SPE Week: Oil & Energy

By Claudia Villa Saldivar posted 13 days ago
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Hi everyone, The student chapter UNAM invites you to SPE Week: Oil & Energy, which will take place online from March 17 to 21. ¡Te SPEramos! #WeAreSPE
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Invitation to Participate in Petrofest 2025

By Raktim Borah posted 15 days ago
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SPE Dibrugarh University Student Chapter is organising its annual fest "Petrofest v4.0" from 21st March to 23rd March, 2025. I request everyone to share and join the event as it will be conducted in hybrid mode. The event will feature many technical and non technical events including the oil and gas Conclave, Paper Presentation and Case Study competition. Registration fees is INR 99/- only.
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P&ATS/AAPG Webinar Series - Well Abandonment with Creeping Formations

By Waqas Munir posted 16 days ago
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🚨 Don’t Miss This Must-Attend Webinar! 🚨 Join us for an insightful P&A TS / AAPG Webinar on Well Abandonment with Creeping Formations featuring industry expert Fábio Sawada Cutrim (Petrobras) ! 🌍🔍 📅 Date: April 2nd ⏰ Time: 14:00 - 15:00 GMT 📺 Live on LinkedIn / YouTube https://www.linkedin.com/events/7304870553360699394/comments/ Fábio, a renowned Geomechanics and Well Foundations Consultant at Petrobras, will share key insights on managing creeping formations in well abandonment— a critical challenge in the industry! Hosting this session will be Susan Nash (AAPG) and Pierre-Edouard Vincent (P&ATS) , ensuring a ...
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2024-2025 2nd Distinguished Lecturer Program: Mr. Ryosuke YOKOTE (Rio) (Mar. 7, 2025 at INPEX Tokyo)

By Kohei Miura posted 16 days ago
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Topic: Well Dynamic Simulation – Challenging the “Just Do This” Approach Lecturer: Mr. Ryosuke YOKOTE (Rio) , ENI Australia Ryosuke YOKOTE (Rio) is a Senior Petroleum Engineer with Eni Australia. He has over 29 years of industry experience in Australia, Timor-Leste, Indonesia, and Japan. In this lecturer program, he showcased well dynamic simulations supporting the full life cycle of well operations, including well clean-up, field start-up, production operations, well intervention and field abandonment. These case studies highlighted the importance of a cross-disciplinary approach to foster strong collaborations between the field-based supervisor and ...
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▶️ 𝐒𝐏𝐄𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐆𝐞𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐥 𝐓𝐚𝐥𝐤𝐬 #18: 𝐔𝐍𝐅𝐂 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐆𝐞𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐥 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐬 𝐂𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐄𝐥 𝐒𝐚𝐥𝐯𝐚𝐝𝐨𝐫

By Gabrijel Grubac posted 02-18-2025
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Here we go at it again! Join us for an additional webinar on the geothermal world from a great speaker, 📆 February 24, 2025 15:00 GMT ⏩ Register Here 𝐀𝐛𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐅𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐂𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 (𝐔𝐍𝐅𝐂), developed in the 1990s for classifying solid fuels and mineral resources, evolved into UNFC 2009 for fossil energy and minerals. In 2014, the International Geothermal Association (IGA) and UNECE adapted it for geothermal resources, leading to the UNFC Geothermal Specifications. In 2019, these were translated into Spanish by Germany's Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR) to support ...
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Well Testing Analysis Uncertainty Post-Processor

By Ali Azi posted 02-18-2025
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The instability in oil and gas prices and operators' growing needs to generate maximum returns from their assets have ensured that reservoir modelling remains a powerful and highly important decision-making tool. Three-dimensional reservoir modelling is the standard platform for mapping, understanding and predicting reservoir behaviour, providing operators with the crucial information they need on where to drill, what production strategies to adopt and how to maximize oil and gas recovery. The latest technology developments with WellTest Nordisk , for example, can enhance the certainty of reservoir modelling, by mitigating and understanding the uncertainty ...
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Training on Well Testing in Sandstone Tight Gas Formations: A Case Study

