Deepwater Petroleum Systems
Dr Grant D Wach, Dalhousie University, Canada

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Reservoir Geomechanics
Nick Koutsabeloulis, Schlumberger

17-18 June 2009

Formation Damage in Oil & Gas Production
(with emphasis on waterflooding and offshore)
Professor Pavel Bedrikovetsky, Australian School of Petroleum, University of Adelaide

FESAus members need to state that they are members for SPE to process at special member discount price.

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The 2009 Symposium will mark the arrival of SPWLA's 50th golden anniversary. Over the years, the industry has witnessed generations of progress in the technologies we use to explore and produce energy resources. The annual symposium has provided a plat form for all members to show case and share many of the technologies we develop and deploy in our daily activities. In honor of this land mark anniversary, the Board of Directors of SPWLA would like to invite your contribution (paper sub mission) to the 50th Annual Symposium to be held in The Woodlands, Texas from June 21 to 24, 2009. The theme of the Symposium will be SPWLA - Past, Present, and Beyond. A special session is planned for presentations highlighting the memorable moments of the society and the crucial developments of technologies that transformed our ways of doing business.

· SPWLA - Past, Present, and Beyond · High Angle / Horizontal Well Evaluation
· Acoustic / Borehole Seismic · Logging and Measurement While Drilling
· Carbonate Evaluation · Magnetic Resonance Logging
· Cased-hole / Production Logging · Nuclear Logging
· Electrical / Electromagnetic Logging · Petrophysical Properties / Log-Core Integration
· Formation Evaluation and Reservoir Description · Reservoir Anisotropy and Heterogeneity
· Formation Testing · Unconventional Resource Evaluation
· Geological Application / Borehole Imaging
 

 spwla2009 website

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Permeability is often treated as just another petrophysical property but anyone who has attempted to model it soon realises that it has a number of attributes that make it much harder to deal with than say porosity. This talk is based on the ‘Permeability Master Class’ that took place in Perth last year. The Master Class was a half day event that consisted of a series of half hour talks on various aspects of permeability. Each talk was given by a locally based petroleum engineer and covered everything from definitions to specific measurement techniques using core, logs and tests.
This talk starts as a distillation of those talks but then goes on to discuss how the different techniques compliment each other and why they often disagree. In particular the question of whether lack of agreement is a nuisance or actually tells us something more about the reservoir is addressed. The talk ends with a discussion of what we really need to know and concludes that that depends on the particular reservoir in question and who is asking the question.

About the speaker:
Martin Kennedy is a Consultant Petrophysicist based in Perth. He started his career as a wireline logging engineer with Schlumberger and has been involved in some aspect of petrophysics ever since. After short spells working in research and government, he joined British Gas plc in 1991 and moved to Enterprise Oil plc five years later. He was Chief Petrophysicist at Enterprise from 1997 until the Shell takeover when he joined Petro-Canada International, also as Chief Petrophysicist. He joined Woodside and moved to Perth in 2003 and was appointed Chief Petrophysicist eighteen months later. Over the next five years he worked on most of Woodside’s Australian and Overseas assets and at the same time implemented a range of improvements to Woodside’s Petrophysics capability. In 2008 he left to work as an independent consultant and now supports a wide range of organisations working throughout the world.
His career has spanned everything from field developments to quick-look evaluations supporting new venture activity, operations and unitisation. He has worked in many of the classic petroleum provinces and has a lot of experience in what are generally considered the more difficult areas of petrophysics such as carbonates, fractured reservoirs and tight gas. Kennedy holds a B.Sc degree in Chemistry from Bristol University and a Ph.D in Electrical Engineering from Edinburgh University.

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A Porosity Master Class

Porosity is the most important parameter for all GeoScientists. It is the formation storage of hydrocarbons and is required by Petrophysicists, Reservoir and Production Engineers, Geophysicists and thus at every level of Management.
Yet we do not all agree on what is Porosity; there are many definitions. This Master Class presents the views of many such users. It is thus fundamental to all of us.
 

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August 2009
(to be reconfirmed)

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8 September 2009

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October 2009
(to be reconfirmed)

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Nov. 2009

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19-20 Nov. 2009

"Innovations in Petrophysical Evaluation of Unconventional Reservoirs"

Call for Papers

Technical papers are invited for oral presentations, related to innovations in petrophysical evaluation, for following categories of unconventional reservoirs:

Last Date of receiving abstract: June 15th, 2009
Communications to authors for acceptance of papers: June 22nd , 2009
Last Date for submitting full paper: September 1, 2009
The abstracts, not to exceed 300 words, should be sent by e-mail to spwla.india@gmail.com or to Ashok Sinha at ashok.sinha@bakerhughes.com
The main paper should have the same format as specified by SPWLA for their technical papers in "Petrophysics" ( Refer SPWLA website -->Petrophysics --> Instructions to Authors )

2010

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