ASHRM's December Dinner Meeting
April 28, 2008
The Arabian Society for Human Resource Management (ASHRM) is pleased to invite you to December's dinner meeting for a presentation by Dr. Muhammad Al-Saggaf on "Future Upstream Innovation: Technology & HR". Dr. Al Saggafs presentation discusses future innovation in the oil industry, and what is envisaged to be the most influential technologies of the next two decades. An area will be designated for females interested in attending.
Event Summary
Date & Time:
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Location:
Chamber of Commerce
(Next to Saudi Aramcos Dammam Office Building on Dammam-Khobar Highway)
Attendance Fees:
- 30SAR for members
- 60SAR for non-members
Presentation:
SPEAKER: Dr. Muhammad Al-Saggaf
As head of the EXPEC Advanced Research Center, Dr. Saggaf manages all of Saudi Aramcos upstream research and development activities. Dr. Saggaf is also the co-author of Integrated Reservoir Characterization: New Methodologies, and Editor and contributor of 3 chapters in the book titled Shaybah Guidebook: Dhahran, Saudi Aramco.
Future Upstream Innovation: Technology & HR
This presentation discusses future innovation in the oil industry and what is envisaged to be the most influential technologies of the next two decades.
The future is expected to see continued, unabated demand for global energy that will translate into growing demand for traditional hydrocarbon resources such as oil and gas. This growing demand represents a significant challenge to which the industry must respond. Several companies have already announced ambitious expansion plans over the next several years. However, demand growth is expected to be a long-term phenomenon, for which new technologies need to be developed to substantially increase the effectiveness by which hydrocarbon resources are found, developed, and produced.
The most influential upstream technologies of the past decades were 3D seismic data, horizontal drilling, and geosteering. Each of these has had a profound impact on the industry, and has emerged from humble beginnings into mainstream applications. The most influential technologies of future decades could include extreme reservoir contact wells, autonomous fields, passive seismic monitoring, gigacell simulation, smart fluids, bionic wells, and nanorobots. Though most of these are just dreams at the moment, significant strides have already been made to achieve them, since it is not enough to dream; dreams must be pursued.
