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The 2023 Exploration and Production Winter Standards Meeting will be held Monday, January 23 – Friday, January 27, 2023, in New Orleans, Louisiana. It will be open to all industry professionals who wish to participate.

Reason For Attending

Participation in the Exploration & Production Standards Meeting, remains an invaluable opportunity to be a part of how the U.S. petroleum industry develops and maintains state-of-the-art standards.

The development of consensus standards is one of API’s oldest and most successful programs. It covers about 550 standards for all segments of the oil and natural gas industry. The breadth of this vital program is an important indication of the varied industry contacts that attendees can make during the sessions and networking opportunities.

The Committee on Standardization of Oilfield Equipment and Materials, CSOEM, is responsible for ~275 standards that form the basis of the API Monogram Program.

In accord with our ANSI accredited Procedures for Standards Development, which state the following regarding openness and meeting procedures, emphasis added:

5.2 Due Process
5.2.1 Openness
Participation in API standards activities is open to all parties (persons and organizations) that have a direct and material interest in the subject of a standard.

5.2.2 Balance
5.2.2.1 Overview
API seeks broad input to its standardization activities including the participation of all parties representing interest categories appropriate to the nature of the standard and allows for open attendance at standards meetings.

5.10 Standards Meeting Procedures
5.10.1 General
Committees dealing with standards activities shall meet as needed to conduct their work. Except for those portions of meetings dealing with policy and/or budget issues, standards meetings are open to all interested parties.

Benefits Of Participation:

• Gain access to technical committee meetings covering API upstream standards and best practices used throughout the industry to promote safe, sustainable, and environmentally sound operations.
• Learn about the latest API sponsored research and development including future R&D efforts that may benefit your business in the long run.
• Network with colleagues and establish new business connections.
• Connect with exhibitors to learn about products, services, and technologies that may be important to your company.
• Qualify for the chance to win one of two complimentary registrations to the 2022 Exploration & Production Standards Conference on Oilfield Equipment and Materials during the two networking breaks on Monday and Tuesday afternoons.
• Earn Professional Development Hours (PDH) to maintain professional certifications.

Questions:

• Registration (attendees, sponsors, or exhibitors): 202-682-8195 or [email protected]
• Logistics: Lindsay Morrison, 202-682-8194 or [email protected]

Program:

• Program: Paula Watkins, 202-682-8197, [email protected]
• Program: Roland Goodman, 202-682-8571 or [email protected]
• CSOEM Committee Information: Lanaya Bankins, [email protected]
• API Membership status: Lillie Saunders, 202-682-8475 or [email protected]

The Committee on Standardization of Oilfield Equipment and Materials, CSOEM, is responsible for ~275 standards that form the basis of the API Monogram Program. The technical subcommittees that report to the CSOEM are:

• Subcommittee 2, Offshore Structures
• Subcommittee 5, Tubular Goods
• Subcommittee 6, Valve & Wellhead Equipment
• Subcommittee 8, Drilling Structures
• Subcommittee 10, Well Cements
• Subcommittee 11, Field Operating Equipment
• Subcommittee 13, Drilling, Completion and Fluids
• Subcommittee 15, Fiberglass and Plastic Pipe
• Subcommittee 16, Drilling Well Control Equipment
• Subcommittee 17, Subsea Production Equipment
• Subcommittee 18, Quality
• Subcommittee 19, Completion Equipment
• Subcommittee 20, Supply Chain Management
• Subcommittee 21, Materials

*As not all subcommittees meet at each meeting please be sure and check the online program to verify which subcommittees are meeting at this conference.

Who Should Attend:

Members of API Exploration and Production Standards Committees and Subcommittees. The meeting should also be of interest to:

• Users and manufacturers of oil country tubular goods
• Users and manufacturers of drill-through and well control equipment
• Users and manufacturers of well cement
• Users and manufacturers of drilling Fluids
• Users and manufacturers of drilling and hoisting equipment
• Users and manufacturers of subsea production systems
• Materials engineers
• Quality management system professionals
• Supply chain management and professionals

PLEASE NOTE:  You must register to receive access to the mobile meeting app.

