Working Committee 1:Exploration and Production.

WOC 1 will focus during this triennium on the significant advances in Natural Gas Exploration and Production that aim to secure a sustainable supply for global development.

CHAIRMAN	VICE CHAIRMAN	SECRETARY
Dr. Amine Mazouzi	Mr. Denis Krambeck Dinelli	Mr. Ilhane Dib


Strategy, Planning, Reporting Director Association Central Director Sonatrach PED Division 8, Chemin du Reservoir, Hydra, Alger Algeria Tel : +213 (0) 21605061 AMINE.MAZOUZI@sonatrach.dz	Domestic E&P Gas Production Planning Manager PETROBRAS - Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. E&P-CORP/EGP/PPG Avenida República do Chile, 330 – 31o. andar – Centro 20031-170 Rio de Janeiro – RJ – Brasil Tel: 55 21 2144-1537 Cel: 55 21 8297-9333 dkdinelli@petrobras.com.br	Engineer Specialist Geologist Sonatrach Exploration Division BP 68 M Boumerdes 35000 – Algeria Tel : +213 (0) 24817314 Fax : +213 (0) 24816398 ilhane.dib@ep.sonatrach.dz ilhane.dib@gmail.com (alternative)

Scope and Purposes

The IGU 2009 - 2012 triennium will take place within a particular economic context characterised by a global significant slowing growth and a constant increase in world natural gas consumption (1.0% per year in OECD and 2.3% in non-OECD countries).

This demand requires new gas resources that should be discovered in both conventional and unconventional contexts and developed with rigorous processes to provide relevant supply at an appropriate price to the market.

The exploration and the development of these new gas resources are capital-intensive and time-consuming, but have the potential to significantly increase the reserves and production once resources are identified.

Recent statistics exhibit a global decrease of exploration efforts coupled with severe risk management by most operators. Consequently, the number and size of natural gas discoveries are decreasing drastically, thus affecting R/P ratios significantly.

Thus, Working Committee 1 (WOC-1) will focus during this triennium on the significant advances in Natural Gas Exploration and Production that aim to secure a sustainable supply for global development.

The Committee has assigned 2 study groups to deal with specific aspects related to:

1. Recent Advances in Exploration and Production of Natural Gas;

2. Most Significant E&P New Gas Projects.

We intend to deliver, by the end of the triennium, a comprehensive study highlighting state of the art approaches for assessing, developing and producing natural gas resources.