By Ali Azi posted 02-13-2025
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Course: Oil & Gas Well Testing & Fracking | Udemy 1-The goal of this Petroleum Engineering Training: This is the single and most meaningful question, often relinquished by training providers but it ought to be addressed in priority. So my answer is plain and convincing: -There are plenty of "Well Testing" courses, but those that focus on Tight Gas & Tight Oil sandstone formations are very SELDOM (maybe 2 up to 4 at most..), and THIS is ONE of THEM! -Tight Oil & Gas have been an increasing part of the world hydrocarbon reserves Portfolio and the future points out in this direction… 2-HOW is it innovative? Unlike ...
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Proposal for a Knowhow transfer from the AI/ML world to Reservoir Engineering

By Ali Azi posted 02-13-2025
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September 1, 2024 Reservoir engineering has been around for at least 70 years, so it is not foreign to the use of applied mathematics of its time. A non exhaustive list of early methods could include: - Buckley-Leverett Displacement Theory (1942) simple mathematical model. -Introduction of Material Balance Equation (1940s) with relatively simple models as well. -Arie van Everdingen innovations occurred in 1949 . In that year, Arie van Everdingen, along with his colleague Willem Hurst, published a seminal paper titled "The Application of the Laplace Transformation to Flow Problems in Reservoirs." This work introduced the van ...
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Financial cost of domestic hydrocarbon consumption in Algeria versus the potential for export-basis Year 2021

By Ali Azi posted 02-12-2025
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Abstract A comprehensive synthesis study of domestic national production, consumption and export of hydrocarbons has been produced for year 2021 by the Ministry of Hydrocarbons and Mining for the country of Algeria. Its further analysis carried in this present study reveals that a certain number of cost-headings such as car fuels (accounting for both petrol and LPG, among others…) but also gasoil, may profit excessively to domestic consumption especially when the differential profit and currencies are considered for domestic profit versus export. Other cost-headings can be examined, but the purpose of this current study is not to be exhaustive but to analyze ...
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2024-2025 1st Distinguished Lecturer Program: Mr. Tan Chee Phuat (Jan. 10, 2025 at ENEOS Xplora Tokyo)

By Kohei Miura posted 01-16-2025
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Topic: Geomechanical Risks Mitigation – A Must for Safe Long-Term CO2 Geological Storage Lecturer: Mr. Tan Chee Phuat , PETRONAS Tan Chee Phuat, PhD has 37 years of petroleum geomechanics experience in R&D, technical service, operation and academic, and is Chief Scientist Geomechanics with PETRONAS Group Technology & Commercialisation. In this lecturer program, he presented the key geomechanical mechanisms associated with CO2 leakage risks and study workflow, and follow by coupled geomechanics-dynamic-thermal modelling assessment of risks associated with CO2-rock interaction, fault re-activation, caprock failure, injected CO2 cooling on caprock ...
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Advanced Deep Learning for microseismic events prediction for hydraulic fracture treatment via Continuous Wavelet Transform

By Mohamed Gabry posted 01-07-2025
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Understanding hydraulic fracture propagation events would enable operators to estimate the fracture geometry, understand formation/fracture interactions, and estimate the total microseismic events cloud. This paper introduces a new method for understanding the dynamic fracture propagation events using a signal processing technique. Detection of the dynamic fracture event using continuous wavelet transform (CWT) is used to train a deep learning model with microseismic events to predict this cloud for every hydraulic fracture job. The deep learning model is used for the same formation. The CWT for treatment pressure is a convolution process that involves the application ...
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Wood Mackenzie's Hydrogen Webinar

By Yurii Moroz posted 12-10-2024
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Dear SPE H2TS members, here is the link for the upcom ing Hydrogen Webinar: what to look for in 2025 taki ng place on Tuesday 10 December at 9:00AM GMT & 4:00PM GMT. Best regards, Yurii Moroz
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Well Integrity Management Systems (WIMS)

By Mayra Aquino posted 12-07-2024
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By Manish Srivastava | WITS Education & Training Chair | Specialist, Well Integrity, ADNOC Offshore Well integrity is all about ensuring containment and prevention of the escape of fluids to subterranean formations or surface and to ensure the structural integrity of the well . ISO 16530-1:2017 defines Well Integrity Management Systems (WIMS) as the application of technical, operational and organizational methods to prevent the uncontrolled flow of fluids at the surface or across subsurface formations throughout the life cycle of the well. Technical Solutions: Involves identifying hazards, designing ...
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November Blog – WITS Dinner at ATCE

