Twenty years on from the first Offshore Mediterranean Conference, the organizing committee remains committed to presenting a balanced overview of worldwide trends in the oil and gas sector, according to Innocenzo Titone, chairman of OMC 2011.
This event and its associated exhibition (the tenth in the series) will be staged in Ravenna on Italy’s Adriatic coast on March 23-25. The main theme of OMC 2011 will be “Global Energy and Mediterranean Opportunities.”
Speakers will include local and national authorities, and officials from national and international oil companies.
The technical conference sessions will focus on topics likely to dominate activity over the next few years, including:
Sustainability
Oil and gas producers are developing new technologies for carbon capture and sequestration and to improve energy efficiency.
Reserves replacement
The industry is looking at or developing new frontier exploration areas including remote and poorly studied basins, the Arctic, and sub-salt plays.
Subsea development
Subsea technology is evolving rapidly to open new ways of unlocking marginal offshore resources.
Unconventional resources
The industry is looking to repeat its successes in North America elsewhere, but this will require the right combination of market conditions and new technologies. It is important in the Mediterranean region where many low permeability reservoirs remain to be developed.
Gas value
The industry is working on new technologies to allow development of the world’s vast remote and marginal gas accumulations.
Enhanced oil recovery
Higher oil prices have encouraged the industry to resume field testing and deployment of chemical EOR processes, while CO2 injection projects are being developed in many regions of the world to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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