EGYPES 2026 CALL FOR PAPERS NOW OPEN
At the intersection of innovation and expertise, the EGYPES Technical Conference occupies a central position within the Egyptian, African, and Mediterranean oil, gas, and wider energy landscape, serving as a hub of technical enrichment catering to engineers, technical experts, and digital champions.
With its comprehensive programme, the EGYPES Technical Conference is the ultimate platform for energy sector engineers to push the boundaries of excellence, to navigate the ever-evolving realms of cutting-edge innovative technologies and to showcase project expertise and technical insights.
Delve deep into the latest advancements, best practices, and innovative solutions that are shaping the energy landscape. Whether you’re a seasoned energy professional looking to reach new heights or a young talent just starting your energy journey, the EGYPES Technical Conference programme is your launchpad for endless possibilities, invaluable knowledge gathering and career progression.
20 TECHNICAL CATEGORIES
DOWNSTREAM: REFINING TECHNOLOGY, OPERATIONS AND MARKETING (REF)
- Refining and petrochemical integration, supply chain management and feedstock maximisation
- Improving refinery economics: decreasing costs and increasing profitability
- Development and advancement of refining technology and processing
- Decarbonising the gas processing value chain with renewables
- Innovation and R&D in refineries
- Marketing and distribution of refined products: efficiency, safety and security
- Marketing and distribution: refinery to retail
- Bottom of the barrel upgrading
- Residue fluid catalytic cracker (RFCC) technology
- Crude oil-to-cenhanchemicals (COTC) technology and processes
- Refinery waste management: spent catalyst and decoking treatments
UPSTREAM: EXPLORATION OF CONVENTIONAL RESOURCES (CONV)
- Enhanced oil recovery (EOR) methods and technologies
- Prospect evaluation and basin modelling
- Formation evaluation
- Reservoir characterisation
- Rock physics, properties and seismic inversion
GAS/LNG PROCESSING, OPERATIONS AND TECHNOLOGY (GAS)
- Gas (and associated liquids) processing
- Gas liquefaction, regasification, FLNG
- LNG, LPG, CNG and chemical gas production challenges
- Eliminating routine gas flaring
- Sour gas field developments, sulphur disposal
- Advances in gas sweetening and dehydration
- Innovation in design, production and operation of gas fields
- Enhanced gas recovery
- R&D related to production and processing of gas/LNG
OFFSHORE AND SUBSEA PRODUCTION, OPERATIONS AND TECHNOLOGY (OS) NEW FOR 2026
- Offshore infrastructure: production platforms, artificial islands design, piling, flow lines, umbilical connections
- Floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO), offshore support vessels (OSV), and remotely operated underwater vehicles (ROV)
- Floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG)
- Shallow and deepwater exploration: subsea wells, subsea fields, subsea projects and developments
- Deep-water HPHT well design, drilling fluids stability
- Innovative offshore and marine technology
- Engineering, procurement and construction offshore
- Assessment, evaluation and integrity management of existing offshore structures
- Innovative rig designs
- Decommissioning offshore rigs
- Marine fuels, green shipping, hydrogen as a marine fuel, LNG as a marine fuel
- Bunkering developments and infrastructure
HYDROGEN, BIOFUELS, ALTERNATIVE FUELS, NUCLEAR (ALT)
- Hydrogen technology and operations: production, transformation, storage and optimisation, transportation and distribution, commercialisation, renewable hydrogen
- Production and usage of grey hydrogen, blue hydrogen and blue ammonia
- Production and usage of green, yellow and pink hydrogen
- Hydrogen fuel and electric vehicle innovation and deployment
- Smart mobility innovation
- Battery, energy storage, charging and infrastructure
- Sustainable aviation fuels (SAF) technology, operations and case studies
- Synthetic fuels
- Nuclear power, reactors, infrastructure
- Biofuels: feedstock, technology, production and usage
ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY AND CLIMATE CHANGE (ESC)
- Circular economy: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Renew
- Recycling: chemical recycling, mechanical recycling, plastic recycling, innovations in recycling technologies, green chemistry and sourcing rare chemicals
- Environment related Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programmes
- Environmental Social Governance (ESGs)
- Environmental studies for the energy industry
- UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
- Management of produced waters (PW) and drilling waste
- Oil spill preparedness and response, environmental protection
- Air pollution management and direct air capture (DAC)
- Biodiversity and ecosystem services
- Remediation of contaminated land
DIGITALISATION (DIGI)
- Artificial Intelligence (AI) for energy management
- Managing AI data centre energy demand and energy waste
- Robotics, Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), mixed reality
- Blockchain
- Industrial Internet of Things (IIOT), connected performance, integration of mobile devices
- Digital twins
- Big data, machine learning and advanced analytics
- Protecting oil and gas facilities: cyber and infrastructure security
- Drone software and technology advances and deployment
- 3D printing
