Report of the Preparatory Committee

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Report of the Preparatory Committee

• Prof. Dr. István (Steve) BÉRCZI
• MOL Hungarian Oil and Gas plc.
• Council Member of the World Petroleum Congress

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Content

• Antecedents
• Structure
• Operation
• Working Groups
• Responses
• Conclusions
• Further Steps.

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Antecedents

• 1996, 1997 London
• 2002, September, Rio de Janeiro
• 2003, February, London

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New Developments

• NC-s of WPC approached
• Distribution of drafts (structure, ope-ration,
  issues)
• Identification of issues of common interests
• International Organizations, NGO-s contacted.

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Principles

• No challenge to business, professio-nal
  associations, uni-s, consultants, authorities,
  bi-lateral agreements
• Focus on local to regional manifes-tation of
  global challenges
• Mobilize human resources of the in-dustry with
  intern-extern networking.

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Structure of the Forum1

• Secretariate Chmn, Vice-Chmn, Secretary
• Steering Committee Secretariate Chairs of the
  WG-s
• Forum delegates nominated by NC-s of WPC.

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Working Groups

• WG Research Development
• WG Education Training
• WG Communication
• WG Legislation Regulation
• WG Social Responsibility
• WG Ethics Conduct a Tool of Technical
  Transparency.

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Working Groups Operation

• Chairs proposed by NC
• Undisputed international reputation
• Chairs approved by the Secretariate
• 2 terms for 3 years each
• Steering Committee WG chairs Secretariate.

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WG Chairs Current Status

• R D vacant
• E T KRISTAFOR, Zdenko (HR)
• Albert I. VLADIMIROV (Ru)
• Com GARCIA, Felix (UY)
• L R BROOKS, John, R.V., (UK)
• So Re TEXEIRA, Alvaro, (BR)
• E C vacant.

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Operation Scheme1 The Forum

• A demonstrative body of PISI
• Manifested by annual conventions
• Provides professional support to WG-s
• Distributes of WG achievements
• Indicates issues of common interest.

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Operation 2 The Steering Committee

• A governing body which
• Approves issues of common inte-rest proposed by
  the Forum
• Sets technical programme of the annual
  conventions
• Establishes inner, outer contacts
• Supports SPC of WPC.

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Operation 3 The Secretariate

• An administrative body, which
• Co-ordinates WG-s operation
• Collects, manages reports, doc-s
• Convenes annual meetings
• Reports/contacts/assists EC of WPC

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WG Research Development

• New oil gas provinces and old costs
• Industry and nature decomissioning of depleted
  fields - a new challenge
• Quality of products and quality of life.
• Products with lower enviromental load
• LNG, GTL and more avantguard tech-nologies.

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WG Education Training

• Industry expectations vs. education institutes
  curricula
• From graduate to professional cor-porate
  academies
• New technology and technical/pro-fessional skill
• Enhance the level of the technical education in
  colleges.

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WG Communication

• Industry achievements vs. commu-nity needs
• Energy supply and demand prudent, conservative
  use of energy
• Special networking to identify events organized
  by PISI member organizati-ons.

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WG Social Responsibility

• Balance of the interests of industry, government
  and local communities
• Transfer technical achievements to local
  communities
• Assists in fight against poverty and uneducation
• Fight for the change of mentality.

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WG Legislation Regulation

• Law and order from the reconnaisan-ce to the
  utility companies
• Security of
• supply
• revenue
• profit
• quality of life.

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WG Ethics ConductTools of Technical
Transparency

• Advanced Categorization of Reser-ves Resources
• Standardization of International Fi-nancial
  Reports
• Standardization of Resources and Reserves
  Calculation Methods.

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Responses

• Slow progress from await and see attitude to a
  firm commitment
• LoI Canada, Indonesia, Viet-Nam
• Personal Algeria, Brasil, China, Cro-atia,
  France, Germany, Hungary, Slo-venia, UK, Uruguay,
  USA
• NGO ARPEL, OPEC, UN

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Conclusions

• No reason to give up
• Commited support of NC-s needed
• Strong focus of ubiqitous problems
• Different pace of progress of WG-s
• 4th Business Meeting 2004
• 1st Annual Convention with focus on Institutes in
  Africa at the 18th WPC

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Further Steps

• A PISI chapter on the WPC homepage
• Documents and presentations of 3rd Business
  Meeting in Qatar
• Introduction of member Institutes
• Actual events with PISI Members
• Issues of common interest
• Preparations for 2004, 2005

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• THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION!