Gold Sponsors

IFF Microbial Control (formerly DuPont Microbial Control) is a leading provider of biocide and antimicrobial solutions that control and can help prevent the growth of nuisance and dangerous micro-organisms. Our products and technologies can be found in a wide range of industries. Microbial Control helps customers to go beyond biocides and ask more of their microbial control solutions. We offer world-class products, service and information to our customers, including:

  • Process preservation chemistries
  • Formulation expertise
  • In-can preservatives and dry film fungicides/algaecides
  • Water treatment chemistries
  • Sanitizing and disinfection chemistries

Silver Sponsors

ChampionX upstream and midstream chemical solutions and services provide chemistry, technology, engineering support, and onsite expertise to improve outcomes for upstream and midstream oil and gas operations. We partner with customers to reduce risk, create value, and produce more energy more safely and more responsibly.

Genome Alberta is a publicly funded not-for-profit corporation which initiates, funds, and manages genomics research and partnerships. We strive to be the leading source of information and administration related to genomics, metabolomics, bioinformatics, bioethics, and other omics-related research in Alberta.

Microbial Insights, Inc. (MI) is a woman owned small business specializing in the development and application of cutting edge molecular biological tools (MBTs) to describe and quantify microbial communities. MI is dedicated to providing superior genetic and chemical diagnostic tools to aid our clients in understanding and managing biological processes for a wide range of areas including environmental remediation, microbial induced corrosion, and microbial source tracking.

Oil Plus Ltd is a multi-disciplined consultancy providing production chemistry, microbiology, petroleum engineering and process engineering advice, guidance, and recommendations for: 

  • New field developments – production operation design excellence
  • Process optimisation – cost minimisation
  • Troubleshooting / root cause determination – evidence-based solutions

We offer a complete service from initial on-site investigation, laboratory analysis, office-based review studies, through to process evaluation and the development of engineered solutions.

Schlumberger supplies the industry’s most comprehensive range of products and services, from exploration through production and integrated pore-to-pipeline solutions that optimize hydrocarbon recovery to deliver reservoir performance sustainably.

Schlumberger integrated production chemicals technologies and services provide tangible benefit and assurance to oil and gas operations worldwide. Our global footprint and dedicated service delivery help maximize production safely and reliably, regardless of system complexity or geography. Experience specialists deliver targeted, integrated strategies that anticipate, address and decisively remedy production issues in a complex and multifaceted international industry.

 We use production chemistry technologies – pioneering chemical and process solutions, equipment and software – aligned under the PREVENT, PERFORM and CURE segments.

Bronze Sponsors

Based in Aberdeen, Scotland, NCIMB curates the UK’s National Collection of Industrial, Food and Marine Bacteria (a globally recognised reference collection) and provides a range of services tailored to the oil and gas sector including:

  • partnering with corrosion monitoring specialists ICR Integrity to provide full microbiological audits and surveys with corrosion monitoring services (corrosion coupon retrievals, services of probes, thermography services). Data generated is used to assess MIC threat in pipework and vessels.
  • qPCR, metagenomics using NGS, MPNs and ATP analysis.
  • bio-sidestream programmes for microbiological growth analysis in water injection systems.
  • routine analysis of pig wax, cooling media, marine gas oil, and pre-and-post-biocide samples, with associated consultancy services.
Best Poster Sponsor

Springer Nature is the world’s largest academic book publisher, publisher of the world’s most influential journals and a pioneer in the field of open research. The company numbers almost 13,000 staff in over 50 countries and has a turnover of approximately EUR 1.5 billion. Springer Nature was formed in 2015 through the merger of Nature Publishing Group, Palgrave Macmillan, Macmillan Education and Springer Science+Business Media.

Prof. Gerrit Voordouw Best Presentation Award

CRC Press/Taylor & Francis is the leading publisher of engineering, science, and technology books. See our references, textbooks, and professional works in materials science and chemical engineering, including cutting-edge titles on corrosion, oil, and gas, at www.crcpress.com.

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