Welcome message from The Conference Chairman

摘要

The global, and especially the Asian, deepwater E&P sector has experienced several significant events in the past years. The deepwater sector has grown considerably, especially in Asia, with several new important discoveries. With the new discoveries being in deeper waters, it is critical for operators and vendors to come up with new technologies, such as managed-pressure drilling, and operating procedures to ensure safe and successful production. The upturn of the oil price means that development and exploration of Indonesia's deepwater fields is now economically viable. The Indonesian Government has highlighted several recent discoveries at deepwater sites as fundamental to the continued development of the nation's petroleum industry. Jakarta is a particularly suitable venue with its fast-growing deepwater sector. With the formation of the Deepwater Development (IDD) within BPmigas, and heavyweights such as PT Pertamina, Chevron, Statoil, Niko Resources and Marathon exploring deepwater ventures in the Makassar Straits (where West Seno, the country's first deepwater project is located together with the Pasagkayu project (which is already having test wells drilled) and in the Gendalo-Gehem (production starting in 2014), Kutai Basin, Bone Bay, Bangka, Kuma and Karama projects.