Day 1 - Society of Petroleum Engineers

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SPE TODAY
Around the Exhibit Floor
A roundup of technology being showcased at this year’s ATCE
Laboratory Focuses on
Downhole Perforating Systems
The Advanced Perforating Flow
Laboratory at Halliburton’s Jet
Research Center conducts tests
to help better understand actual
downhole conditions and perforating
system performance.
The laboratory has been expanded
with new cutting-edge technology and
vessels, which provide customers with
the most accurate information possible
about the effects of perforations in
various formations and environments.
The three new vessels include
a 50,000-psi vessel that allows
Halliburton to conduct tests at
pressure higher than any other testing
facility in the industry, a 25,000-psi
vessel that can rotate up to 180° and
enables studies about gravity-related
sanding to better understand the
effects of perforating and fracturing
in horizontal wells, and a 25,000-psi
high-temperature vessel that can flow
at temperatures reaching 204°C for
testing of perforating capabilities at
high temperatures. Booth 2235.
Satellite Imagery Provides
Sharp Eyes in the Sky
Spatial Energy’s satellite imagery is
available on demand from its archives,
which are composed of data from
satellites and aerial providers, its own
speculative collection, and its hosted
content of corporate imagery. The
Enterprise Remote Sensing Solutions
system provides one source for a full
range of remote sensing services. Its
data is tailored for use with geological,
geophysical, and other energy-specific
desktop applications.
Spatial offers high-resolution and
satellite imagery from all the major
commercial satellites: QuickBird,
WorldView 1 and 2, IKONOS, SPOT,
GeoEye-1, RapidEye, and Pleiades. The
company’s imagery can be viewed,
analyzed, shared, and combined with
other geographic data using leading
desktop and browser applications such
as Google Earth, Global Mapper, ESRI,
and Virtual Earth. Booth 2869.
High-Speed Reaming Systems
Fine Tune Completions
Deep Casing Tools’ Shalerunner is
a high-speed reaming system that
enables landing completions at correct
depth faster and less expensively. It
gives the completion team rotation
at the shoe without rotating the
completion, the company said.
Shalerunner’s design combines highspeed
rotational reaming with low
operation pressure and low flow rates.
The system connects directly to the
completion assembly and can be used
to ream open the hole and land the
completion on depth without any need
for additional wiper trips.
The company’s Turbocaser Express
is the first high-speed, drillable
motor and reamer system, enabling
drilling teams to land casings
and intermediate liners at target
depth. It provides the driller with a
circulation-powered reamer system
to get the casing through difficult hole
sections. Following normal cementing
Halliburton has expanded the Advanced Perforating Flow Laboratory at its Jet
Research Center. Photo courtesy of Halliburton.
operations, the whole system can be
drilled through in minutes with the
next bottomhole assembly, targeting
the next zone. Booth 3158.
System Tests Instruments, Tools,
Electronics for Harsh Conditions
Qualmark’s Typhoon Inferno is a highly
accelerated life test (HALT) system
configured for testing the durability
of instruments, tools, and electronics
that will face harsh environments such
as those encountered during oil and
gas exploration.
The Inferno can accommodate
extreme temperatures ranging from
−100 to +250°C, shock and vibration
of more than 60 G rms , and multiaxis
vibration with 6° of freedom vibration,
all in a matter of minutes. Rapidly
exposing products to such extremes
reveals design and manufacturing flaws
that are missed by traditional reliability
testing methods. Booth 708.
PetroLook E&P Software
Unlocks Power of Data
Aclaro Softworks’ PetroLook
applications provide a gateway to
upstream data through a simple
interface to browse and analyze
information from any part of a
company. Users can compare data
between different operations and track
changes to data over time.
The software is a Web-based
business intelligence system built
specifically to meet the needs of the oil
and gas industry.
PetroLook provides a common
interface to a company’s multiple
systems to provide a rich pool of data
for informed decision making. It has
been designed to allow comprehensive
data analysis, accessing multiple
data operations such as accounting
reserves, daily field production, land
economics, budgeting, and marketing
data. Once analyzed, the system
provides an array of reporting options
to share results.
PetroLook Reserves is a full
reserves management system by
which company reserves data from
multiple sources can be compiled and
rolled up to calculate total reserves,
reconcile differences, book changes,
and generate internal and external
reports. As a PetroLook component,
the reserves module makes use of the
application’s underlying architecture,
including Web-based navigation,
versioning, a security model, and
comprehensive reporting and charting.
PetroLook’s Portfolio Advisor
system is a full-featured portfolio
optimization solution and is the first
and only exploration and production
(E&P) software product that offers
true constrained multiobjective
optimization, the company said. The
key advantage of the portfolio advisor
is a technical breakthrough that
allows full constraint handling during
optimization. Booth 3151.
Sigma 3 Adds Companies
To Boost Data Services
Symphony Technology Group’s
Sigma 3 Integrated Reservoir Solutions
recently acquired Colorado-based
APEX Petroleum Engineering, APEX
HiPoint, and HiPoint Reservoir Imaging.
The moves are part of its strategy
to improve reservoir understanding,
optimize production, define risk, and
enhance return on investments
for its clients.
APEX Petroleum Engineering
provides consultation for hydraulic
fracturing engineering such as
onsite treatment supervision and
quality control, drilling, operations,
and well completions engineering.
APEX HiPoint provides real-time
microseismic fracture mapping,
wellbore seismic imaging, and reservoir
characterization technologies and
services. HiPoint Reservoir Imaging
provides microseismic and borehole
seismic data-processing analysis
and interpretation.
The new affiliates are recognized
leaders in their respective fields,
and the combination of their assets
with the Sigma 3 Earth modeling,
reservoir geophysics, geohazards and
geopressure, and continuous fracture
modeling capabilities creates a more
integrated package for Sigma 3 .
Booth 1863.
3D Programs Address
Development Uncertainties
ION’s ResSCAN 3D programs
encompass multiple industry
disciplines to address two key
uncertainties in unconventional
reservoirs: characterizing reservoir
quality and well completion for
optimal production. The programs
are developed and managed by ION’s
GeoVentures group and are imaged
by ION’s GX Technology group using
advanced data processing techniques.
Relying on upfront geological,
petrophysical, and rock physics
analysis, ResSCAN programs establish
what seismic attributes, from 3D single
or multicomponent seismic data,
provide the most predictive expression
of key reservoir properties for a
given shale play and, most important,
affect an operator’s drilling and well
completion engineering decisions
and parameters.
Five 3D programs encompassing
more than 900 square miles are
currently in various stages of the
ResSCAN workflow. All of these
programs incorporate multicomponent
acquisition, employ GX Technology’s
data processing technologies and
techniques, and rely on quantitative
interpretation to derive highly
optimized seismic attributes. These
customized attributes are obtained
from careful data processing followed
typically by seismic inversion and
shear-wave splitting analysis.
With this approach, a high resolution
estimate of formation density and
natural fracture intensity can be
determined, which generally cannot
be accurately estimated with P-wave
(single component) data alone.
Booth 129.
Sigma 3 recently acquired HiPoint Reservoir Imaging, which provides microseismic
and borehole seismic data-processing analysis. Photo courtesy of Sigma 3 .