SPE OKC Oil & Gas Symposium

The symposium examines oil, gas, and LNG markets; AI-driven power demand; tariffs and the gas supply chain; critical minerals in the energy supply chain; geothermal opportunities; and changing global energy trade flows. The program includes a panel on the 2027 energy economy outlook, a session on gas-fired generation and AI data centers, and sessions on LNG and tariffs, critical minerals, geothermal, and energy trade.

The conference brings together professionals from the international response community, private sector, government, and nongovernmental organizations to address oil-spill response challenges through sound science, practical innovation, and lessons from actual spill responses and research. The conference overview highlights emerging technological trends and regulatory issues in oil-spill response. Listed program components include platform sessions, a technical demonstration, poster presentations, a film festival, and a photo gallery. The subject matter includes oil-spill preparedness, response, restoration, compliance, and cleanup.

NAPE Summit combines an energy prospect and property expo with a business conference and expo hubs covering oil and gas, critical minerals, renewable energy, offshore activity, minerals and non-operating interests, data centers, and bitcoin mining. The Critical Minerals Hub addresses exploration, extraction, processing, and regulatory, market, and supply-chain factors; other hubs cover energy and digital infrastructure, data-center power demands, and offshore regulation, technology, and leasing. The Energy Business Conference has business and technical tracks. Its agenda covers U.S. and global energy-market outlooks; grid capacity and AI-driven electricity demand; AI adoption, scaling, and governance in energy; and how conflict, trade disputes, cyber threats, supply-chain disruptions, strategic minerals, and energy security affect markets and investment. Technical sessions address AI in subsurface workflows—including geospatial tools, OSDU and harmonized datasets, and seismic analysis—and emerging opportunities in mature basins, including direct lithium extraction from Arkansas’s Smackover Formation, geothermal co-production in the Bakken, helium and hydrogen resources, and horizontal development. The expo also features prospect presentations and a government affairs session.

The technical program covers the lifecycle of offshore energy projects, from exploration and development through production, maintenance, and decommissioning. Topics span offshore oil and gas, offshore wind, carbon management, hydrogen, marine resources, and technologies for operational efficiency, safety, reliability, and performance, including advanced materials, automation, robotics, artificial intelligence, and digital transformation. Program elements include the Opening General Session on energy demand, market dynamics, policy and regulation, offshore innovation, collaboration, and sustainability; panel and technical sessions; keynote presentations; the University R&D Showcase; and the Presentation Hub and Around the World Series. Executive Dialogues use a limited-participation, peer-to-peer format and address emerging technologies, policy and regulation, capital investment, market outlooks, energy transition strategies, workforce development, and energy demand and security. The Energy Evolution Exchange Pavilion features carbon capture and storage, offshore wind, hydrogen, marine resources, low-carbon solutions, and energy efficiency. URTeC is co-located with OTC, with distinct technical programs focused on offshore and unconventional resource development.

The conference brings together leaders from across Oklahoma’s oil and natural gas industry. Business sessions, keynote presentations, and panel discussions address timely industry topics, including state and federal issues affecting the industry and issues and innovations shaping Oklahoma energy. The program also includes a board meeting and an Alliance speed-networking session. The conference concludes with the Petroleum Alliance Fundraising Auction, which recognizes contributions to the 2026 charity of the year, Wes Welker Foundation.

The conference theme is “Pipeline to Possibilities: Securing Energy, Shaping Futures.” Stakeholder Engagement & Outreach covers community and public engagement, API Recommended Practices 1162 and 1185, environmental justice, Tribal and First Nation considerations, emergency responder education, and damage prevention. Pipeline Operational Excellence addresses safety performance, in-line inspection lessons, pipeline safety management systems, safety culture, management of change, asset remediation, and operational and enterprise risk management. Technology, AI & Innovation includes inspection tools, engineering practices, control room technologies, artificial intelligence, API RP 1165, and emerging fuels. Workforce Training & Development covers succession planning, knowledge transfer, recruitment and retention, multigenerational workforces, operator qualification, inspector certification, and competency-based learning. Sustainability & New Fuels addresses CO2, hydrogen and other low-carbon fuels; safety, integrity, leak detection, corrosion management, emergency preparedness, methane emissions, and environmental stewardship. Other tracks address pipeline construction, project management, commissioning, major maintenance, contract management and trenchless technologies; leak detection systems and predictive analytics; SCADA/OT modernization, industrial control system cybersecurity, threat response and regulatory compliance; and alarm and control room management, including fatigue mitigation, controller training, management of change, records, and regulatory interpretations.

The Ohio Oil & Gas Association’s principal business meeting covers current issues impacting Ohio’s oil and gas industry through business sessions, breakout sessions, and a trade show. Agenda topics include the Debrosse Memorial Report on 2026 oil and gas activity in Ohio; an Ohio Natural Energy Institute program update; a Division of Oil and Gas Resources Management regulatory update; a Federal Political Perspective; and a State Legislative Leadership Discussion. The program also lists an Ohio Geological Society session and legal continuing-education sessions. Several session titles and breakout presentations remain TBD. The program includes the Oilfield Patriot Award ceremony and the Thomas E Stewart Legacy Award presentation.

The program focuses on cybersecurity for the oil and natural gas industry, with an emphasis on safety, best practices, innovation, and resilience. Listed subjects include application security and SecDevOps; compliance and new regulations; ICS cybersecurity; identity and access management; cyber incident management; next-generation SOC and security orchestration; generative AI platform risks and security; zero trust; threat hunting and threat intelligence; cyber insurance; the human element; and cybersecurity architecture. The program also includes a CISO leadership panel, a cyber incident management workshop, an API conference retrospective and past-chair panel, and the keynote session “AI Made Me Do It: Confessions of an AI-Era CISO.”

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.