Workshop Brochure - Society of Petroleum Engineers

Early Bird Registration Deadline:
12 April 2013
Society of Petroleum Engineers
27–29 May 2013 | Oryx Rotana | Doha, Qatar
SPE Global Integrated Workshop Series
Well Integrity: Current Challenges and Future Perspectives
Who Should Attend
• Drilling and Well Integrity
Technology Providers
• Production Technology Engineers
• Well Integrity Management
• Well Completion Engineers
Committee Members
Chairperson
Ahmad Fakhroo
Qatar Petroleum
Co-Chairperson
Nigel Snow
Maersk Oil Qatar AS
Bipin Jain
Schlumberger
Ibrahim A. Ghamdi
Saudi Aramco
Inge Carlsen
Weatherford
Jean-Philippe Bedel
Schlumberger
Karim Shaikh
Qatar Shell
Ken Feather
Archer
Leozarin Morshidi
RasGas
Liane Smith
Intetech Wells
Malissa Boudreaux
Baker Hughes
Obadah Al Sawadi
ZADCO
Pierre Leschi
TOTAL E&P Qatar
Rana Shahzad Amin
Qatar Petroleum
Sherif Refaat
Archer
Shri Kant Pandey
Qatar Petroleum
Stuart Girling
Girling and Company
Workshop Description
Well integrity is on a journey of realisation; together with the challenges of ageing wells and well
life cycle extension, the verification of well integrity is a key area of interest for the oil and gas
companies worldwide.
Following industry incidents of uncontrolled outflow, there is an increase in public awareness
of how effectively our industry manages well integrity. Together with recent challenges in zonal
isolation to protect aquifers in USA and Australia’s onshore tight gas and coal bed methane
development projects, there is increased focus on the management of well integrity. This puts
increased demands on operators to provide assurance in safeguarding people and protecting the
environment in order to acquire or retain the license to operate in compliance with standards and
regulations.
The importance of this is further elevated in view of large developments in unconventional gas and
oil with well population growth that will result in more wells being drilled in the next decade than
what we have drilled over the last hundred years to meet projected energy demands.
In addition there is the fact that wells are getting older whilst new wells are increasingly complex
with target reservoirs becoming more difficult to reach, requiring treatment, and interventions to
enhance recovery of hydrocarbons.
The surface and subsurface hazards with required mitigations and associated assurance tasks
required to verify barrier integrity are not always fully understood nor is there always effective
technology available to verify these barriers.
The change in the requirements and the competency of industry to deal with these challenges is on
a progressive journey but gaps exist to understand these new and complex issues.
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WORKSHOP
Well Integrity: Current Challenges and Future Perspectives
Sponsorship Support
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 conference
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
• Gold Sponsorship
• Silver Sponsorship
• Bronze Sponsorship
• Welcome Reception and Dinner
Sponsorship
• Luncheon Sponsorship—Per Day
• Coffee Break Sponsorship—Per Day
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 Loreen Nisha, event
manager, at lnisha@spe.org
Gold Sponsor
Monday, 27 May 2013
Silver Sponsor
1600–1700 hours Final Committee Meeting
1700–1800 hours Speaker/Session Chair Meeting
1800–1900 hours Registration
1900–2100 hours Workshop Reception and Dinner for all Delegates
Tuesday, 28 May 2013
0700–0800 hours Registration and Welcome Coffee Break
0800–0830 hours Opening Remarks
Bronze Sponsor
0830–1000 hours Session 1: Well Integrity Challenges in Qatar—Case Histories
Session Chairs: Ahmad Fakhroo, Qatar Petroleum; Pierre Leschi, TOTAL E&P Qatar
In Qatar, several operators deal with oil and gas productions from both onshore and offshore field developments. This session
will provide a well integrity overview from these oil and gas companies (Qatar Petroleum, Maersk Oil Qatar AS, Shell, TOTAL,
Occidental, etc.). Discussing actual well integrity case histories and work practices implemented by others will improve the
overall management of the integrity of one’s wells.
