IADC World Drilling 2024 Conference & Exhibition

IADC World Drilling 2024, the leadership event for wells professionals, will explore our industry’s challenges and opportunities from a strategic, leadership perspective. The event, which convenes in Madrid, on 18-19 June, will focus on five major Topical Areas.  IADC invites submission of visionary abstracts for cutting-edge solutions on each area. Presentations that pose provocative questions, which showcase good examples of cross-industry collaboration and judged likely to prompt discussion are especially welcome. Case histories highlighting detailed content are also of great interest. Prospective presenters may be asked to participate on panels, rather than make a conventional presentation.

BUILDING RESILIENCE FOR THE FUTURE
Our industry is facing a new environment and the past few years have significantly tested our resilience and increased the risk to our industry’s value chain. These tests sometimes come from non-foreseeable events and have taken several forms; such as responding to the needs for a more energy secure world, effects of the war in Ukraine, outcome of a pandemic, mental wellness, challenges with attracting and retaining talent in more ways than we have ever had to deal with, being the target of cyber-attacks, the ever-increasing difficultly in securing funding for our activities, working with an ageing rig fleet and strategies for prolonging and optimizing the life of assets, and the expectation from our customers and co-stakeholders to pivot along with them to alternative energy services. Coping with these challenges have shown that our companies, teams, and the people that deliver the necessary solutions are very adaptable and resilient. It has also highlighted the need to continue to strengthen this resilience muscle, and stimulate cross- industry collaboration initiatives, to take on the dynamic challenges of the future. We need to innovate more than ever and IADC World Drilling is seeking presentations that explore ideas around the best practice approaches to building resilience in our industry, companies, and people.

ENERGY TRANSITION: WHAT ARE WE DOING TODAY, AND WHAT PLANS DO WE HAVE FOR TOMORROW?
Involvement in drilling of geothermal and CC(U)S wells comes to mind when thinking of our contribution to Energy Transition (ET). But what else are we doing, and where? What technologies have been implemented and what plans does your company have for future technology implementation in the ET space? IADC World Drilling is seeking presentations regarding today’s experience and involvement in Geothermal, CCS and Blue Hydrogen projects as well as examples or case studies regarding existing and/or future technology adoption in the Energy Transition space.

WORKFORCE ATTRACTION, DEVELOPMENT, MOTIVATION & RETENTION
Over the last year, we have all experienced the difficulty in recruiting talent and in the training and developing these new talents. The lack of experience as well as the building of local workforce have added in some cases significant challenges. Supervisory leadership is being asked to do more often without the proper skills and support. IADC World Drilling is seeking presentations that address attracting the next-generation workforce, development of both new, existing, and local personnel to ensure safe and efficient operations, and retention of employees within the company and industry. What skills are needed to run tomorrow’s workforce?

REDUCING RISK AND ADDING VALUE THROUGH ANALYTICS, TECHNOLOGY AND BEST PRACTICES
Adding value is essential for all industry stakeholders. Data analytics such as predictive analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence have proven to optimize drilling technologies. These new technologies result in reduced operating costs, increased productivity and are addressing major challenges such as minimizing our carbon footprint. With the many changes occurring, now is possibly also a good time to review our fundamental business and contracting modes to see if there would be other models, which could add more value. IADC World Drilling is seeking presentations demonstrating the successful implementation of analytics, new technologies and practices, whether oilfield inspired or adapted from other industries, that improve the drilling value chain.

RIG MARKETS & OUTLOOK
Companies keep a close eye on the market outlook and are continuously assessing the economics behind those forecasts. To do so, we must not only look at prevailing economic factors and historical performance but also at the possible changes in demand brought about by the energy transition and energy security dilemma. IADC World Drilling is seeking presentations addressing the global industry outlook as well as offshore and onshore rig markets.

TIPS FOR A GOOD ABSTRACT AND PRESENTATION: Communicate the strategic value of your proposal. Use Case Studies to the greatest extent possible. Conclude the presentation by summarizing the Big Idea encapsulated in your talk and its ultimate impact. Further, IADC World Drilling prizes diversity in ethnicity and gender.

Authors of selected presentations may be asked to participate in panel discussions.
Authors are invited to submit proposals for presentations at the conference. To be considered, an abstract for each proposed paper must be submitted to IADC no later than 10 January 2024. Authors of selected papers will receive confirmation letters and guidelines by the 1^st of February 2024. Please note that formal papers will be accepted but are NOT required for this conference.

Prior to paper proposal submission, management clearance must be obtained. Any issues concerning clearance should be outlined when the paper proposal is submitted.

We look forward to your participation and hope to see you at this important event!