending The Reach Of Horizontal Wells – How Maersk Qatar Set The New World Record For The Longest Well And Longest Unwrapped Reach Johan Flikkema Head of Drilling Engineering MAERSK OIL QATAR 13.50 ZADCO’s Vision For Pushing The Limits Of Extended Reach Drilling Using An Artificial Island Gamal Ismail Hassan Senior Drilling Engineer, Well Operations ZADCO 14.30 Networking Break 15.10 Strategies For Determining The Suitability Of Extended Reach Drilling For Your Project NATIONAL DRILLING COMPANY 15.50 Revealing The Successful Strategies And Technologies That Allow You To Push The Limits Of Extended Reach Drilling Faisal Al-Nughaimish Drilling Engineering Supervisor SAUDI ARAMCO 16.30 Solution Finding Roundtable Session - Overcoming ERD Challenges 17.10 Chairman’s Closing Remarks & End Of Conference

Stream B – Advanced Drilling Technologies 13.10 Implementing The Latest Technologies To Achieve Real-Time Optimization In Drilling HALLIBURTON 13.50 Realizing Drilling Potential Using Latest Techniques And Technologies Iain Morrison Director Business Development AGR 14.10 Networking Break 15.10 How Crescent Petroleum Set Operational World Records In Depth Using Coiled Tubing In Horizontal Drilling Fernando Bergin Senior Drilling Engineer CRESCENT PETROLEUM 15.50 Implementing The World’s First Slim Open Hole Smart MRC Wells To Successfully Increase Production Khalifah Mohammed Al-Amri Senior Workover Engineer, Workover Department SAUDI ARAMCO 16.30 Dynamic Modeling Of Hydraulics And Well Control For Challenging Wells – From Design To E-Field Solutions SPT GROUP 17.10 Chairman’s Closing Remarks & End Of Conference

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