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The official show daily of the Society of Petroleum Engineers Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition

27 October 2014

From the Journal of Petroleum Technology

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ATCE 2014

Welcome to Amsterdam

Society Continues To See Growing Membership Jeff Spath, 2014 SPE President

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elcome to Amsterdam, our host city for ATCE 2014. It is the second time in show history that we have taken ATCE outside of the United States to Europe. This is only the beginning. SPE ATCE will be going to Dubai for the first time in 2016. This is a reflection of SPE’s truly Spath global membership. This has been a very productive year for our society. By all objective measures, SPE continues to be a highly successful organization with impressive growth rates in annual membership, professional sections, and student chapters; a significant increase in the number and quality of member-requested meetings; and a strong financial position. This event is the culmination of our success every year. This is our opportunity to recognize the outstanding contributions of our members, sections, and chapters. The program and executive committees have assembled a robust schedule that includes the presentation of nearly 400 peer-selected papers covering the latest technical advances, best practices, and trends in all facets of exploration and production. In addition, more than 500 exhibitors are in attendance to display the latest technologies and tools. Highlights for this year include: • A special Sustainability Task Force session discussing “Practices That Balance Economic Growth, Social Development, and Environmental Protection Today and in the Future.” PLEASE SEE SPATH ON PAGE 3

Amsterdam is only the second city outside of North America to be host to SPE’s Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition. The first was Florence, Italy, in 2010. Next year’s show will return to Houston, and 2016’s ATCE will be in Dubai.

Wide Range of Events Drives Knowledge Sharing Jack Betz, JPT Staff Writer

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s SPE’s Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition (ATCE) returns to Europe this year for the second time in its history—the first time was in 2010, when it was held in Florence, Italy—SPE furthers its mission to facilitate the exchange of technical knowledge on an international scale. To accomplish this, attendees have access to a wide range of exhibits, technical presentations, ePosters, panel sessions, networking opportunities, and other special events catering to professionals in the exploration

Information about transportation to and from the conference and around Amsterdam, Page 16. and production (E&P) industry. More than 400 papers will be presented, spanning 45 topics, covering all SPE technical disciplines. The first special event on ATCE’s 3-day agenda, the Student PetroBowl, starts today at 0800 hours. Student PLEASE SEE CONFERENCE ON PAGE 3

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TODAY’S HIGHLIGHTS 0700–1700 Registration 0800–1000 Research and Development Competition

1215–1345 Chairman’s Luncheon

1400–1700 Technical Sessions

1300–1600 Technical Paper Writing Workshop

1515–1545 Coffee Break

0830–1000 25-Year Club Breakfast

1400–1700 S pecial Session 1—Sustainability Task Force: People, Profit, Planet: Advancing Practices That Balance Economic Growth, Social Development, and Environmental Protection Today and in the Future

1700–1800 Welcome Reception

RAI Amsterdam, Elicium Building, Room D503 RAI Amsterdam, Europe Foyer 1

0800–1200 PetroBowl

RAI Amsterdam, Elicium Building, Room E102

0800–1700 PetroBowl

RAI Amsterdam, Forum

Mercure Hotel Amsterdam City, Room 3

RAI Amsterdam, Exhibition Floor, Hall 5

0900–1000 Coffee Break

Halls 1–5, Exhibition Floor

RAI Amsterdam, Elicium Building, 1st Floor

Halls 1–5, Exhibition Floor Halls 1–5, Exhibition Floor

1800–2000 PetroBowl Reception

RAI Amsterdam, Forum Lounge

1800–2000 Van Gogh Museum Reception Van Gogh Museum

1830-2030 P etroleum Data-Driven Analytics (PD2A) Technical Section Reception

1400–1700 S pecial Session 2—Separation Hilton Amsterdam, Nassau Room Technology Technical Section: Unlocking Hidden Production Potential in Existing 1900–2200 Projects, Facilities, and Construction Dinner Facilities and Mature Fields

0900–1800 Exhibition

Halls 1–5, Exhibition Floor

1030–1200 Opening General Session

RAI Amsterdam, Elicium Ballroom

RAI Amsterdam, Elicium Building, Auditorium

RAI Amsterdam, Elicium Building, Auditorium

Hilton Amsterdam, Ballroom A&B

CONFERENCE,

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 teams from around the world will compete in a tournament-style contest that tests knowledge of the E&P industry and SPE. Read more about PetroBowl on Page 20, and look for the results of the competition in Wednesday’s SPE Today. At 0830 hours, the 25-Year Club Breakfast will begin, featuring 2004 SPE President Kate Hadley Baker as the keynote speaker. The Opening General Session, which begins at 1030 hours, is titled Affordable Energy. Panelists will discuss ways to keep energy costs down as operators are forced to spend more than ever, now that the socalled “easy oil” is scarcer. The discussion will also tackle the consequences of rapid growth in population and consumption and their effects on the price of energy. At the Chairman’s Luncheon, starting at 1215 hours, ATCE 2014 General Chairperson Matthias Bichsel, director of projects and technology at Shell, will share his insight into the oil and gas industry. At 1400 hours, a Separations Technology Technical Section special session will be held, titled Unlocking Hidden Production Potential in Existing Facilities and Mature Fields, which will continue exploring the opening session’s theme of affordable energy. The session will cover economic

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ATCE’s annual Awards Banquet will be held at the Beurs van Berlage on Tuesday evening. The historic building was built between 1896 and 1903 and was designed as a commodity exchange. It now hosts conferences, exhibits, and concerts. Credit: Amsterdam Marketing. options for optimizing separation facilities to handle inevitable increases in water production and drops in wellhead pressure. A Sustainability Task Force special session, titled People, Profit, Planet: Advancing Practices That Balance Economic Growth, Social Development, and Environmental Protection Today and in the Future, will be held at the same time. Introduced by SPE President Jeff Spath, operations managers and sustainability practitioners will engage with each other to consider why the world outside the E&P sector is becoming increasingly relevant and even an important source of business value. Read more about all of the special sessions offered at this year’s conference on Page 12. Tonight, alumni receptions will be held for four colleges and universities—Marietta College, University of Aberdeen, The University of Tulsa, and The University of Kansas; times and locations are listed on Page 7 of today’s SPE Today. Dinners also will be held for the SPE Petroleum Data-Driven Analytics Technical Section (1830–2030) and the Projects, Facilities, and Construction Technical Section (1900–2200). Both will be held at the Hilton Amsterdam. • Tuesday morning offers attendees a choice between two sessions, each from 0830 to 1155. During Aging

Assets in the North Sea Sector: Three Different Perspectives, a panel will discuss the future of assets and infrastructure in the North Sea. The other option, titled Assessing Environmental Impacts to Groundwater, Air, and Our Global Community, will feature a discussion on repeatable and defensible procedures for assessing environmental effects on ground water, air, and other essential resources that sustain life. Also starting

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at 0830 hours will be the International Student Paper Contest for undergraduate and master’s students. Two soft skills workshops will be held from 0800 to 1300. Both will be held at the Mercure Hotel Amsterdam City, and both include lunch. Tuesday afternoon starts with luncheons for the Wellbore Positioning and the Research and Development technical sections, each beginning at 1215 hours. At 1330 hours, the International Student Paper Contest for PhD students will start, running until 1700 hours. A special session starting at 1400 hours explores the topic CO2 EOR as a Pathway for CUS. A second set of soft skills workshops will begin at 1400 hours. Attendees may pick one; these also include lunch. Tuesday evening, the annual Awards Banquet will be held at Dutch architectural landmark Beurs van Berlage in central Amsterdam, starting at 1900 hours. There are no organized transport arrangements either to or from the venue; however, a taxi desk will be situated in the foyer where attendees will be able to book a taxi back to their hotels. The Beurs van Berlage also is well served by public transport links; it is a 5-minute walk from Amsterdam Centraal station. Wednesday morning will include three special sessions at 0830 hours, Flow Assurance and Multiphase Flow, Drilling Modeling and Simulation, and Oil and Gas Industry Image— Knowledge vs. Perception. On Wednesday at noon, the President’s Luncheon and annual Meeting of Members will take place.

SPATH, CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 • New this year are workshops for young professionals that will focus on some of the critical soft skills needed by future professionals across the workforce generations. • Tuesday night, we will honor our award recipients at the annual Awards Banquet, held at the Beurs van Berlage, for their outstanding contributions. • On Wednesday, the President’s Luncheon and annual Meeting of

Members will take place. And I will review the state of our society and pass the gavel to 2015 President Helge Hove Haldorsen. I am honored to have served you as the 2014 SPE president, and I hope that my efforts, in some small way, have helped to motivate, inspire, and encourage you. Thank you again, and I look forward to speaking with you this week.

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New SPE President Helge Haldorsen Exudes Ideas, Enthusiasm John Donnelly, JPT Editor

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elge Hove Haldorsen, vice president of strategy and portfolio at Statoil Development and Production North America, will become the 2015 SPE President on Wednesday during the President’s Luncheon and Meeting of Members. He succeeds Jeff Spath of Schlumberger, who will hand over the presidential gavel to Haldorsen during Wednesday’s event. He has experience in academia, the military, and the oil and gas industry. Before his tenure at Statoil, Haldorsen worked for Norsk Hydro in various roles, including chief reservoir engineer, vice president technology and competence, vice president exploration and research, senior vice president international exploration and production, and president Hydro Gulf of Mexico. He has also held various engineering positions at British Petroleum, Standard Oil of Ohio (Sohio), and ExxonMobil (Esso). He was a second lieutenant in the Royal Norwegian Navy and professor of industrial mathematics at the University of Oslo. Haldorsen takes over an SPE whose membership has grown sharply over the past decade, from 60,599 members in 2003 to more than 124,000 at the end of 2013, including student memberships. That growth comes as no surprise to him. “SPE is a global organization on a mission to share. Petroleum engineers have a passion for their business, and SPE has a passion for helping them, connecting them, and providing them with evolving best

Helge Hove Haldorsen practices,” he said. “Members, in turn, get better in their trade because they joined SPE. My main point is that this is not just about growth in membership for growth’s sake; it is about value and because we are talking about producing global energy—a win/win for all.” Despite the membership growth, Haldorsen said he believes SPE must guard against complacency and has enormous potential to continue to benefit the industry and its members.

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“SPE must maintain top relevance for all our members and insist on quality in everything we do as we help push global democratization of technology and the rapid sharing of best practices,” he said. “As a society, we must take every opportunity to ‘listen loudly’ to our members and respond in an agile and swift manner to our diverse members’ different and changing needs.” SPE presidents serve only 1-year terms, but Haldorsen’s goals for the coming year are ambitious. Among them are: • Push for “SPE 2.0” throughout the association, increasing networking and training opportunities through e-connectedness, online courses, and webinars. • To “listen loudly” to members and respond swiftly to their needs. • Further SPE’s health, safety, security, environment, and social responsibility position to help build public trust and the industry’s license to operate. • To find ways to assist Mexico’s engineers and geoscientists post-energy reform in close cooperation with existing Mexican professional organizations. • To make SPE appealing to young professionals and to attract more of them. • To push for even more collaboration between academia and business. • To promote conversations around so-called “soft E&P issues” that have become essential to the industry, such as entrepreneurialism, innovation,

building a company from a laboratory discovery, project execution, creative destruction, devising strategy, and building competitive advantage. Haldorsen believes the E&P industry must create new business models and “creatively destruct every aspect of the upstream value chain.” That creative destruction involves relentlessly improving and renewing E&P with innovation, creativity, and initiative. “We need to upgrade our industry and ourselves as professionals to adapt and stay fit as technology, e-opportunities, networking arenas, and tools and integration evolve; and, yes, that is exactly where SPE comes in,” he added. Optimism and enthusiasm are hallmarks of Haldorsen’s personality, and he sees great potential as well as value in industry employees across the globe who are working diligently to satisfy the world’s energy appetite. “The energy we produce fuels human progress and raises living standards. How can you not be passionate about being a small part of this?” “I expect the industry to relentlessly and incrementally improve everything it does along the E&P value chain,” he said. “I also expect disruptive game-changing E&P events of some kind at least every 5 years.” An extended interview with Haldorsen is included in the October issue of the Journal of Petroleum Technology (JPT), available at the SPE Pavilion.

