General Chair Welcome

Thank you for visiting the 2024 SPE IOR webpage. Since 1978, the Mid-Continent Section of the Society of Petroleum Engineers has conducted this biennial conference. The 2024 SPE IOR Conference will continue the Society of Petroleum Engineers’ long tradition as the premier gathering on increased oil recovery. We are excited to meet in person after conducting a couple of virtual conferences as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. 

“IOR: Critical Technologies of the Future,” is the theme of the 2024 conference. An objective recovery factor assessment of today’s producing oilfields would tell us the remaining potential to improve recovery is tremendous. Effectively employing IOR technologies is critical to the future of our industry. It’s time to get ambitious!  We must increase the pace of IOR innovation, testing new ideas and adapting to the low carbon environment to be relevant in the future. At this conference, the top worldwide IOR talent will gather creating a catalyst for sharing and debating ideas, seeking the best technologies to improve the recovery and carbon footprint of oil and gas reservoirs around the world.  

Our industry is tremendously innovative, entrepenureal and traditionally rate-of-return focused. Our challenge is that IOR processes are typically more strategic in nature, with a unique economic cash flow profile, generally higher OPEX, and more challenging reserve booking scenarios compared to a traditional drilling project. We need to apply the mindset and innovation of the shale revolution to improving recovery factors using IOR processes. We only need to look at the tremendous progress reducing drilling cost/ft, and emissions as examples of what a singular focus can achieve.  Let’s embrace the challenge!

I cordially invite you to join myself and the other members of the planning committee at the 2024 SPE IOR Conference in Tulsa. I encourage you to participate actively by submitting an abstract, presenting your products and services, or becoming a sponsor. The conference will feature short courses, technical seminars, exhibits, our customary opening plenary session, as well as Keynote and Pioneer Awards Luncheons. Our 2024 conference will be held at the beautiful River Spirit Casino Resort in Tulsa, which features a modern 30,000 square foot convention and meeting center. You don’t want to be left out!

I am looking forward to seeing you in Tulsa, Oklahoma, at the next SPE IOR Conference in 2024.

Welcome,

Tom McCoy

General Chair, 2024 IOR