Registration fee includes refreshments, lunch, workshop notebook & PDH certificate (8 credit hours).

Course Description

Dr. Lane will present from the perspective of the operating company, based on his experience as an employee of and as a consultant for operating companies. Thus he will emphasize the use of existing data for problem diagnosis and cost-effective acquisition of additional data where required to effectively manage risk of well intervention. There will also be emphasis on the critical role of operator oversight in choice of appropriate well candidates, treatment design, vendor selection, and quality control (QC) of materials, equipment and field operations during job execution. For polymers and polymer gel technologies, emphasis will be placed on what gels do best, and where, and what they do not do well.

The following topics will be covered:

• mechanisms of excess water or gas production and poor sweep in matrix and fractured reservoirs, both clastic and carbonate.
• diagnosis of excess water or gas production and poor reservoir conformance mechanisms, with emphasis on use of existing data.
• factors that affect selection of appropriate candidate wells for water or gas shut off in producers and sweep improvement treatment of injectors.
• established technologies for water and gas shutoff and conformance improvement.
• which technologies work best for given problem types (traditional methods plus chemical methods), with case history examples.
• misconceptions about what chemical water and gas shutoff chemicals can do—where they don’t work.
• status of emerging water and gas shut off and sweep improvement technologies.

 Course Outline and Content

• The difference between required and excess water production and important impacts of excess fluid production on field operations
  
• Excess fluid production mechanisms and which ones can be effectively treated with existing and emerging technologies
  
• Use of existing data to help diagnose excess fluid problem type
  
• Obtaining additional diagnostic data in a cost-effective manner
  
• Familiarity with current established and emerging downhole fluid management technologies
  
• Choosing the appropriate technology to address a particular excess fluid problem
  
• Where polymer gel systems work best and where they don’t
  
• Advantages and risks of various chemical classes of polymer gels
  
• Basics of treatment design and field QC of polymer gel treatments

Who Should Attend

Production Engineers, Reservoir Engineers and Operations Superintendents.

Instructor

Dr. Robert Lane spent nine years in academia before moving to the petroleum industry. His research has included rock/fluid interactions as well as many other reactions at a solid/liquid or solid/gas interface. He spent fifteen years with international operators in research, research management and field operations engineering positions. He has experience in formation damage, producer and injector stimulation, remedial cementing, coiled-tubing workovers and water and gas shutoff in Alaska’s largest waterflood and miscible gas EOR projects. He then spent eight years as an independent consultant to national and international operators solving excess water and gas production problems in reservoirs across the world. He is a recognized authority on chemical methods of water control, having served as an SPE Distinguished Lecturer (1999 ­2000) on the subject. 

Dr. Lane currently holds the Aghorn Energy Development Professorship in Petroleum Engineering at Texas A&M University.

Directions to OSU-Tulsa (see campus map below)

SH-64/51 (Broken Arrow Expressway)
From the BA, exit at 75 North (Bartlesville). Move to the far left lane. Take the I-244 West exit. Then take the next exit, Cincinnati/Detroit Avenue. Turn right on Detroit Avenue. Move into the right lane. Watch for the campus on the right. Turn right on John Hope Franklin Boulevard.

I-244 (Crosstown or Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Expressway)
Follow I-244 West to downtown Tulsa. When the highway splits, stay in the lane marked I-244 West (OKC). Take the next exit, Cincinnati/Detroit Avenue. Turn right on Detroit Avenue. Move into the right lane. Watch for the campus on the right. Turn right on John Hope Franklin Boulevard.

US-75 (from the north)
Follow US-75 South to I-244 West (OKC). Take the next exit, Cincinnati/Detroit Avenue. Turn right on Detroit Avenue. Move into the right lane. Watch for the campus on the right. Turn right on John Hope Franklin Boulevard.

Note: Closest parking is in lots E and D.