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Record Paper Submissions Help Make Program ‘One of the Best Ever’ Joel Parshall, JPT Features Editor

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ne of the best ever” programs awaits attendees at the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) 2014 Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition (ATCE) from today through Wednesday at Amsterdam RAI, said program committee chairperson Satinder Purewal, director of SVS Oil and Gas. A record 2,169 abstracts were submitted for the program, surpassing the total for last year’s program by almost 400. “Our goal was to receive 2,000 abstracts, and we easily exceeded that,” Purewal said. “The committees that developed the program did a commendable job, and the drilling committee was especially proactive in obtaining an increased number of abstracts.”

In all, 425 papers will be presented in 45 technical sessions covering six disciplines beginning Monday afternoon and running all day Tuesday and Wednesday.

Affordable Energy

On Monday morning, a general session on affordable energy will open the conference, with a panel of leaders from the industry and the International Energy Agency discussing a wide range of public and governmental concerns and market and technology issues facing the industry in its efforts to meet the world’s growing demand for energy in the next several decades. “The session theme was very well thought out by the executive committee,”

Purewal said. “We wanted a theme that was current and focused without any agendas. Affordable energy encapsulates many concepts of how the industry can progress alongside alternative energy sources, viewed not as threats but as coexisting and evolving technologies. It will be clear that we are not a sunset industry.”

A Special Opportunity

ATCE “is very special to me personally,” Purewal said. “It’s where I meet the crème de la crème of the executives and professionals in the oil and gas industry. This annual get-together is always great. It’s where you can meet your peers from across the globe and discuss what has happened during the year. It is an

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exceptional networking opportunity, for some their route to a new job. “The learning opportunities are first-rate, whether through paper presentations, workshops, or other sessions. With a global attendance, there is a diversity of knowledge and expertise.” With the conference meeting in Amsterdam, this year’s ATCE will have “an especially international and perhaps more European flavor, which is a positive reflection of SPE as a truly international organization,” Purewal said. The following is a summary of the technical program. Monday Afternoon

• Integrated Workflows: Geophysics and Fracture Characterization • Advance Technologies for Downhole Flow Monitoring • Well Operations Case Studies: Monitoring, Intervention, and Artificial Lift • Completion Technology • Drilling Automation • Fluids, Proppants, and Fracture Conductivity • Reserves Estimation and Reporting • Challenges in Pressure/Volume/ Temperature and Laboratory Analysis of Reservoir Systems • Advances in Enhanced and Improved Oil Recovery Technology

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Major Project Delivery Digital Energy 1 Monitoring at the Wellbore Reservoir Flow Simulation—Application of Novel Techniques to Age-Old Challenges Well Engineering and Case Studies Fracture Modeling and Design Optimization Unconventional Resources—North America and Beyond New and Innovative Formation Evaluation Technologies Physics of Flow

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Operations and Debottlenecking Inflow Control and Flow Conformance Reservoir Surveillance Sand Control Downhole Dynamics Fracture Diagnostics and Surveillance Development Strategies and Uncertainty Analysis for Mature Fields and Deepwater Projects • Characterization and Modeling of Unconventional Reservoirs • Gas Injection Enhanced Oil Recovery Processes

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Educational Trends Digital Energy 2 Reservoir Engineering Case Studies Completion Optimization Cementing and Stability Stimulation Case Histories Taking Control of Our Environment New Advances in Measuring Reservoir Rock Properties • Pressure/Volume/Temperature

Wednesday Afternoon

• Challenge Facing Universities in Providing the Oil Industry With the Right Professionals • Multiphase Flow Metering, Modeling, and Issues • Well Production Enhancement: Chemical Solutions and New Technologies • Completions Case Histories • Pressure Management and Well Control • Improved and Enhanced Oil Recovery: IOR/EOR • Taking Care of Our People and Our Community • Formation Fluid Identification and Distribution • Nanoscale Phenomena

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Social Media at #ATCE Helps Keep Conference Attendees Connected Molly Britt, SPE Communications Specialist, Social Media

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ocial media networking has become increasingly important during conferences, and ATCE is no different. SPE International will be on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and YouTube this week, sharing updates with ATCE attendees, exhibitors, delegates, and other industry professionals live from Amsterdam. Here are some tips about how to make the most out of your social media experience at ATCE.

action is at RAI Amsterdam or one of the participating conference hotels so we can see ATCE through your eyes.

Don’t Forget the Hashtag

Stay Connected During ATCE 2014

Stay up to date with all the latest from this year’s conference by using #ATCE in your tweets and updates. Best of all, fellow SPE members who are not at this year’s conference can see all the updates, too. Attendees, exhibitors, and enthusiasts have instant access to a global conversation specific to ATCE.

Visit the ATCE Selfie Station

It is difficult to miss the large IAMSTERDAM sign outside of the Amsterdam RAI. If you have some time, be sure to take a photo in front of the sign and include #ATCEselfie in your tweets. We will be looking out for them.

Share Your Photos and Videos

Photography is not allowed on the exhibition floor, but that does not mean you cannot share your snaps from other events and experiences during this year’s conference. Take us to where the

Ask Questions

Not sure where to find that technical session you want to attend? Need an update about the weather? Send your conference questions to @SPE_Events and our virtual Conference Concierge will point you in the right direction. Facebook: www.facebook.com/ spemembers. This platform is your onestop shop for everything ATCE. Here you’ll find the latest ATCE news, developments from technical sessions, event photos, and ATCE attendees in action. Twitter: www.Twitter.com/SPE_events. Get real-time updates from ATCE in short status updates. Join the conversation with other attendees and exhibitors by using the hashtag #ATCE. LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com. Search “Society of Petroleum Engineers”’ in the Groups field and join the ATCE LinkedIn community that revolves solely around industry discussions. Group members can seek a solution, share news, ask questions, and exchange technical knowledge with seasoned industry professionals. YouTube: www.YouTube.com/2012SPE. Watch daily highlights, exclusive interviews, special activities and more—all here for your viewing pleasure.

Social Media FAQs

Who is using social media at ATCE? People just like you—industry professionals, young professionals, and students—are on social media. As part of the ATCE social media team, we connect with attendees and exhibitors year round to facilitate conversation, share news, and grow the SPE network. Why should I connect? Conversations are topical to the ATCE experience and the oil, gas, and energy industry. After the conference is over, you will still be able to connect virtually, network, and share with like minds from all parts of the world. What does my participation mean to ATCE? Social media is a major force

behind SPE’s continued success. We gather comments, thoughts, feedback, and insights from both attendees and exhibitors to understand how we can take ATCE to the next level. Social media empowers you to share your ATCE experience and offers us a chance to listen to quality feedback. Be sure to take advantage of the ATCE mobile app, too. There, you can view our live updates. Have a question? Ready to get started? Send a message to [email protected] for assistance.

College and University Alumni Receptions Set for Tonight

Four universities have scheduled alumni receptions to coincide with ATCE 2014. These events provide excellent opportunities for attendees to visit and get reacquainted with old friends and to build new relationships with other professionals. All of the receptions are scheduled for today. 1730–1900

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Hotel Okura Amsterdam, Griffioen Room Ferdinand Bolstraat 333 1072 LH Amsterdam Phone: +31.20.678.7794

Artemis Hotel John M. Keynesplein 2 1066 EP Amsterdam Phone: +31.20.714.1000

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Among Amsterdam’s Many Sites Are Museums for Every Interest Adam Wilson, Special Publications Editor

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PE is holding its Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition in Europe for only the second time in the conference’s 90-year history. The first time was in 2010, when the conference was held in Florence, Italy. This year, the event is in beautiful Amsterdam, a city that offers many sites for conference attendees when they are not busy networking, meeting, and learning at the show.

Museums

Perhaps the widest category of sites to see in Amsterdam is its museums; the city is home to dozens of museums, from the esoteric—the Tattoo Museum, the Museum of Bags and Purses, and two torture museums—to the sublime. The region has been home to many greatest master artists, such as Rembrandt, Vermeer, van Gogh, and Mondrian, so it is no surprise that the area has some of the finest art museums in the world. The heart of Amsterdam’s museum offerings is the Museumplein, or Museum Square, which has three of the largest museums in Amsterdam. The largest, and one of the largest museums in the world, is the Rijksmuseum, home to more than 8,000 objects of art and history. In 2013, the main building of the Rijksmuseum was reopened by Queen Beatrix after a 10-year renovation that cost nearly USD 500 million. The Rijksmuseum houses more than 2,000 paintings from the Dutch Golden Age, many of which are on display at any given time. Rijksmuseum Open daily 0900–1700 Tickets for adults are EUR 15 Museumstraat 1 www.rijksmuseum.nl Phone: +31.20.674.7000

Taking a canal tour can be a relaxing way to see the city. Photo courtesy of Amsterdam Marketing.

The Museumplein has three of the largest and most popular museums in Amsterdam. Counterclockwise from top are the Rijksmuseum, the Van Gogh Museum, and the Stedelijk Museum. Photo courtesy of Amsterdam Marketing. The third museum in the Museumplein is the Stedelijk Museum, a collection of modern and contemporary art and design from the 20th and 21st centuries. Artists with work on display here include van Gogh, Marc Chagall, Henri Matisse, Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol, and Willem de Kooning. Stedelijk Museum Open daily 1000–1800 and 2200 on Thursdays Tickets for adults are EUR 15 Museumplein 10 www.stedelijk.nl Phone: +31.20.573.2911

Also in Museum Square, close to the Rijksmuseum, is the Van Gogh Museum, which is dedicated to the works of Vincent van Gogh and his contemporaries. The museum is home to the largest collection of paintings and drawing by van Gogh in the world.

If you are looking for more personal insight into daily life during the Dutch Golden Age, the home of Rembrandt van Rijn, where the master artist lived with his wife, Saskia, from 1639 to 1658, has been reconstructed to how it was during his life. Several of his etchings are on display there, and the displays give an idea of how he worked.

Van Gogh Museum Open daily 0900–1700 and 2200 on Fridays Tickets for adults are EUR 15 Paulus Potterstraat 7 www.vangoghmuseum.nl Phone: +31.0.20.570.5200

Rembrandt House Open daily 1000–1700 Tickets are EUR 12.50 Jodenbreestraat 4 www.rembrandthuis.nl Phone: +31.20.551.2512

The Oude Kerk, which sits in the middle of the red-light district, is the oldest building in Amsterdam. Photo courtesy of Amsterdam Marketing.

