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Thursday, March 31, 2011

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Wednesday, March 30, 2011

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Analysis: UK 2011 Budget Creates Uncertainty for North Sea O&G Investment

The UK government's announcement Wednesday that it would increase the Supplementary Charge (SC) on North Sea oil and gas production to 32 percent effective midnight March 23 has effectively made the UK regime one of the most unstable regimes globally, according to analysis by UK-based consulting and economic planning firm Palantir Solutions.

"The decision complicates investment decision-making and increases uncertainty as most investors had actually been expecting Budget 2011 to introduce improvements for new fields and assets with marginal economics," Palantir said. The UK government said it was increasing the SC in light of higher oil prices, saying it would reduce the SC back towards 20 percent on a staged and affordable basis if oil prices falls below a set trigger price.

The budget's economic impact effectively increases the tax burden by 24 percent for non-petroleum revenue tax (PRT) (62 percent versus the original 50 percent) and by 8 percent for PRT (81 percent vs. 75 percent) assets. For the majority of North Sea assets, this will eliminate at least 15 percent from their values, and the impact is already showing in the share price of companies whose portfolios are heavily weighted towards the UK, such as EnQuest and Premier Oil.

The UK government has sought to increase the SC rate to help the government financially in the near-term; however, Palantir said the move would definitely hurt in the long run as capital would be gradually relocated to more attractive oil & gas provinces – perhaps with a higher government take, but with "cheaper" resources and more stable fiscal environments.

Analysis: UK 2011 Budget Creates Uncertainty for North Sea O&G Investment

The increase in SC would induce greater risk-taking in exploration among companies who have sufficient profits from other upstream oil & gas activities in the UK to shelter such exploration expenditures, since the government will be effectively paying 62% of dry hole costs for these players versus the original 50%. "However, there is little value added for small pure exploration companies because they will have to bear the full cost of exploration in the absence of profits elsewhere," Palantir said.

While the total effective tax rate has risen now to 62% for non-PRT and 81% for PRT assets, the decommissioning relief will attract only 20% SC deduction. The budget claims that this is to "avoid incentivising accelerated decommissioning". In reality, in the majority of cases decisions on cessation of production timing are based on the cumulative before tax cash flow, and SC rate changes have limited impact on them. However, the increased tax rate will reduce the amount of money available to operators for maintenance and brown-field modifications/incremental investment opportunities, which might actually accelerate decommissioning dates.

"On the other hand, this sets a potentially good precedent for PRT fields for a scenario where PRT gets abolished in the future. While positive on the surface, the biggest uncertainty associated with the potential abolishment of PRT in the future is in the simultaneous loss of PRT decommissioning relief. So the fact that the government recognises that decommissioning relief should be assessed in line with the tax burden over the full field life can be seen as a positive (though minor in the whole scheme of things) news," Palantir said.

The UK government decision to increase the SC because of high oil prices isn't convincing, Palantir said as the increase in price between 2006 and now hasn't resulted in a proportionate increase in corporate profits because the cost base has increased substantially as well. "In addition, when the government refers to unexpected windfall profits in excess of what's been assumed at the time of investment decision it fails to acknowledge the fact that very few companies take their decisions based on the current prices."

While the oil price has gone from $66/bbl to $115/bbl since the last increase in SC rate in 2006, NBP [national balancing point] gas price (at which the majority of the UK gas production is sold) have actually fallen. So the existing and future gas producers in the Southern North Sea, Central North Sea and West of Shetland basins will be worst hit by the SC rate increase. The Budget document also doesn't mention what will happen if the gas prices remain depressed, and is entirely concentrated on oil price threshold of $75/bbl.

Analysis: UK 2011 Budget Creates Uncertainty for North Sea O&G Investment

Palantir noted that the government will most likely end up in a situation where it will be forced to provide tax incentives on an ad hoc basis to various fields and projects that will simply not meet investment criteria at the new SC rate. An alternative would be to scrap the SC and associated allowances altogether and introduce a special tax ring-fenced at field level and linked to the rate of return (similar to the Danish Hydrocarbon Tax). "This seems to be a more efficient solution, which will please the industry, and allow the government to collect higher taxes on windfall profits without jeopardising the stability of the regime," Palantir said.

