Vietnam’s upstream sector is entering an important phase, characterised by maturing basins, under-developed and marginal discoveries, evolving development economics, and significant volumes of legacy subsurface data. At the same time, substantial remaining and frontier potential exists across both offshore and onshore basins.

This pilot symposium provides a focused platform to explore how integrated geoscience, subsurface technologies, data, digital solutions and cross-disciplinary workflows can support better decisions across the upstream lifecycle — from exploration and prospect evaluation through appraisal, field development, production and asset optimisation.

The symposium will examine how operators can better integrate existing knowledge with new technologies and approaches to reduce uncertainty, accelerate decision-making, improve development outcomes and maximise asset value. It will also consider how these capabilities can strengthen the evaluation and positioning of Vietnam’s open blocks and create longer-term subsurface optionality, including CCS readiness.

Drawing on practical experiences from Vietnam and neighbouring countries, the event will highlight realistic and transferable approaches for turning data and subsurface understanding into decisions, development opportunities and long-term value.