Workshop Brochure - Society of Petroleum Engineers

Society of Petroleum Engineers
20–22 May 2013 | Amwaj Rotana Hotel | Dubai, UAE
Early Bird Registration Deadline:
6 April 2013
WORKSHOP
Data Supporting E&P Decisions
Who Should Attend
• Upstream Data Managers
• Reservoir Engineers
• Petroleum Engineers
• Geoscientists
• Decision Makers
• System Analysts
• Business Analysts
• Data Architects
• Data Developers
Committee Members
Co-Chairperson
Ahmed Abou Syed
Advantek International
Co-Chairperson
Mohammed Muhareb
Saudi Aramco
Bassel Abdel Wahab
Schlumberger
Ghassan Zahdan
Saudi Aramco
Hossam Soliman
Baker Hughes
Muhammad S. Khakwani
Saudi Aramco
Omar O. Akbar
Saudi Aramco
Paul Van den Hoek
Shell
Rifaat Al Mjeni
Petroleum Development Oman
Robert Shelley
Stratagen Engineering
Surendar Sokkanathan
Baker Hughes
Tawfeeq Faraj
Saudi Aramco
Workshop Description
The right data at the right time is critical for effective decision-making. As a fully integrated E&P company
needs to make decisions at operational, tactical, and strategic levels each of this needs a specific dataset. The
type of data needed to support an operational decision may vary from data needed to support tactical and
strategic decisions in terms of its timing, quality, granularity, aggregation, and presentation. The workshop
will discuss the increasingly critical role played by data in order to support decision makers. Participants will
discuss and share their experiences with the multiple facets of data needed to support decision making.
Decision makers in all industries, especially oil and gas, are relying increasingly on data to make decisions.
This reliance is spurring the need to go beyond classical techniques for gathering and analysing statistics,
and explore new areas such as neural networks, fuzzy logic, and artificial intelligence for their application to
upstream oil and gas.
Technological advances in information systems, and the proliferation of data gathering fuelled by continually
lower costs of data storage, has resulted in a huge amount of digital data generated every day. The
past decades saw computers play a big role in optimising processes, trimming inventories, and driving
operational efficiencies. These efforts have resulted in creating large pools of data which can be used for
analyses to support decisions. Our aim is to discover best practices, share practical experiences, and discuss
promising ways on moving forward for data supporting decisions in E&P.
Real-time data gathering and intelligent fields providing a continuous stream of production data have
significantly impacted operational decisions in recent years. Databases, data warehousing, and data mining
are going to play an increasingly important role in driving the oil and gas industry to meet the world’s energy
demands and add to global hydrocarbon reserves through discoveries.
The sessions during this workshop will focus on data supporting decisions for prediction of well productivity
and reservoir recovery factors, identifying key drivers for performance, defining best practices in completion
and depletion strategy, and maximising yields for the energy sector. We invite our workshop participants to
present their needs and thoughts on ensuring they have the data needed for making the decisions that move
the E&P industry forward. Our decision makers need the tools to identify and properly risk opportunities
and hence increase chances of successful development, while doing this in a way that minimises damage to
environment, and conducts operations in a socially responsible way.
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WORKSHOP
Data Supporting E&P Decisions
Sponsorship Support
Gold Sponsor
Sponsorship support helps offset the
cost of producing workshops and allows
SPE to keep the attendance price within
reach of operations-level individuals,
those who benefit most from these
technical workshops.
Sponsors benefit both directly and
indirectly by having their names
associated with a specific workshop.
While SPE prohibits any type of
commercialism within the workshop
hall itself, the society recognises that
sponsoring companies offer valuable
information to attendees outside the
technical sessions.
Sponsorship Categories
Sponsorships are offered on a first come
basis. Please contact SPE to verify the
availability of a particular sponsorship.
Existing sponsors have the opportunity
to renew the same level of sponsorship
for annual workshops.
• Silver Sponsorship
• Bronze Sponsorship
• Welcome Reception and Dinner
• Luncheons—Per Day Sponsorship
• Coffee Breaks—Per Day Sponsorship
• Audio-Visual Equipment Sponsorship
Sponsorship Benefits
In addition to onsite recognition; SPE
will recognise sponsors on the SPE
website and in all printed material for the
workshop. Based on the sponsorship
selected, sponsoring companies also
receive logo visibility on promotional
workshop items.
