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15th November 2011 – Workshop A

Investing in Kurdistan-Iraq Oil & Gas Opportunities: Understanding the Laws & Contracts

Workshop Agenda Includes:

08:00 Welcome Coffee & Registration
09:00 Workshop

Presenters: J. Jay Park, Q.C.Partner and Chair, Global Resources Practice Group, Macleod Dixon LLP

The Emerging Iraq Petroleum Regime
o   Constitution
o   Laws & regulations: enacted & expected
o   Federal developments
o   Regional developments: Comparing the Contract Types
o   Designing contracts to suit state needs: Service contract & Production sharing contract

Understanding Iraq’s Service Contracts
o   Focus: developing discovered fields
o   Key service contract terms
o   Meeting state needs
o   Addressing investor needs

10:30 Networking Coffee Break

Understanding the Kurdistan Region Production Sharing Contracts
o   Focus: finding undiscovered resources
o   Key PSC terms
o   Satisfying state requirements
o   Meeting investor needs
o   Review of selected key terms of KRG PSC: State participation & Third party participation

  • How it works
  • Issues it raises
  • Benefits to state
  • Benefits to investor

Expected Future Developments
o   Endorsement of KRG-awarded PSCs: Explanation of expected process under draft federal oil law
o   Filling the remaining gaps in Iraq’s petroleum regime

13:00 End of Workshop A
13:00 Networking Lunch

 

15th November 2011 – Workshop B

Iraq Oil & Gas – Technical Workshop

The workshop is to address advancements and best practices both in applications of new technologies and conventional methods in the Upstream oil and gas industry and how to benefit the Iraqi oil and gas industry, it will cover the full list of technologies crucial to production, processing and environment with specific focus on specific projects, including extra opportunities to learn!

Benefits of Attending:

  •  Strengthen your local presence and better serve your Iraq customers
  • Understand the efforts of the Oil & Gas industry globally to help increase effectiveness and the role they could play in Iraq
  • Discuss and share ideas with companies specialised in maintaining and designing most of the world’s vital energy infrastructure and it’s best practical applications for the Iraqi oil and gas industry
  • Understand the critical role of the highly efficient equipments and energy saving technologies

Oil Field Techniques:

Presenters:

Senior Representatives, Weatherford Include;

Moderator, Eric Malcore, Area Manager- North Iraq, Weatherford

  • Early Production Facilities- Sunil Premchandani, Production Business Development Manager & Graeme MacFarlane, Business Development Manager
  • Pipeline Technologies- Paul O’Connell, Business Development Manager
  • Air Drilling and Hammers – Paco Vieira, MENA CPD & T Engineering Manager
  • Compact Wireline- Robert Kuchinski, Business Development Manager
  • Casing Drilling and Reaming- Emad Mujahed, Overdrive Product Champion
  • Reservoir Management- Robert Kuchinski, Business Development Manager
  • QHSE/Security- Peter Dewhurst, Country Security Manager, Iraq

Nil A. Bang, Exploration Manager, DNO

Workshop Agenda Includes:

08:00 Welcome Coffee & Registration
09:00 Workshop

1. Infrastructure and Facilities for the Oil and Gas Fields
·    Design
·   Construction
·   Operation
·   Repair

2. Maintenance of Oil & Gas Processing Facilities:
·         Equipments
·         Pipelines
·         Solutions and renovation of existing facilities

3. Well Technologies:
·         New well solutions
·         How to optimise and enhance production and recovery
·         Remote well control systems
·         Intervention techniques and new applications
·         Monitoring systems
·         Completion systems

10:30 Networking Coffee Break

4. Reservoir Management & Reservoir Solutions:
·        Technical methods to enhance production in (IOR/EOR)
·        Understanding of previously discovered but unexplored reservoirs

5. Exploration:
Speaker: Nils A. Bang, Exploration Manager, DNO
·         Challenges
·         Data acquisition
·         Processing
·         Interpretation
·         Drilling, safety
·         Evaluation

6. Health and Safety Measures:
·         HSE management across the upstream sector
·         Human factors, emergency procedures
·         Risk management, environment impact assessment, waste management

13:00 End of Workshop B
13:00 Networking Lunch and the Awards Ceremony