Another important home that has been preserved is the Anne Frank House, where young Anne Frank hid from the Nazi occupiers of her country and wrote her now-famous diary. Although the museum space is not large, there are plenty of exhibits and information about her life and time. The museum is one of the more popular in Amsterdam, and lines are often long, so get there early. Anne Frank House Open daily 0900–2100 and 2200 on Saturdays Tickets are EUR 9 Prinsengracht 263–267 www.annefrank.org Phone: +31.20.556.7100

See the City

Established as a fishing village in the 12th century, Amsterdam has become the financial and cultural center of the Netherlands. Its 100 km of canals help keep the sea at bay and add to the beauty and uniqueness of the city. The Old Center, just south of Amsterdam Centraal station, is the oldest part of the city, where you can still walk down medieval lanes. This area is home to the Oude Kerk, the oldest building in Amsterdam. The church was founded in 1213. Creating a stark contrast reflecting the diversity and tolerance of the city, the building stands in the middle of what is now the red-light district, itself a popular tourist site. From Two Wheels. There are many ways to get around and absorb the beautiful sites in Amsterdam. Walking is always a good way to see a city, and Amsterdam is certainly friendly to walkers. But the city is also very conducive to touring on bicycle; cycling lanes and cyclers are ubiquitous. Many locals use bicycles to get around town, and they are a great option for tourists, too. Several shops rent bicycles, but make sure to have a lock, too; Amsterdam has its fair share of stolen bikes. If you decide to bike around town, have lights for night riding, follow traffic rules, and remember to go with the flow. From the Water. Another popular, and more relaxing, way to see the city is from its many canals. More than 160 canals encircle and snake through the city, and canal tours are not hard to find. A good place to start looking for tours online is www.amsterdam-boats.com. Most of the tours will last 1–2 hours.

Markets

If shopping is how you choose to spend your free time during the conference, Amsterdam has several markets that can fill your need, be it for flowers, fabric, trinkets, or food. Albert Cuyp Market. The Albert Cuyp market is the largest street market in Amsterdam and one of the better-known in the country. The market is on Albert Cuypstraat and is named after the 17thcentury painter. The street is closed to vehicles during market hours, which are 0900 to 1700 Monday through Saturday, and it can be quite crowded. In addition to being a great place to find freshly made stroopwaffels, the famous Dutch treat, the market also has a strong international feel to it. If you are looking for a true taste of Amsterdam, be sure to try some pickled herring, sold in the market and on the streets around town. Bloemenmarkt. Amsterdam is home to the world’s only floating flower market, the Bloemenmarkt. Located on the Singel Canal between Koningsplein and Muntplein, it is open from 0900 to 1730 Mondays through Saturdays and from 1100 to 1730 on Sundays. The variety and beauty of the flowers and bulbs for sale here can be breathtaking. If you are going to buy bulbs to take back to the US or Canada, make sure they are labeled for export.

The Bloemenmarkt is the world’s only floating flower market. Photo courtest of Amsterdam Marketing.

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SPE 2014 International Awards Honor Outstanding Achievements Jack Betz, JPT Staff Writer

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Ning Liu, reservoir engineer, Chevron; Amber A. Sturrock, subsea umbilical engineer, Chevron.

mong SPE’s more than 124,000 professional and student members are those whose outstanding contributions to SPE and the petroleum industry merit special distinction. Recipients of the 2014 SPE international awards will be recognized at the annual Reception and Banquet held Tuesday, and SPE Distinguished Members will be honored at the President’s Luncheon on Wednesday.

Honorary Membership

Six people received Honorary Membership for outstanding service to SPE or in recognition of distinguished scientific or engineering achievement. Honorary Membership is the highest honor the society bestows on an individual and is limited to 0.1% of SPE membership. The following are this year’s recipients: Adam T. Bourgoyne Jr. is president at Bourgoyne Enterprises and Bourgoyne Engineering, both in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He has also served as dean of Louisiana State University’s College of Engineering. Bourgoyne received the Distinguished Achievement Award for Petroleum Engineering Faculty in 1981 and is an SPE Legion of Honor member. Ali H. Dogru is a Saudi Aramco fellow at Saudi Aramco in Saudi Arabia. He received the Reservoir Description and Dynamics Award in 2008, the John Franklin Carll Award in 2012, and Distinguished Membership. S.M. Farouq Ali is a consultant at H.O.R. Heavy Oil Recovery Technologies in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, and holds the Encana Chair and position as honorary professor at the University of Calgary. Farouq Ali received the Distinguished Achievement Award for Petroleum Engineering Faculty in 1991, the Lester C. Uren Award in 1996, the Anthony F. Lucas Gold Medal in 2007, and Distinguished Membership. Thomas K. Perkins is retired from a 37-year career as a research advisor at Atlantic Refining Company. Perkins is a recipient of the Lester C. Uren Award in 1978, the John Franklin Carll Award in 1993, the Legend of Hydraulic Fracturing Award, and the Tulsa Section Improved Oil Recovery Pioneer Award. He served as a Distinguished Lecturer and is a Distinguished Member and an SPE Legion of Honor Member. Albert C. Reynolds Jr. has taught at The University of Tulsa in Tulsa, Oklahoma since 1970 and currently occupies the university’s McMan Chair in Petroleum Engineering. He received a Distinguished Achievement Award for Petroleum Engineering Faculty in 1983, the Reservoir Description and Dynamics Award in 2003, the Formation Evaluation Award in 2005, the John Franklin Carll Award in 2013, and Distinguished Membership. Mary F. Wheeler has been a professor at The University of Texas at Austin since 1995 as a member of the petroleum and geosystems engineering, aerospace engineering and engineering mechanics, and mathematics departments. She was awarded Distinguished Membership.

Distinguished Achievement Award for Petroleum Engineering Faculty—Thomas A. Blasingame, professor at Texas A&M University and current holder of the Robert L. Whiting Professorship.

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Completions Optimization and Technology Award—Jennifer L. Miskimins, senior consulting engineer, Barree & Associates. Drilling Engineering Award—Rolv Rommetveit, managing director, eDrilling Solutions. Formation Evaluation Award—Paul F. Worthington, principal, Park Royd P&P (England).

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Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award

The SPE Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award recognizes contributions to SPE and the exploration and production industry that exhibit such exceptional devotion of time, effort, thought, and action as to set them apart from other contributions. The 2014 winner is Maria das Graças Silva Foster, chief executive officer (CEO) of Petrobras.

Anthony F. Lucas Gold Medal

The Anthony F. Lucas Gold Medal, established in 1936, recognizes achievement in improving the technique and practice of finding and producing petroleum. The 2014 recipient is Marvin Gearhart, president and CEO of Gearhart Companies in Fort Worth, Texas.

John Franklin Carll Award

The John Franklin Carll Award recognizes contributions of technical application and professionalism in petroleum development and recovery. This year’s honoree is A. Daniel Hill, professor and head of Texas A&M University’s Harold Vance Department of Petroleum Engineering.

DeGolyer Distinguished Service Medal

The DeGolyer Distinguished Service Medal recognizes distinguished and outstanding service to SPE, to the professions of engineering or geology, and to the petroleum industry. Schlumberger technical advisor Syed A. Ali is the 2014 winner.

Lester C. Uren Award

The Lester C. Uren Award recognizes distinguished achievement in the technology of petroleum engineering by a member who made the contribution before age 45. Birol Dindoruk, the 2014 recipient, is reservoir engineering advisor and principal technical expert of reservoir engineering at Shell.

Charles F. Rand Gold Medal

The Charles F. Rand Memorial Gold Medal—a joint SPE/AIME award— recognizes distinguished achievement in

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Distinguished Service Award

The SPE Distinguished Service Award recognizes contributions to the society that exhibit such exceptional devotion of time, effort, thought, and action as to set them apart from other contributions. Winners for 2014 include Kamel Bennaceur, minister of energy and mines, Tunisia; Marco Brignoli, technical leader, geomechanics, Eni; Helen L. Chang, senior staff reservoir engineer, Nexen Energy ULC.

Public Service Award

The SPE Public Service Award recognizes distinguished public service to a country, state, community, or the public through excellence in leadership, service, or humanitarianism, provided the service is above the requirements of employment and, therefore, is not a compensated activity. Recipients of this award automatically become Distinguished Members. D. Nathan Meehan, senior executive advisor at Baker Hughes, is this year’s recipient.

Cedric K. Ferguson Medal

The Cedric K. Ferguson Medal is presented for a paper written by an SPE member who is younger than 36 and has been published in an SPE journal. Coauthors of the selected paper who are 36 or older and who are SPE members receive the Cedric K. Ferguson Certificate. Joachim Moortgat, an assistant professor at Ohio State University, will receive the medal. Zhidong Li, engineering specialist at Exxon, and Abbas Firoozabadi, director of the Reservoir Engineering Institute, will receive certificates. Young Member Outstanding Service Award—Ghaithan A. Al-Muntasheri, team leader for production technology, Saudi Aramco; Matthew T. Balhoff, assistant professor, The University of Texas at Austin; Manish K. Choudhary, reservoir engineer, Shell; Siddartha Gupta, senior petroleum engineer, Schlumberger;

Health, Safety, Security, Environment, and Social Responsibility Award—Angelo Madera, regional vice president of HSE and initiatives for communities in Sub-Saharan Africa, Eni. Management and Information Award— Saeed M. Al-Mubarak, intelligent field team leader, Saudi Aramco. Production and Operations Award— Robert P. Sutton, consultant, Robert P. Sutton Consulting Projects, Facilities, and Construction Award—Gene E. Kouba, research consultant, Chevron Energy Technology Company. Reservoir Description and Dynamics Award—Faruk Civan, professor, Martin G. Miller Chair, University of Oklahoma.

Distinguished Members

SPE members become Distinguished Members when they are elected by the SPE Board of Directors or once they become a past president of SPE or the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers; an SPE Honorary Member; a recipient of the Anthony F. Lucas Gold Medal, John Franklin Carll Award, Lester C. Uren Award, DeGolyer Distinguished Service Medal, Public Service Award, or Distinguished Service Award. Usman Ahmed Michael Brulé David B. Burnett Robert C. Burton Maria A. Capello Helen L. Chang Abhijit Y. Dandekar Mojdeh Delshad Birol Dindoruk Ali H. Dogru Marvin Gearhart Karen D. Hagedorn Delores J. Hinkle He Liu Jane A. Moring Karen E. Olson Mary C. O’Neill Mustafa Onur David S. Schechter Willem M. Schulte Kamy Sepehrnoori Thomas R. Sifferman Xiuli Wang C. Dean Wehunt Mary F. Wheeler.

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Sustainability, Separation Technology Open Special Sessions Joel Parshall, JPT Features Editor

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anel programs on sustainability issues and the potential to unlock hidden production through separation technology will kick off the slate of special sessions this afternoon at the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) 2014 Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition (ATCE) at Amsterdam RAI. Five additional special sessions are scheduled over the final 2 days of the conference.

