Old Perth Boys School (Curtin University Perth CBD)

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. […]

Unlike their oil counterparts, the optimization of gas fields is a matter of providing the right quantity of the right quality product at the right time. An optimized gas field requires careful planning to ensure production levels that satisfy existing contracts. For this reason, it’s in the operator’s best interest to find efficient ways of […]

Carbon dioxide (CO2) capture and storage is the subject of ongoing research in which several techniques are being evaluated to monitor the progress of the injected CO2 through the selected formation(s). Of the formation properties desirable for CO2 storage, one of the most important is the presence of an effective trapping mechanism to ensure the […]

For the past 20-30 years predictions many major capital projects have been determined to be outside the predicted high and low case range. The vast majority of those predictions are below the predicted low case. Either the P50 case is not sufficiently accurate or the P10 and P90 uncertainty cases are too narrow. The origin […]

David N. Dewhurst, Silvio Giger, Bozkurt Ciftci, Ausama Giwelli, Claudio Delle Piane, Jeremie Dautriat and Ben Clennell Geomechanics and microstructure of faults are intimately linked due to both physical and chemical processes which can have a significant effect on rock strength and flow properties. This presentation summarises the controls on fault rock strength, shale smear […]

The Canning Basin is a large intracratonic – underexplored Palaeozoic sedimentary basin in Western Australia. Wells drilled in this basin generally have low success rates, with less than 5% of wells yielding commercial quantities for production in the conventional realm. This suggests a better strategy may be to target direct development of source rocks using […]

How safe are petroleum engineers from automation? Not as safe as you might think.  This presentation provides an introduction to practical programming with Python and applies it to petroleum engineering. It also fits the ‘do more with less’ mantra that the industry is facing. It will discuss who is already using programming in the industry and […]

This session is a one-hour Lecture about validation of water saturation profile in geological/ reservoir model. The session is FREE for SPE members only. Before using reservoir models for history matching, the model needs to be validated for the integrity and consistency of geological structure, rock, and other static properties. Leaving any shortcomings, discrepancies, conflicts, […]

PLEASE NOTE, THE EVENT IS NOW SOLD OUT!! SPE WA and the Curtin Oil and Gas Innovation Centre are proud to be co-hosting an event that will take you into the world of decommissioning challenges for offshore Australia. The masterclass will provide opportunities for you to participate in, share research and educational learnings and to understand […]