1000–1030 hours Morning Coffee Break and Posters
1030–1200 hours Session 2: Well Integrity Challenges International—Breakout Session
Session Chairs: Ahmad Fakhroo, Qatar Petroleum; Liane Smith, Intetech Wells;
Pierre Leschi, TOTAL E&P Qatar
Following the first session, hearing what well integrity challenges the local Qatari operators are facing, a breakout session will
highlight the issues that arise in operations in the region. This session will focus on specific technical challenges that operators
face. Do you share the same problems of this region or have some unique challenges? Do you operate ageing wells that are
past their design life, but still have valuable production levels that demand continued operation, or high technology new wells
that present major difficulties for intervention? Discuss and share your experience as the pooled list of challenges sets the
scene not only for this workshop, but for the entire global series.
1200–1300 hours Luncheon/Prayer Time and Posters
Audio-Visual Equipment
Sponsor
1300–1430 hours Session 3: Barriers Verification
Session Chairs: Rana Shahzad Amin, Qatar Petroleum; Stuart Girling, Girling and Company
Having competent barriers is a fundamental imperative of well integrity. In developing a barrier philosophy, consideration must
be given to barrier envelopes and the individual barrier elements that make them up; which of these are safety critical and how
their performance is managed; when some leakage is acceptable and whether different components can have different leak
criteria. In reality few wells go through their operating life without material degradation, component failures or human error
featuring. Because of this, the use of contingent (secondary, tertiary etc.) barriers is necessary in case failures happen. We
also test, monitor, verify, and maintain barrier elements to minimise the likelihood of such failures and the resultant impact.
However, standards are not the same across the industry as there are different regulatory regimes, variable understanding, and
differing attitudes to risk. This session will encourage delegates to explain how barriers are managed in their own companies
and to think about philosophy, standards, and practices related to barrier management.
1430–1500 hours Afternoon Coffee Break and Posters
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1500–1630 hours Session 4: Risk Assessment—How to Manage Wells with Imperfect Barriers
Session Chair: Karim Shaikh, Qatar Shell; Ken Feather, Archer
Components fail in most wells resulting in imperfect barriers. Good designs, incorporating contingent barriers, can mitigate
this, though even with such in-built safeguards, failures, and imperfect barriers introduce risks that need assessment and
management. Traditionally, well integrity risk assessments have been done reactively, in response to an actual failure. The
industry is using the concept of well failure models increasingly to consider failures that have not yet happened and determine
actions to be taken should they occur. The recently published OGP describes the concept of well failure models and encourages
their use to streamline the risk assessment process. A well failure model is, typically, a matrix that identifies the most common
modes of failure with consideration for escalation to multiple failures, since the combined result of simultaneous failures
can be more severe than failures occurring separately. Each mode of failure has an associated action plan and response time
to repair; whether it is permissible to operate, close in or suspend a well during this period. The approach enables proper
management of equipment, spares, resources, and contracts to meet the response times specified and is useful to categorise
failures for the purpose of prioritisation and reporting. Some examples of well failure models will be presented and delegates
will be encouraged to discuss the merits and pitfalls of this approach in comparison with other forms of risk assessment.

