Sponsored by Aucerna, the Petroleum Economics Conference is the first conference of its kind dedicated to the full cycle of reservoir discovery, project sanction and final investment decision criteria, and tax implications in the UK. The technical programme is now available to download here. Presentation Available to Download: Transferable Tax History. Bob Cardno, Ernst & Young. View […]

Joint ICorr / IOM3  Event ICorr Aberdeen Branch 2018 – 2019 Programme of Events available to download here. More details and booking here. These events are free to attend for both members and non-members.

As the oil and gas industry continues to strive for efficiency, this presentation will share a new approach to well intervention. Featuring two experts in their field, Expro and Quality Intervention (QI) have partnered to deliver a lower cost, smaller footprint alternative to conventional coiled tubing – coiled hose. Showcasing case studies from recent deployments, Dave and Ingvar will share best practise from recent work across the UK and Norwegian North Sea.

“How to define the future of subsea well cementing” plants a seed of entrepreneurship for aspiring young engineers. Problems exist everywhere in our day-to-day working lives; turning those problems into solutions, then into a commercial business, is a journey of excitement, heart-ache, elation, commiseration and endless hard work, which is best started with an injection of inspiration.
This presentation joins the journey at the outset, defining the problem, and exploring the trials and tribulations of an engineer determined to make a difference to the traditionally conservative offshore well construction industry.

ICorr Technical Event ICorr Aberdeen Branch 2018 – 2019 Programme of Events available to download here. More details and booking here. These events are free to attend for both members and non-members.

Managed Pressure Drilling is a key growth area in the quest to enhance safety and efficiency while drilling complex wells. While MPD facilitates drilling in narrow windows, it is the cementing of tubulars in a circulating environment with multiple fluids that represents the biggest challenge and results in losses. The presentation describes an empirical methodology developed for MPA Cementation of liners and casing strings in narrow-margin environments while accounting for the unknowns such as hole washout, channeling, fluid mixing and the impact of centralizers and eccentricity.

The main challenge for the Extended Well Test operations is ensuring the flow period is continuous and uninterrupted i.e weather conditions for crude oil export to tanker and fluid stabilization for flaring operation. The solution is for fluids to be stored on-board the drillship in the storage tanks in case flaring operations cannot take place. In this case, fluids are processed through the well test package then transferred to the drillship storage tanks for further stabilization prior to controlled flaring post-test. This presentation will discuss the key design considerations.

Various Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) methods have been used to increase oil production and reserves. However, implementing such projects is challenging owing to the higher complexity and larger uncertainty of EOR projects compared with conventional water flooding.

“Managing Late Life Wells to Maximise Value & Optimise Abandonment” Download programme here. The SPE Aberdeen Late Life and Abandonment Conference, sponsored by Well-Safe Solutions, is focused on maximising recovery from late-life wells, planning for abandonment, optimising abandonment operations and formulating what is required for post-abandonment monitoring. The conference, which is in its 8th year, will […]

During the past few years, which have been dominated by a low oil price environment, it has been proven that light cased hole interventions are a key activity for maintaining production levels, reducing water production, minimising integrity risks and optimising well performance in a cost-effective way. These topics will be presented and discussed starting from basic concepts of Petroleum Engineering, leading to more complex operational decisions.

The Solan Oil Field development includes several innovative features which enables full remote control form an onshore control room in Aberdeen. One of the most novel feature was the construction of a subsea storage oil tank (SOST), located » 300 metres from the platform, with the aim to provide operational flexibility for such a remote harsh weather installation. The concept selection, design, fabrication, installation and operation are the subject of this presentation.

Working together from pore space to pipeline. Programme now available – download here. This year, DEVEX2018 will return to Aberdeen for the 15th year, and is the only technical conference of its size which is focused on the full cycle of reservoir discovery, evaluation, development and recovery in the UK. The strong technical program attracts interest […]

Following the success of Seismic2017, Seismic2018 will again explore the entire spectrum of seismic technology from exploration through to development and production to abandonment – the lifecycle of the asset. The conference will cover Seismic Acquisition, Processing, Abandonment, Velocity Modelling and 4D Seismic along with a panel discussion on the Seismic Industry – Past, Present and Future. Keynote presentations […]

The CaTS™ wireless gauge technology has been used for real‐time reservoir data monitoring in subsea wells since 2006 and is part of an 18 year continuous technology development for wireless communication in oil & gas wells. The presentation will describe how the technology was successfully deployed as part of a drill stem test to monitor the reservoir to reduce uncertainties

“The Future of the Oil and Gas Industry” presents two very contradictory views of the future of the oil and gas industry around the world. The first half will present a very positive view of the industry – growing energy demand and global population, continually increasing conventional reserves, and a wide range of potential new sources of oil and gas. The second half will review the potential impact of climate change on the industry – in less than 15 years we will likely have exceeded a 2ᵒC rise in the temperature of the planet.

Industry studies show that mature fields currently account for over 70% of the world’s oil and gas production. Increasing production rates and ultimate recovery in these fields in order to maintain profitable operations, without increasing costs, is a common challenge.
This presentation addresses techniques to extract maximum value from historical production data using quick workflows based on common sense. Extensive in-depth reservoir studies are obviously very valuable, but not all situations require these, particularly in the case of brown fields where the cost of the study may outweigh the benefits of the resulting recommendations.

The SPE Aberdeen Offshore Achievement Awards (OAA) is the biggest and longest established oil, gas and renewables industry awards for the UK offshore energy sector, covering all aspects from supply to upstream operations and offshore renewables. For over thirty  years, the awards have been celebrating and encouraging innovation and collaboration in the oil & gas […]