Day 1 - Society of Petroleum Engineers

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SPE TODAY
Technical Program Selects 350 Papers From 1,500 Proposals
Joel Parshall, JPT Features Editor
With more than 350 papers
and 120 ePosters slated for
presentation over 3 days, the technical
program for the 2012 SPE Annual
Technical Conference and Exhibition
(ATCE) “is very exciting,” said Luis
Baez of BG Group, Technical Program
Committee chairman. “I’ve been
reading a lot of the papers, and we’ve
got some really strong ones. The
papers chosen for the conference came
from almost 1,500 proposals, so the
process was very selective,” he said.
“This is the largest engineering
event in the world for petroleum
engineers and all of the engineering
functions in the industry. That’s what
makes the ATCE unique. It enables
professionals in every engineering
function in the oil and gas industry,
as well as geologists, petrophysicists,
and other technical professionals, to
be in the same place for 4 or 5 days
to learn and exchange ideas. And this
year’s location couldn’t be any better.
San Antonio is in the heart of one of
the biggest North American oil booms
in a long time. With the explosion of
activity in unconventional resources,
this is an exciting time to be in
the industry.”
The industry has a huge demand for
technical expertise, and companies are
striving to find the right people to meet
the needs of unconventional oil and
gas development, deepwater projects,
and a variety of other challenges. “The
major shift for the industry in recent
years has been a much greater reliance
on younger professionals and people
fresh out of school,” Baez said. “The
ATCE provides a good opportunity to
speed up that learning curve through
knowledge sharing.”
Students can find the conference
particularly beneficial. “Just this past
year, we hired two young people—one
from the University of Oklahoma and
one from Texas A&M—whom we met
at last year’s ATCE,” Baez said. “They
introduced themselves and expressed
interest in joining the industry. With
that initiative, we eventually extended
them job offers.”
One way that SPE annually maintains
a high caliber technical program at the
conference is by bringing a substantial
number of new individuals into the
program committee each year. “We
bring in new leadership to the chair
and vice chair positions annually as
well as slot in regular replacements
on each subcommittee,” said Tom Gee
of Weatherford, Technical Program
Committee vice chairman. “We keep
the program dynamic through this
rotation process. Our program does
not get stale because of the new
perspectives offered by the committee
every year.”
The following is a rundown of the
technical program:
Monday Afternoon
• Integrated Workflows in Challenging
Reservoirs
• Field Optimization and Artificial Lift
• Coiled Tubing and Downhole Tools
• Perforating Technology
• Drilling Operations
• Fracture Diagnostics Measurements
and Models To Evaluate Completion
Effectiveness
• Innovative Best Practices in Field
Management, Reserves Evaluation, and
Application of Risk and Uncertainty
• Well Testing and Advanced Wireline
Formation Testing
• Flow in Unconventional Reservoirs
• Enhanced Oil Recovery Technology
• Enhancement of Facilities Technology
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Tuesday Morning
• Single Well Solutions
• Completion Optimization in
Unconventional Reservoirs
• MWD/LWD
• Shale Case Study
• New Technologies in Characterization
of Unconventional Reservoirs
• Petrophysical Applications
• Advances in Flow Characterization
Technologies
• Reservoir Simulation Technologies
From Hardware to 4D Seismic
Tuesday Afternoon
• Facilities Technology Applications
• Downhole Inflow Monitoring
• Field Wide/Multiple Wells Solutions
• Completion Systems and Techniques
• Bits and Drilling Tools
• Well Performance
• Novel Solutions for Classical Reservoir
Engineering Issues
• Creating Value With Unconventional
• Thermal Recovery Methods and
Mechanisms for Heavy Oil Reservoirs
• Transient Pressure and Rate Analysis
for Reservoir Characterizations and
Well Performance Prediction
Wednesday Morning
• Conventional and Unconventional
Perspectives on Education, Training,
and Employee Development
• Digital Technology Enabled Workflow
Transformation and Integration
• Artificial Lift and Liquid Unloading
• Sand Control Technology
• Fluids and Tubulars
• Fluids Optimization
• Earth, Wind, and Fire ... and Water
• Reservoir Characterization
• Advances in Improved Recovery
Processes for Heterogeneous Systems
• Shale Gas and Oil Well Performance
Wednesday Afternoon
• Education, Recruiting, and Training for
the Unconventional World
• Flow Assurance and Multiphase Flow
• Remedial Operations and Shale
Reservoirs
• Production Enhancement Using Inflow
Control Devices
• Wellbore Stability
• Fracture Modeling
• Environmental Risk Assessment and
Operational Considerations
• New Technology and Methods for
Subsurface Formation Evaluation
• Phase Behavior of Reservoir Fluids
• Reservoir Case Studies