Schedule of Events
Preliminary Programme Outline
The themes of the proposed workshop and conference are: Production Assurance; Onshore and Offshore Installation Integrity; Production Challenges and Opportunities; and Niger-Delta Clean-up: What’s Possible with Bioremediation.
Technical sessions and panel discussion under each of the theme will focus on the following topics:
a. PRODUCTION ASSURANCE
- Biotechnology in the energy industry
- Oilfields sulfur-cycle and offshore asset integrity
- Microbial souring of offshore oil and gas reservoirs
- Modeling and simulation of souring of offshore oil reservoirs
- Nitrate injection for control of reservoir souring
- Case studies on control and mitigation of souring (with local examples)
b. ONSHORE AND OFFSHORE INSTALLATION INTEGRITY
- Biofilms and biofouling of offshore oil installations
- Management and control of biofouling
- Microbial influenced corrosion of oil and gas installations
- Models for prediction of microbial influenced corrosion of oil and gas installations
- Condition assessment and monitoring of microbial influenced corrosion
- Case studies on microbial influenced corrosion
- Green biocides
c. PRODUCTION: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES
- Paraffin deposition problems
- Biodegradation of oil and biological control of paraffin deposition for enhanced oil recovery
- Microbial methods and techniques for improving oil production and enhanced recovery
- Biopolymers for reservoir flooding
- Case studies of biological control of paraffin deposition and microbial enhanced oil recovery
d. NIGER-DELTA CLEAN-UP – WHAT’S POSSIBLE WITH BIOREMEDIATION
- Pollution problems in Nigeria’s oil and gas industry
- Bioremediation as a clean-up option in the Niger-Delta
- Biorestoration of oil-polluted ecosystems
- Biological treatment of oily wastes and oil sludge
- Case studies on bioremediation of major oil spills and pollution