- Digital transformation initiatives and best practices leading to performance and energy efficiency enhancement
- Data governance, privacy and protection
- Autonomous operations
PROJECT MANAGEMENT AND EXECUTION (PM)
- Successful project execution: engineering, procurement, supply chain, construction and management, cost optimisation, value engineering
- Managing new energy projects
- Agile project management
- Risks and challenges of brownfield projects
- Tackling oil, gas and petrochemicals mega-project challenges
- Managing pilot projects for R&D
- Project risk assessment and management
- Project contract management, management of contractors, turnkey projects
- Cost and benefit analysis, cost estimation and control
- Early production project approach
- Claims, disputes and arbitrations
- Risks associated with project delivery systems, types of tender and types of contracts
- Building Information Modelling (BIM) in managing projects
PEOPLE AND TALENT DEVELOPMENT (PPL)
- Leadership and career development
- People management and continuous development: team building, mentorship and sponsorship of employees, training, innovation and skills development, developing work ethics, talent retention
- Performance management: appraisals, total rewards and compensation, incentive plans and executive compensation, managing employee benefits, employee loyalty programmes
- Talent acquisition strategies, promoting the energy industry to the next generation
- Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiatives
- Diversity, inclusion, belonging: in-house women programmes, equal pay, returnship programmes
- Worker protection, employee rights and responsibilities
- Strategic HR management and planning, change management
- Workplace learning: technology, e-learning and virtual development, knowledge transfer between employees
- Millennials and Generation Z: building a future net-zero ready workforce
OIL AND GAS FIELD DEVELOPMENT (FD)
- Unlocking the potential of mature and brownfields
- Integrated development planning and field development case studies
- Integrated development for marginal fields
- Field surveillance and testing
- Production optimisation and enhancement case studies
- Reservoir engineering, monitoring and testing technologies
- Enhanced oil recovery (EOR): technology advancements and innovative strategies
- Smart digital oilfields: improving operational capabilities of assets
DOWNSTREAM: PETROCHEMICALS TECHNOLOGY AND OPERATIONS (PET)
- Decarbonising the petrochemicals feedstock value chain with renewables
- Successful petrochemicals business models
- Olefins and aromatics: operations and technology developments
- Petrochemical and refining integration, supply chain management and feedstock allocation, diversification and maximisation
- Technology for effective conversion from crude to chemicals
- Strategy, long term planning and exit strategies for petrochemical operations
- Integration of bio-feedstock in petrochemical plants
- Advances in bio-based petrochemicals
- Overcoming environmental challenges, plastic and petrochemicals recycling
- Biodegradable polymers: technologies, market trends, applications, environmental impact, case studies
UPSTREAM: EXPLORATION OF UNCONVENTIONAL RESOURCES (UNCONV)
- Unconventional resource assessment and evaluation, strategies for development
- Tapping into unconventional gas: coal seam gas, shale gas, tight gas, methane hydrates
- Heavy oil, oil sands and shale oil
- Thin beds and tight reservoirs
- Nanotechnology applications
- Enhanced gas recovery (EGR) methods and technologies
MIDSTREAM: INFRASTRUCTURE, TRANSPORTATION AND STORAGE (MID)
- Vertical energy corridors, increased gas flows, flexible trade, offtake buyers
- Transportation and marketing of oil and natural gas
- Smart shipping and automonous vessels
- Integrated shipping and logistics technology and advances
- Smart pipelines, best practices in pipeline management and preventative maintenance
- Oil and gas transportation, flow assurance, pipeline technology, subsea tiebacks
- Legacy infrastructure upgrades, repurposing and best practices for hydrogen, ammonia, methanol transportation
- Oil, gas and hydrogen storage, tanks and tankers
- Innovative technologies for gas metering and monitoring
- Railway and truck transportation advances for oil and bulk chemicals and heavy duty equipment
- Decommissioning historical and outdated infrastructure
DECARBONISATION, ENERGY TRANSITION AND ENERGY EFFICIENCY (DTE) NEW FOR 2026
- Decarbonisation and energy transition, net zero, clean energy profitable business models and cost reductions
- Decarbonisation policies, regulations and carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM)
- Transition R&D innovation and tech deployment
- Low carbon technology and innovation to reach the 1.5°C pathway
- Improving energy efficiency and eliminating energy waste
- Methane abatement technology, implementation, case studies
- Methane emissions management and storage
- Advances in synthetic methane
- Reducing carbon footprint and greenhouse (GHG) emissions
- Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) and Carbon Capture, Utilisation and Storage (CCUS) initiatives, technologies and case studies
- Flare recovery and reinjection approaches, applications and case studies
- Electrification technologies and best practices
- The role of critical minerals in the energy transition
- Compressed natural gas (CNG) vehicle conversion programmes