Malcolm Webb, Oil & Gas UK's chief executive, said on Wednesday: "In its first Budget nine months ago, the Government recognised the importance of a 'stable' UK oil and gas tax regime which provided 'certainty for investors'. Given that assurance, the industry is shocked to now be hit by a tax increase that raises the tax rate to at least 62 per cent, with some of the most mature and therefore vulnerable fields now paying up to 81 per cent."

"At a time when we could see investment recovering following the last period of fiscal instability, this further shock will only damage investor confidence and make many question whether the UK is an appropriate destination for their investment. Many of our members will now be reappraising their investment decisions."

Top Ten Ways Govt is Preventing Federal Onshore U.S. Production

Western Energy Alliance, formerly IPAMS, reported that at least half of the non-producing onshore U.S. acreage is the direct result of bureaucratic delays imposed by the Obama administration, not oil and gas companies are refusing to develop lands currently under lease.

The organization has published a top ten list to show how bureaucratic delays are not only preventing more production of domestic oil and natural gas today, but putting at risk tomorrow's production as well, said Kathleen Sgamma, the organization's director of government and public affairs.

While companies are in the long process of satisfying all the requirements necessary to begin production, new federal policies and deliberate bureaucratic delays are preventing American production in the West. Western Energy Alliance estimates that about one-third of leased acreage will not be developed by the current leaseholder with today's technology because exploratory work determines there are insufficient resources and other factors.

Sgamma said that the Obama administration continues to deflect blame for leases that are not producing onto the industry, yet their rhetoric displays a misrepresentation of how oil and natural gas development on federal lands works.

"The truth is that companies are doing all they can to develop federal energy resources, but a lease is not a green light to produce—it's the first step in a long, expensive process that is fraught with bureaucratic red tape and lawsuits by environmental groups determined to stop domestic energy development," noted Sgamma.

"Since development on federal lands takes close to ten years, we know that production today is the result of policies and actions from several years ago," said Sgamma. "Symbolic, punitive measures will do nothing to increase domestic energy supply. What's needed is legislation that provides certainty, clears obstacles, and encourages production."

The top ten ways that the government is preventing production on federal onshore leases includes:

Project Approvals: Whether a small project under fifty wells or a large one with thousands, the Department of the Interior (DOI) is simply not approving oil and natural gas projects. Environmental analysis and project approval must occur before companies can even apply for drilling permits. Normally, this process can take over seven years, but companies are currently experiencing indefinite delays.

EPA Overreach: Recent EPA [Environmental Protection Agency] expansion imposes excessive, redundant regulatory burdens on oil and natural gas production and introduces high levels of uncertainty. EPA has directly prevented project approvals in the West. EPA overreach is having a chilling effect on energy production, diverting precious time and resources away from energy development and into non-productive regulatory activities.

Permitting: Companies are not getting permits to drill in a timely fashion. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) conservatively estimates a 206 day average processing time for permits. Depending on the field office, permits can take over 500 days. Companies cannot start to produce without a permit.

Reduced Leasing: Often producers conduct exploratory work on leases and determine that nearby areas have the right geology for energy production. DOI frequently defers and delays these offset leases needed to develop the existing leasehold. New policies in 2010 added three additional layers of analysis and regulation, on top of the existing five. These bureaucratic delays have led to anemic lease sales, canceled sales, and indefinite deferrals. Delays in obtaining offset leases prevent production on existing leaseholds.

Unissued Leases: DOI continues to hold millions of dollars in unissued leases, despite statutory requirements to issue leases within sixty days of receipt of payment from successful bidders. Unissued leases can hold up production on adjacent existing leasehold.

Stipulations: DOI has cleared much of the backlog of unissued leases in Wyoming, but in many cases has added more restrictions that were not specified at the time of sale. These new restrictions, such as even preventing development from the surface, reduce the value of leases and may render them uneconomic to develop.

Withdrawal of Leases: One of the first things Secretary Salazar did after taking office was to withdraw 77 leases in Utah. That has been followed by the intent to cancel existing leases in the Wyoming Range, after the government had already completed the leasing contracts. Existing, adjacent leases are affected.

