The 61st General Meeting of the ISCWSA was held in conjunction with the SPE/IADC Drilling Conference in March 2025, in Stavanger, Norway, and was graciously hosted by Equinor at the Equinor Business Center in Forus Rogaland, Norway.
Subcommittee meetings were held on Thursday March 6th, the
General Meeting was held on Friday March 7th 2025
| Friday 7th March 61th Meeting, Stavanger | |||||
| Equinor Business Centre, Forusbeen 50, 4035 Stavanger (Forus Øst, Entrance 6) | |||||
| Activity | Presenter(s) | Title / Sponsor | From | To | |
| Coffee & Registration | Friday morning registration | 7:30 | 8:15 | ||
| Introduction | Hans Dreisig (Total Energies) ISCWSA Chair | Introduction | 8:15 | 8:20 | |
| HSE Briefing | 8:20 | 8:25 | |||
| Program Agenda | Andy McGregor (H&P ) ISCWSA Program Chair | Schedule and Program Overview | 8:25 | 8:30 | |
| Technical Presentation | David Erdos (Erdos Miller) | Redefining Well Intercepts: First Field Deployments of a Next Generation Active Magnetic Ranging While Drilling System | 8:30 | 8:55 | |
| Sub-Committee Update | Phil Harbidge (Halliburton) | QA\QC Sub-Committee Report + Webmaster Report | 8:55 | 9:15 | |
| Technical Presentation | Makito Katayama (SLB) | Downhole automatic calibration of rotary steerable system for real-time precision surveying | 9:15 | 9:40 | |
| Sub-Committee Update | Mahmoud ElGizawy (SLB) | Education Sub-Committee Report | 9:40 | 9:55 | |
| Coffee Break | Coffee Break | 9:55 | 10:25 | ||
| Technical Presentation | Marianne Houbiers (Equinor) | Pitfall in survey QA/QC | 10:25 | 10:50 | |
| Technical Presentation | Aarlid Sassen (UIS) | Cleaning Drilling Fluids for Magnetic Debris and its Consequence for Surveying | 10:50 | 11:15 | |
| Sub-Committee Update | Mohamed Elshabrawy (Shell) | OWSG Sub-Committee Report | 11:15 | 11:30 | |
| Technical Presentation | Guanren Wang (BGS) | An overview of the largest geomagnetic storm in 20 years on 10th May 2024 | 11:30 | 11:55 | |
| Technical Presentation | Tyler Milford (Haliburton) | Well Intercept for CCUS Well Applications | 11:55 | 12:20 | |
| Lunch | Lunch | 12:30 | 13:30 | ||
| Panel Discussion | Angus Jamieson (H&P) | Wellbore Survey Quiz | 13:30 | 13:55 | |
| Sub-Committee Update | Marc Willerth (H&P) | Error Model Sub-Committee Report | 13:55 | 14:10 | |
| Technical Presentation | Brett Van Steenwyk (Algorithms and Analytical Thinking) | Anti-Collision via Passive Ranging | 14:10 | 14:35 | |
| Sub-Committee Update | Darren Aklestad (SLB) | Collision Avoidance Sub-committee Report | 14:35 | 14:50 | |
| Coffee Break | Coffee Break | 14:50 | 15:20 | ||
| Technical Presentation | Marc Willerth (H&P) | Estimating Likelihood of Directional Drilling Success Through a Practical Application of Projection Uncertainty Models | 15:20 | 15:45 | |
| Sub-Committee Update | Benny Poedjono (Independent) | Well Intercept Sub-Committee Report | 15:45 | 16:00 | |
| Administration Report | Robert Wylie (xnDrilling) | Treasurer's Report | 16:00 | 16:10 | |
| Technical Presentation | Matt Edge (Geomatic Solutions) | Unpacking coordinate reference systems: controlling CRS usage in wellbore data exchange | 16:10 | 16:35 | |
| Closeout | Hans Dreisig (Total Energies) |
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16:35 | 16:40 | |