Distinguished Lecture Series - "CO2 in the Subsurface - From EOR to Storage" SPE WA is proud to bring you Gary Teletzke, Senior Technical Advisor for Enhanced Oil Recovery at ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the International Energy Agency (IEA) have issued recent reports suggesting that deployment of carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS) can significantly reduce the cost of achieving CO2 emission reduction targets.  However, several questions remain: Under what circumstances will large-scale deployment take place? Where and when will this occur? How large a role will CCS play in stabilizing atmospheric concentrations of CO2? I will review the current status of CO2-EOR and…

Distinguished Lecture Series - "Conventional & Unconventional Reservoirs; What is In & Out in Today’s Pressure and Rate Transient Analysis" SPE WA is proud is bring you Medhat (Med) Kamal to discuss the ever relevant Pressure and Rate Transient Analysis. Transient data is rich in information about the dynamic characteristics of the well/reservoir system. It has been used extensively by petroleum engineers since the 1920’s. Sustained development in this area is necessitated by three factors: (1) Changes in the types of reservoirs we produce (e.g. conventional, unconventional) and their stages of recovery (e.g., primary, secondary), (2) New tools (e.g. formation testers, permanent downhole gauges), and (3) Advances in solution techniques…

"Managing complex, laterally and vertically compartmentalized reservoirs in a subsea tie-back via smart well completions – Case Studies" SPE WA are proud to present the details of our March technical luncheon. This presentation encapsulates case studies on reservoir and well management of two laterally and vertically compartmentalized Western Australian Triassic gas condensate reservoirs, developed by five multi-zone “smart” wells with sand control, tied back to an offshore platform via a subsea network.  In managing assets with such complexity, it is imperative to understand reservoir performance on a zone-by-zone basis. Quantifying performance allows management of flux through downhole sand control systems and optimisation of offtake strategy. This presentation showcases how remotely-operated…

SPE WA are proud to announce the launch of our Data Analytics Community of Practice. This is an initiative to build a community of upstream engineers and scientists interested in growing expertise and capability in data science, predictive analytics and machine learning. At our launch, we are pleased to host Alfonso Reyes a leading Petroleum Engineering Data Scientist, who will share with us his learnings of how to make the most of the freely available tools and data sets available in the public domain. We will also be discussing our charter and objectives, and setting goals for our next CoP session in May. Light food and refreshments will be provided.

SPE WA is proud is bring you Dr. Sameh Macary, SPE Distinguished Lecturer, to discuss wax management in brownfield assets. Wax deposition significantly affects the deliverability of produced fluid along its journey from porous media through the wellbore to the production facilities. Solutions for wax management include, but are not limited to, chemical, mechanical and/or thermal or a combination. Wax management has always been a key concern for Dragon Oil offshore Turkmenistan. Wax depositions in the wellbore of most producers has driven Dragon Oil to adopt different approaches to handle this critical issue. However, optimizing these approaches is of a paramount importance, especially in today's industry situation and considering the weather changes and logistical challenges…