For More Information
For a detailed list of available
sponsorships, including benefits and
pricing, contact Norvie Tungcul, event
manager, at ntungcul@spe.org.
Monday, 20 May 2013
0800–0900 hours Welcome Refreshments, Registration, and Badge Collection
Hotel Safety and Security Briefing
Welcome Remarks from Co-Chairs
0900–0930 hours Opening Keynote Address
0930–1100 hours Session 1: Data Quality Management
Session Chairs: Ahmed Abou Syed, Advantek International; Tawfeeq Faraj, Saudi Aramco
Superior data quality is key to making the right decisions. Reliable data for effective decision making will be
the main theme of this session. Presenters will analyse the relationship between data quality management and
business decision making. The importance of data quality programmes, quality expectations, and techniques will
be further evaluated under the scope of the E&P business.
Topics to be covered:
• Data Quality Management Overview
- Data Quality Management Benefits
- Data Quality Management Challenges
• Practical Implementation Within E&P (Case Studies)
• Data Quality Management Techniques
- Data Profiling
- Data Analysis
- Data Validation
- Data Correlation
- Data Synchronisation
- Data Cleansing
• Market Solutions
1100–1120 hours Coffee Break
1120–1300 hours Breakout Session
1300–1400 hours Luncheon and Prayers
1400–1530 hours Session 2: Data Integration I
Session Chairs: Omar O. Akbar, Saudi Aramco; Paul Van den Hoek, Shell
Strategic decision-making for integrated oil and gas companies, optimal depletion of reservoirs, enhancing
ultimate recovery, and adding to reserves require a seamless look across data. Data integration tools play a major
role in gathering scattered information across various domains, and presenting the findings cohesively for decision
makers to arrive at the right conclusions. These technologies deal with seismic subsurface images, drilling
information, production volumes, and planning reservoir depletion.
Topics to be covered:
• Introduction to Data Integration
• Data Integration Applications within E&P
• Data Integration Complexity
• Virtual Data Integration
• Physical Data Integration
• Data Presentation
1530–1550 hours Coffee Break
1550–1720 hours Breakout Session
1720–1750 hours Day 1 Wrap-Up
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BEFORE
6 APRIL 2013
1830–2040 hours Networking Dinner
Tuesday, 21 May 2013
0800–0900 hours Welcome Refreshments
0900–1030 hours Session 3: Data Integration II
Session Chairs: Ghassan Zahdan, Saudi Aramco;
Rifaat Al Mjeni, Petroleum Development Oman
1030–1050 hours Coffee Break
1050–1230 hours Breakout Session
1230–1330 hours Luncheon and Prayers

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1330–1500 hours Session 4: From Data Integration to Business Decisions in Petroleum
Reservoirs
Session Chairs: Mohammed Muhareb, Saudi Aramco;
Paul Van den Hoek, Shell
Many business decisions (field development planning, infill drilling, etc.) are based on production
forecasts generated by a reservoir model for different operational scenarios and under different
uncertainties. Significant effort is devoted to make these reservoir models as realistic as possible
via a combination of proper description of the geology, proper understanding of the reservoir,
and overall integration of the measurement data. This process has three, mutually related,
problems to deal with such as:
(1) Results based on data integration will generally be accurate in describing past performance,
but will be (partly) inadequate for predictions, especially when, in the future, streamlines are
changed via infill drilling, producer-injector conversion, or when the recovery scheme is changed
(e.g. moving from IOR to EOR),
(2) Each decision type needs it own specific level of modelling and corresponding level of data
integration (e.g. business planning versus finding infill locations versus reservoir management),
and
(3) There exists no general consensus about how the impact of uncertainties (e.g. using
representative model ensembles) should be “optimally” incorporated into the final business
decision.
This session will address the issues around “translating” the results from data integration
towards business decisions.
