The EPMP session will focus on evaluating the effectiveness of India’s current Exploration Prospect Maturation Process and benchmarking it against international practices and will provide a forum for operators, service providers, and experts to share experiences, review gaps and deliberate on ways to improve the efficiency of prospect maturation.

•  Exploratory Drilling trends: Wildcat drilling trends (past 5 years), success ratios and influencing factors.

•  EPMP Effectiveness: Current processes, quality control and assurance practices and international standards.

•  Technology & Tools: Global best practices in subsurface imaging and evaluation tools; identify adoption gaps and challenges in India.

•  Workforce Capability Development: Existing skill gaps, impact on efficiency and strategies for training and industry academia collaboration.

•   Policy and Institution support: Suggest policy, data and institutional interventions required from DGH and the Government for effective EPMP adoption