Top reasons to attend OTC:

OTC gives you access to leading-edge technical information, the industry’s largest equipment exhibition, and valuable new professional contacts. Here’s how:

• Quality: Technical program selected by knowledgeable and experienced professionals.
• Value: See ground-breaking innovations and meet the leading providers of products and services in just four days.
• Convenience: 174 nonstop flights, world-class venues and hotels, and nearby public transportation.
• Easy to Plan: Always the first full week of May every year.
• Networking: Professionals from 120+ countries are there.
• In the World’s Energy Capital: Combine OTC with client meetings, business proposals, and company training.
• Investing Back in the Industry: OTC’s sponsoring organizations use revenue to provide many other important programs for its members, such as training and technical journals.
• Always Something New: Encounter different languages being spoken, never-seen-before technologies, and C-suite speakers that you might not hear anywhere else.

Exhibit List of USA Offshore Technology Conference:

• Accessories
• Actuators
• Aircraft Transportation and Services
• Artificial Lift
• Associations and Governmental Services
• Buildings
• Cable - Power, Control, and Instrumentation Cable
• Cargo
• Cargo Handling Equipment and Services
• Centrifugal Pumps
• Chemicals
• Christmas Tree/Wellhead Valves
• Coiled Tubulars
• Communication Equipment and Services
• Compressor Equipment and Services
• Computer Hardware & Software
• Computer Systems
• Connections and Fittings
• Construction
• Construction and Repair
• Consultants
• Contracting Services
• Control Systems
• Corrosion/Abrasion Control
• Data Acquisition, Storage and Transmission
• Decommissioning
• Design & Construction
• Downhole Equipment
• Drilling
• Drilling Vessels/Platforms
• Drilling/Completion Services
• Electrical Systems and Transmission Equipment
• Enhanced Recovery
• Environmental Monitoring and Protection
• Exploration
• Exploration & Production
• Fasteners
• Filtration systems
• Financial Services
• Flexible Pipe
• Floating Production Storage Vessel
• Flow Control
• Fluids
• Heat Exchanger/Transfer
• Hydraulic Systems
• Information Technology
• Injection Equipment/Services
• Injection Pumps
• Inspection and Testing
• Instruments & Control
• Jointed Tubulars
• Laboratory Equipment and Services
• Laboratory Systems
• Land Transportation and Services
• Lighting Equipment
• Logging & Formation Evaluation
• Manufacturing/Machine Shop
• Marine Equipment & Services
• Marine Service
• Materials
• Mechanical Systems
• Monitoring and Instrumentation
• Mooring, Positioning, Anchors
• Mooring/Positioning
• Mud Pumps
• Offshore Platforms
• Offshore Structures/Systems
• Offshore Well Equipment/Services
• Oil & Gas Transport
• OTC Sponsoring, Endorsing & Supporting Organizations
• Packing, Seals, Gaskets, Bearings
• Pipeline Systems and Equipment
• Pollution and Spill Control/Clean Up
• Positive Displacement Pumps
• Power Generation
• Power Supply
• Pressure Vessels
• Process Equipment & Services
• Production
• Production Equipment/Services
• Production System Valves
• Production Vessels/Platforms
• Production/Reservoir Services
• Publications/Technical Literature/Training
• Pump Equipment and Services
• Pumps/Compressors
• Research & Development
• Rope, Wire Rope & Chain
• Rotary/Progressing Cavity Pumps
• Safety Equipment and Systems
• Safety Valves
• Safety, Environmental Protection & Regulatory Services
• Sea Transportation and Services
• Seabed
• Separation Systems
• Ship Building and Repair
• Ships, Boats, Vessels, Equipment
• Stimulation Products/Services
• Storage Systems
• Subsea Systems
• Subsurface
• Subsurface Valves
• Surface
• Surface Equipment
• Surface Production/Process Sales Equipment
• Surface Service
• Surface Systems
• Surface Transport and Facilities
• Survival System/Vessels/LifeBoat/Jacket
• Switch, Connector, Enclosure
• Technical, Laboratory and Computer Services
• Tools
• Training
• Transportation & Communication
• Treatment Systems
• Tubular Equipment and Services
• Tubulars & Piping
• Valves & Actuators
• Waste Disposal
• Weather
• Well Completion
• Well Control Systems
• Well Services Vessels/Platforms
• Wellbore Equipment
• Wellbore Service
• Wellbore Systems
• Wellhead Equipment
• Wireline Equipment and Services
• Workover Equipment and Services

Areas of Interest for Papers for OTC Conference Houston:

Paper proposal categories (listed below) are used to direct the paper proposals to the appropriate subject-matter experts for evaluation. Topics of interest include

• Alternative energy
• Drilling technology
• Facilities and production operations
• Field development 
• Floater and mooring systems
• Flow assurance
• Geoscience developments
• Geoscience in offshore projects
• Global governance and regulation
• Health, safety, and environment
• Installation/construction/pipelay and operations
• Integrity management
• Marine mining
• Marine terminals and transportation                     
• Materials technology
• Megaprojects
• Ocean engineering resources
• Offshore pipelines
• Production sharing and handling contracts
• Project management and economics
• Reservoir engineering
• Riser systems
• Subsea production and processing systems
• Unconventional resources and EOR
• Well completion technology

In addition to a variety of general topics that are typically presented, the 2025 Program Committee is encouraging submissions on the following specialized topics: 

• Advanced materials for deepwater & HP/HT conditions
• Advancements in floating offshore wind power
• Advances in decommissioning and abandonment technologies
• Breakthrough deepwater technology – making deepwater cost-competitive
• Capital efficiency-cost optimization
• Continued service–life extension
• Fire and blast analysis and protection
• Floating LNG projects & developments (FLNG)
• Geophysical reservoir monitoring: Advances & applications
• How to drill a deepwater exploration well in less than two weeks
• HP/HT
• Inspection maintenance and repair
• Light weight offshore facilities–top Sides and Subsea
• Long distance subsea tie-backs
• Marine archaeology
• Maximizing the value of in-house & current market geophysical data
• Mooring system reliability & integrity management
• New technology for deepsea mining
• Standardization for cost reduction
• Subsea structures
• Sustainable deepwater industry in a 50-60 USD/bbl environment
• Technology development and maturation
• Topsides intensification