Abbas Khaksar

There has been an explosion of interest in big data, data science and machine learning within the oil & gas industry in recent years. While companies have invested heavily in R&D in these areas, petroleum and reservoir engineers on the front-lines of operating assets have so far seen very little in the way of practical […]

APOGCE 2016 Pre-Conference Event SPE-WA Education Seminar:  Geomechanics; Fundamentals, Applications and Advances A one-day educational seminar organised by the Continuing Education Committee of Western Australia section, is planned to be held on 24 October 2016 (Monday). The objective of this pre conference seminar is to increase the awareness of petroleum engineers and geoscientists on oil […]

Well Test Analysis (or Pressure Transient Analysis, PTA) is one of a Reservoir Engineer’s fundamental tools. Every RE is expected to understand and apply it. Yet scratch the surface and the understanding often proves to be patchy and the application faulty. So PTA often ends up being farmed out to a small group of in-house […]

Inflatable packers are the least common and most diverse of the three types of oilfield “packing” technology that you are likely to come across.  The basic technology has been around in oilfield for nearly 80  years and can be found in open and cased hole situations, in workover / intervention, in decommissioning and abandonment and […]

Good planning is necessary to develop and execute a successful sampling campaign. Well testing and clean up operations provide an ideal opportunity for harvesting data, and as such it is important to understand what sampling techniques are available, and how they can add value to your outcomes. PVT sampling from the test separator sits common […]

Natural gas currently offers one of the most viable alternatives to swiftly reduce greenhouse gas emissions from power generation and eventually move towards a lower-carbon energy grid. Although they are still largely in the exploration phase, gas shale reservoirs could be crucial for meeting Australia’s growing energy demand in a more sustainable way. However, the […]

This is a one-hour Lecture about significant role of Rock Typing in reservoir modeling. The Lecture is a concise version of a 2-day course entitled: Applied Rock Typing; concentrating on the landing points of rock typing in reservoir simulation. Rock Typing is discussed as an essential part of dynamic reservoir modeling; providing a distinction between […]