Sponsor an Attendee

Share your standards expertise with the next generation of oil and natural gas professionals by providing a complimentary registration to a new participant from your company. The cost is complimentary, and your sponsored attendee is welcomed to participate.

Complimentary registration is limited to first-time attendees only. Those persons must be sponsored by a prior, API standards meeting participant from your same company. This person must be registered in your registration record at the time you enter your own registration. You may only register two sponsored attendees.

Register Now as a Sponsor and Exhibitor

Register Now as an Additional Exhibitor 

Thank you for your support of the 2023 Winter Exploration and Production Standards Meeting. We are pleased to offer a variety of opportunities for your company to showcase valuable products and services.

Apply for sponsorship items and exhibit display tables by completing your application and confirming the agreement terms here online. If you have questions during this process, please contact the Registrar at [email protected] or 202-682-8195.

Sponsors receive:

• Acknowledgement of the sponsorship in the conference app.
• Customized sign with the company logo
• Your company listed as a sponsor on the API website with a link to your company website.
• A “Sponsor” ribbon affixed to the company representative’s badge for easy identification.
• A six-foot, tabletop exhibit space near the registration area to display company products and/or services Monday and Tuesday.
• Wi-Fi access at your display table.

Exhibitors receive:

• Acknowledgement in the conference app.
• Your company listed as an exhibitor on the API website with a link to your company’s website.
• A six-foot, tabletop exhibit space near the registration area to display company products and/or services Monday and Tuesday.
• Wi-Fi access at your display table.
• An “Exhibitor” ribbon affixed to the company representative(s) badge.

Deadline for Sponsor and Exhibitor Cancellations and Refunds: Friday, November 25, 2022

Payment is due in full at the time of registration. You may request an invoice using the Information Submission Form noted above. Full payment must be received by API no later than Friday, November 25, 2022.

Sponsors and Exhibitors may cancel their obligation up to Friday, November 25, 2022. However, 50% of the fee for sponsors and for exhibitors is nonrefundable. Notice of cancellation must be submitted in writing to [email protected].  Refunds will not be granted after Friday, November 25, 2022.

Submission Deadlines – Friday, December 23, 2022

Your application is due Friday, December 23, 2022. Acknowledgement and agreement to the Sponsor / Exhibitor Terms & Conditions, outlined below, is required to complete the registration process.

Marketing Requirements:
Upon receipt of your application, you will receive an email confirming your selection, with a link to the Information Submission Form, which will allow you to submit the information that will be shared on the conference website, app, and/or on signage at the meeting. All materials are due by Friday, December 23, 2022.

• Marketing contact’s full name and email address
• Company logo in EPS or Adobe Illustrator format
• Company URL
• Company description not to exceed 100 words
• Name(s) of those using the complimentary registration(s), if applicable.

2022 Exhibitors

FM Approvals

Materials Development Corporation

Scan Systems

Hyatt Regency New Orleans
601 Loyola Ave
New Orleans, LA 70124
Online Reservations 

Room Rate: $259 single or double occupancy
Mention the API 2023 E&P Winter Standards Meeting to receive the API group rate.

Reservations questions? If you need additional assistance, please call 504-561-1234 or 800-421-1442 ask for in-house reservations if you have difficulty making online reservations or have specific questions.

Reservations Deadline: Friday, December 20, 2022 by 5:00 pm, CT, or until room block is sold out.
After this date and time, reservations will be accepted on a space and room type availability basis and at the hotel’s best rate available.

Room Guarantee and Reservation Cancellation: A credit card guarantee is required to confirm and hold everyone’s reservation. Cancellations must be received by the hotel at least twenty-four (24) hours prior to arrival and a cancellation number must be obtained or the card will be charged for the first night’s room rate. Hotel is responsible for informing guests of this requirement. API assumes no responsibility. Any payments received by the hotel, as a result of late cancellations or no-shows will be credited to API’s room block for attrition purposes.

Hyatt Hotels is committed to the safety and wellbeing of its guests. Review Hyatt Hotels Global Care and Cleanliness Commitment for details.

Monitor the website for the Hyatt Regency New Orleans or contact them directly with question or for ongoing and updated details.

