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Themes cover CO₂ capture and transportation, including point-source capture, direct air capture, pipeline design, transport economics, and repurposing infrastructure; commercial and regulatory considerations, including pore-space access, UIC permitting, liability, and government support; and enhanced oil recovery and other CO₂ utilization. Technical themes include regional and site-focused subsurface characterization; reservoir-scale geologic, dynamic, geomechanical, and reactive-transport modeling; injection-well design and integrity; and testing and monitoring methods such as seismic and geochemical monitoring, leakage detection, and real-time analytics. CCUS frontiers include regional topics and adjacent applications involving hydrogen, data centers, and geothermal energy.

URTeC and the Offshore Technology Conference will be co-located while retaining distinct technical focuses. URTeC centers on unconventional resource development, with shared industry priorities that include capital efficiency, digital transformation, emissions reduction, and operational performance. Technical themes include operator case studies integrating geology, geophysics, geomechanics, completions, and reservoir engineering across exploration, appraisal, pilot testing, and development; advanced formation evaluation using well logs, core and fluid characterization, digital rock technologies, and petrophysical interpretation; geological and geophysical methods for prospectivity, acreage assessment, seismic imaging, reservoir characterization, and produced-water management; and geomechanics in well design, hydraulic fracturing, production, and refracturing. Other themes address geochemistry and fluid-rock interactions, including applications to geothermal energy and critical minerals; AI and data science for subsurface characterization, reserves estimation, drilling, completions, and production forecasting; enhanced recovery and restimulation, including gas and CO₂ injection, chemical agents, simulation, and field surveillance; and reserves estimation and production forecasting. Clean-energy topics include methane monitoring and mitigation, electrification, flaring reduction, geothermal development, infrastructure repurposing, helium and hydrogen, critical-mineral extraction, and produced-water treatment, reuse, and mineral recovery. Well-level interventions include remediation, sidetracks, artificial lift, diagnostics, and intervention economics.