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SPE-NYNE End of the Year Newsletter

Content:

Greeting from chair
Harpoon event
SPE-MIT Symposium
SPE-MIT Student Chapter
Membership update
Upcoming events
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Q4 2012 Newsletter

SPE NYNE Q4 2012 Newsletter

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Inside this Issue:
  • 2013 CALENDAR OF EVENTS
  • JANUARY 14TH 2013 SPE DL AT BATTELLE DUXBURY
  • MEMBER SPOTLIGHT
  • ADVANCES IN RESERVOIR MGMT TECHNOLOGIES
  • FALL 2012 SECTION MEET-ING SUMMARY
  • UNCONVENTIONAL RESER-VOIRS SYMPOSIUM AT YALE
  • PROFESSIONAL PROFILES IN THE SPE WEBSITE

September 2012 NYNE Newsletter
Society of Petroleum Engineers
New York and New England Section
September 2012 - Volume 1, Issue 3
    From the Editor
- Jim Stevens
 Contents

From the Editor

Upcoming Events

Summer Social Event

Member Innovations

Member Spotlight

Young Professionals

Student Members

Fall Meeting

SPE Events
  


The NY and NE Section first priority is to bring together SPE resources and the specific interests of our section membership.  To do this we want to expand communications on a broad scope of subjects.  Past newsletters covered current and future events plus introductions to your new board members – which has very diverse sets of skills, industry experiences and expertise to be tapped.  However, we are more interested in highlighting every member in our Member Spotlight section.  The value of our organization is knowing fellow professionals and how to develop your capabilities in a rapidly changing energy industry.  Whether you are a student, first year employee or experienced engineer, we want to feature you in our newsletters.  Please send us a brief BIO and a picture, and tell us why you joined SPE.

We are also interested in feedback from members that we can quote to help us tune in to what you believe is important on developing your career.  This month we are starting another new feature – Member Innovations.  Please read this new section and think of what you are doing that can be shared with the membership in both the newsletter summary and white
   

papers for our section web site library.   And, maybe we can make your innovation a presentation or a section webinar in the future.  This is something we hope to start soon so we can share more expertise across the section at a faster pace – this is one of our new International President Egbert Imomoh’s priorities in 2012-2013.

And finally we do believe in social events and the Cambridge river cruise in June was a big success.   We not only had the best atmosphere for meeting new SPE members – we also enabled many opportunities to gain feedback and play match-maker in introducing members who wanted to share industry/career interests.


Publications and Technology Transfer Officer Jim Stevens, Section Chairperson Soraya Betancourt, and Section Member David Leslie
   


Upcoming Events
    Geology Field Trip
  •  Fall Section Meeting
  • Geology Field Trip
    

We are excited to announce that Section members are welcome to join the geology field trips organized by NEIGC (New England Intercollegiate Geological Conference).  This year the conference will be held at Sunapee Ski Resort in New Hampshire on October 12-14. For more information visit: http://w3.salemstate.edu/~lhanson/NEIGC/ 		  








 Summer Social Event
 

Members getting ready to board the boat.

  

Our section hosted the first social event in a very long time.  Several members and friends met for an afternoon cruise and drinks in a relaxing atmosphere along the Charles River in Boston/Cambridge on July 25th.


 

Len Andersen (New York DOT) has been a great supporter of all the Section activities for many years.

    

Yong Hua Chen (Schlumberger) and David Leslie (MicroSeismic Matters LLC).
 

Zilu Zhou, Soraya Betancourt, Tancredi Botto, Angel Manzur and Jiaqi Yang (Schlumberger).

      

Alyssa Charsky, Internet Chairperson, Tim Allard and Diana Acero-Allard (Schlumberger)



 

“On major projects companies outsource their logistics function because of the peak demand for logistics tracking tasks.”

   Member Innovation Sharing (New Section Feature)

System for International Logistics Services Innovations on Major Energy Industry Projects - "Bridging the Gaps"

By Jim Stevens, Optima Technologies


     Are you involved in an innovation and/or project to implement new technology with an urgent deadline? Does it require relocation of equipment? You may be interested in new logistics planning and tracking systems.
     Optima Technologies has been developing information systems to “bridge the gaps” in communication so that equipment for major projects can be relocated and shipped anywhere in the world to meet the changing plans.
     We were partnered with energy industry experts for 7 years beginning with the AGIP consortium of the top 10 oil companies set up to build out the largest oil find in the world today in the North Caspian sea in Kasakhstan.  The system got its feeds from KBR on what equipment needed to be relocated and built.  Our new tools enabled the planning and tracking of every shipment through every move and stop to minimize the effects of surprises.  This is possible by sharing timely status data and alerts with the front line project leads and schedulers across the globe.
    On major projects companies outsource their logistics function because of the peak demand for logistics tracking tasks (purchase orders can contain hundreds or thousands of line items on new builds).  However, the third party logistics (3PL) providers often lack the tools to outsource the planning and tracking work - they are more focused on just finding carriers at a competitive cost - which is their core expertise and primary deliverable.
     This is what we call a GAP in the 3PL capabilities and teh tools to manage logistics and get material to the site on schedule ... and adapt to daily changes. (Please refer to your NY and NE SPE Section Library for the white paper)

