Technical Topics

The workshop will cover a range of critical topics pertinent to advanced exploration in mature basins:
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            <p style="font-size: 18px;">The workshop will cover a range of critical topics pertinent to <span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 255);"><i>advanced exploration in mature basins</i>:</span></p>

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            <h4></h4><div class="edit"><ol><li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style=""><span style="font-size: 17px;"><span style="color: rgb(52, 91, 52);"><b style="">Basin History Analysis:</b> </span><span style="color: rgb(52, 91, 52);">Case studies examining creaming curve breaks versus de-risking methodologies and technologies.</span></span></p></li><li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation"><span style="font-size: 17px;"><span style="color: rgb(52, 91, 52);"><b>Portfolio Rejuvenation:</b> </span>Exploration of successful strategies for revitalizing portfolios in mature areas.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation"><span style="font-size: 17px;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 74, 51);"><b style="color: rgb(52, 91, 52);">Complex Trap Unlocking:</b> </span>Geological, geophysical, and operational approaches to identifying and exploiting structural, stratigraphic, and combined complex traps.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation"><span style="font-size: 17px;"><b style="color: rgb(52, 91, 52);">Past Venture Analysis:</b> Efficient techniques for accelerating the learning curve in mature basins, enabling geoscientists to focus on bypassed opportunities.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation"><span style="font-size: 17px;"><b style="color: rgb(52, 91, 52);">Innovative Development Solutions:</b> Discussions on solutions for stranded resources, CO2 handling, deepwater challenges, and cluster systems.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation"><span style="font-size: 17px;"><b style="color: rgb(52, 91, 52);">Near-Field Exploration:</b> Strategies and case studies in the pursuit of hydrocarbon reserves in close proximity to existing infrastructure.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation"><span style="font-size: 17px;"><b style="color: rgb(52, 91, 52);">High Pressure/High Temperature (HP/HT) Case Studies</b>: Examination of new developments and operational insights in HP/HT environments.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation"><span style="font-size: 17px;"><b style="color: rgb(52, 91, 52);">Multiphysics and Deep Seismic:</b> Redefining basin boundaries and architectural understanding through advanced seismic imaging.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation"><span style="font-size: 17px;"><b style="color: rgb(52, 91, 52);">Petroleum System Modeling (PSM): </b>Exploration of new concepts related to temperature-time histories, charge, fractionation, fluid dynamics, and tracers within petroleum systems.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation"><span style="font-size: 17px;"><b style="color: rgb(52, 91, 52);">Missed Opportunities:</b> Exploration objectives have often led to valuable reserves being overlooked. Historical cases show how a focus on oil bypassed significant shallower gas, highlighting the need for retrospective analysis to capture similar opportunities in the future.&nbsp;</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation"><span style="font-size: 17px;"><b style="color: rgb(52, 91, 52);">Stepping Out of Known Plays:</b> Exploring beyond established targets requires new strategies and technologies. Successful case studies demonstrate how deeper and unconventional objectives can be pursued using advanced geological, geophysical, and risk assessment techniques.&nbsp;</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation"><span style="font-size: 17px;"><b style="color: rgb(52, 91, 52);">Commercial challenges vs advantages:</b> new idea or innovative commercial concept to drive exploration in mature basins includes (but not limited to); development concept, surface geoscience concept, terms &amp; policy, lever on zero emissions, tax/tariffs advantages or challenges, co-development, etc.</span></p></li></ol><p></p></div><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><p><span style="font-size: 18px;"></span></p></blockquote>

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1. AI/ML for Subsurface Imaging and Interpretation

• ML-based seismic inversion and attribute extraction

• Automated fault, fracture, and stratigraphic interpretation

• Imaging enhancement in complex geological settings

• Uncertainty-aware interpretation using probabilistic AI


2. Reservoir Characterisation and Prediction

• Digital core analysis and rock typing using ML

• AI-enabled petrophysical interpretation workflows

• Probabilistic reservoir modelling and upscaling

• Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) for constrained property prediction

• Automated facies and reservoir architecture prediction


3. Drilling, Development and Production Optimisation

• Real-time drilling optimisation and hazard prediction

• Intelligent completion and development planning

• AI-driven production surveillance and forecasting

• Autonomous reservoir management concepts


4. AI for Mature Assets and Brownfields

• Identifying bypassed pay using AI-assisted interpretation

• Decline forecasting and life-of-field optimisation

• Intelligent workover and enhanced recovery planning


5, Agentic AI in Subsurface and Geoscience Workflows

• Autonomous interpretation and QC assistants

• Multi-agent collaboration across disciplines

• Hybrid physics–AI agents for reliable decision support

• Governance, trust, and deployment challenges


6. Cloud, Data Platforms & Digital Infrastructure

• Unified subsurface data ecosystems

• Interoperability between legacy and modern AI platforms

• High-performance computing for large-scale models

• Data governance and cybersecurity


7. AI for CCUS and Low-Carbon Subsurface Applications

• Injection plume prediction and monitoring

• Seal integrity and containment assessment

• Risk modelling and scenario evaluation using AI


8. AI Capability Building, Skills & Organisational Readiness

• AI literacy for geoscientists and engineers

• Developing hybrid AI–domain professionals

• Human–AI collaboration models

• Trust, explainability, and validation workflows

• Capability maturity models for AI adoption

• Leadership and cultural transformation


9. Process Transformation and AI-Enabled Ways of Working

• Redesigning interpretation and modelling cycles with AI

• Continuous AI-augmented workflows

• Human-in-the-loop vs human-on-the-loop models

• Integrating AI into technical assurance and governance

• Embedding AI into business decision-making


    5.1 Current and upcoming licensing rounds targetingPaleogene Plays5.2 Policy frameworks and fiscal incentives promotingfrontier basin exploration5.3 Regional collaboration and investment trends inexploration and production





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