1500–1520 hours Coffee Break
1520–1700 hours Breakout Session
1700–1730 hours Day 2 Wrap-Up
Wednesday, 22 May 2013
0800–0900 hours Welcome Refreshments
0900–1030 hours Session 5: Data Mining
Session Chairs: Muhammad S.Khakwani, Saudi Aramco; Robert Shelley,
Stratagen Engineering; Surendar Sokkanathan, Baker Hughes
This session will help delegates understand data mining concepts, and its role in facilitating
business decisions by introducing knowledge discovery practices within E&P. Data mining offers
the potential to extract useful information from the considerable amount of data being gathered
by energy companies. Data mining based solutions can be used to reduce risks in finding
hydrocarbons, and increase ultimate recovery from hydrocarbon reservoirs. It can be applied to
the analysis and prediction of trends in order to optimise operations, and address several issues
and challenges faced during oil and gas production. During the session, successful case studies
will be presented to demonstrate the power of data mining in enhancing business decisions.
Topics to be covered:
• Introduction to Data Mining
• Data Mining Benefits and Empowering Decision Makers
• Data Value for History Matching and Simulation
• Proactive Decision Making Using Smart Data Prediction
• Data Mining Techniques
- Cluster Analysis
- Anomaly Detection
- Association Rule Mining
- Spatial Indexes and Patterns
- Predictive Analytics
- Artificial Intelligence
- Machine Learning
- Data Cubes for Analyses and Their Benefits for E&P
• Data Mining Frameworks
- Warehousing
- Big Data
- Data Bank
- Business Intelligence
• Case Studies from the Oil and Gas Industry
1030–1050 hours Coffee Break
1050–1230 hours Breakout Session
1230–1300 hours Workshop Wrap-Up
1300–1400 hours Luncheon
1400 hours Social Activity (TBC)
General Information
Workshop Venue
Amwaj Rotana Hotel
Jumeirah Beach Residence
P.O. Box 86834, Dubai, UAE
Tel: +971.4.428.2000 | Fax: +971.4.434.3666
Email: groups.amwaj@rotana.com
Workshop Guidelines
Format
Two and a half (2.5) days of informal discussions prompted by
selected keynote presentations and discussions. Workshops
maximise the exchange of ideas among attendees and
presenters through brief technical presentations followed by
extended Q&A periods. Focused topics attract an informed
audience eager to discuss issues critical to advancing
both technology and best practices. The majority of the
presentations are in the form of case studies, highlighting
engineering achievements and lessons learnt. In order to
stimulate frank discussion, no proceedings are published and
the press is not invited to attend.
Breakout Sessions
Attendees will be assigned to discussion groups on a random
basis for the breakout sessions to maximise the opportunity to
interact with other participants.
Documentation
• Proceedings will not be published; therefore, formal
papers and handouts are not expected from speakers.
• Work in progress, new ideas, and interesting projects
are sought.
• Professionally-prepared visual aids are not required;
however, PowerPoint presentations are most
commonly used.
• Note-taking by participants is encouraged.
Attendance
Registrations will be accepted on a first-come, first-serve
basis. The Steering Committee encourages attendance from
those who can contribute to the workshop most effectively
either in discussions or with posters. A mix of attendees in
terms of geographic origin, companies, and disciplines will be
encouraged.
Workshop Deliverables
• The Steering Committee will appoint a “scribe” to record
the discussions and to produce the full workshop report
for SPE.
• This report will be circulated to all attendees as the
workshop deliverable within 4–6 weeks following the
workshop. The copyright of the report is with SPE.
• PowerPoint presentation materials will be posted on a
specific SPE URL address after the workshop. Provision
of the materials by the speakers will signify their
permission for SPE to do so.
Commercialism
In keeping with workshop objectives and the SPE mission,
commercialism in posters or presentations will not be
permitted. Company logos must be limited to the title slide and
used only to indicate the affiliation of the presenter and others
involved in the work.
Attendance Certificate
All attendees will receive an attendance certificate attesting
to their participation in the workshop. This certificate
will be provided in exchange for a completed Workshop
Questionnaire.
Continuing Education Units
Attendees at this workshop qualify for SPE Continuing
Education Units (CEU) at the rate of 0.1 CEU per hour of the
workshop.

REGISTRATION FORM
Data Supporting E&P Decisions
20–22 May 2013 | Amwaj Rotana Hotel | Dubai, UAE
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