Wild Lands: New policies for wild lands mean that DOI can unilaterally determine that an area is suitable for wilderness protection, and delay for years any development while they reinventory the lands and update land use plans. In the meantime, DOI treats these areas as de facto wilderness, despite lacking legal authority, which prevents production on many existing leases.

Climate Change Challenge: Environmental lawsuits have caused DOI to delay leases in Montana while additional environmental analysis and climate change study is done. Rather than settling these lawsuits as in the past, DOI should stand by its analysis that showed no significant impact to climate change from leasing in Montana.

Ad Hoc Requirements: BLM field offices are arbitrarily adding new requirements to permits, and requiring producers to conduct new and redundant analysis without a basis in law. These arbitrary delays in the field are another means of "death by a thousand cuts" that prevent energy production, job creation, and economic development.

A PERSON LIMITING YOUR GROWTH

One day not too long ago, the employees of a large company at St. Louis, Missouri, returned from their lunch break and were greeted with a sign on the front door.

 

The sign said: "Yesterday, the person who has been hindering your growth in this company passed away. We invite you to join the funeral in the room that has been prepared in the gym."

 

At first everyone was sad to hear that one of their colleagues had died, but after a while they started getting curious about who the person was. The excitement grew as the employees arrived at the gym to pay their last respects.

 

Everyone wondered: "Who is this person who was hindering my progress? Well, at least he's no longer here!"

 

One by one the employees got closer to the coffin and when they looked inside it, they suddenly became speechless. They stood over the coffin, as if someone had touched the deepest part of their soul. There was a mirror inside the coffin: everyone who looked inside it could see himself. There was also a sign next to the mirror that said: "There is only one person who is capable of setting limits to your growth: it is YOU."

Monday, March 28, 2011

How much radiation is dangerous?

TOKYO (Reuters) - Radiation levels remained a huge worry in Japan on Sunday following a spike in radioactivity in water at the Fukushima nuclear power facility.

 

But there has been no indication that people beyond the plant's immediate vicinity have been exposed to harmful doses.

 

Operator Tokyo Electric Power Co said radiation levels were over 1,000 millisieverts per hour at Reactor No. 2 and evacuated workers from the turbine building there. Japan's nuclear safety agency has said that as emergency workers, they are allowed to be exposed to 250 millisieverts per year.

 

Experts say the rise in radioactivity in the water at the reactor does not pose much danger to those outside as long as it is contained safely.

 

"It depends on where this water's going and what they're doing with it," said Murray Jennex, professor at San Diego State University. "If it's allowed to run off into the ground and stuff, you're getting a concentration in the ground. If it's going into the ocean, you're getting some accumulation in the ocean."

 

Here are some facts about radiation and the health dangers it poses:

 

* Radiation is measured using the unit sievert, which quantifies the amount absorbed by human tissues. One sievert is 1,000 millisieverts and 1 million microsieverts.

 

* People are constantly exposed to some level of natural radiation. They also get exposed to tiny amounts through sitting in airplanes, routine chest or dental x-rays, and larger amounts through medical tests such as CT-scans and MRIs. A single-organ CT scan, for example, gives a radiation dose of about 6,900 microsieverts.

 

* On Sunday afternoon, radiation levels in central Tokyo were around 0.16 microsieverts per hour. That is a level experts describe as minimal, and just below the global average of naturally occurring background radiation of 0.17-0.39 per hour, a range given by the World Nuclear Association. It is also significantly lower than the cosmic radiation of up to 7 microsieverts per hour experienced on a Tokyo-New York flight.

 

Below are different levels of massive radiation exposure in a single dose -- all measured in millisieverts -- and their likely effects on humans, as published by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency:

 

- 50-100: changes in blood chemistry

 

- 500: nausea, within hours

 

- 700: vomiting

 

- 750: hair loss, within 2-3 weeks

 

- 900: diarrhoea

 

- 1,000: haemorrhage

 

- 4,000: possible death within 2 months, if no treatment

 

- 10,000: destruction of intestinal lining, internal bleeding and death within 1-2 weeks

 

- 20,000: damage to the central nervous system and loss of consciousness within minutes, and death within hours or days

 

Sources: Taiwan Atomic Energy Council, World Nuclear Association, US Department of Transportation, US Environmental Protection Agency.

