These operations strive to maintain an underbalanced state from the drilling phase through the productive life of the well. Multiple technical and operational disciplines, working together, are crucial to achieve this goal. Therefore, the conference welcomes and encourages abstracts and active participation from the subsurface disciplines such as geology, geophysics, and reservoir engineering. Underbalanced wells are usually drilled with the reservoir in mind, so the contribution by the subsurface community is essential!

The technical and plenary sessions will be structured around the theme. It is expected that papers will include a cross-section of case histories, candidate selection, incremental increased reserve recovery, higher productivity, the reservoir context of successful applications, and innovative underbalanced drilling and completion techniques.

The mission of the conference is to convene a forum to explore underbalanced technology, emphasizing reserve additions, enhancement of well productivity, reduction of formation damage, and advances in drilling, logging, and completion techniques and practices.

Abstracts are due on 7 October 2002! The preferred method for submitting an abstract is electronically through the SPE Web site at www.spe.org

The Program Committee will select the papers in mid-October and the authors will be notified shortly thereafter.