People, Profit, Planet: Advancing Practices That Balance Economic Growth, Social Development, and Environmental Protection Today and in the Future

The session People, Profit, Planet: Advancing Practices That Balance Economic Growth, Social Development, and Environmental Protection Today and in the Future will be held from 1400 to 1700 today in the exhibit floor theater. The session was organized by the SPE Sustainability Task Force. SPE President Jeff Spath will introduce the session, and the panel will include 2013 SPE President Egbert Imomoh, founder and executive chairman of Afren; the chief executive officers of two global sustainability consulting firms; and the head of sustainability for a global oil and gas company. “We want to facilitate conversations between the operations people and the sustainability experts, and the ATCE is an excellent venue for doing that,” said moderator Johana Dunlop, global citizenship manager at Schlumberger. Operations people, particularly project managers, “need to be able to integrate sustainability elements in their decision making, but it is not obvious how to do that,” she said. The session will have a strong focus on social performance factors. “Our goals are that the operations people would go away from the session with an enriched view of how these topics can be managed and how they impact business performance,” Dunlop said, “and that the sustainability experts go away with

an enriched view of how they can better support operations and support industry by having had a full and frank exchange with operations people.”

Unlocking Hidden Production Potential in Existing Facilities and Mature Fields

The session Unlocking Hidden Production Potential in Existing Facilities and Mature Fields will be held from 1400 to 1700 today in the auditorium. The session was organized by the SPE Separation Technology Technical Section. “There are often debottlenecking opportunities in brownfield facilities to maintain or increase production capacity,” said moderator Victor Van Asperen, general manager of separation systems at FMC Technologies. “In mature fields, where pressure declines and water production increases over time, there are methods for adapting the separation equipment to handle the changing conditions and enable the operator to maintain or increase production while using existing facilities. The session will give insight into debottlenecking methods and provide examples of applying them.”

Assessing Environmental Impacts to Groundwater, Air, and Our Global Community

The session Assessing Environmental Impacts to Groundwater, Air, and Our Global Community will be held from 0830 to 1155 Tuesday in the exhibit floor theater. “Our panel will discuss ongoing field measurements to develop needed protocols concerning these environmental impacts,” said moderator Richard Haut, senior research scientist at the Houston Advanced Research Center. “The panelists will address how to collect baseline water samples, how to manage chain of custody, what constituents need to be measured, and how to measure them. Air emissions will also be discussed, as well as methane and other stray-gas issues.”

Aging Assets in the North Sea

The session Aging Assets in the North Sea will be held from 0830 to 1155 Tuesday in the auditorium. “The North Sea has many assets approaching or beyond their design life,” said moderator Paul Jones, subsea manager at Chevron Energy Technology Company. “In all cases, a decision must be made: extend the life or retire the facility. The session will identify the key decisions and success factors that enable extended field life for two world-class, prolific assets— Forties and Ekofisk. It will also explore the regulatory perspective for life extension or asset retirement and compare the North Sea philosophy with that employed in the US Gulf of Mexico and California.”

CO2 EOR as a Pathway for CCUS

The session CO2 EOR as a Pathway for CCUS (carbon capture, utilization, and storage) will be held from 1400 to 1700 Tuesday in the auditorium. A new SPE Technical Section, Carbon Dioxide Capture, Storage, and Utilization, has been established and will be launched at the beginning of the session. “Interest in the expanded use of CO2 enhanced oil recovery (EOR) has increased, given its potential for enhancing oil production and storing CO2 that would otherwise be emitted to the atmosphere,” said moderator Haroon Kheshgi, global climate change program leader at ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company. “CO2 EOR has been limited by CO2 supply, but an abundant supply could come from the capture of CO2 from large stationary sources such as power plants if governments incentivize the deep reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. The session will review the latest estimates of EOR potential worldwide, including from residual oil zones. Using lessons learned from commercial EOR, the session will explore the opportunities and challenges in integrating CO2 capture systems with CO2 EOR and storage.”

Flow Assurance and Multiphase Flow

The session Flow Assurance and Multiphase Flow will be held from 0830 to 1155 Wednesday in the exhibit floor theater. “Flow assurance as an issue has emerged out of necessity with increased deepwater activities,” said moderator Cem Sarica, F.H. “Mick” Merelli/Cimarex Energy professor of petroleum engineering at The University of Tulsa. “Flow assurance issues include hydrate formation, paraffin deposition, asphaltenes, high-viscosity oils, emulsions, and multiphase flow issues such as slugging and erosion. There are different kinds of multiphase flows, and for each there are very different configurations and characteristics that affect the formation and transport of solids. The impact of multiphase flows on flow assurance problems has been observed in operations. The session will seek to answer why we should we worry about multiphase flows ... as well as do we know enough and what should we know.”

Drilling Modeling and Simulation

The session Drilling Modeling and Simulation will be held from 0830 to 1155 Wednesday in the auditorium. “Drilling systems modeling and simulation has become one of the key factors for advancing automation/control, intelligent managed-pressure drilling, and drilling optimization by understanding and predicting downhole performance and dynamics,” said moderator Junichi Sugiura, principal engineer at Schlumberger, Stonehouse, UK. “This session brings some of the global modeling and simulation experts together, to identify its current state, needs, and future goals. Diverse technologists in the academia and industry are working to identify concepts and solutions on a variety of challenges in drilling modeling and simulation. The presentations and panel discussions should help to accelerate development of a common strategy in this field.”

SPE Pavilion Demonstrates New Competency Management Tool

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he SPE Pavilion is the nerve center for members to interact with their society. This year, the pavilion will be at Booth 1848. There, attendees can explore the benefits of SPE membership and the global network of technical resources for every stage of their careers. The SPE Pavilion is also where attendees can pick up their copies of the conference proceedings. The theme for this year’s pavilion is Recharge With SPE. Located in the center of the pavilion, a recharge station serves as a mobile device charging station with six charging stations. The SPE Pavilion will also have a selfservice hospitality bar with complimentary coffee and tea. SPE customer service representatives will be on hand at the pavilion to help attendees with all aspects of their membership, including joining SPE or renewing or reinstating membership. Complimentary copies of all SPE publications will be available at the pavilion, including the Journal of Petroleum Technology, Oil and Gas Facilities, The

Way Ahead, and the Journal of Canadian Petroleum Technology. The pavilion will also offer free access to SPE’s online publications, including HSE Now and the society’s peer-reviewed journals. Also at the pavilion will be the SPE Bookstore, where attendees can purchase print and digital books. From 0930 to 1130 on Tuesday, the authors of Fundamentals of Enhanced Oil Recovery, Larry W. Lake, Russell Johns, Bill Rossen, and Gary Pope, will be on hand for a book-signing event. Also this year, the pavilion will be the site of SPE Theater, a location for daily demonstrations. Attendees can see demonstrations of the new Competency Management Tool online self assessment there each day. This new member benefit allows individuals to assess their current professional capabilities against one of 22 key exploration and production job competency models covering a spectrum of technical areas. The Competency Management Tool demonstrations will be • Today—1000, 1400, and 1515 • Tuesday—1010, 1230, and 1515 • Wednesday—1010 and 1130

At the SPE Pavilion, attendees can pick up their copies of the conference proceedings and view a demonstration of the new Competency Management Tool. Attendees who attend a demonstration will be entered into a drawing for a chance to win an iPhone 6. The SPE Pavilion will also have six touchscreens showcasing SPE member

benefits, allowing attendees to learn about SPE products and services at their own pace, participate in a poll, and take a quiz for a chance to win a prize, an SPE luggage tag.

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Workshop Teaches Importance, Process of Writing Technical Papers Chris Carpenter, JPT Technology Editor

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s SPE members search for ways to share their expertise and research with colleagues, the writing and presentation of technical papers at SPE conferences, and for its peer-reviewed technical journals, remains an important conduit for information. The overflowing sessions at the 2013 ATCE about writing technical papers have prompted a new round of workshops at this year’s conference in Amsterdam, allowing attendees to learn the important ways that their papers can further the industry and their own careers. The first of the three sessions, each 3 hours long, took place at 0900 on Sunday. The other two sessions will be at 1300 today and at 0900 on Tuesday, all on the first floor of the Mercure Hotel. The Sunday workshop was led by Byron Haynes of Shell. Today’s workshop will be led by Saudi Armaco’s Sunil Kokal and is in Room 3. The Tuesday workshop will be in Room 11 and will be led by the University of Calgary’s Tayfun Babadagli. All three workshop leaders have years of SPE experience in authoring, presenting,

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and reviewing technical papers, experience that will benefit workshop participants as they enter the highly competitive, but highly rewarding, world of technical paper authorship and presentation. The workshop will address basic and advanced strategies for authors, including the importance of clear abstracts and the benefit of composing a conclusions section first. It will also emphasize the need to avoid commercial references and plagiarism, problems that committees cannot overlook when considering abstracts at the meeting level. Guidance

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will also be provided on paper organization, another fundamental aspect of authorship that has changed as communications skills have adapted to new technology. All three presenters offer unique perspectives on the composition and presentation of papers. Kokal stresses the fundamental importance of the writing process itself. “Writing a technical paper is a win/win/win situation,” he explained, “a win for you, a win for your company, and a win for SPE and the global technical knowledge base. For you, it provides professional recognition, enhances your

technical reputation, adds prestige to your resume, and improves your performance appraisal.” Babadagli, a longtime technical editor and Executive Editor with SPE’s peer-reviewed technical journals, stresses the importance of a concise and focused delivery. “The number of journals and authors has increased tremendously through the use of new media systems. That means people have more papers to read but less time to read them than they did 20–30 years ago. People therefore ask: ‘Why should I read this paper?’” Haynes points out that the mastery of some simple guidelines can benefit attendees in multiple ways. “The workshop gives engineers tips on how to structure and organize manuscripts for publication,” he said, “but these skills are transferrable to writing technical reports and notes for files on the job.” In addition, paper authorship also clearly fulfills SPE’s mission of collecting and disseminating technical knowledge. The workshops represent an opportunity for attendees to increase their odds in an important facet of their careers.

Important Information Headquarters: Room G108 Press Room: Room K102 Press Conference Room: Room K101 Speaker Ready Room: Room D203 Proceedings: Proceedings are distributed from the SPE Pavilion, Booth 1848, on the exhibition floor. Proceedings can be collected during exhibition hours Monday to Wednesday, and a ticket will be required for collection whether included in registration or purchased. Conference Bags: Full and 1-day paid attendees can pick up a complimentary conference bag in the registration area. They will need their ticket, which is included with the conference badge, to pick up a bag. Internet Access: SPE is offering free wireless Internet access throughout the exhibition, in the Elicium Ballroom, Auditorium, Forum, Europe Foyer, and the G and E Corridors. The SSID for wireless access is ATCE2014, and the password is atce2014. Speaker Check-In Room: Presenting authors need to stop by the Speaker CheckIn Room, Room D204. Monday: 0700–1730 Tuesday: 0730–1730 Wednesday: 0730–1730 25-Year Club Lounge: Room G109 Sunday–Tuesday: 0800–1600 Wednesday: 0800–1400. The 25-Year/Century Club Committee hosts a special lounge for SPE members with 25 years or more of continuous membership, Century Club members, current and former SPE Board officers and directors, Distinguished and Honorary members, as well as this year’s SPE International Award Winners and Distinguished Lecturers. Members and VIPs may pick up their badge ribbons and are encouraged to visit with one another between sessions.

