MEOS, the Middle East’s longest running oil and gas show is set for further expansion in 2005 with the addition of a new hall dedicated to real time service and product providers.

On display at the Bahrain International Exhibition Centre from 12 to 15 March 2005 will be the collective expertise, processes and technologies currently meeting the industry’s need to improve reservoir assets through an immediate response to potential issues or opportunities.

Halliburton leads the way
World leader Halliburton will take a centrepiece stand in the new hall. Commenting on the concept, Eric Johnson, Director Strategic Marketing, Halliburton ESG said, “We welcome and fully support the initiative of an additional hall at MEOS 2005 dedicated solely to information technology. For the first time in the Middle East, the Halliburton group of companies will present its interactive presentation which includes data and storage areas, geoscience partner room, production office, board room, vislab, RTOC and field operations room all operating in real time.
Our presentation will form the centrepiece of the new hall at MEOS and we will encourage our IT developmental partners and leading IT oil industry solution providers to exhibit in their own right. MEOS 2005 will provide a ‘can’t miss opportunity’ to all exploration and production engineers and oil professionals in the region looking to compare, specify and update themselves with the latest tools to improve efficiency.”
Other key exhibitors making a return appearance at MEOS include all six GCC national oil companies, individual technology suppliers and operators Schlumberger, BP, ConocoPhillips, ChevronTexaco, ExxonMobil and Shell in addition to dedicated UK and USA pavilions and smaller specialist suppliers and distributors.
The SPE International Conference
To complement this major trade show is a highly technical, focused conference programme. Organised by the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE), the MEOS conference has evolved into the largest and best attended technical event of its kind in the region.

The 2005 Technical Programme Committee recently concluded its global call for papers under this year’s theme, Meeting the Global Demand Challenge. “The challenge of meeting future oil and gas demand, forecast to increase 70 per cent by the year 2030, calls not only for us to make the most out of our current mature and marginal fields, through the application of new technologies and techniques, but also for us to develop new resources and alternate hydrocarbon energy supplies,” Abla N S Al-Riyami, Programme Committee Chairwoman and Petroleum Engineering Manager, Petroleum Development Oman said.
The technical programme will begin with a plenary session on the first afternoon with a distinguished panel of speakers representing NOCs, IOCs, service companies and a non-petroleum industry addressing the conference theme. A series of traditional technical sessions and a selection of panel and workshop sessions that allow a high level of participation by delegates will follow over the subsequent three days. Topics to be addressed include: Maintaining Plateau in Mature Fields, Exploitation of Marginal Fields, Unconventional Hydrocarbon Resources, Reservoir Characterisation & Modelling and Improved/Enhanced Oil Recovery.
MEOS 2005 is organised by Arabian Exhibition Management in association with London based Overseas Exhibition Services, both members of Allworld Exhibitions.