Program Themes
The Program for Australian Energy Producers Conference is multidisciplinary covering all areas of the upstream energy industry. The themes for the Technical & 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 & Markets
- Innovation and leadership
- Artificial intelligence and business innovation
- Business continuity and resilience
- Driving productivity improvements
- Supply chain contracting and management
- Access to capital
- Australia’s investment competitiveness
- Oil security and domestic production
- Domestic gas reservation
- Regulatory uncertainty and investment
- Australia’s role in the LNG market and energy security
- Gas pricing and energy policy
- Outlook for global oil and LNG markets
- Decommissioning and financial assurance
Climate Tech
- Innovation, AI and emerging technologies for emissions reduction
- Integrated energy – synergies between oil and gas, renewables, and future fuels
- CCUS and low-carbon hydrogen
- The role of natural gas in the energy transformation in Australia and the region
- Methane monitoring, measurement, verification and emissions reduction
- Commercialising innovation at scale
- Climate and energy transformation policies
- Carbon offsets
- Managing the trade-offs of the energy transformation
Engineering
- New technologies
- Process safety
- Novel applications
- Improving operational efficiency
- New development projects coming on stream
- Decommissioning
- Plant upgrades
- Drilling and pipeline technologies
- Enhanced oil recovery
- AI and engineering
- Project case studies
Environment and Approvals
- Navigating environmental approvals in an increasingly complex regulatory system
- Regulation, approvals and legal challenge strategies
- Streamlining approvals
- EPBC Act reforms
- Improving environmental performance and regulation
- Environmental stewardship and rehabilitation
- Responsible and effective decommissioning practices
- Land access and overlapping resources
- Approvals case studies
- AI, the environment and approvals
Geoscience
- New exploration areas (e.g. Beetaloo to the Taroom and beyond)
- New discoveries
- Frontier basins
- Maximising production from mature basins
- Unconventional petroleum
- Increasing domestic oil production
- Innovative appraisal and production concepts
- Research and development in geophysics
- Petrophysics
- Federal and state acreage releases
- Gas storage
- AI and geoscience
Workforce and Community
- Community consultation and engagement
- Building and retaining the social license to operate
- Attracting and retaining talent
- AI and the future of work
- Diversity and inclusion
- Accessing the right skills including STEM
- Industrial relations
- Workplace behaviours
- Improving safety performance and oversight
- Mental health, psychosocial hazards and safety initiatives in the workplace
- Cultural heritage and Traditional Owner engagement
The Program Themes are listed in alphabetical order. The order does not depict importance or preference.
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