Getting Around Shuttle Buses: Shuttle buses between the three main event venues, the RAI, the Hilton Amsterdam, and the Mercure Hotel Amsterdam City, will run throughout the day on show days. Buses will run from 0700 to 1815, every half hour. Annual Awards Banquet Transport: The banquet is being held at the Beurs van Berlage in central Amsterdam, which is well served by public transport links. There are no organized transport arrangements either to or from the venue. However, there will be a taxi desk situated in the foyer where attendees will be able to book a taxi back to their hotels. For reference, the Beurs van Berlage is a 5-minute walk from Amsterdam Centraal station. Public Transport: In line with our increased focus on sustainability, all full-conference attendees will receive a travel card that will be valid on all GVB trams, buses, night buses, and the metro within the city of Amsterdam. The card will be active 26– 29 October. Please note that the card is not valid on the main line intercity trains. Knowledge Sharing ePosters: The Knowledge Sharing ePosters are located in the Ruby Lounge on the first floor during coffee breaks. An ePoster is an electronic version of a traditional poster presented on a flat-screen monitor. It offers the added benefit of animation, audio, and video and enhances the visual experience to provide greater interactivity between the attendee and the poster author. See each day’s technical program for a complete schedule. Business Center: The business center is in the Elicium passageway on the first floor. It is open 0900–1700 Monday– Friday and provides the following charged services: printing (including posters and business cards), copying, faxing, scanning, laminating, and binding. First Aid: There will be medical stations located near the Amsterdam Café close to Hall 2 and on the lower ground floor in the Elicium. Luggage/Coat Check: The cloak room is located on the lower ground floor through Entrance K. Coats and jackets cost EUR 2. Luggage costs EUR 3.

Monday: 0730–1900 Tuesday: 0730–1900 Wednesday: 0730–1730 Lost and Found: Lost and Found is located in SPE Headquarters, Room G108. The Amsterdam RAI has a Lost and Found service; the telephone number is +31.20.549.1304. Found items can also be turned in at the RAI Information Desk and at reception in the Elicium. Policies and Procedures Attendee Qualifications: All attendees are required to wear their ATCE name badge and badge holder at all times. Use of a badge by the person not named on the badge is grounds for confiscation. If you lose your conference badge, please return to Registration to obtain a replacement. No one younger than 16 is permitted in the exhibition during official show hours. Mobile/Cell Phone Policy: As a courtesy to the speakers and your fellow attendees, please silence all mobile phones during meetings and sessions. Photography Policy: All SPE sessions are protected by US copyright laws.

Photography and video/audio recording of any kind are strictly prohibited in the sessions and throughout the exhibition area. Alcohol Policy: SPE recognizes the legitimate serving of alcoholic beverages in the process of conducting business and social activities. It also recognizes that the use and consumption of alcohol carries with it the requirement for all attendees to consume those beverages responsibly and in keeping with its professional code of ethics and conduct. SPE strongly opposes the abuse and misuse of alcohol. Smoking Policy: Smoking is prohibited anywhere in the Amsterdam RAI, Hilton Amsterdam, and Mercure Hotel Amsterdam City under the laws of the Netherlands Tobacco Act. Safety: One of the key components of the success of ATCE is the safety of our attendees and presenters. Because of the popularity of some session topics, it is possible for overcrowding to occur in a session or meeting room. Should this occur, the conference must comply with policies regarding room capacity and limit admittance to a room that is at capacity. Please make plans to arrive early for sessions that you have a strong interest in attending. An overflow area is set up to accommodate session rooms that have reached capacity. In the event of an emergency, SPE staff or venue staff will provide conference attendees with any necessary information and instructions. Guests with Disabilities: There is disabled access throughout the venue. Disabled Parking: Official disabled badge holders can register at the RAI security gate next to the congress garage to access the disabled parking. Follow the signposts for P-RAI-7.

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Special Events Tailor-Made for Students, Young Professionals Robin Beckwith, JPT Senior Features Editor

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f SPE’s 124,528 members, 37,707 are students and 25,120 are young professionals (i.e., 35 or younger). So a number of special events throughout ATCE are tailor-made for the industry’s rising young generation. Events are also planned for future petroleum industry engineers now in high school—and their teachers.

Student Communications Skills Workshops

From 1300 to 1500 on Tuesday, a Student Communications Skills Workshop will be held in Room D304. The same workshop will be presented on Wednesday in Room D301. The workshop gives students the opportunity to hone their networking abilities, refine their communication skills, and build up a toolkit of knowledge helpful for their careers.

On Monday

SPE’s 13th annual PetroBowl is being held from 0800 to noon at the RAI in Room E102 and from 0800 to 1700 in the Forum. Student chapter teams—four members each—from around the world compete in a tournament-style contest that tests knowledge of the exploration and production industry as well as SPE. The teams battle their way through a series of single-elimination brackets until only one champion team remains. Read more about the PetroBowl on Page 20.

Celebrate with participants at the PetroBowl Reception, held from 1800 to 2000 in the Forum Lounge.

On Tuesday

All day Tuesday, SPE will hold the International Student Paper Contest. The undergraduate and master’s divisions will compete from 0830 to 1230 in Rooms D503 and D507. The PhD division will compete from 1330 to 1700 in Room D507. Tuesday also includes a daylong offering of four soft skills workshops, organized by SPE’s Soft Skills and Talent councils and Young Professionals Coordinating Committee. All workshop options include lunch. Attendees can choose one of two morning-long (0900 to 1300) options: Soft Skills Workshop I in Rooms 1 and 2 of the Mercure Hotel, The Impact of Intrinsic Motivation on Business Results, or Soft Skills

Workshop II in Room 3 of the Mercure Hotel, Collaborate Through Understanding the Dynamics of Facts and Opinions. Attendees can also choose one of two afternoon-long (1200 to 1600) options: Young Professionals Workshop in Room 3 of the Mercure Hotel, Expanding Opportunities for YPs in Industry: Thinking Outside Technical and Managerial Roles, or Soft Skills Workshop III in Rooms 1 and 2 of the Mercure Hotel, Networking and Mentoring To Build Beneficial Relationships. A Young Professionals Reception will be held from 1700 to 1900 in the Europe Foyer 2.

At the annual Awards Banquet, held at the Beurs van Berlage from 1900 to 2230, among the SPE 2014 International Award recipients honored will be several younger SPE professional members, including Joachim Moortgat, Ohio State University, winner of the Cedric K. Ferguson Medal, and six Young Member Outstanding Service Award winners—Ghaithan Al-Muntasheri, Saudi Aramco; Matthew Balhoff, The University of Texas at Austin; Manish Choudhary, Shell; Siddhartha Gupta, Schlumberger; Ning Liu, Chevron; and Amber Sturrock, Chevron.

On Wednesday

From 0730 to 1530 in Europe Foyer 2 at RAI, SPE’s Energy4me energy outreach program provides a complimentary workshop for Amsterdam-area classroom science teachers whose students are ages 8 to 18. Educators receive hands-on training about the scientific concepts of energy, a tour of ATCE’s oil and gas technology exhibits, and instructional materials they can take back and use in their classrooms. SPE’s Energy4me outreach program also offers a Student Energy Event for preuniversity students ages 15 to 18. Held from 0830 to 1330 in Europe Foyer 1 at the RAI, the program will have students conduct energy exploration hands-on experiments, explore advanced technology on the exhibition floor, and leave with energy career material they can look at more closely at home.

PetroBowl winners and each division’s Student Paper Contest winners will be honored at the President’s Luncheon and annual Meeting of Members, held from noon to 1400 in the Elicium Ballroom. Also among those recognized at the luncheon are the five winners of the Section Award for Outstanding Young Professional Activity and the five winners of the Section Award for Outstanding Student Support.

Events You Might Have Missed on Sunday

• A Student Meet-and-Greet gathering was held Sunday morning, where students could make friends with oil and gas students from all over the world. • An all-day Leadership Workshop was held, during which current and future section and student chapter leaders were invited to share best practices and develop leadership skills. • The Student General Session and Awards Luncheon was held. Students from all over the world learned more about their future professional careers. Also, SPE honored the Gold Standard Achievement Student Chapter winners, regional winners of the SPE Outstanding Student Chapters, scholarship and fellowship winners, and International Student Paper Contest participants.

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Completions Technology Session Focuses on Solving Challenges Anjana Narayanan, Staff Writer

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oday’s completion technology technical session will probe several topics aimed at solving the double-edged challenge of improving completions efficiency while working with difficult conditions and environments. The session will be held this afternoon from 1400 to 1700 and will be led by Mark Christopher Glaser, Weatherford International, and Nicholas Jacob Clem, Baker Hughes. Six technical paper presentations will cover various aspects of completions, including technological advancements in completions designs for unconventional and high-pressure/high-temperature (HP/HT) wells and smart materials with nanothickness coatings that aid interventionless solutions for optimizing completion efficiency. In paper SPE 170919, “The HP/HT Completion Landscape—Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow,” D.J. Lehr and S.D. Collins of Baker Hughes present the challenges involved in HP/HT completions. With wells now being drilled in extreme- and ultra-HP/HT conditions, data on material properties and stability at such conditions are often found inadequate and regulations for their use are changing. Following a historical review of HP/HT completions over the years, the authors will discuss in detail, focusing on several completiontool components, the challenges and technology gaps for extreme- and ultraHP/HT completions and well interventions. They will recommend ways to improve product development to suit HP/HT requirements and discuss studies and testing methods for enhancing tool reliability. Plug-and-perforation has historically been the method of choice for stimulating cemented North Sea wells. However, because of the large number of runs required for its various steps, the method can be expensive and time consuming. And, it offers no provisions for future production management. In the paper SPE 170641, titled “The Evolution, Optimization and Experience of Multistage Frac Completions in a North Sea Environment,” authors T. Koløy, K. Brække, and T. Sørheim of Trican Completion Solutions narrate the development of Trican’s multistage fracture (MSF) sleeves and valves chronologically. They explain how an effort to meet the customers’ demands led to the development of an openhole coiled-tubing MSF sleeve, which then progressed to ball-drop-actuated multientry sleeve. Many fields require liners to be cemented, and working toward a system for such fields led to the next stage of development—fracture sleeves that could be cemented. After successful testing in land wells in Lafayette, Louisiana, this sleeve was installed successfully offshore Norway for an acidstimulation job. Authors will share their current developments and discuss the advantages of MSF sleeves compared to traditional methods. N. Carrejo, O.R. Espinoza, H. Wibowo, and S. Gaudette of Baker Hughes are the authors of paper SPE 170906, “Developing an Innovative Nanocoated, Smart Material To Optimize Efficiency of Oilfield Completion Applications.” The presentation will include a discussion of the development of smart material and elaborate on how it can be used in specific completion applications.