A white paper by Jim Stevens on Logistics Management is available to section members in the SPE NYNE website/library

 












 Member Spotlight – Harold David Leslie (Microseismic Matters LLC)
 

Harold David Leslie (MicroSeismic Matters LLC) Member since 1987
David Leslie is an independent researcher/consultant working through MBO Partners and through MicroSeismic Matters LLC which he established after retiring from Schlumberger in the U.K. in July 2011. Over the course of a long career with Schlumberger he worked largely in sonic and microseismic R&E, holding engineering positions in Houston, Texas, and Fuchinobe, Japan, and research positions in Ridgefield, Connecticut, and Cambridge, England. He started his career as a Junior Field Engineer at Schlumberger Offshore Services in Houston, and also worked in Interpretation Development at ATL Marketing  in Montrouge, France. Prior to joining Schlumberger David worked as a research assistant at the Woods Hole   Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). He received the degrees of BSEE from Princeton University in 1969, MS from MIT, and Ocean Engineer from MIT and WHOI in 1978. He has co-authored patents in the areas of cement evaluation, sonic tool design and microseismic processing. Since retiring and returning to the USA David has remained active in SEG, EAGE and SPE, serving occasionally and voluntarily as a paper reviewer and an attendee of conferences and workshops. His principle focus remains induced seismicity, but he is using his “considerably freer time” to more widely explore topics related to energy and environment  
 
 Young Professionals - Rodolfo Oliveira (Schlumberger)
 

         Rodolfo Oliveira         Member since 2008
Rodolfo Oliveira has a bachelor degree in Petroleum Engineering from the Federal University of Espirito Santo at Brazil and is currently pursuing his Master in Mechanical Engineering at Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. Rodolfo is part of the SPE Ambassador Lecturer Program at Brazil and the 2013 SPE Star Fellowship recipient at South America & Caribbean Region. He was awarded 3rd place at   the 2011 SPE International Student Paper Contest and 1st place at the 2010 SPE Latin American & Caribbean Student Paper Contest. Rodolfo has been working for Schlumberger for almost 2 years, starting his career at the Brazilian Research and Geoengineering Center and now doing a short term assignment at the Schlumberger Doll Research Center in Cambridge, MA.  
 
 Student Members - Nancy Ranxing Li (Boston University)
  

        Nancy R. Li        
       Student Member        since 2012
Nancy is a PHD candidate in Materials Science and Engineering at Boston University, class of 2013. Her research involves studying the thickness dependence of the viscosity of polymer thin films using Atomic Force Microscopy and mathematical modeling with MATLAB. Besides research, she is active in technology commercialization. She successfully helped US public and start-up companies to evaluate market  

opportunities of clean energy projects. She is also the president and founder of the Materials Information Society, ASM International, Boston University Chapter.

“I joined SPE because I had an internship at Schlumberger two years ago; I liked the people in the field, and also want to keep up to date with new technology in the oil and gas industry"		  





 Fall Section Meeting - October 18th, 2012
 

Section Board Meeting and Guest Speaker
Thursday October 18th, 2012

11:30-12:30PM Section Board Meeting (open to all members)

12:30–1:30PM  Lunch

1:30-3:00 PM  Presentation by Mr. David Jacoby

Schlumberger Research Center, One Hampshire St., Cambridge, MA 02139
 

Mr. David Jacoby
President of Boston  Strategies International
Guest Speaker at the Fall Section Meeting
 
 

Economist, Author, and SPE Member, David Jacoby, President of Boston Strategies International, will talk to us about Supply Chain Management in the Oil and Gas Industry. 

David Jacoby has been consulting for 25 years in operations strategy, of which the last six have focused on the energy industry. He wrote The Guide to Supply Chain Management (The Economist, 2009) and Effective Supply Chain Management in Oil, Gas, and Power Generation (Pennwell, 2012). He taught Operations Management at Boston University and was a contributing editor at the Economist Intelligence Unit. He holds an MBA and a Masters in Brazilian economics from the Wharton School.


David is the founder and President of Boston Strategies International, BSI, a firm that facilitates strategic supply agreements that assure global quality and technology leadership and meet local content requirements.  BSI specializes on supply chain design for oil, gas and power leaders.

Mr. Jacoby will present a Technical Paper focused on lessons to be learned from past major accidents and how to incorporate risk management into supply chain design. The presentation will cover Health, Safety, and Environment (HSE) related assessment and risk management tools and explain how to incorporate guidelines such as the Formal Safety Assessment (IMO) and ISO 31000, and regional and contextual frameworks like the Norsok Standard S - 012 for Health, Safety and Environment (HSE), into capital project supply chain design and management.





SPE Events

Enhanced Oil Recovery Conference, 2-4 July 2013, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, “Call for Papers”

http://www.spe.org/events/eorc/2013

Deadline for abstract submission is October 1st, 2012

 

SPE 2012 Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, 8-10  October, Henry Gonzalez Convention Center, San Antonio, Texas , USA

http://www.spe.org/atce/2012/