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SUMMARY:Onshore Wellsite Facilities September 8-9, 2026
DESCRIPTION:This event reminder is brought to you by: Tuboscope, leaders in high performance internal coatings built to protect tubulars in harsh operating environments\n\nAchieving Greater Efficiency Under Infrastructure Constraints Cutting Cost And Tightening Execution As Power, Gas & Water Bottlenecks Intensify 8 & 9 September 2026\nSimplification To Balance Cost With Risk, Whilst Addressing Key Constraints\nWhat Is Actually Working In The Field To Improve Margins?\nAn event designed for VPs and Heads of Upstream Assets and Facilities as well as supervisors and engineers – this initiative is designed to help operators lower operating costs, improve facility efficiency, strengthen power reliability, and manage growing infrastructure constraints — without slowing production growth or adding unnecessary complexity.\nAs water disposal pressures, gas takeaway limitations, aging infrastructure, leaner teams, and tighter capital discipline continue to collide, facilities leaders are being forced to rethink how assets are operated, streamlined, expanded, and supported in 2026.\nThrough practical operator-led discussions, this event will help you benchmark how peers are simplifying brownfield complexity, improving infrastructure performance, reducing operational friction, managing reliable power, and ensuring automation and measurement investments are delivering measurable operational outcomes — not just more systems to manage.\nMost importantly, the event is built around what is actually working in the field to improve margins, maintain reliability, and support disciplined growth under increasingly demanding operating conditions.\nResearch Insights — Why Facilities Strategy Is Back At The Centre Of The Permian Conversation\n\nOver the last several weeks we conducted more than 40 in-depth research conversations with upstream operators — large, medium, and small — across the Permian Basin, Eagle Ford, and other onshore oil-producing regions across North America.\nIrrespective of operator size, the same operational pressures and trade-offs surfaced repeatedly:\n\nPower reliability\nGas and water takeaway constraints\nInherited brownfield complexity\nInfrastructure fragmentation\nContractor execution quality\nLean workforce structures\nElectrification uncertainty\nGrowing pressure to simplify operations without losing future flexibility\n\nMany operators are now managing facilities infrastructure shaped by acquisitions, temporary workarounds, shifting production priorities, and years of incremental modifications layered on top of one another.\nAt the same time, facilities teams are under increasing pressure to:\n\nimprove reliability and efficiency\nreduce operational complexity\nlower operating cost\nmodernise infrastructure\nmaintain production flexibility\nand execute faster with leaner organisations\n\n…all whilst operating under tighter capital discipline and greater pressure to deliver predictable operational performance.\nMore or less every operator we spoke to ultimately came back to the same core challenge:\nHow do you execute more effectively under tighter operational and financial conditions — without creating new infrastructure, reliability, or workforce risks elsewhere in the system?\nThat question now sits at the centre of facilities strategy across North America — forming the lens through which this year’s agenda explores key issues such as power reliability, execution quality, infrastructure simplification, brownfield optimisation, electrification ROI, and operational flexibility.\nReliable Power Remains A Major Strategic Facilities Issue In 2026 – What Are The Latest Approaches For Different Situations? And What Does ROI Look Like On The Earlier Investment Decisions?  \nAs operators increase reliance on electrified systems and grid-connected infrastructure, power availability itself is increasingly becoming a constraint — particularly as production systems become more interconnected and operational downtime becomes less tolerable.\nAt the same time, many operators are now entering the phase where they can finally evaluate whether electrification strategies initiated several years ago are genuinely delivering the operational and financial returns originally expected.\nOperators are increasingly asking:\n\nDid reliability improve as planned?\nWere operating costs actually reduced?\nDid complexity simply move elsewhere in the system?\nAnd how should electrification strategies evolve moving forward?\n\nTo address this, multiple sessions throughout the conference focus on:\n\nreal-world power reliability lessons\nelectrification ROI\nunstable grid conditions\nrental generation dependence\nbrownfield electrical constraints\nfield execution challenges\nand long-term infrastructure flexibility\n\nPortfolio Optimisation Is Becoming Just As Important As Individual Asset Performance\nOne of the clearest conclusions from the research process was that facility performance is once again becoming central to profitability, operational predictability, and future competitiveness.\nFacilities strategy can no longer be separated into either expansion or rationalisation. In many cases, operators are now having to pursue both at the same time across different parts of the asset base.\nThe case studies will help you determine how to adapt or upgrade  facilities systems that are:\n\nefficient without becoming rigid\nsimplified without losing visibility\nscalable without becoming overbuilt\nstandardised without creating operational inflexibility\nand resilient without creating unnecessary cost\n\n \nThat balancing act now sits at the centre of this year’s agenda.\nDay One begins with a broader portfolio-wide optimisation perspective focused on how operators are responding to the changing realities of 2026 across both large central facilities and remote sites — not simply at an individual asset level.\nThroughout the conference, operators will compare:\n\nwhere integration strategies are succeeding \nwhere rationalisation efforts are struggling \nhow brownfield infrastructure is being  streamlined \nand how facilities decisions are increasingly shaping wider operational and financial performance \n\nCost Reduction And Execution Quality Are Becoming Increasingly Interconnected\nOperators repeatedly told us that the pressure to lower operating cost can no longer be separated from broader discussions around:\n\nworkforce structure\nautomation\ninfrastructure simplification\noperational visibility\nreliability\nand execution quality\n\nSometimes the challenge is about efficiency.\nIncreasingly, however, it is about reducing cost whilst still protecting:\n\nuptime\nproduction continuity\noperational reliability\nworkforce effectiveness\nand safety\n\nWhether discussing contractor performance, workforce capability, instrumentation reliability, the actionability of automation investments, or simplifying inherited operational complexity, operators are increasingly focused on improving execution consistency without creating new operational risks elsewhere across the asset base.