While alternatives to plug-andperforation for multistage fractures in North Sea are discussed in another paper in this session, authors D. Huynh, Shell Canada Energy; S. Hamid, Sanjel Corporation; O. Medvedev, Shell Canada Energy; and Y.K. Anas, Sanjel Corporation, will talk about ways to improve plug-milling efficiency during plug-and-perforation fracturing in unconventional wells. Their paper, SPE 170738, “Improving Plug Milling Efficiency Through Fluid Rheology Control—Lessons Learned From the Horizontal Completions in the Duvernay Shale” will approach this issue from a rheological perspective. Cuttings or plug

Session 4: Completion Technology 1400 Paper 170919 • The HP/HT Completion Landscape—Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow 1425 Paper 170831 • Going Long—Overcoming Challenges in Completing 3600-m Laterals 1450 Paper 170641 • The Evolution, Optimization, and Experience of Multistage Frac Completions in a North Sea Environment

Room E102 1545 Paper 170738 • Improving Plug Milling Efficiency Through Fluid Rheology Control— Lessons Learned From the Horizontal Completions in the Duvernay Shale 1610 Paper 170906 • Developing an Innovative Nanocoated, Smart Material To Optimize Efficiency of Oilfield Completion Applications 1635 Paper 170694 • Acid Soluble Plugs—Pressure Tight Solution for a Preperforated Liner

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PetroBowl’s Popularity Leads to Pilot Prequalification Project Robin Beckwith, JPT Senior Features Editor

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hirty-six teams from SPE student chapters at universities throughout the world are competing in today’s PetroBowl. This fast-paced, quiz-style competition, held annually at ATCE since 2002, pits each team against another. Each game is single elimination, meaning that two teams compete against each other and the winning team—the team with the most points at the end of the round—advances to the next round. PetroBowl contestants are divided into two divisions, each with 18 teams. Only in the final two games—the third-place and championship games—do teams from each division compete against each other. The PetroBowl begins with a preliminary round consisting of eight teams competing for four slots in the first round. Then, during the first round, 32 teams compete—16 games pairing two teams each. All winning teams must wait until all games are played in each round before the next round begins. The preliminary round begins at 0800; the first round at 0830; the second round, with a total of eight games (16 teams), at 1030; the third round—known as the Elite Eight— with a total of four games (eight teams), at 1230; the fourth round—known as the Final Four—with a total of two games (four teams), at 1430; the third-place game at 1530; and the championship game at 1600. All rounds before the Elite Eight consist of “half games” of 8 minutes each with no intermission. In the Elite Eight and Final Four rounds, each game consists of two 8-minute halves with a brief intermission in between. The third-place and championship games consist of two 10-minute halves with a brief intermission in between. A minimum of six volunteers conduct and monitor each of the 36 games. Each game has three judges who are SPE members chosen by the PetroBowl Committee. There are up to two moderators for each game who are responsible for reading the questions, consulting the judges when needed to determine whether a given answer would be deemed correct, awarding and deducting points, and enforcing the PetroBowl rules. There is at least one scorekeeper for each game. Games are only considered final when the scorekeepers declare the official score. Each game has one timekeeper, who enforces time limits and supervises the game clock. A team consists of up to five people, but only a maximum of four may participate in any given game. Substitutions are not allowed during a game, except when play is halted because of a halftime intermission. Substitutions are permitted between games. A team may play with a minimum of two players. Each team designates a team captain.

PetroBowl Qualifiers

Each team is assigned to a division and a slot to compete against another team on the basis of the team’s ranking. This year, the ranking was based on two methods. An online at-large qualifier competition was held 29 April. A total of 80 SPE student chapter teams participated. Each team had to answer 10 technical questions during the 1-day open period. According to one of the PetroBowl XIII co-chairs, Chris Giuffreda of ConocoPhillips, “The online qualifier was time-based. There was a time stamp when each team opened the questions and when they returned their answers. So all 80 teams’ answers were ranked according to

Sample PetroBowl Questions Name the two-phase flow correlation that was developed for vertical, upward flow and recommended only for near-vertical wellbores. What is the ratio of the mole fraction of a component in vapor phase to the mole fraction of the same component in liquid phase called? This oil field was discovered in 1948 in Saudi Arabia. Name this field—the largest conventional oil field in the world. For 5 points each, name four of the five types of reservoirs by fluid type. Name the law stating that lithologies that conformably overlie one another must have accumulated in adjacent depositional environments. (See bottom of page for answers.)

the amount of time spent on answering and the correctness of the answers.” From the at-large qualifier, all 80 teams were ranked according to the time- and correctness-based system, and the top 32 teams were identified by their rank. In addition, four teams garnered PetroBowl XIII slots during the first-ever regional qualifiers. These qualifiers—held in Africa and in the Asia Pacific regions— were part of a pilot project “that would be a fair and balanced way to ensure equal opportunity for every college and university throughout the world,” said Tony Fernandez of Jefferies Investment Banking, 2013 PetroBowl co-chair and major proponent and developer of the new, egalitarian system. PetroBowl began in 2002 as an initiative of SPE’s Gulf Coast Section Young Professionals Board (GCS-YPB), which still manages the event. During its first years, PetroBowl, always held at ATCE, involved only a half-dozen to a dozen teams—all from the US. The event grew in popularity until a few years ago, when there were more student chapters interested than there were slots. In response, the GCS-YPB started coming up with prequalification standards. At the 2013 ATCE in New Orleans, 50% of the 36 teams came from outside the US. With a contestant demographic more representative of SPE student membership and recognizing that only a finite number of teams could participate at ATCE, the GCSYPB met with the SPE Board in December 2013 and received permission to initiate a pilot program test during 2014. The SPE Board also approved a way for PetroBowl to split student membership into a practical number of regions (six) to ensure manageability of regional qualifier logistics. A committee consisting of past PetroBowl chairs, young professional SPE members from all over the world, and a few senior SPE advisors devised a system that, according to Fernandez, “is as free from bias—or even perceived bias—unfairness, and lack of balance as possible. Our audience is students. They have zero tolerance for lazy work. So we worked hard. The system is a little complex, but we think it’s as watertight as possible.” During this year’s pilot regional qualifier in PetroBowl’s Asia Pacific region, 12 teams competed. Within PetroBowl’s Africa region, 25 teams competed. Two teams from each region qualified to participate in Amsterdam. “In years past,” said Fernandez, “if you qualified for ATCE, you were on your

The team from the Colorado School of Mines holds the PetroBowl trophy after becoming the 2013 champions in New Orleans. The winning team this year will have its school name engraved on the trophy. own for funding. This year’s four qualifying teams’ expenses to and from Amsterdam are covered at 100%.” With the new regional system, he explained, teams only have to pay for travel to a place much closer to home. “Next year, the regional qualifiers will be rolled out to all six regions,” said Fernandez. “The SPE Board approved a budget to fund 100% of all 12 qualifying teams’ travel and accommodation for PetroBowl at ATCE. At-large qualifiers’ ATCE expenses will be funded at 50%.”

Questions and Scholarships

Members of SPE’s Gulf Coast Section can apply online to be a PetroBowl co-chair. The GCS-YPB elects two co-chairs from among the applicants. Being a co-chair involves a 2-year commitment—1 year working in an understudy or apprentice capacity so that, by the second year, each co-chair is more capable of leading the event, thus “ensuring consistency in pulling off a great competition each year,” said Chris Giuffreda. According to Giuffreda, the most challenging task is coming up with the more than 1,000 questions that must be available for the packed day of competition at ATCE. “Each question is individual,” he explained. “There’s no overlap. New questions must be written every year. We include questions from each of SPE’s technical disciplines, as well as petroleum-related trivia and current events. This year’s and next year’s co-chairs get together biweekly, read the questions we’ve come up with out loud to see that they’re worded correctly, succinctly, and understandably. We always must have a respected source that backs up the answer to each question. These are needed for verification purposes and also in case of a dispute.”

Answers from PetroBowl Quiz Hagedorn and Brown K value Ghawar Black/dead/nonvolatile oil reservoirs. Volatile/live oil reservoirs. Condensate reservoirs. Wet gas reservoirs. Dry gas reservoirs. Walther’s Law

Katie Horner of Chevron is serving as this year’s other co-chair. Aniket Kumar of Halliburton and Riteja Dutta of Baker Hughes are serving as this year’s PetroBowl understudies and 2015 PetroBowl co-chairs. “It’s an exciting, gratifying event,” said Guiffreda. “We give each member of each PetroBowl team a certificate for competing. Scholarships are awarded to the top three winning teams. A lump-sum prize goes to each winning team, and they can choose to split it as they see best. And the championship winner has their school name engraved on the new trophy we created last year. We retroactively added the names of all PetroBowl winning schools since 2002.” For more information on PetroBowl, please visit www.spegcs.org/petrobowl/.

PetroBowl Teams

AGH University of Science and Technology in Cracow, Poland Bandung Institute of Technology Chapter Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology Brigham Young University China University of Petroleum (East China) Chulalongkorn University Colorado School of Mines Federal University of Petroleum Resources Effurun Chapter Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh Instituto Politecnico Nacional Istanbul Technical University King Abdullah University of Science and Technology King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals Missouri University of Science and Technology Montana Tech Nazarbayev University New Mexico Tech The Pennsylvania State University River State University of Science and Technology Chapter Stanford University Texas A&M University The University of Texas at Austin The University of Tulsa TU Delft Universidad Industrial de Santander Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico University Estacio de Sa University of Alaska, Fairbanks University of Calgary University of Houston University of Kansas University of Louisiana at Lafayette University of North Dakota University of Oklahoma University of Stavanger University of Wyoming

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Dinner Focusing on Decommissioning Tops List of PFC Activities Stephen Whitfield, Oil and Gas Facilities Staff Writer

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rojects, facilities, and construction (PFC) will be an area of focus this year, as panel discussions, special sessions, and paper presentations on the subject highlight all 3 days of the conference.

PFC Dinner

The main event is the PFC Dinner, which will be held tonight at the Hilton Amsterdam starting at 1900 hours. The dinner will feature a panel discussion on the PFC-related challenges in decommissioning, an issue that figures to be a major challenge within the exploration and production industry. Topics to be discussed at the dinner include the various phases of decommissioning projects, the development of robust standards and procedures for execution, facilities-design features that can greatly simplify and facilitate eventual decommissioning, important factors that control the timeline and economics, how to capture and implement lessons learned, how to achieve continuous improvement, associated hazards and risks, and the environmental factors that must be overcome and which must be met. Howard Duhon of Gate will moderate the discussion. The presenters will be Jim Lenton, technical director and engineering director of the European division at AMEC; Nigel J. Jenkins, chief executive officer at Decom North Sea;

and Win Thornton, vice president of decommissioning at BP.

Separations Technology Technical Section Panel

Before the dinner, the SPE Separations Technology Technical Section (STTS) will hold a special panel discussion titled Unlocking Hidden Potential in Existing Facilities and Mature Fields from 1400 to 1700 hours in the auditorium of the Amsterdam RAI. This session will focus on ways to optimize separation facilities to handle the increase in water production and the drop in wellhead pressure through the assessment of methods that are suitable for the change in production profiles. The session will also examine debottlenecking opportunities that exist in brownfield facilities that could maintain or increase production capacity. In mature fields, where pressure declines and water production increase over time, several methods exist that operators can use to adapt the separation equipment to handle changing conditions effectively. The panel will discuss the best solutions to minimize costs and maximize recovery through the use of existing facilities with cost-effective upgrades. These solutions include vessel-based retrofits with alternative internals, compact cyclonic separation equipment with minimum footprint requirements, control

and operational modifications, and tailored chemical-management programs. Victor van Asperen, the general manager of FMC and a director of STTS, will moderate the session along with John Christopher Buckingham of the Southwest Research Institute and Brad Nelson of Maxoil. The panelists will be Ed Grave of ExxonMobil, Carlos Quintero of Total, Ian Charles Bedwell of Maxoil, and Remko Westra of FMC.

