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OFFSHORE EUROPE 85
Exhibition & Conference
Aberdeen, Scotland—September 10-13
Offshore Europe 85, the seventh in the series of biennial, high-tech- nology offshore oil/gas industry ex- hibition/conferences, will be held
September 10-13 at its new perma- nent home—the Aberdeen Exhibi- tion and Conference Centre at the
Bridge of Don.
At this year's event, some 1,100 exhibitors from 18 countries will oc- cupy about 19,000 square meters of space, retaining Offshore Europe's position as the largest show of its kind outside the U.S., and second largest in the world after Houston's
Offshore Technology Conference.
As with all previous Aberdeen shows, overseas interest remains high, with exhibitors from Austra- lia, Austria, Canada, Denmark, Fin- land, France, West Germany, Hun- gary, Ireland, Italy, Japan. Nether- lands, Norway, Spain. Sweden,
Switzerland, the U.K., and the U.S. represented.
All Offshore Europe exhibitors must comply with regulations laid down by the organizer, Spearhead
Exhibitions Ltd., governing the types of companies acceptable as exhibitors. Under these regulations, preference is given to companies with equipment and services of 16 most interest to the technical and operating management of oil com- panies, drilling contractors, project management contractors, and ma- rine construction companies, which form the major visitor group at the exhibition. More than 24,000 people from 56 countries visited the 1983 show, figures expected to be ex- ceeded this year.
Admission to the exhibition and conference is restricted to those with a serious business interest in the offshore oil and gas industry, and absolutely no access is permit- ted to anyone under the age of 16.
The new Aberdeen exhibition/ conference complex has a major ex- hibition arena, a smaller multi-pur- pose hall, a two-story conference building with two halls offering a total capacity of 500 for simulta- neous sessions, together with cater- ing, car parking, and administration facilities.
Once again Offshore Europe has attracted the patronage of the
United Kingdom Offshore Opera- tors Association and the sponsor- ship of the Society of Petroleum
Engineers. The SPE has developed the technical conference program, which will highlight significant areas of current technology that will prove of major interest to the tech- nical community involved in Euro- pean offshore operations.
Sixty-four papers will be pre- sented in sessions on drilling, in- spection and maintenance, reservoir management, production opera- tions, fracturing, subsea systems, in- novative field development, and safety & the environment. The pa- pers were selected by the Confer- ence Committee from more than 300 abstracts received in response to the call for papers that went out in late 1984.
The conference will begin on
Tuesday, September 10, with an eight-paper session on Subsea Sys- tems to be chaired by L.V.
McGuire, general manager, Hamil- ton Brothers Oil & Gas Ltd., and P.
Marquez, supervising operations engineer, Murchison, Conoco (UK)
Ltd.
On Wednesday, September 11, there will be three sessions covering
Reservoir Management. Drilling, and Safety & the Environment. The 13-paper, all-day Reservoir Man- agement session will be chaired jointly by J.J. Gilbert, manager,
BP Petroleum Development Ltd., and R. Hough, head of petroleum & operational engineering, Shell UK
Exploration and Production Ltd.
Six papers will be presented in the morning Drilling session to be chair- ed by R. J. Rundt, area manager,
Phillips Petroleum Company UK
Ltd., and D. Bray, drilling man- ager, Unocal (UK) Ltd. A further six papers will be given in the afternoon
Safety & Environment session, for which T.A.F. Powell, principal pe- troleum inspector, U.K. Depart- ment of Energy, and C.P. Penny, manager, health safety & environ- mental services, BP Petroleum De- velopment Ltd., are joint chairmen.
There will also be three sessions on Thursday, September 12; these will consider Production Opera- tions, Fracturing, and Inspection &
Maintenance. The full-day, 12-pa- per Production Operations session will be chaired by W.A. Downie, production manager, Conoco (UK)
Ltd.; and C.A. Dines, division ser- vices manager, Otis Pressure Con- trol Ltd. The Fracturing session, to be chaired by D. Davis, head of stimulation research, Shell Interna- tional Petroleum Mij bv; and S.
Gibson, petroleum engineering (continued on page 18)
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