Abstract:
Delivering well performance in tighter and more marginal reservoirs requires a greater degree of focus on the interface between the well bore and the reservoir. Conventional perforated wells still represent a majority of completions and optimizing the perforating by applying both relevant perforating technology and modeling can provide significant gains in both NPV and ultimate recovery and in some cases project cost. There have been significant changes in the way we measure and model charge and gun performance in recent years. This combined with several new technologies becoming available have made the process of perforating optimization both more valid and more useful. 
To take away - Technology and modeling tools now make it possible to identify the optimum perforating scheme. Take advantage of the new modeling tools, methods of measuring perforator performance and the latest perforating technology to make perforations deliver.

Biography: 
Mark S Brinsden is a Senior Production Technologist, Principal Technical Expert and Team Lead - Perforating for Shell's global business, with a focus on delivering well performance from effective perforating. He runs a functional team of Subject Matter Experts and focal points throughout the Shell Global organisation to help deliver results at field level. Mark has a BSc  from Edinburgh University and has 33 years of industry experience covering many of the operating areas across the world.
He is Chair of API RP 19B perforating committee and co-founder of the International Perforating Forum and International Perforating Symposium Series, as well as www.perforators.org an industry group dedicated to the advancement of perforating technology. He is also a board member of the Completion Engineering Association. He is active with the SPE as an SPE Aberdeen Board Member, a Journal Technical Editor and as an SPE representative on the UK DEVEX Technical Committee and has presented numerous papers at conferences.  He travels widely throughout Shell's global assets to provide advanced training in Perforating Optimization and detailed help with delivering optimal inflow performance from the more complex reservoirs. He is also working with several manufacturers and contractors to develop new perforating technologies and is inventor and co-inventor of several gun systems under development.
He has the full support of Shell P&T for the SPE Distinguished Lecturer Program.