\nThat is why this years agenda places such strong emphasis on practical operational learning and peer exchange across different site situations and use cases  — helping attendees benchmark:\n\nWhat is actually working in the field for different scenarios \nWhere execution failures are emerging \nHow operators are improving consistency \nAnd where complexity reduction is genuinely delivering measurable operational benefit \n\nHear How Your Peers Are Addressing The “Temporary Infrastructure” Problem\nOne of the strongest new themes emerging from the research conversations was the issue of temporary infrastructure quietly becoming increasingly expensive permanent infrastructure.\nWhether relating to:\n\nwater takeaway systems\ncompression arrangements\ntemporary power solutions\nrental generation\nor brownfield temporary solutions made during and  after COVID\n\n…many operators acknowledged that stopgap solutions are now deeply embedded into day-to-day operations.\nThe challenge is that improving reliability, lowering operating cost, and simplifying infrastructure increasingly require consolidation and rationalisation of these inherited layers of complexity.\nYet very few operators — whether large or mid-sized — believe they have fully solved this problem.\nMost described it as an ongoing work in progress.\nAs a result, several discussions throughout the conference focus specifically on:\n\nbrownfield rationalisation\nphased infrastructure upgrades\nconsolidation priorities\ninfrastructure simplification strategies\nand how to reduce complexity without introducing  new operational risk\n\nAcross North America, facilities simplification is increasingly becoming a major strategic priority rather than simply an operational clean-up exercise.\nStandardization Is A Huge Opportunity — But Overstandardization Creates Its Own Risks\nStandardization repeatedly surfaced as one of the industry’s biggest opportunities for:\n\nreducing complexity\nlowering cost\nimproving repeatability\nsimplifying maintenance\nand accelerating execution\n\nHear directly from operators about:\n\nwhere standardization is creating measurable  operational value\nwhere local realities are forcing deviation from  standard models\nand how facilities teams are balancing  simplification with long-term flexibility and resilience\n\nAcross two days of sessions, discussions, and peer exchange, the agenda is designed to help operators benchmark what is working, where risks are emerging, what strategies are proving scalable, and how others are approaching the difficult trade-offs now shaping facilities’ performance across North America’s onshore oil-producing regions.\nWe appreciate everyone who contributed insight throughout the research process, and we look forward to welcoming many of you this September.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAddressing The 2026 Power Reliability, Gas Handling & Water Disposal Hot Topics\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPower reliability is now influencing facility strategy itself. \nOperators told us that temporary generation solutions originally introduced as short-term bridging measures are increasingly becoming semi-permanent operating models — often carrying higher costs, operational complexity and growing reliability concerns. Others are evaluating modular generation, behind-the-meter self-generation, targeted infrastructure upgrades and emerging shared microgrid models as they attempt to balance operational flexibility with long-term infrastructure uncertainty.\nAt the same time, operators explained that water handling requirements are materially increasing power demand across facilities. More produced water transfer, automation, treatment, compression and pumping capacity are creating new operational dependencies between water infrastructure and power infrastructure. Across multiple discussions, facilities teams stressed that water management, gas handling and power reliability can no longer be planned independently.\nProduced water constraints continue to shape operational strategy throughout parts of the Delaware Basin, while gas takeaway limitations remain a major source of uncertainty heading into late 2026.\nSeveral operators described themselves as operating within a “murky middle” — uncertain whether to commit to permanent infrastructure, continue relying on rental generation, pursue modular solutions, or wait for expected pipeline and utility upgrades to materialize.\nCurrent gas takeaway bottlenecks, negative Waha pricing pressure and delayed infrastructure expansion continue to reinforce this uncertainty across the region.\nA major shift emerging this year is the increasingly sophisticated discussion around retrofitting mature Permian facilities for future gas growth, infrastructure variability and operational resilience — rather than continuing to design around historical oil-production assumptions alone.\nOperators are now reassessing compression strategies, gas routing logic, voltage stability, backup generation requirements and facility redundancy models in ways that would have been considered secondary priorities only a few years ago.\nSmaller and mid-sized operators, in particular, highlighted the growing tension between maintaining operational flexibility and controlling capital exposure. Many explained that rental dependency initially offered valuable flexibility, but becomes increasingly difficult to justify economically as infrastructure uncertainty persists. One of the most important operational questions now emerging across the basin is simple: when does temporary infrastructure effectively become permanent infrastructure?\nInfrastructure constraints remains THE defining operational themes of 2026. While this is not a dedicated water management conference, the operational consequences of produced water disposal constraints, infrastructure sequencing challenges and regional utility limitations are now directly impacting facility strategy, maintenance planning, compression design, automation priorities and long-term growth planning.\nAt the same time, many operators continue integrating inherited or aging facilities into new operating models following acquisitions and portfolio restructuring. Even where growth ambitions remain modest, facilities teams are still being asked to improve reliability, maintain operational headroom and modernize infrastructure against a backdrop of constrained capital efficiency.\nThis year’s agenda has been designed specifically around these realities — bringing together practical operator experiences from regions facing the greatest infrastructure uncertainty, alongside discussions on power reliability, water dependency, gas takeaway limitations, operational flexibility, retrofit strategy and long-term facility resilience.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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