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Wednesday, 29 May 2013
0730–0800 hours Welcome Coffee Break
0800–0930 hours Session 5: Well Abandonment—Securing and Restoring Well Integrity in a
Long-Term Perspective
Session Chairs: Inge Carlson, Weatherford; Jean-Phillipe Bedel, Schlumberger
The increasing number of ageing wells reaching the end of their design lives and the need for final
abandonment is a growing concern in the industry. The often uncertain status of existing well barriers is a
challenge to both intervention safety and as a continued component of a permanent secured well. The original
chemical and mechanical design envelopes of the well infrastructure need to be assessed and understood
along with the degradation mechanisms. The often dynamic production history of the well may lead to tubular
corrosion, well component wear, and fatiguing thermal loads. External casing corrosion from shallow aquifers
is, to a considerable challenge but with few inspection and repair options. Also, potential deeper formation
disturbance resulting from reservoir production activities need to be carefully assessed. Many fields are in
a rejuvenation phase and continued production from neighbour wells may also interfere with the remaining
infrastructure of the abandoned well. Even operations in other fields may recharge hydrocarbon flows if the
formations are connected. Examples from the North Sea include challenges with tubular collapse and even
parted casing strings restricting further reservoir access for the plugging and abandonment (P&A) phase.
Assuring well integrity and securing reservoir access are key issues for many of these offshore P&A projects.
Both new diagnostic tools and cost efficient rig solutions and downhole repair tools are high on the wish
list. Understanding the dynamics of the subsurface is a key requirement for plugging material selection
and qualification processes. The regulators on the Norwegian continental shelf focus a lot on the status of
temporary abandoned wells and make higher demands for risk assessment and compliance with the safety
regulations. This workshop session will present current global experiences, and discuss other perspectives of
well integrity in the context of safe well abandonment.
0930–1000 hours Morning Coffee Break and Posters
1000–1130 hours Session 6: Technology Gaps
Session Chairs: Bipin Jain, Schlumberger; Karim Shaikh, Qatar Shell
As we all strive to reach a point where we can manage the integrity of our whole well stock, while satisfying
both our internal and external standards, guidelines, recommended practices for the whole well life cycle, will
have gaps. These gaps may be technology gaps, failings in well or equipment design or application, gaps in our
processes or gaps in our own understanding and knowledge of the complex issues that we face.
This session will explore some of these gaps by example, and discuss possible ways in which these gaps could
be filled. These gaps will form the basis of an active discussion with new ideas and concepts being brought to
the table.
1130–1230 hours Luncheon/Prayer Time and Posters
1230–1400 hours Session 7: Automating the Management of Well Integrity Data
Session Chairs: Leozarin Morshidi, RasGas; Nigel Snow, Maersk Oil Qatar AS
Automating well integrity data requires solving the issue of consolidating data in one place and then automating
its evaluation in order to achieve a consistent approach to the decisions taken when faced with specific well
data. In an ideal situation, an integrated data management system provides decision support which can be
tailored to match ISO requirements and any local policies or regulations in different regions. This session
explores how well integrity data review can be automated and how it can achieve consistent treatment of data
and identification of well problems through approaches like a built-in well failure model, exception based
surveillance, and other concepts embodied within the new ISO standard for well integrity management.
1400–1430 hours Afternoon Coffee Break and Posters
1430–1600 hours Session 8: What are the Priorities for Well Integrity Data Management?—
Breakout Session
Session Chairs: Leozarin Morshidi, RasGas; Liane Smith, Intetech Wells;
Nigel Snow, Maersk Oil Qatar AS; Stuart Girling, Girling and Company
At the heart of analysing any well integrity problem is access to data. We all have faced experiences of unreliable
and incomplete data being stored in separate silos. Great effort is required to pull it all together. There is a
revolution in data management technology, and systems which support well integrity data management already
exist. But what do we expect these systems to provide? What is the minimum specification for a useful data
system? What are the essential aspects and the nice-to-have extras? Where do we want to push this technology
in the future? Share your thoughts and ideas, and discuss potential implementation challenges with others in
today’s breakout session
1600–1615 hours Workshop Closing Remarks
General Information
Workshop Venue
Oryx Rotana
P.O. Box 29922, Doha, Qatar
Tel: +974.4402.3333 | Fax: +974.4402.3300
Web: www.rotana.com
Workshop Guidelines
Format
Two (2) 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;
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.

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Well Integrity: Current Challenges and Future Perspectives
27–29 May 2013 | Oryx Rotana | Doha, Qatar
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