*North Tech Breakfast: Integrating Geology and Geophysics into Engineering workflows to Enhance ... - Apr 2nd
Complete Title: Integrating Geology and Geophysics into Engineering workflows to Enhance Unconventional Production Sponsored by Anadarko and Quantico Energy Solutions
Meeting Location:
Anadarko Petroleum
1201 Lake Robbins Drive
The Woodlands, TX 77380
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Speakers: Tony Settari and Dale Walters, CGG
In traditional conventional oil and gas reservoirs, the roles of the geoscientist and engineers have been very defined and distinct between the two fields, with the role of the geoscientist to locate and drill potential reservoir and the engineer's role to generate production. In the past, once the discovery was made and production began, there was generally little interaction between the geoscientist and the engineering. With the advent of lateral wells and hydraulic fracturing of unconventional reservoirs for oil and gas recovery, there is a strong argument that there is now a role for geoscientists (geologist, petrophysicist and geophysicist) during the completion and production phase, which has traditionally been the domain of the engineers. However, the limited interaction between the geoscientist and engineering groups in many operating companies in the past has meant many geoscientists don’t speak the language of engineers and vice versa.
In this presentation, we discuss a series of case studies completed by the CGG Geoscience group with an integrated geoscience and engineering team working on various unconventional reservoirs throughout the mainland United States. The case studies discussed in this presentation provide examples of how the geoscientists have provided input into engineering outcomes by adjusting the “language” they use. Examples are shown on how geological and geophysical outputs have been successfully used to provide data to better drill and complete wells and capture variations in rock properties, which is fed into fully coupled reservoir/geomechanical simulations, following which how these variations impact the potential injection and production from a well. The presentation will also discuss how these integrated geoscience/engineering interpretations can then be extended throughout production history matching and optimization of future drilling and completion designs.
Speaker Biographies:
Antonin (Tony) Settari,
Dr. A. (Tony) Settari is with CGG Canada (formerly with TAURUS Reservoir Solutions Ltd. which became a part of CGG in 2015). He is also a Professor Emeritus at the University of Calgary, where he has taught since 1975 and has held the Endowed Chair in Petroleum Engineering. His areas of interest include reservoir simulation, fracturing and geomechanics. He is a co-author of the classical textbook on Petroleum Reservoir Simulation (Aziz and Settari), and has written two other texts and over 150 technical publications. He is a Distinguished Member of SPE, and received several international prizes including the SPE Anthony B. Lucas Gold Medal, the Eni Prize “Frontiers in hydrocarbons” and the SPE C. Ferguson certificate.
Dale Walters,
Dale Walters has 20 years of engineering experience, participating in large reservoir and geomechanical engineering studies throughout the world within a multi-disciplinary team environment. He has conducted multiple geomechanical and caprock integrity projects both in Canada and abroad. Coupled reservoir and geomechanical experience includes steam stimulation projects of heavy oil reservoirs, compaction of sandstone and chalk reservoirs, compaction induced seismicity, modeling fracturing in Unconventionals and jointed media, produced water reinjection, waterflood fracturing, stress dependence of fractured reservoirs, sand production and wellbore stability. He is a Technical Manager at CGG focusing on reservoir geomechanical consulting. He is a registered Professional Engineer with APEGGA, and holds BSc. and M.Sc. degrees in Civil and Geotechnical engineering from the University of Calgary.
Breakfast will be available starting at 7:00 AM
Technical Talk will start at 7:30
Event will end by 8:30
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