The first time workshop in Russia and Caspian region will cover hard-to-recover reserves and the first time SPE workshop will take place in Minsk, Belarus on 24-26 April 2018.

The workshop is organized with support of Belorusneft.

One of the most important innovations of the XXI century in the energy sector is shale oil and gas resources development, said the world expert Daniel Yergin. This showed that new technologies could change the balance in global economy and politics.

This reserves category is the most sensitive to technology level and economic factors. This leads to a strong challenge for operating companies to know costs for each barrel, requiring entirely different knowledge level of their development target. For this reason, hard-to-recover reserves result in permanent search of new engineering approaches and technologies and force to build innovative environment.

The programme committee chaired by Mars Khsasnov, Gazpromneft STC, and Alexander Lyakhov, Belorusneft offered the following sessions to include to the programme:

• Session 1. Formation and Localization of Hard-to-Recover Reserves

• Session 2. Current Methods of Hard-to-Recover Reserves and Prospecting

• Session 3. Effective Technologies for Drilling, Development and Stimulation

• Session 4. Unconventional/Tight Reservoirs Development

• In addition to the technical sessions, programme committee plans to have a poster session

Detailed information: http://www.spe.org/go/18ams2-eng.