RENEWABLE ENERGY (RE) NEW FOR 2026
- Power-to-X
- Wave power: motion and overtopping energy converters, operations, facility and grid integration, case studies
- Hydropower projects and technologies
- Wind power: technology, operations, facility and grid integration, case studies
- Solar energy: photovoltaics, technology, operations, facility and grid integration, case studies
- Geothermal energy: heating, cooling and electric power generation
- Geothermal power projects
- Enhanced geothermal storage systems, solutions and technologies
- Repurposing oil and gas wells and reservoirs for geothermal energy production
- Green hydrogen and increased efficiency for electrolysers
- Increasing renewable energies into the energy supply mix
- Renewable energy storage options and infrastructure
- Renewable energy startups driving progress
ENERGY ECONOMICS, GOVERNANCE, AGREEMENTS AND FINANCE (EGAF) NEW FOR 2026
- Supply and demand trends
- Current economics, market trends, fiscal policies, commercial contracts
- Corporate governance, management and business for energy enterprises
- Concession agreements, oil and gas bid rounds
- African and East Mediterranean energy trading hubs
- Project finance: IPOs, cryptocurrencies, smart financing, mergers & acquisitions, joint ventures, portfolio diversification
- Financing energy transition strategies and decarbonisation technologies
- Financing hydrogen projects
- Gas market deregulation
- Economics on acquiring fields
- Oil and gas technical patents
- Petroleum policy and legislation
- Environmental, social, governance reporting framework
- Calculating business Scope 3 carbon footprint measurement, reporting and carbon offsets
- Climate finance
HEALTH AND SAFETY (HS)
- Safety culture and safety management systems, human factors and performance
- The role of leadership within HSE
- Preparedness and emergency response, mitigating risks
- Best practises and responses to pandemics and natural disasters
- Occupational safety
- Process safety management (PSM)
- Accident prevention and control, lessons learnt
- Stakeholder engagement, community awareness, and health and safety related Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programmes
- Mental health and wellbeing, occupational health
- Use of digital technologies to improve HSE, wearable technology
- Innovation in HSE
OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE (OEX)
- Improving asset integrity
- Improving energy efficiency
- Cost optimisation case studies
- Advancements in asset maintenance strategies, managing physical asset life extension, improving reliability
- Six Sigma methods and applications
- Intelligent automation and the role of technology to achieve operational excellence
- Business and enterprise alignment
- Business process re-engineering (BPR)
- Best practices in driving agility and frictionless operations
- Identifying and implementing processes aligned to company strategies and goals
- Drone case studies for inspection and maintenance
GEOSCIENCE (GEO)
- Earth composition, structure, predictions
- Advancements in seismic surveys, imaging techniques and technologies
- Infrastructure and foundations integrity
- Ground water assessment and conditions
- Data collection, management and analysis
- Subsurface intelligence: exploitation of digitalisation, AI and machine learning
DRILLING AND COMPLETIONS (DC) NEW FOR 2026
- AI, digital and automated drilling applications and technologies
- Drilling technologies and downhole equipment
- Directional drilling and drill bit advances
- Drilling fluids: technology, environment, performance enhancement
- Drilling practices and wellbore stability
- Drill cutting treatment and handling technologies
- Drilling performance and cost optimisation
- Managed pressure and underbalanced drilling
- Onshore and offshore well stimulation: hydraulic fracturing technology and operations
- Artificial lift innovation and technologies
- Well interventions, integrity management and surveillance
- Well engineering challenges and improvements, formation damage and production improvement
- Well cementing and zonal isolation
- Well logging technologies, remote sensing for new and existing wells
- Strategies for well production enhancement
- Reservoir damage: mitigation and treatment
- Intelligent completions: design, implementation and performance
- Completion fluids optimisation and filter cake breaker system
- Completions equipment for reducing costs and increasing productivity
- Tubulars and material selection
3 EASY STEPS TO SUBMIT
YOUR ABSTRACTS
- Visit the abstracts submissions portal
- Select from 20 Technical categories
- Submit your 300 – 500 word abstracts by Thursday 5 June
Why submit technical abstracts?
Industry urgency to decarbonise to meet net-zero commitments is driving change, strategically and technically. Globally, the need for more affordable and secure energy supplies continue to increase, making engagement and open dialogue with all stakeholders including government officials, policymakers, industry leaders, influencers, engineers and tech champions and solution providers critical.
☆ Technical Committee Tip to increase your chances of being selected as a speaker, ensure your abstracts address pioneering technologies or technical processes that showcase best practices that could significantly boost performance and energy efficiency across the energy sector.
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