By Mayra Aquino posted 12-06-2024
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By Michael Edwards Our well integrity enthusiasts showed up in a big way; from the service sector, to operators to academic institutions and many others participated in a dinner networking event, keynote and lively discussion highlighting the latest on well integrity practices, regulatory policies, technologies and services. We highlighted a panel discussion to discuss how we are empowering the workforce of the future. Excellent participation by our audience. The Well integrity discipline, expertise, life-cycle processes and risk verification methodology are becoming more sought after than ever before with the energy transition. From new wells, P&A, ...
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September Blog – The Next Generation of Well Integrity Engineers

By Mayra Aquino posted 12-06-2024
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By Manish Srivastava The future is very promising for Well Integrity Engineers. With the scope of projects increasing as we continue to progress as ‘bridging’ agents into ‘new energy’ integrity world in the energy transition. Oil and gas will continue to remain pertinent and the skills gained will transfer to key and growing industries, such as CCUS, geothermal, H2 storage, and so on for well integrity. During the transition, skill repurposing will be required to fulfil the growing energy industry demands. Engineers will be armed with massive amounts of data that must be structured and analyzed to make useful assessments. Digitization combined ...
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August Blog – Digitalization and Artificial Intelligence in Well Integrity

By Mayra Aquino posted 12-06-2024
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By Ainur Kaken Over the last few years, the well integrity discipline experience has seen a massive decline, with experts retiring and leaving the industry. At the same time, digitalization and artificial intelligence (AI) have rapidly evolved to become a strategic opportunity for our discipline, allowing Well integrity experience to be gained across various disciplines between completions, reservoir engineering, with exposure in drilling, production and flow assurance. Digital tools today are a major opportunity for our well integrity discipline and are increasing the pace of learning and exposure to well integrity issues that would otherwise not be ...
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July Blog - CCUS and Well Integrity

By Mayra Aquino posted 12-06-2024
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By Valerie Wilson With the growing focus on carbon management and Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS), companies are evaluating mature oil fields, around the world, for their potential for CCS projects. During these evaluations it will be important to keep in mind that mature oil and gas fields may have wells that have compromised well integrity concerns due to application/age of wells and operating history, etc. In addition, these mature fields may have legacy wells that may have been improperly plugged and abandoned providing a potential conduit for escape of reservoir fluids to groundwater aquifers or to the surface. Even if a well has the needed integrity, ...
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June Blog – Geothermal Well Integrity

By Mayra Aquino posted 12-06-2024
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By Scott Myers Like oil and gas wells, geothermal wells are designed around the life of the well with the goals of containment of well pressure, and prevention of uncontrolled flow of reservoir fluids to the environment or groundwater. Monitoring, inspection and maintenance programs are put in place to accomplish this for both producing and injection wells. Beyond these high-level objectives, however, some key differences between oil and gas and geothermal wells merit deeper consideration of certain factors: Temperatures; are, in most cases, more extreme than in a ‘typical’ oil & gas well, or in most district heating applications. Hence ...
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May Blog - P&A and Well Integrity

By Mayra Aquino posted 12-06-2024
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By Matteo Loizzo Plug and Abandonment is the last step in a well’s life cycle. When the structure is decommissioned, incremented tubulars are recovered, and steel is cut below the ground (or seabed) level. Then the site is restored. Initially, the goal of P&A was to prevent draining or flooding the neighbor’s reservoir, but soon resource protection - drinking water sources, but also future use for CO2 geological storage (CCUS) or geothermal power - became the driving force. Nowadays, methane emissions are a major concern. Whereas, on average, wells may emit a few tons per year of methane (less than 50 cows’ worth), they do so unevenly: 2% of wells are ...
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February WITS Blog – Casing Deformations

By Mayra Aquino posted 12-06-2024
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By Dan Dall'Acqua Casing deformations in multistage hydraulically fractured horizontal oil and gas wells have been the subject of considerable work in recent years. Such deformations generally manifest as downhole wellbore access issues that can lead to lost efficiencies during well construction, well completion, and subsequent re-entries, and in some cases, reduced total recovery. They can present a challenge for drilling and completions teams, and are a great example of the importance of cross-disciplinary collaboration. The SPE Well Integrity Technical Section is home to the SPE WITS Casing Deformation Work Group , which is a volunteer group ...
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