Old Perth Boys School (Curtin University Perth CBD)

The Business Case for Data Acquisition - An introduction to the concept of “Value of Information’’ Abstract: Geoscientists and reservoir engineers often feel the need to acquire additional data to increase their understanding of the subsurface, reduce uncertainty and improve their models. However, subsurface data gathering, particularly in offshore environments, is typically associated with significant […]

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 lecture presents a systematic assessment of the potential of low salinity waterflooding for the Dong-He-Tang reservoir in the Tarim Oilfield, China. Contact angle measurement, spontaneous imbibition and core-flooding experiments were conducted to experimentally show the effect of low salinity effect in high temperature reservoirs (up to 140oC). A surface complexation model was developed to […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]