Nanotechnology Improves Wellbore Strengthening in Highly Depleted Formations SPE WA is proud is bring you Ahmed Samir Ibrahim from BHGE to discuss the use of nanotechnology for wellbore strengthening and differential sticking problems in highly depleted formations. It is a challenge to drill in highly deviated or horizontal holes across the highly depleted formations. Wellbore instability, differential sticking and mud loss are frequently encountered problems while drilling a depleted reservoir in deep HTHP wells. Long-term production caused formation pressures to be highly depleted, and drilling became more challenging with considerable non-productive time. Therefore, it is necessary to identify a fluid’s solution when other options with casing zone isolation are not…

The Impact of Global LNG on the Australian Market The cyclical nature of the LNG industry is clearly in motion. The lack of new LNG projects sanctioned in 2016/17, has inevitably led to the next wave of global LNG supply and we think an LNG bonanza is on the horizon. Since the beginning of the year, globally we have seen some LNG projects sanctioned, a flurry of M&A activity and exploration success. In Australia, we have seen a bounce back in operator confidence, with a number companies turning back to the drill bit to replicate the successes witnessed overseas. The industry is clearly out of the bottom of the cycle…

The Data Analytics Community of Practice 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. For our second meeting we will: 1) Review progress made by our three teams (Demos & Code Reviews) 2) Discuss our forthcoming DA Open Source Repository & Licencing 3) Have a presentation by Microsoft on getting started with data analysis and visualisation in POWER BI. 4) Discuss what presenters and topics we would like to cover in future meetups A light lunch and refreshments will be provided.

Development of Wheatstone Start-up Strategy SPE WA are proud to present the details of our June technical luncheon. Commencement of initial field production is a unique opportunity to acquire reservoir surveillance information that can inform future reservoir performance. When a field is perturbed from original conditions with first production, there is potential for reservoir property uncertainty reduction by observing pressure measurements at non-producing wells with downhole pressure gauges and comparing the observed signal to a range of simulation model results. The Wheatstone field, located offshore northwest Australia, has recently commenced production start-up to supply gas to the Wheatstone LNG facility. The operational guidelines required each development well to commence with…