SPE October Meeting

When:  Oct 4, 2017 from 06:30 PM to 08:00 PM (CET)
Associated with  Stavanger Section
"Formation Creep – Observations, practical implications, way forward and potential" by Geir Christian Kjeldaas, ConocoPhillips.

Geir Christian Kjeldaas is a geologist at ConocoPhillips working on characterization of the overburden, mainly in the Greater Ekofisk Area, and providing geological support for well planning and P&A related work. He has previously worked for 4 years as a well planner on Ekofisk and Eldfisk fields, and for 4 years doing exploration geology in the Barents Sea and in West Texas. He has an M.Sc. in geology from the University of Bergen from 2008.


"Field examples of activating shale as a well barrier by exposing it to a rapid pressure drop" by Tron Golder Kristiansens of Aker BP.

Tron Golder Kristiansen is applying geomechanics to solve various challenges in the oil and gas industry. This include work in areas such as solids production, hydraulic fracturing, well design in hostile environments, wellbore stability, drill cuttings re-injection and waste disposal, P&A, compaction and subsidence prediction, reservoir engineering, petrophysics, rock physics and geophysics. He started his work with Amoco including work at their research center in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He was a Global Geomechanics Advisor for BP from 2003 to 2016  in the central geomechanics team in the Global Wells Organization located in London and Houston. He was involved in both BP and partner operated projects and R&D around the world. He is currently Operations Geology and Rock Mechanics Manager in Aker BP in Stavanger and Trondheim. He has an MSc in Petroleum Engineering from Stavanger in 1992.

"Formation as barrier – 12 years of interesting observations and learnings" by NN of Statoil

Location

Scandic Stavanger City Hotel
Reidar Berges Gate 7
Stavanger, 4013
Norway
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Contact

Jamie Andrews
+47 99528993
jaand@statoil.com