Abstract:
Engineers and scientists play a critical role in advancing innovative solutions to manage the carbon footprint and support activities that lead us towards the ‘global net-zero’ objective. Our traditional oil and gas production operations have generally not taken a systems approach that could result in lower carbon intensity. Effective reservoir and asset management practices can help improve this situation. In addition, subsurface aquifers and depleted reservoirs are the ideal place for supporting other industries reduce their carbon footprint due to the lack of currently available scalable commercial technologies. Evolving reservoir management practices support this immediate need.This talk will focus on understanding the basics of carbon intensity in our operations, provide some thoughts on how reservoir management practices can help improve the operations and ponder the activities of carbon storage in reservoirs.Dr. Jitendra Kikani is the Director of Reservoir Management (RM) for international businesses in the Chevron Technical Center. In this role, he is responsible for functional excellence, subsurface integrity and project assurance, as well as people development. Has published several dozen peer-reviewed technical papers and contributed to number of published books. He authored a textbook on Reservoir Surveillance which was published by the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) in 2013.