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Program Themes

The Program for Australian Energy Producers Conference is multidisciplinary covering all areas of the upstream energy industry. The themes for the Technical and Business Program are chosen by the Technical Program Committee based on the number of submissions within a given theme. This ensures the program is both current and relevant for attending industry and stakeholder delegates.

Business Performance & Governance

• Business continuity and resilience through global challenges
• Diversity and inclusion
• Accessing the right skills including STEM
• Building and retaining the social license to operate
• Onshore and offshore access initiatives
• Making the industry an employer of choice – attracting and retaining talent
• Innovation and leadership
• Regulation, approvals and legal challenge strategies
• Driving productivity improvements
• Industrial relations
• Operating in the context of Environment, Social and Governance frameworks
• Supply chain contracting and management

Emission Reductions

• Innovation and technology for emissions reduction
• Integrated energy – synergies between oil and gas, renewables, and future fuels
• CCUS and hydrogen
• The role of natural gas in the energy transition in Australia and the region
• Methane monitoring, measurement, verification and emissions reduction
• Innovation and commercialising at scale
• Climate change and innovation policy
• Managing the trade-offs of the energy transformation
• Australia’s policy environment

Engineering

• New technologies (surface & subsurface)
• Process safety
• Novel applications
• Increasing oil recovery
• Improving operational efficiency
• New development projects coming on stream
• Plant upgrades
• Drilling and pipeline technologies
• AI systems for business and geoscience
• Decommissioning
• Project case studies

Geoscience

• New exploration areas (e.g. Beetaloo and Roebuck basins) and ideas
• New discoveries
• Unconventional petroleum
• Innovative appraisal concepts
• Research and development in geophysics
• Petrophysics and geology applications
• Petroleum systems
• Access to resources
• Frontier basins
• Gas storage
• Artificial intelligence
• Modelling subsidence consequences in swelling soils – OGIA’s Surat Basin case study

Health, Safety and Environment

• Navigating environmental approvals in an increasingly complex regulatory system
• Innovation in decommissioning
• Improving environmental performance and regulation
• Workplace behaviours
• Improving safety performance and oversight
• Environmental stewardship and rehabilitation
• Mental health, psychosocial hazards and safety initiatives in the workplace
• Cultural heritage and Traditional Owner engagement

Markets

• Access to capital and Attracting investment
• Bringing on new gas production to address forecast supply shortfalls
• Impact of regulatory uncertainty and policy decisions on investment Energy security to 2050 and beyond
• Australia’s role in the LNG market and energy security in the region
• Gas pricing and energy policy
• Domestic supply and Gas Markets
• Outlook for global oil and LNG markets
• Strengthening domestic demand
• Future fuels pathways (e.g., hydrogen exports)
• Potential of the blue economy
• ACCU prices and outlook

 

The Program Themes are listed in alphabetical order. The order does not depict importance or preference.