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

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, Process Transformation and AI-Enabled 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

• 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


6. Cloud, Data Platforms & Infrastructure & AI Readiness

• Unified subsurface data ecosystems

• Interoperability between legacy and modern AI platforms

• High-performance computing for large-scale models

• Data governance and cybersecurity

• 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


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



    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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