Friday, March 25, 2011

Safety Alert: Chain sling failure

Incident Date:

22/02/2011

Summary:

On two separate occasions chain slings were used to perform lifting operations. The slings, from the same supplier, failed whilst a lift was being performed.

Incident consequences (potential or actual):

HIPO

Cause of accident or incident:

Other

Activity Location:

Any Location Type

Activity Type:

Lifting, crane, rigging, deck operations

Description:

Incident #1 An arrangement of 4x 5.3t collared chain slings were used in a 'basket' configuration around the lifting points of a 20t concrete block. After 5 blocks had been moved using this method team members noticed that one of the chain links had parted at its weld point. Incident#2 2 x 2 legged 11.2t chain slings to create a 4 point sling arrangement was used to relocate 13t concrete blocks, similar to incident#1 after a number, in this case 4, blocks had been moved the work party noticed that a link in the chain had failed at it's weld point.

Specific Equipment:

5.3t collared chain sling and 2 legged 11.2t chain slings.

Lessons Learnt:

The lift plan and slinging arrangement techniques were appropriate for the task.
All of the slings mentioned in this alert were new prior to the start of the operations mentioned.
The chain slings were sourced from a single supplier

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ADDED 24TH mARCH 2011

OGN are concerned that the chains received were certified by batch testing only and it transpired that the name/signature on the certification was replicated (computerised signature) & also not necessarily the person who actually carried out the inspection/testing, giving concerns as to whether there had been any testing. As a result of our concerns we've initiated a requirement for all chains purchased to be tested to SWL .

 

The UK based sub supplier has provided us with an update which advises us that their supplier does not manufacture the chain but acts as an agent on behalf of  manufacturers in China, some of whom  who don't hold export licences. They also advised us that they have immediately withdrawn all chain from sale supplied by this company, additionally cancelled all orders with this agent and will continue to request the manufacturers details but more importantly the reason for failure.  

Task Description:

On both occasions described within this alert concrete blocks were being relocated at the work site.  On both ocassions it was not until a number of lifts had been completed did the failure occur. 

Recommendations:

All chains recieved from this supplier were immediately placed in quarantine and returned to the supplier.
The supplier was instructed to perform an investigation as to why the equipment failed and all similar equipment is recalled awaiting the investigation and report.  It is not known at this time whether similar equipment was supplied to offshore locations.
Although NOT reportable under RIDDOR, the local HSE have been advised and will be kept advised of any actions taken.

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Thursday, March 24, 2011

New Safety Mgm't Requirements for The Offshore Sector

The Clock is Ticking: New Safety Mgm't Requirements for The Offshore Sector
 
The Macondo spill last summer brought the offshore energy sector an avalanche of new regulations and requirements. But lost in the headlines and national attention has been one new initiative that will have an enormous impact on energy-related companies, especially the thousands of contractors who make offshore drilling and production possible.

Last November, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE) published a rulemaking that requires all offshore operators to have a safety and environmental management system. This approach, called SEMS, is based on recommended practices developed by API and found in its RP 75 document, but where RP 75 allowed companies to choose the elements of a safety management plan, the new regulations say all offshore operators must cover 13 areas in its SEMS plan:

  • General Provisions
  • Safety and Environmental Information
  • Hazards Analysis
  • Management of Change
  • Operating Procedures
  • Safe Work Practices
  • Training
  • Mechanical Integrity
  • Pre-Startup Review
  • Emergency Response and Control
  • Investigation of Incidents
  • Audits
  • Records and Documentation

BOEMRE says the SEMS plans must be in place by November 15th of this year and it must be audited within two years of being implemented.

This means the industry has just eight months to get into compliance with a very complex regulation. Compare that to the requirement for TWIC cards. The industry had 20 months to comply and companies still had a hard time meeting the deadlines.

Needless to say the operators are scrambling to address this new SEMS rule. BOEMRE estimates it will cost the operators more than $92 million to implement and maintain their SEMS programs. Unfortunately, the agency didn't even try to estimate what it would cost contractors who work on offshore facilities to meet the requirement. Depending on what the operators put in their plans, the cost to contractors may be enormous and if they don't work aggressively to meet the new deadlines, they run the risk of losing work when the November 15th deadline hits.

