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20 SPE TODAY SPE Pavilion Offers Proceedings, Publications, and Answers The SPE Pavilion, located at Booth 3350, is a meeting and educational resource for all conference attendees. SPE members and nonmembers can pick up a copy of the conference proceedings, conduct society business, network with colleagues, and find out about SPE’s books and newest publications. The Pavilion is an information station where questions can be answered about SPE member benefits, events, publications, and products and services. The following is available at this year’s booth: Proceedings Pick up your ATCE 2012 technical papers on CD. This CD contains all of the technical papers presented at the convention. Additional copies of the proceedings are available for purchase at the SPE Bookstore. Member Services Renew your membership or become an SPE member. Customer service representatives are available to answer all your questions. Update your profile, renew or reinstate your membership, or become a new member. You can also get information about benefits and programs available only to SPE members. Publications Get complimentary copies of SPE publications, including SPE’s newest magazine, Oil and Gas Facilities. Other titles available include • Journal of Petroleum Technology • The Way Ahead • Journal of Canadian Petroleum Technology • SPE Drilling & Completion • SPE Journal • SPE Production & Operations • SPE Reservoir Evaluation & Engineering Energy4me Find ready-to-go resources to make energy-related presentations to preuniversity students. See easy-to-use tools for members to give classroom presentations on energy. Explore resources including Energy4me Kit materials available for download in French, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese and Russian. Preview samples of SPE’s Oil and Natural Gas educational book, including new versions in additional languages. The book and printed Energy4me Kit (in English) are available for purchase in the SPE Bookstore. SPE Bookstore Buy onsite and save money on shipping. Get the latest SPE-published titles available in print, digital, and CD, including • Titles for all technical disciplines • Technical papers from previous ATCEs and other SPE events • Textbooks including the Petroleum Engineering Handbook series Digital Books SPE now offers books in digital format. Visit the computer stand next to the SPE Bookstore counter to browse and purchase titles now available in digital format. Events Pick up the latest copy of the SPE Regional Events, Products, and Services catalog and learn about events happening around the world. Training Courses Pick up a copy of the Training Courses catalog. Learn about the wide variety of cost-effective, hands-on training courses for all levels of professionals covering today’s relevant topics. Information Station Have questions? Get answers to questions about SPE member benefits, events, products, services, and ATCE 2013. Also, find out what is new at SPE. Alumni Receptions Take Place Tonight Many universities have scheduled alumni receptions to coincide with this year’s conference. The receptions will be held from 1730 to 1900 at the Grand Hyatt Hotel unless otherwise noted. Cairo University: Travis D, Level 3 Calgary Section: Texas Salon C, Level 4 Colorado School of Mines: Lone Star Salon C, Level 2 Imperial College London: Travis C, Level 3 Indian School of Mines: Offsite function, India Oven Restaurant Louisiana State University: Lone Star Salon F, Level 2 Marietta College: Presidio B, Level 3 Mississippi State University: Bowie C, Level 2 Missouri University of Science & Technology: Bonham B, Level 3 Montana Tech: Offsite function, Rio Rio Restaurant New Mexico Tech (1800–2100): Offsite function, SoHo Wine and Martini Bar Pennsylvania State University: Lone Star Salon A, Level 2 Stanford University: Bonham D, Level 3 Texas A&M University: Texas Salons A/B, Level 4 Texas Tech University: Bonham C, Level 3 100 University of Kansas: Offsite function, Casa Rio Restaurant 95 University of Oklahoma: 75Lone Star Salon E, Level 2 University of Southern California: Bonham E, Level 3 University of Texas at Austin: 25 Texas Salon D, Level 4 University 5 of Tulsa: Lone Star Salon D, Level 2 West 0 Virginia University: Lone Star Salon B, Level 2
SPE TODAY 21 Facilities Presentations Take Hard Look at Water Management Gentry Braswell, JPT Online Technology Editor Design optimization, extending the lifetime of existing facilities, and project development economics are just a few of the topics that will be discussed this afternoon in a technical session on Enhancement of Facilities Technology. The presentations, which begin at 1400 in Room 205, will feature several operators’ experiences regarding water handling equipment, gas development, decommissioning and abandonment, subsea processing, enhanced mature field recovery, artificial neural networks, solids control, and natural gas network performance. Among the six technical papers that are being presented during the session is one comparing produced water treating systems in the North Sea and deepwater Gulf of Mexico. “The oil and gas industry produces about four times more water than it does oil,” said John Walsh of Shell, the lead author of the paper and SPE’s technical director for Projects, Facilities, and Construction. “Good water management requires water treating expertise and understanding of technical issues related to separation of oil and water. “Offshore facilities are designed with a number of economic and environmental constraints. The paper focuses on the technical issues related to design of offshore facilities, in particular looking at the existing design of water treating systems in two parts of the world, to see what can be learned about water treating design strategies in general,” he said If done properly, facilities design ensures that environmental compliance is met, which helps ensure “the license to operate,” Walsh added. “Water treating in general is becoming an enabler technology for the oil and gas industry due to scarcity of availability in some parts of the world. As the industry matures, greater use is made of improved and enhanced recovery methods, which can involve the injection of large amounts of water,” Walsh said. “This injection water must be treated to certain standards in order to achieve higher ultimate recovery of hydrocarbons and to achieve injection volumes without impairment of the reservoir. All of these activities require a strong understanding and competent application of water treating fundaments.” Generally, technical development provides the opportunity to enhance current performance of drilling facilities, and there are numerous arguments for enhancement, said Statoil’s Bodil Aase, lead author of “Critically Testing of Drilling Fluid Solids Control Equipment,” another of the papers to be discussed during the session. “The most obvious is the economical arguments of more efficient operations, which implies less time spent and even higher success rate. Enhancement of facilities also provides improved safety in technical and operational procedures, as safety has an even higher focus today,” Aase said. “The economical and environmental “Water treating in general is becoming an enabler technology for the oil and gas industry … .” impact of decommissioning of old drilling facilities and building new facilities should be evaluated against implementing new technology on older facilities to improve performance and extend the lifetime of the facility.” The paper examines the performance of five different shale shakers, assessed as part of an ongoing rig modification project in the North Sea, Aase said. The shale shakers play a decisive role in maintaining the desired properties of the drilling fluid, which is vital to drilling performance and well control. Selection of the most suitable shale shakers and good operational —John Walsh, Shell procedures are both important to ensure good drilling fluid quality and to minimize unnecessary waste production, Aase said. Another of the papers to be discussed concerns the use of artificial neural networks in predicting the corrosion rate in gas pipelines. Technology improperly applied could compromise field integrity from a corrosion mitigation standpoint, said lead author Deden Supriyatman. The use of artificial neural networks to predict corrosion rate in gas pipelines could help, he said. “Deep offshore and high-pressure/high-temperature wells development will widen our horizons in term of new technologies such as chemical injection, well treatment, well intervention, and well stimulation.” Regarding corrosion, there is interest in subsea or deep offshore for cathodic protection for carbon steel, and this presents implications for materials selections. Material degradation properties and guidelines must be considered, which has bearing on the manufacturing methods of the materials, Supriyatman said. “Possibilities in the new technologies are needed to be completely exercised in various environments,” Supriyatman said. “For produced water treating system, I am more concerned about the government or authority regulations being presently applied and which are continuously tougher and tougher.”
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