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Continuing Education Program
May 25-26 at Anaheim Convention Center, Anaheim Convention Center Room 303

The LA Section of SPE Western North-American Region and West Coast Petroleum Technology Transfer Council are proud to present our Continuing Education Program on May 25 and May 26, at the Anaheim Convention Center, Room 303, 800 West Katella Avenue, Anaheim, CA 92802 (www.anaheimconventioncenter.com). The workshops are associated with our 2010 SPE Western Regional Meeting to be held jointly with the Pacific Section AAPG and Geological Society of America next door at the Anaheim Marriott Hotel, 700 Convention Way, from May 27-29. The LASPE Technical Program can be found at www.spe.org/events/wrm/ and conference information and registration at http://www.geosociety.org/sectdiv/cord/2010mtg/registration.htm.

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Registration and Payment.
Registration includes workshop, materials, refreshments, and lunch.
Advance registration required and seating is limited and based on when payment received. Easiest way to reserve a seat is by email. Please provide your full contact information in correspondence, including name, company, address, work and cell phones, and email address. PTTC will send you a payment form. Payment can be made by check to “PTTC”, Visa or MasterCard only.
To register contact:
PTTC West Coast, 5100 California Ave Suite 200, Bakersfield, CA 93309-0726
Phone: PTTC West Coast at (661) 635-0559
Email your information to:pttcwestcoast@cccogp.org

PROPOSED WORKSHOPS and SCHEDULE

May 25 morning: 8am - Noon
1. Petroleum Geology for the Non-Geologist - Janice Gillespie: Professor, CSU Bakersfield - Cost $100

2. Economic and Financial Aspects of Petroleum Property Evaluation - Richard Miller : Richard J. Miller and Associates - Cost $100

May 25 afternoon: 1pm - 5pm
3. Introduction to Open Hole Logging - Janice Gillespie: Professor, CSU Bakersfield - Cost $100
 
4. Oil & Gas Permitting, CEQA and Environmental Issues - Sam Sarem: President, Improved Petroleum Recovery Consultants, Grace Brandt, California Division of Oil and Gas, and Joe Hower, Environ Corp. - Cost $100

May 26 full day: 8am - 5pm
5. Thermal Recovery - Anthony R. Kovscek, Louis Castanie: Stanford Universityr
Full day - Cost $200

May 26th morning: 8am - Noon
6. Introduction to Petroleum Engineering - Mason Medizade: Professor, Cal Poly SLO - Cost $100

7. Facility Engineering for Non-Facilities Engineers - Lisa Denke: Project Manager, DCCK Engineering - Cost $100

May 26 afternoon: 1pm - 5pm
8. Streamline Simulation for Reservoir Surveillance and Flood Management - Marco Thiele: Streamsim Technologies - Cost $100

9. Drilling Engineering 101 - Val Lerma: President, Orchard Petroleum - Cost $100

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Workshop Details

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Petroleum Geology for the Non-Geologist
Janice Gillespie, California State University, Bakersfield
This course is designed to help non-geologists in petroleum-related fields understand just what all these geologists are talking about!  We’ll discuss why oil is found in some areas and not in others, what kinds of tools geologists use to assess the petroleum potential and petroleum reserves in an area and what factors they consider when deciding where to drill.  During the class, you will work as part of a team of “geologists” that will come up with several “prospects” for drilling.  By the end of the day, we hope that you will understand that oil is truly a limited resource and takes considerable skill to find and develop. 

Course Outline

Oil and Gas—sources and maturation

Composition—CH as gas vs. liquid
Properties—light vs. heavy, sweet vs. sour
Sources
Source maturation—the kitchen

Rock Types—reservoirs and seals

Sedimentary Rocks—
Porosity and Permeability—logs and cores
What kinds of rocks act as reservoirs?
Where do they form? 
Basins
Non Marine
Shallow Marine
Deep Marine
Facies Changes

Exercise Part 1—learn to interpret an ancient landscape using

SP logs and sand thickness maps

Traps

Folds, role of seismic
Structure contour maps and fluid contacts
Faults
Stratigraphic traps
Finding oil on electric logs

Exercise Part 2—Structure maps and prospect generation using Part 1 sand maps

Instructor
Dr. Janice Gillespie Dept. of Geology, California State University, Bakersfield, CA. Responsible for supervising research projects and teaching upper division and graduate-level courses in petroleum, ground water and GIS (ArcGIS, GeoGraphix, LandMark). Served as department chair from 2003 to present. Chair responsibilities include scheduling, staffing and budgeting for both Physics and Geology departments. Janice received her PhD in Geology from the University of Wyoming, Master Degree in Geology from South Dakota School of Mines, and her Bachelor Degree in Geology from Bemidji State University.

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Economic and Financial Aspects of Petroleum Property Evaluation
Richard Miller, Richard J. Miller & Associates, Inc.
This course will examine selected issues in the evaluation of oil and gas properties with a
focus on economic and financial considerations which have impacts on an evaluation.