So it is worth taking a close look at how the contractors will be impacted, especially in three areas:

Hazard Analysis – All of the operators must perform a hazards analysis on all of their facilities, identifying any safety or environmental risks, determining how to avoid them and what training is required for personnel working on the facility. Contractors must make sure their safety programs address potential hazards and supply those plans to the operator they work for.

Training – Operators must make sure that all contractor personnel have the skills and knowledge to do their jobs in a "safe and environmentally sound manner" and to do their assigned jobs. Most experts believe those are two separate categories – what a worker needs to know to work on the facility and what a worker needs to know to do his or her specific job, such as welding or electrical work. Personnel will also need to go through periodic refresher training and drills under the SEMS rules. How important is this? At a March 15th public meeting, BOEMRE officials stressed that hazard analysis and training must be completed before operators can consider their SEMS program complete.

Recordkeeping – Operators will be responsible for making sure their contractors meet the SEMs requirements. That means that in order to pass their audits, operators may need to be able to document each contractor's safety plans and each of the contractor employee's training, refresher courses and drills.

Hazard Analysis, training and recordkeeping are commonplace offshore and are already a part of the industry's approach to safety. That is one reason that the number of offshore incidents has declined so steadily over the past few years. But the SEMS regulations remove much flexibility companies had and bring with them the potential for fines, Incidents of Noncompliance and even the potential for shutting down operations.

As a result operators and contractors alike need to make sure that they don't just meet the November deadline, but that they make sure they implement the right programs and systems. Part of that effort involves trying to reach common approaches to training and recordkeeping. There are very good reasons for doing this.

Have you ever heard the story about the man with two watches? He could never be sure what time it was. Without industry consensus, it will be hard to figure out what is truly safe. Imagine if more than 100 offshore operators all set different training requirements for contractor personnel? How will the agency judge one operator's program without a common approach?

From the contractor's standpoint it could be a nightmare - training, retraining and training their personnel again to meet each operator's unique program. Experts will tell you that if a worker is taught multiple, conflicting safety rules, the resulting confusion can increase the potential for accidents. It is like asking a quarterback to learn two different team's plays and keep them straight during a game.

Recordkeeping presents a similar problem. Multiple databases raise costs for operators and contractors alike. They also make it much more difficult for auditors and the agency to make sense of the information.

The good news is that the operators and many of the contractors are working on common approaches to many of the elements of SEMS. If they are successful it will make it much easier for the industry to meet the November 15 deadline and will increase safety at offshore facilities. After all, that is the ultimate goal for BOEMRE, the operators and contractors alike

Trapped Piece of Drill Pipe Prevented Sealing of BP Well

US Investigators: Trapped Piece of Drill Pipe Prevented Sealing of BP Well
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
 
A piece of drill pipe trapped inside the Deepwater Horizon's blowout preventer kept the device from averting last year's massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, U.S. investigators said Wednesday.

In the first technical analysis of equipment that the drilling rig leased by BP was using when the rig exploded in April, a forensic report said that a portion of the drill pipe became trapped inside the blowout preventer, a stack of valves on the sea floor that is considered a last resort when operators lose control of a well.

With the pipe buckled and bent, rams design to seal off the well failed to completely sever the pipe, allowing oil to continue surging upward into the ocean, investigators said.

Wednesday's report was drafted by Det Norske Veritas, a Norwegian firm with energy expertise hired to examine the failed blowout preventer. The firm was hired by the U.S. Interior Department and Coast Guard, which are conducting a joint investigation of the spill as the government considers whether to file criminal charges.

The investigation is being watched closely by both the oil industry and U.S. lawmakers, who are considering legislation that would impose new safety requirements on drilling operators. In January, a presidential commission investigating the spill found that BP and other operators made decisions in drilling the well that increased the risk of a blowout, but didn't examine the blowout preventer.

Wednesday's report focused on the mechanical causes of the blowout and didn't assign blame to BP or any of the other contractors involved in operating the rig.