Technical Sessions

The PFC-focused Technical Session 10, Major Project Delivery, is scheduled to take place from 0830 to 1155 on Tuesday in Room E103. The seven papers scheduled for presentation at this session cover topics such as gas compression, subsea water treatment systems, a thermal megaproject and floating liquefied natural gas chain, offshore facilities weight growth, and the economic viability of projects. Six papers are scheduled for presentation at Technical Session 19, Operations and Debottlenecking, set for Tuesday from 1400 to 1700 in Room E103. Most of the papers to be presented during this session deal with slugging issues. Others, however, will handle varied topics including erosional velocity guidelines, extending the life of mature assets, and the dynamics of hydraulic umbilical systems.

Flow Assurance Special Session

From 0830 to 1155 hours on Wednesday, the Exhibition Theatre in Hall of 5 of the Amsterdam RAI will host a special session on flow assurance and multiphase flow. This session is another panel discussion focusing on whether multiphase flow should be a major concern within the oil and gas industry and, if so, to what degree. With the growth in deepwater activities, flow assurance has become an important topic as owners and operators face a variety of problems onsite, such as hydrate formation, asphaltene deposition, emulsions, slugging, and erosion. The different kinds of multiphase flows in the production and transportation of hydrocarbons each have their own unique characteristics. Does the industry know enough about them? What is there left to learn? Cem Sarica of The University of Tulsa and Hariprasad J. Subramani of Chevron will moderate the discussion. The panelists include Gert van Spronsen of Royal Dutch Shell, Biljana Djoric of Norske Shell, Bahman Tohidi of Heriot-Watt University, Thierry Palermo of Total, Emile Leporcher of Total, and Chris Lawrence of Schlumberger. Also on Wednesday, a morning technical session on the environment, Technical Session 34, Taking Control of Our Environment, will feature the presentation of a paper on low-impact testing of oilfield access roads.

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Around the Exhibit Floor

A roundup of technology being showcased at this year’s ATCE Viscometer Designed for Harsh Field Conditions

The Model 3330 In-Line Viscometer from Chandler Engineering provides real-time, on-location measurement of fracturing fluid viscosity. Using industry-standard Couette bob-and-rotor geometry, the 3330 meets all of the American Petroleum Institute (API) requirements for viscosity testing. The Model 3330 viscometer has a robust design and is ruggedized to withstand the harsh field conditions that fracturing crews encounter every day. In addition, the Model 3330 is easy to operate and sits on the low-pressure side of the blender, using a slip-stream flow-through sample system off the hydration tank. The Model 3330 can be quickly disassembled for cleaning after each run, and critical components can be replaced with minimal operator intervention. The Model 3330 comes with API R1-B1 geometry standard and operates at a fixed shear rate of 511 sec–1. The instrument sends a continuous measurement of viscosity and temperature to a treatment monitoring vehicle through 4–20 mA signal loops. It also provides operators with a direct, real-time readout of current viscosity from the front panel display. The instrument also is available with an optional pH probe for monitoring the allimportant pH of the fluid. Booth 1640.

Propel SSP (right) remains suspended in the fracture fluid to move easily along laterals compared with fracture sand (left) that forms a dune in the fluid, preventing adequate transport. Photo courtesy of Santrol. intervals. Propel SSP technology eliminates this proppant duning. This viscous proppant transport is more efficient than slickwater fluid systems. Engineers can plan pumping designs without certain fracture fluid additives, including guar, crosslinkers, and friction reducers. In flow-loop tests, research confirmed again how proppant drops out of slickwater fluid and piles up. In these tests, Propel SSP technology showed superior transport behavior by flowing across the apparatus without a loss in proppant concentration. In addition, this self-suspending proppant technology does not damage the proppant pack with fluid additives, resulting in maximum regained conductivity compared with 50% regained conductivity typical for guar-based fluids. Operators have conducted field trials in eight formations. Production results are pending for many wells. In the longestrunning trial, the operator has achieved 30% greater cumulative oil production vs. seven offset wells. Significantly, the technology was not affected by harsh environments. Utica formation tests in the snow and rain confirmed there were no issues with Propel SSP technology setting up before pumping. These tests verify moisture resistance until the proppant reaches the blender. Booth 1204.

Emulsified-Water-Treatment System Simplifies Discharging Chandler Engineering’s Model 3300 in-line viscometer. Photo courtesy of Ametek.

Proppant-Transport Technology Increases Hydrocarbon Production

Santrol’s Propel SSP proppant-transport technology—a new proppant category— increases hydrocarbon production by expanding drainage radius and stimulated reservoir volume, evenly distributing proppant throughout the full length of a created hydraulic fracture. The technology comprises a proprietary polymer that is wrapped around fracture sand, for example. Once placed in the fracture fluid, the polymer rapidly swells. The swelling decreases the effective specific gravity of fracture sand to 1.3 from about 2.6, enabling suspension in the fracture fluid for even distribution throughout the fracture length and height. After breaking the polymer system and upon well flowback, the proppant remains in the fracture with little to no residue. The technology was developed as a response to fracture sand and ceramic proppant prematurely falling out of fracture fluid and forming dunes that cut off productive

Operators are increasingly faced with production and fracture-water problems. The emulsified water does not easily separate under the influence of gravity and time. The increasing water cut in mature fields and tightening regulations are the main drivers for the growing challenge of treating oil-in-water emulsions. In addition, the industry is creating more emulsions in novel applications such as fracturing, well deliquification, and alkali/surfactant/ polymer water, as used in enhanced oil recovery. Installed treatment equipment often relies on time and gravity as the main forces for separation of water and hydrocarbons. For chemically stable emulsions, however, these forces are not enough. Parker Twin Filter has developed a technology based on its experience in treating oilfield waste water. TwinZapp is a new field-tested process that treats emulsified water. The process is fitted on two mobile skids as an end-of-pipe solution. The input is water from a nearatmospheric skimmer tank; the output is water that can be discharged to sea without further processing. The skids are self-sufficient and only require power and work air. TwinZapp does not need regular

Huisman’s HuisDrill 12000 drillship. Photo courtesy of Huisman. attention from operators or specialists. The technology consists of a three-step process: (1) electrical oxidation, which destabilizes the emulsions by reducing the polarity of the droplets in emulsion; (2) separation, when the freed oil floats to the top, where it is skimmed off; and (3) polishing, in which further hydrocarbon removal down to typically 5 to 10 ppm is then achieved through media filtration (continuous water flow) or cartridge (short jobs) or ultrafiltration (more absolute barrier). This takes place on a separate skid. Booth 2604.

New Drillship Reduces Drill Times and Costs

Huisman’s in-house capabilities for vessel design allows the development of solutions in which vessel and equipment are fully integrated, leading to improved designs for drilling vessels. Huisman’s new HuisDrill 12000 drillship reduces drill times 20–25% through reduction of flat times; increasing running speeds by running 180-ft drillpipe; running 22-in., 180-ft casing in open water; running 150-ft risers; automation; and use of dual rotary hang-off tables. Combined, these innovations reduce the total cost per well by as much as 20%. The costs per well are affected by drillship day rates, additional spread (supply boats and helicopters), service-company charges, and consumables (casing, mud, cement, and fuel). Although the drillship day rate is subject to downward pressure, in order to get significant reductions in well delivery costs, drill times must be reduced. The vessel is designed with both drilling and completion operations in mind and is prepared for future technologies, eliminating costly and time-consuming upgrades. Design efforts aimed at reduced maintenance of equipment and reduced downtime lead to additional cost savings; the vessel uses significantly less fuel reducing consumables and environmental effects. The drilling system is designed around a drill tower that has no V-door limitation and features two well centers, enabling concurrent operations and minimizing flat time. The vessel can hold 30 000-t variable deck load and can operate in waters up to 4000 m. A large, unobstructed flat workdeck from fore to aft of the vessel provides more than 4500 m2 of deck for drilling and completion activities. Booth 2407.

Rock Core Cleaning by Pressurized Solvent Extraction

The BÜCHI SpeedExtractor E-914/E-916 is a pressurized-solvent-extraction instrument that decreases the time necessary for whole and crushed rock core cleaning and extraction. In comparison with traditional extraction techniques, the SpeedExtractor can perform these tasks in several hours instead of several days. Up to six samples are processed in parallel at elevated temperatures and pressures. The SpeedExtractor operates at pressures up to 150 bar for increased solvent penetration and up to 200°C for increased analyte solubility. Up to four solvents can be mixed for each extraction step for ultimate versatility. Whole core samples (typical size: 1.5×3 in.) are extracted with toluene to extract all petroleum components while leaving the core intact. The remaining intact core is then analyzed for characteristics such as porosity and permeability. This extraction can be accomplished in several hours. In whole-core analysis, the extracted petroleum is not of interest. In this case, the extract from each cell can be collected in one waste container for minimal solvent handling. Instead of discarding the solvent and extract, the mixture is pooled from several extractions and recovered using an industrial rotary evaporator. In contrast with the core-cleaning procedure, compositional analysis performs testing on the materials extracted from the core. Certain markers such as hydrocarbons, water, brine, and organic matter provide information to the customer about their well site. The SpeedExtractor E-916 is used with six 40-mL extraction cells. The extracted analytes are analyzed after the solvent is concentrated to a residual volume. Booth 3226.

The SpeedExtractor pressurized-solventextraction instrument from BÜCHI. Photo courtesy of BÜCHI.

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EV launched its integrated video caliper (IVC) product to the well-intervention market, providing real-time enhanced welldiagnostics capabilities. Following successful field trials in Canada, the innovative technology has been launched globally. IVC integrates market leading qualitative and quantitative sensors in a single electric-line tool string to enable oil and gas operators to diagnose well-integrity issues effectively. IVC’s proprietary telemetry, which transmits data at speeds of up to 300 kbps on a monoconductor electric line, slows integration of streaming color video with multifinger caliper measurements. While running in the well, EV’s Optis HD electricline camera provides a real-time streaming image of the completion features and well-jewelry conditions. Both downview and sideview full-color cameras stream video at up to 25 frames/second. Full color allows effective discrimination and identification of the conditions present downhole. Once at the bottom of the completion, the 24-arm multifinger caliper is opened to provide a quantitative assessment in tubulars from 2⅜ to 7 in. At a logging speed of 10 m/min, IVC has a consistent vertical resolution of 3 mm. Clients can identify and repair problems quickly, saving time and money and reducing risk in the recovery of assets. Booth 2922.

Thru Tubing Solutions’ F5 Downhole Drilling Motor. Photo courtesy of Thru Tubing Solutions.

Predictive Device Prevents Deposition Issues

The Endurance Hydraulic Screen from Darcy Technologies simplifies well completions and reduces personnel requirements. Photo courtesy of Darcy Technologies. the most challenging drilling operations and the most hostile environments in the industry. The power section is capable of handling high flow rates without a significant increase in pressure, thus allowing for increased annular velocities and better returns. This proprietary design eliminates the high-fatigue areas common in many motor designs, giving the F5 high torque capabilities. The use of premium components gives it a longer service life (more than 200 hours) than its predecessors. Booth 1637.

Ensemble-Based History Matching Links Geologists, Engineers

EV’s integrated video caliper provides real-time enhanced well-diagnostics capabilities. Photo courtesy of EV.

