The annual SPE YP Trivia Night is back!! Come on down to the Universal Bar on Thursday, 14th April after work and join in on the quest for the knowledge king/queen of Perth’s petroleum industry! Drinks and snacks will be provided (included in the ticket price). Tickets sold out quickly last year, so get your […]
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Abstract: All exploration, drilling and production well objectives require drilling with or against Earth stresses. Plate vectors from GPS and SHmax vectors from earthquakes provide very limited predictive stress for the exploration and production industry. Wellbore measured stress data are sparse, post-drill and after the problem. SHmax magnitudes are modelled and their directions, being vectors,
The Digital Oilfield, Process Visualisation and Automated Surveillance – Getting Value From Your Data. by Henry Gordon-Wright The oil and gas industry has led the world in the development and utilisation of “big data”. Beginning with seismic data in the 1960s, the industry now generates and processes petabytes of data every day. Whilst dealing with terabytes of
Tech Talk 101 Series – PVT Analysis Accurate knowledge of hydrocarbon fluid behaviour as it is produced from reservoir to surface helps determine the engineering and economic decisions that need to be made regarding a well’s completion and future. Once a representative sample has been captured, it must be safely transported to a laboratory where
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Disruption in Field Development – From a nice to have to a have to have. Some case histories of how we engineered it. By Rodney Silberstein, from ARV Offshore. Challenges to field development economics are not new to oil & gas developments. Even in high price markets, ensuring profits in low production outcome scenarios requires innovative
Title: RVI REVOLUTION. How it’s reducing risk, time & costs in our industry. Abstract: Remote Visual Inspection (RVI) has evolved from a ‘nice to have’ to an industry expectation. In fact, it’s such a focus in some areas for RVI that a benchmark target of 2020 is the date set for confined space entry
Abstract: Geochemical techniques can be used to quantitatively determine the contribution of each of several zones to a commingled oil (or gas) stream. This technique costs less than 2-5% of the cost of production logging. Oil and gas producers can use this technique to: Quantify Zone Contributions for Royalty Calculations or Regulatory Requirements. Monitor
Waste Water Disposal (WWD) has been experienced for decades in Oil & Gas Industry. WWD is becoming more important operational component for many logic reasons: continuous upset-free performance of Plants, expensive surface treatment, excessive produced volumes, etc. Generally speaking, the disposal system starts at the plants sewage outlets, then settling/skimming tanks, booster pumps, injection pipelines,
Abstract: First came Piper Alpha, then years later came Macondo and Montara in quick succession. The question is: Why? Why did these two more recent Incidents occur if we had learnt lessons from Piper Alpha and implemented the appropriate corrective actions? Dr Rhona Flin from the University of Aberdeen and her team were tasked by
Title: South West Hub CO2 Storage Dynamic Modelling CO2 sequestration in underground formations is currently being considered to reduce the amount of CO2 emitted into the atmosphere. Understanding of the subsurface, trapping and containment mechanisms and the chemical and physical interactions between CO2, formation water, and formation rock is necessary before sequestration can be approved.
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