In listing "contributing causes," the report didn't say that the blowout preventer lost power or that it failed to receive signals from the rig, finding instead that shearing rams inside the device fired, but failed to cut off the drill pipe.

The report said the oil industry should re-examine the ability of blowout preventers to function under the conditions that caused the Deepwater Horizon disaster, outlining a list of scenarios that the industry should consider.

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Fuel For Thought - 23 March 2011




Weekly Newsletter - 23 March 2011

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Shell and HP announced a breakthrough in their inertial sensing technology to shoot and record seismic... Read more

Chicago Bridge & Iron Company N.V. (CBI) has been selected by Yamal LNG ... Read more

Global Industries has been awarded a project from LLOG for the installation of a deepwater subsea ... Read more

New technology is being developed in Scotland to enable safer and more efficient oil recovery ... Read more

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DNV releases Macondo BOP results Long-awaited results of a forensic examination of the recovered Macondo BOP indicate that a portion of a buckled drill pipe prevented the device's blind shear rams from completely closing

BOEMRE approves Shell Auger plan Statoil will use Songa Offshore's Songa Delta for drilling and completing wells on the operator's fast-track portfolio on the Norwegian continental shelf.

Pearl gas flows The initial flow of offshore gas has begun at the Pearl GTL plant in Qatar, Shell and Qatar Petroleum announced.

Technip has Gendalo-Gehem FEED Chevron awarded Technip the front-end engineering design contract for two floating production units for the supermajor's Gendalo and Gehem deepwater fields offshore Indonesia.

Woodside logs Pluto find A well near several existing gas discoveries at Woodside's Pluto LNG project offshore Western Australia has encountered gas.

KNOC farms into Eagleford Korea National Oil Corp. will acquire one-third of Anadarko's interest in the Maverick Basin of the Eagleford shale play.

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APA 2011 offering unveiled The Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy has set out blocks in the North, Norwegian and Barents seas for the Awards in Pre-defined Areas (APA) 2011 offering.

Clough AMEC lands PNG LNG contract Clough AMEC has won a contract to provide construction management and execution services for the rejuvenation of Oil Search Limited's Kumul marine terminal.

Appraisal backs up Pipeline find OGX's Pipeline appraisal well offshore Brazil in the Campos Basin confirmed hydrocarbons estimated 1 billion to 2 billion barrels of recoverable reserves from five main reservoirs.

Encana joins Kitimat LNG Encana Corp will acquire a 30% interest in the proposed Kitimat LNG export terminal and pipeline in British Columbia.

Aker wins Eldfisk gig Aker Solutions will deliver the topsides and bridges for ConocoPhillips' Eldfisk 2/7 S production platform in the North Sea.

Offshore Engineer EVENTS


Deepwater Intervention Forum - "The Next Steps, the New Reality"
16-18 August 2011 - Galveston, Texas
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- Share your knowledge, experiences and ideas with technical and strategic decision-makers. The 2011 advisory board announce that the call for presentations is now open. Deadline is June 10th. Read more

- Wrights Well Control, STX Marine, FMC, Wild Well Control recently signed up to Participate and Exhibit at DIF. Read more


Drilling & Completing Trouble Zones - "Challenging Problems, Collaborative Solutions"
25-27 October 2011- Galveston, Texas
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- The Drilling & Completing Trouble Zones Forum advisory board invites you to submit an abstract. Deadline is July 24th. Read more

- International Association of Directional Drillers has committed to Supporting Organization at DCTZ. Read more



Emerging FPSO Forum - "On the Horizon"
20-22 September 2011 - Galveston, Texas
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- BOEMRE Approval for Cascade-Chinook to begin production will open the door to presentations at Emerging FPSO Forum. Read more




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PS: Technology Providers

Only FIVE select slots for Technology Partners. Mail anuradha@praxis-global.com today to know more about sponsorship opportunities.

 

Please Submit:

  1. Proposed abstract or title and 3 - 5 bullet points outlining the presentation
  2. Proposed speaker name, job title and company name
  3. Contact information including direct line, mobile and e-mail address
  4. A short biography and photograph of speaker (in jpg. format or similar) 

Last date for submission:

3rd April, 2011

 
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