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Welcome to the "2nd IFAC Workshop on Automatic Control in Offshore Oil and Gas Production". 27-29 May 2015 in Florianópolis, Brazil http://www.ifac-oilfield.ufsc.br/ The focus of the meeting will be on instrumentation, control, automation and optimization applied to offshore oil and gas production. Application areas of interest include: · Subsea technology · Measurement systems for well, subsea and surface processes · Automated well drilling · Autonomous and robotic systems · Production optimization · Integrated operations and logistics · Environmental issues and safety instrumented systems · Plantwide and advanced control · Special session: "Plantwide control and applications in the upstream sector". Important dates: * Paper submission: October 1st, 2014 * Acceptance notification: January 30th, 2015 * Final paper due: March 15th, 2015 IPC Chair: Nicolas Petit, Mines ParisTech, France NOC Chair: Eduardo Camponogara, UFSC, Brazil