About The Deepwater Development Conference (MCEDD)

The Deepwater Development Conference (formerly MCEDD) is the leading conference addressing technical issues related to engineering, development, and production of oil and gas in deepwater and ultra deepwater arenas around the world. As our industry confronts new challenges, the sharing of deepwater experience plays a critical role in improving the quality, safety, and economics vital to the future of the industry.

The Deepwater Development Conference engages key members of the deepwater oil and gas community by providing a stage for world-class technical discussions focusing on the technology, innovation and experience paving the way to realising a future of increasing demand. The technical programme works together with the exclusive exhibition and valuable networking opportunities to create an environment conducive to better understanding the long-term vision of the global deepwater industry.

New Deepwater Plays, New Deepwater Ways
The 2026 conference builds on its core mission to explore the raft of new plays in the global deepwater sector, such as Namibia and Suriname, as well as those developing at pace like Guyana, while still taking lessons learned from established markets in Brazil and the Gulf of Mexico. Deepwater professionals, like the wider energy industry, are striving to maximize revenues while minimizing the environmental impact of doing so—what technologies and innovations are driving the new deepwater ways and what developments will the future hold?