IHS CERA E&P Trends Forum

IHS CERA E&P Trends Forum features our advisory service that delivers original research and fosters meaningful discussions on key strategic and operational issues facing IHS CERA upstream clients. These matters concern a range of underground factors: reserves, decline rates, reservoir recovery, productive capacity and unconventional resources. They also entail the tactical and strategic side of drilling permits, country and basin cost comparisons, giant fields and emerging E&P trends.

Designed to hit upon the most critical issues, an architecture of Core Topics guides the Forum's research. Likewise, IHS CERA access to the world's largest proprietary commercial database provides quantitative validity to the resulting analyses. Our E&P Trend Forum experts construct data sets, reports and briefings, which they present and discuss with Forum members at semiannual workshops. IHS CERA clients, in turn, play a vital role connecting data to strategy while receiving valuable insights that reinforce their own analytical capabilities.

IHS CERA E&P Trends Forum membership is on an annual basis, during which IHS CERA delivers two research cycles, each culminating in member workshops. At scheduled times through the year, members receive the following products and services:

• Special Reports
• Briefings
• Member Workshops
• Data Center Access
• IHS CERA Website Access
• Telephone and Email Access to Research Staff
• Forum Member Meetings

Benefits:

IHS CERA E&P Trends Forum enables you to:

• Save time and resources by focusing on key E&P issues
• Drive the direction of original research imparting your needs and interests to IHS CERA analysts
• Tap into IHS CERA access to the world's largest proprietary commercial database, encompassing more than 200 countries and 170 industries
• Challenge your own assumptions, analysis, and conclusions to gain a broader and deeper understanding of the scale and complexity of risk at different asset life cycle stages
  

IHS CERA E&P Trends Forum membership is on an annual basis, during which IHS CERA delivers two research cycles, each culminating in member workshops. At scheduled times through the year, members receive the following products and services:

Special Reports

• Four Special Reports per year, two in the spring and two in the autumn, delivered at the Member Workshop
• Provide in-depth analysis of one of the Core Topics, elucidated by case studies where appropriate

Briefings

• Four Briefings each year, two in the spring and two in the autumn, delivered at the Member Workshop
• Feature an in-depth look at a particular aspect of one of the Core Topics

Member Workshops

• Two seats each for the spring and autumn Member Workshops, one held in Houston, Texas and the other at a selected site in Europe
• Feature IHS CERA presentations, topical discussions, informal networking and input opportunity for the forthcoming research agenda

Data Center Access

• Client access to IHS CERA data generated during the Core Topic research process

IHS CERA Website Access

• Client access to the Forum web site, which will include postings on:
  • Selected research analysis and findings
  • Summaries and workshop proceedings
  • Projects schedules
  • Logistics information

Telephone and Email Access to Research Staff

• Telephone and email access to IHS CERA experts to address specific questions related to Forum research and to identify and discuss key topics of interest to members

Forum Member Meetings

• Semiannual private meetings, once in the spring and once in autumn, between IHS CERA research experts and member company representatives, either by teleconference or on site at the member's company
• These meetings allow IHS CERA to discuss research with and receive feedback from the member as well as learn the client's interests for the forthcoming research agenda.

Private Reports

• Exploration Trends: Reloading the Barrel.  Future supply is dependent upon the size of remaining resources, access, and the ability of the industry to turn reserves into production. Increased licensing activity and exploration success rates over the past few years provide hints about what the future holds for discovery. The 140 billion barrels of undeveloped discoveries made over the past 20 years provide hints about taking future discoveries to development. Insights into these trends will help us better understand future supply.

• CO2 Enhanced Oil Recovery: a Win-Win for Sequestration and Oil Supply?   Hopes are high for using enhanced oil recovery (EOR) for sequestering CO2 from refineries and power plants while also realizing an economic benefit. But is the capacity really there and how much incremental oil can be produced? This report will review global oil and gas fields and EOR projects to determine answers to these questions.

Briefings

• Challenges and Potential of the Arctic Region.  The Arctic's resource potential combined with global E&P dynamics and rapidly melting sea ice has kept interest in this region high.  However, complex political dynamics, technological challenges, and environmental conditions complicate oil and gas development in each of the Arctic subregions.  This briefing will review these challenges, the size of the potential prize, and recent activity that continues to push back the edges of this frontier.

• Inside the IHS CERA Outlook for Iraq's Oil and Gas Productive Capacity. For Iraq 2009 was a banner year toward the revival of the upstream sector. However, more progress is needed to realize its world-class potential. This briefing will examine the results of the recent licensing rounds, other E&P activity, and the latest political and fiscal developments to provide context for the IHS CERA outlook for Iraq's productive capacity.

Subscribers also receive access to our extensive research archives, available in English, Russian, and Chinese:

• Research archive
• Research archive (Russian Version)
• Research archive (Chinese Version)

Forum Directors
Leta Smith, IHS CERA Director
Peter Jackson, IHS CERA Senior Director, Oil Industry Activity
Richard Morris, IHS CERA Senior Director, Product Management

Forum Team
James Burkhard, Managing Director of IHS CERA Global Oil Group
Samia Razak, IHS CERA Associate Director, Global Oil Supply
Jonathan Craig, IHS CERA Associate, Global Oil Supply
Keith Eastwood, IHS CERA Senior Associate
Simon Wardell, IHS CERA Director