NOG Energy Week has opened submissions for its 2027 Technical Seminar, seeking research and practical innovations in artificial intelligence, drilling, pipeline infrastructure and other critical areas as Nigeria’s oil and gas industry faces growing pressure to improve operational efficiency, develop infrastructure and attract investment.
The call for papers covers 14 technical categories across the energy value chain, providing engineers, researchers, academics and other industry professionals an opportunity to present solutions to operational and technological challenges affecting the sector.
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The areas of focus span upstream activities, including geoscience, field development, drilling and asset management, as well as midstream operations covering infrastructure, facilities, supply, pipeline transportation, shipping and marine services.
The programme will also examine downstream infrastructure, power generation and industrialisation, alongside emerging industry priorities such as artificial intelligence, digital transformation, decarbonisation, health, safety, security and environment (HSSE), project management, finance and human capital development.
The breadth of the categories reflects the technical challenges confronting Nigeria’s energy industry, particularly the need to improve production operations, strengthen transportation infrastructure, optimise existing assets and deploy technologies that can support more efficient resource utilisation.
Razaq Shuaib, asset operations support at TotalEnergies EP Nigeria, who reviewed submissions for last year’s programme, said the contributions demonstrated the depth of technical expertise available across the industry, including among practising engineers and students.
Shuaib emphasised the importance of developing technical knowledge and human capacity to sustain progress in Nigeria’s energy sector, noting that skilled professionals remained a critical driver of industry growth.
Wemimo Oyelana, portfolio and country director, dmg Nigeria, said the seminar was designed to give professionals working on practical industry problems an opportunity to share their findings and solutions with a wider audience.
“We built this programme to reach the people actually solving problems in the field and providing them with a platform to share what they are learning within the wider industry. If you have worked through something the industry needs to hear about, this is the platform for it,” Oyelana said.
The organisers are expecting more than 1,000 submissions for the 2027 edition, underscoring their ambition to attract a broad range of technical contributions from professionals across the energy value chain.
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Interested participants are required to submit abstracts of not more than 500 words by December 18, 2026, through the NOG Energy Week website. Selected papers will be presented at the Bola Ahmed Tinubu International Conference Centre, Abuja, on June 29 and 30, 2027.
The seminar is expected to provide an avenue for industry professionals to exchange field experience, research findings and emerging technologies that could improve operational performance and address infrastructure and capacity gaps across Nigeria’s oil and gas industry.
Royal Ibeh is a senior journalist with years of experience reporting on Nigeria’s technology and health sectors. She currently covers the Technology and Health beats for BusinessDay newspaper, where she writes in-depth stories on digital innovation, telecom infrastructure, healthcare systems, and public health policies.
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