Avoid Housing Scams

Note: API has not contracted with any third party for hotel arrangements and will not call or email you directly to make housing arrangements on your behalf.

Should you receive a call or email from a third-party provider, please collect as much information as you can and let us know immediately. “Room Poachers” have been known to act as representatives of API, or authorized providers of API, to offer room discounts or alternative accommodations to our attendees – often to the attendee’s detriment. These companies are not affiliated with API, and reservations made through these companies for our meeting cannot be guaranteed.

How It Works

This deceptive practice (called “room poaching”) is carried out by third‐party companies that act as travel agencies, wholesalers, or even API to solicit registrants for room reservations. The poacher might inform registrants that the hotel room block is “sold out,” and that if you do not book with them immediately, you may not get a room. Room poachers make it more difficult for us to meet our room block commitments, and expose us to penalties and increased room rates for our events. Room poachers often don’t deliver on promises to customers. When customers arrive, reservations are non‐existent or the hotels are not conveniently located. Sometimes the rooms have been cancelled and hefty cancellation fees have been placed on the customer’s credit card.

Don’t Be Deceived

If you are contacted by anyone asking if you need a room for the API Conference, please get as much information as you can (their name, company name, phone number, etc.) and pass it along to [email protected]. Always make your room reservation directly with the information provided by API or a trusted source.

API will use all legal means possible to prevent these groups from operating.

Please contact [email protected] with any questions.

Register Now

For registration questions or method of payment inquiries, please contact 202-682-8195 or [email protected]

Early Registration Deadline: Friday, December 16, 2022

Refund Cutoff Date: Friday, December 30, 2022 (No refunds granted after this date.)

Cancellations, Refunds, and Substitutions:

Cancellations and requests for refunds must be made in writing and sent to [email protected] by Friday, December 30, 2022. A $100 administration fee will apply if notice of cancellation is received in writing and sent to [email protected] by Friday, December 30, 2022. No refunds given after Friday, December 30, 2022.  Substitutions may be made at any time by written request to [email protected].

Sponsor a First-Time Attendee:
Share your standards expertise with the next generation of oil and natural gas professionals by providing a complimentary registration to a new participant from your company. The cost is complimentary, and your sponsored attendee is welcomed to participate in all COPM meetings, except for executive sessions and members only meetings.

To qualify for this complimentary registration option, you must be a new participant and sponsored by a prior, API standards meeting participant from your same company. If you are sponsoring someone from your company, that person must be registered under your registration record in Cvent at the time you enter your own registration. You may only register two sponsored attendees.

(NOTE: This option is only applicable to first-time attendees who are sponsored. First-time attendees not sponsored pay applicable registration fees.)

Terms of Participation:
API standards meetings are open to all interested parties. By participating in these meetings and the standardization process, you agree: (1) to fully comply with API’s policies and procedures governing standards and antitrust concerns, (2) that once balloted and approved by API, API shall have a non-exclusive, perpetual, royalty-free worldwide license to use any materials submitted by the participant for use in the standard, including creation of any derivative works that will be solely owned by API, (3) you will not provide any material that will violate the rights of any third parties, including, but not limited to, patents, copyrights, trade secrets, and trademarks, (4) not to provide any  technical information or other materials that would violate U.S. export control laws, (5) to disclose the existence of  any patented technologies in the material that you provide, and (6) you will not make audio recordings, video recordings, or take screen shots of API meetings and content without the express written consent of all persons being recorded and their content being presented.

Attendee Duty of Care: 

API recognizes the safety of all of those in-person at the 2023 Winter Exploration and Production Standards Meeting as a top priority. API is committed to following CDC, local government agencies, and the Hyatt Regency New Orleans Covid-19 health and safety guidelines for hosting in-person events.

By attending the 2023 Winter Exploration and Production Standards Meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana, you agree to comply with all Covid-19 health and safety guidelines adopted by API, that have been recommended by the CDC, local government agencies and the Hyatt Regency New Orleans. Your acceptance of the Attendee Duty of Care is a condition of registration and participation in the 2023 Winter Exploration and Production Standards Meeting.