The 5th edition of the SPE EOR Conference alongside Oil and Gas West Asia (OGWA) will be held in Muscat, Oman from 20-23 March 2016 under the auspices of The Ministry of Oil and Gas Oman
The opening ceremony and welcome reception will take place on the first day of the event at the Public Authority Civil Aviation (PACA,) and the conference will kick off on the 21 March at the Golden Tulip Hotel.
Some of the topics to be covered at the event include the latest advances in chemical EOR, thermal EOR, miscible gas injection EOR and low salinity water flooding.
The ceremony will open with a speech by Saleh bin Ali Al Anboori, 2016 SPE EOR Conference chairman, director general of Petroleum Investment Management, Ministry of Oil and Gas, Sultanate of Oman and Fareed Abdulla, SPE Middle East Board chairman, senior vice president NEB, ADCO.
Michelle Boyd, director, Middle East, North Africa and South Asia Events, SPE, said, “This year promises to bring a fresh and engaging agenda which includes a keynote panel session where the advancement of enhanced oil recovery and regional plans to accelerate this will be brought to light by respectable industry leaders”, these speakers are namely, His Excellency Mohammed bin Hamad Al Rumhy Minister of Oil and Gas, Sultanate of Oman, Raoul Restucci, managing director, Petroleum Development Oman and Michael Townshend, regional president for Middle East, BP.