Getting the oil and gas out of the North Sea before infrastructure reaches the end of its life will be the theme of the 11th Devex conference in May.
Devex 2014 at the Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre (AECC), entitled Adding Value by Accelerating Activity, takes place on May 6 and 7.
The conference is aimed at geologists, geophysicists, petrophysicists, reservoir engineers, petroleum engineers, production technologists, well engineers and drilling engineers. Papers for the programme are still being sought, with the deadline being Monday 27th January 2014.
Senior industry figures will speaking on both days of the conference, which this year will be opened by Pete Jones, managing director of TAQA Bratani.
The featured keynote speaker on the second day of the conference will be Crawford Anderson, vice-president UK Geomarket for oil services giant Baker Hughes.
Peter Brand, chair of DEVEX 2014, said: “This year’s innovations include an extended field trip on 8th May which will be integrated with the morning core workshop. The programme of presentations on field and technical developments is starting to come together and will be entertaining and valuable as usual.”
DEVEX 2014 is run jointly by the Petroleum Exploration Society of Great Britain (PESGB), the Society for Petroleum Engineers (SPE), and the Aberdeen Formation Evaluation Society (AFES) and is supported by the Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC).