Call for Abstracts
Subsea into the future
USF Verftet, Bergen, Norway 10-12 June 2025
Deadline for submission: 7 February 2025, 11pm CET
The 31st annual Underwater Technology Conference will be back in Bergen, Norway 10 – 12 June 2025. We expect more than 500 delegates and 30 exhibitors from around the globe. The overall goal of the Underwater Technology Conference is to be most relevant meeting arena where new contacts are created, knowledge is shared, and important relations and network cultivated.
Do not miss the opportunity to reengage with the subsea technology industry most influential Executives, Managers, Engineers, Strategy & Planning personnel as well as the Subsea academicians. We hereby invite you to participate and make UTC an even greater subsea event by submitting your Abstract!
The Abstract submission Platform is now open!
Please contact us at michelle.grcic@apriil.no if you need any assistance
Topics of Interest UTC 2025
We are excited to invite you to the UTC 2025 Conference, themed “Subsea into the future”. This premier event will bring together industry leaders, innovators, and experts to explore the latest advancements in subsea technology. For decades, the subsea industry has been an exemplar in technical innovation, stretching the boundaries and depths of the possible in the underwater domain.
As the subsea sector continues to evolve and impact the energy industry, this conference will be a fantastic opportunity to explore how subsea technology continues to shape the future of the energy industry.
Discussions will highlight the subsea industry’s ongoing relevance and potential for growth including:
- Innovation
- Simplification
- Innovation thru collaboration
- Wireless communication
- Enhanced oil recovery (EOR)
- Advances in power, processing and boosting technologies
- Storage solutions for subsea production systems
- Uncrewed Surface Vessel (USV) for execution & survey for light intervention, inspection and survey
- Next-generation materials and their applications in subsea environments
- Repurposing of Subsea Technology
- Minerals
- Safety, Environmental Impact and Sustainability
- Integrity, safety in design and operations
- Minimizing the environmental footprint
- Decommissioning and repurposing subsea infrastructure
- Monitoring and mitigating subsea environmental risks
- Reuse
- Security
- Collaboration and Partnerships
- Cross-industry collaborations for technology transfer
- International cooperation
- Innovative financing models for projects
- Collaboration across licenses and operators to enable development of marginal fields
- Digitalization, Optimization and Cost Efficiency
- Reducing operational costs through digitalization and automation
- Lifecycle management and extending the life of assets
- Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) and remote operations
- The role of artificial intelligence and machine learning in operations
- Predictive maintenance and real-time monitoring technologies
- Digitalization
- Artificial Intelligence (AI) in technology and operations enhancing design, performance and improving production efficiency
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Subsea Production Systems
- Drilling and well.
- Flow assurance.
- Flow assurance.
- Installation
- Subsea equipment
- Renewables
- From oil and gas to offshore renewable energy
- Subsea power
- Integrating infrastructure with renewable energy systems
- Storage solutions for renewable energy
- Mooring systems and anchoring
- Marine operations
- Offshore wind
- CCUS (Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage)
- Role of new technology in enabling deployment at scale and reducing cost
- CO2 quality specification as design basis for building cost-efficient CCS value chains
- Redefining management systems and requirements to bring down costs (CCS vs Oil & Gas)
- Other
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Abstract Guidelines & Requirements UTC 2025:
- Get approvals from your management before you submit an abstract.
- No commercial focus. Delegates at previous UTCs responds negatively to sales presentations/company profiling. Do not underestimate your audience, focus on the technology.
- If chosen, your abstract will be published. Please review your text before submittal.
- Maximum 250 words in the abstract text, introduced by a short “key learning outcome” or alternatively short text summary followed by a video presentation of theme max 2 minutes.
- Submit your abstract in accordance with the listed topics of interest, giving the program committee a context for evaluating your contribution.
- Do not include figures, photos and bullet points in the abstract text. The publishing format handles text only.
- Abstracts are chosen based on their strength, content matter and market/trend relevance – i.e choose topic carefully when submitting your abstract. A listing in the most appropriate category will give you a greater chance to be selected.
- Submit with speaker and deputy speaker (in the online submittal form, not in the abstract text). In case of multiple authors,please list co-authors at the end of the abstract text.
- The program committee reserves the right to not include abstracts accepted by similar conferences.
- All authors will be notified no later than March 17th 2025, selected or not. All speakers will subsequently by requested to confirm their attendance within a given deadline.
- Full instructions on preparation of manuscripts and presentations will be sent to selected authors. You can also choose to publicize a paper after the conference (in addition to your presentation).
- The Program Committee will nominate “back up” presentations for each topic, to be the first runner ups if one of the presentations is cancelled. Authors of back up presentations will receive conference benefits correspondingly to chosen presentations/speakers.
- A complementary conference fee, including lunches and social events, will be provided for one speaker per abstract/presentation. UTC will not cover travel/ accommodation expenses.