Downhole Drilling Motor Offers Heavy-Duty Performance

Thru Tubing Solutions (TTS) has redesigned key components in its milling assembly to maximize the probability of success and to efficiently complete the longer horizontal wells commonly being drilled today. With longer laterals and an increase in the number of plugs being drilled, tool performance is essential in the completion phase of these wells. Being able to handle the extreme operating conditions with aggressive extended-reach tools also plays a vital role in completing these operations in a single run. One such redesigned tool is TTS’ heavy-duty F5 Downhole Drilling Motor, built for extreme durability and maximum torque. The F5 sealed-bearing section has been engineered to outlast

so savings can be realized on boat, helicopter, deck, and bed space. Options for selective production and injection and shutoff capability in one system give the operator control throughout the lifecycle of the well. The Endurance Hydraulic Screen combines operational simplicity with completion strength and control, differentiating it from traditional methods of sand control, and is suitable for remote and environmentally sensitive locations. The applications are widespread; it is designed for mature reservoirs to new frontiers, from deepwater and shallow reservoirs to extreme high-pressure/high-temperature environments, with benefits extending to heavy-oil, multilateral, and injector wells. Booth 1545.

Since the late 1980s and early 1990s, the industry has been working on developing systems that can generate and simulate multiple reservoir models in an automated fashion. The objective is to reduce the reliance on one single reservoir model and achieve a greater and more-accurate understanding of reservoir-modeling uncertainties and to greatly simplify the integration of both dynamic and static data (i.e., history matching). In its ResX solution, Resoptima has chosen to adopt the ensemble Kalman-based algorithms for this purpose, an approach that is widely used in numerous fields such as the car industry, oceanography, and weather forecasting. With the ensemble-based approach, there is a natural link between geologists and engineers, which can greatly improve how teams collaborate, building the range models with static and dynamic properties populated. Each model realization is geologically sound and represents one possible outcome of the various modeling choices. Hundreds of uncertainties are captured and taken forward to the history-matching stage. This results in a set of reservoir models that are geologically consistent and that honor the dynamic production data that ultimately leads to improved predictability. ResX’s automated workflow streamlines the process of movement from geological modeling (structural modeling, grid building, facies modeling, petrophysical modeling, and water-

saturation modeling), conditioning on static input data (i.e., seismic and well logs) to flow simulation and dynamic data conditioning. The application of an ensemble-based approach through ResX allows users to simplify and improve the integration of dynamic data, thus improving the reliability of their reservoir models for future predictions. Furthermore, it adds the ability to quantify the uncertainty in future production forecasts and simplifies the use of multiple reservoir models as key input to investment and operational decisions. Booth 2147.

Gravel-Pack Replacement System Reduces Risk, Complexity

Darcy Technologies’ Endurance Hydraulic Screen is specifically designed to replace gravel packs in oil and gas wells. It delivers pump-free installation, 360° wellbore support, and sand and flow control without the associated logistics, risk, and complexity. The screen system uses a unique hydraulic-activation method to remove the annular gap between the screen and open hole and provides positive wellbore support. This reduces the deformation of the near-wellbore and prevents the mobilization of problematic sands, preventing screen plugging, removing erosion concerns, and protecting longterm performance. Deployed in a single trip by simply applying internal pressure to the screen from surface, the system is hydraulically set against the wellbore and support is maintained once activation is complete. The result is an increased capability to withstand geomechanical loads during the life of the well. Qualification testing has proven that the screen design can provide mechanical collapse strength beyond American Petroleum Institute base-pipe ratings, with an International Organization for Standardization hydrauliccollapse rating of 6,000 psi achieved. The screen system simplifies well completions and reduces installation duration and personnel requirements on site. There is no requirement for specialist pumping crews or additional downhole tools during activation,

The Flowrox Deposition Watch is a predictive device that allows its operators to address deposition issues well before these reach critical levels that can cause downtime or costly damage. Crude oil contains a variety of molecular substances that challenge oil and gas companies with the buildup of paraffin wax when it crystallizes into a solid deposition on the pipe wall, along with the accumulation of asphaletene, which can reduce the fluid flow or plug pipes and valves. The deposition of paraffin wax and asphaltenes is a common reason for a major decrease in production and revenue in oil wells because these affect valves, pumps, and pipelines along with other pipeline components critical to the fluidcontrol process. The Flowrox Deposition Watch allows better decision-making with respect to the addition of depositiontreatment chemicals and the frequency of their use, as well as to disassemble a pipeline for manual cleaning. The cost of an unplanned shutdown because of deposits has the potential to become catastrophic, and thus engineers and operators tend to overfeed chemicals to cleanse depositions or schedule more physical cleanings of the pipeline than necessary. The instrument uses electrical-capacitance tomography (ECT) to create real-time images of the inside of the piping and uses ECT also to detect the differences in permittivity of the various substances found in the piping system. In addition, the Deposition Watch uses a patented algorithm that creates a 3D image of the process fluid in the piping and generates trend data and shows free volume inside the pipe and the growth rate of the deposition growth over time. Ultimately, the Flowrox Deposition Watch can show the deposition thickness, deposition profile, growth rates over time, composition, and free-flow volume, all of which allow engineers to understand areas where pipes are prone to deposits. Booth 3213.

Flowrox’ Deposition Watch allows effective chemical-deposition treatment. Photo courtesy of Flowrox.

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A roundup of technology being showcased at this year’s ATCE Rig-Free Technology Revitalizes Mature Fields

As offshore oilfields continue to mature, operators are looking for solutions that can cost-effectively revitalize aging wells, extend production, and maximize recovery. Today, more companies are considering late-stage interventions that allow them to recomplete mature wells and continue producing while avoiding the expense of a plug-and-abandonment operation and the permanent shutting down of a well’s production. Weatherford’s Rig-Free technology provides a solution that reliably achieves well-intervention objectives without using expensive rigs, workover units, and crane-based methods, making it economically feasible to prolong production and offset abandonment costs in mature fields. This solution replaces costly jack-up and workover rigs and is supported by the expertise of a global team of specialists dedicated to late-stage intervention and well abandonment. Weatherford’s proprietary Rig-Free pulling and jacking units (PJUs) bridge the gap between rig- and cranebased methods. The rigless design allows placement on offshore platforms that do not have existing derrick systems, have downgraded their derrick systems, or have damaged derrick systems. With their small footprint, these PJUs have the ability to work in limited space while providing capabilities similar to those of a full-blown rig. There are currently two versions of the PJU. Both versions integrate a variety of Weatherford intervention services and products, including tubular running services, wireline, cutting tools, cementing, pumping equipment, and fishing and reentry services to recomplete wells and return them to production at an economically sustainable rate. The Rig-Free heavy-duty PJU has the ability to pull 220,000 lbm in 60-ft increments, has a jacking capability of 600,000 lbm, and facilitates the support of 10,000 ft of 3½-in. drillpipe. The Rig-Free light-duty PJU can pull 35,000 lbm and jack 1,000,000 lbm. Both units can skid from well to well in approximately 1 hour, even with both racks full of pipe, saving time, increasing efficiency, and enhancing safety. Booth 1607.

Subsea Operating Systems Boost Efficiency, Safety

The SenTURIAN Family subsea-landingstring electrohydraulic operating systems developed by Schlumberger provide a reliable verification of subsea-equipment

functionality and well control in constantly changing weather conditions. The systems’ modular and compact assembly; a simply configured umbilical, single-lift design; and easy maintenance enable customers to increase operations efficiency throughout the exploration, appraisal, and development phases, saving up to 50% of rig time during systems’ handling. With multiple programmable emergency shutdown modes, a full well-isolation and landing-string disconnect can take less than 15 seconds, thus bringing protection to personnel, the environment, and investments in the event of emergency. The systems use operating envelopes of up to 17,500-psi bore pressures and 1,200,000-lbf tensile ratings, facilitating a range of operating requirements. This allows for standardization of subsea equipment and operating procedures for the full spectrum of operating conditions around the world. TheSenTURIAN Family systems feature an operating system for subsea test trees that has universal pressure-balanced accumulators that automatically facilitate hydrostatic forces regardless of water depth. The design provides optimum efficiency within a low-maintenance compact assembly. The SenTURIAN Family systems can run in conjunction with Schlumberger’s Quartet downhole-reservoir-testing system enabled by Muzic wireless telemetry as well as subsea gauge carriers for monitoring of critical seabed parameters, thus enabling operators to confirm subsea and downhole-equipment functionality and obtain downhole pressure and temperature data in real time. Booth 1627.

Integrated Management Approach Improves Longevity

While there is an intense focus on reducing operational expenses and improving recovery from oil and gas assets, automated field management has been slow to incorporate leading technology and best practices. Sluggish backend processes, confusing interfaces, manual workarounds, and isolated architectures are commonplace in digital production-management systems. Baker Hughes is introducing its asset-decision solutions, an integrated productionmanagement approach that combines leading technology, accomplished experts, and flexible commercial strategies to help customers balance production rates and costs while improving ultimate recovery. Production intelligence can be collected

Weatherford’s Rig-Free light-duty pulling and jacking unit. Photo courtesy of Weatherford.

By requiring significantly lower pressure at surface, Schlumberger’s SenTURIAN pressurebalanced accumulators reduce setup time and health, safety, and environment risk of handling pressurized gas at surface. Photo courtesy of Schlumberger. and processed in real time, analyzed, and shared across experts and assets to improve production performance. The goal of every engagement is to build an effective production lifecycle based on intelligent systems, analytics, and realtime expertise that increases asset value while mitigating risks to personnel, the environment, and the overall operation. The solution set uses intelligent systems to connect downhole and surface tools and equipment with advanced sensors, controls, and software applications. The backbone of the solution is an elastically scalable production software platform built on engineering experience; industrystandards consortium collaboration; and effective production-data acquisition, control, and communication. This highvolume data hub manages massive data loads using intelligent compression and provides contextualization so that information can be directed and accessed where it is needed. Even with all the data in place, fully optimized production management demands synchronization across disciplines. The company’s assetdecision solutions bring together experts from discrete disciplines and enable them to share knowledge in support of enhancing production assurance. The solutions currently include services for monitoring, managing, and optimizing electrical-submersible-pumping systems and offer a strong backend interface for capturing, managing, and using fiber-optic data. Booth 2000.

Casing-Test Sleeve Allows Pressure Testing Without Intervention

A strong commitment to safety drives many operators to conduct casing-integrity tests before stimulation of the wellbore. Experience in North American markets indicates the need for an innovative solution that can eliminate the need for intervention and allow operators the ability to achieve a true casing-integrity test. Traditional completion toe sleeves require activation pressure higher than the casing-test value, which, in turn, invalidates the results of the casingintegrity test. Alternatively, traditional toe sleeves require more complex processes to achieve the test. Halliburton introduced its RapidStart Initiator casing-test sleeve, which helps eliminate the need to exceed casing-test pressures to open the tool, while accomplishing pressure testing of the casing and establishing a fluid flow path, all without intervention. This saves time and the cost of the intervention to achieve the same goal. The RapidStart Initiator casing-test sleeve can be used with cement or openhole isolation packers, in plug-andperforate applications, or fracture-sleeve completions. The sleeve provides at least a 30-minute casing-integrity test before opening. It also provides a means for the pressure test to be interrupted and then resumed without detriment to the test and sleeve operation. This allows the operator time to correct issues in the system and then once again pressure up and obtain a positive casing-integrity test. Booth 2321.

Halliburton’s RapidStart Initiator casing-test sleeve allows pressure tests to be interrupted and then resumed without detriment to the test and sleeve operation. Photo courtesy of Halliburton.

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