Course Outline

What is oil and gas property evaluation?

Application of Geology, Engineering and Economics
Purposes and Uses of property/project evaluation

Economic Aspects of Evaluation

Product Prices
Operating Costs
Production and Other Taxes
Capital Expenditures, Scheduling and Budgeting
Sources of Funding
Regulatory Costs and Constraints

Financial Considerations

Comparative Methods of valuation
Sources and Application of Discount rates and other

Comparative Tools

Should I Just Ignore the equity?

Instructor
Mr. Miller is an Accredited Senior Appraiser (ASA) with a speciality in Oil and Gas
Property appraisal. He holds a BS in Petroleum Engineering (1967) from the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology and holds MS (1970) and MBA (1976) degrees from the University of Southern California.
Mr. Miller began his career as a petroleum engineer with Texaco, Inc. in California and Trinidad, West Indies. He was later employed by James A. Lewis Engineering and United California Bank. Mr. Miller founded Richard J. Miller & Associates, Inc. in 1978. The firm provides oil, gas and geothermal property evaluation services to a wide range of clients in the U.S and Canada. Richard J. Miller & Associates, Inc. specializes in the appraisal of oil and gas producing properties primarily for ad valorem tax and estate tax.
Mr. Miller is the author of numerous technical papers on petroleum property appraisal and particularly the development of market valuation criteria such as discount rate and is the author of a book section on oil property evaluation. In addition to being a member of ASA and AAPG, Mr. Miller is a former chairman of the Los Angeles Basin section of the Society of Petroleum Engineers and was the national President of the Society of Petroleum Evaluation Engineers in 2000.


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Introduction to Open Hole Logging
Janice Gillespie, California State University, Bakersfield
This course is for those who are interested in learning how to read and do simple interpretations with basic open hole wireline logs.   Emphasis will be on older logs that are common in mature California basins.  The types of logs covered are resistivity, spontaneous potential (SP), sonic, gamma, density and neutron.  Interpretations will include:  
Recognizing the presence of gas, oil and salt water
Using quick look analysis to identify potential producing zones
Estimating reservoir quality
Estimating water/oil saturation using a simple Archie Equation
Short exercises will be included as part of the course so be sure to bring a calculator that does exponents (for Archie's Equation).
Attendants will also receive the workbook “Well Logging Methods”, Publisher University of Texas.  

Course Outline

Borehole environment and log header and scales
Electrical logs-Resistivity and SP
Radioactive logs-GR, Neutron, Density
Water saturations using Archie’s equation
Final exercises
           

Instructor
Dr. Janice Gillespie Dept. of Geology, California State University, Bakersfield, CA. Responsible for supervising research projects and teaching upper division and graduate-level courses in petroleum, ground water and GIS (ArcGIS, GeoGraphix, LandMark). Served as department chair from 2003 to present. Chair responsibilities include scheduling, staffing and budgeting for both Physics and Geology departments. Janice received her PhD in Geology from the University of Wyoming, Master Degree in Geology from South Dakota School of Mines, and her Bachelor Degree in Geology from Bemidji State University.
 

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 Oil & Gas Permitting, CEQA and Environmental Issues
Sam Sarem: President, Improved Petroleum Recovery Consultants; Grace Brandt, California Division of Oil and Gas; Joe Hower, Environ Corp.
This class is designed to discuss oil and gas permitting in California and the CEQA process. Environmental issues addressing California producers will be discussed including environmental solutions.

Course Outline

The Environmental Effects of the Oil Industry:

Pollution Management (water, waste & air emissions)
Pollution Control
Pollution Prevention

California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA):

CEQA Basics
CEQA Process
CEQA Exemptions
CEQA Decisions

DOGGR permitting process:

Laws & Regulations
Well Bonding
Well Permitting Process

Instructors
Grace Plaza Brandt is an associate engineer with the Division of Oil, Gas and Geothermal Resources (Division), California Department of Conservation. She has been employed by the Division for almost twenty years. She was assigned to various engineering programs & duties as Geothermal engineer at Santa Rosa Geothermal District, Field engineer, Construction Site Review engineer, and Operations Permitting engineer. Currently, she is working as an Underground Injection Control Permitting engineer. Grace has a BS Degree in Industrial Engineering from California State University, Long Beach.

Dr. Sam Sarem, PE: President, Improved Petroleum Recovery Consultants, Yorba Linda, CA
Unocal Science and Technology, Brea, CA, 28 years, Lab and Field Research on Enhanced Oil Recovery, Computer Modeling, Pressure Transient Analysis, Pipeline Flow Improvement, Well Damage Diagnosis and Mitigation. Reservoir Engineering Manager, Staff Consultant in Production and Development Research (Highest Technical Position). Sinclair Research, Tulsa Oklahoma, 10 Years, Lab and Field Research on Fluid Flow and HC Phase Behavior near Critical Point. Sam has taught many petroleum undergraduate and graduate courses such as a recent graduate course on the Environmental Technology in the Petroleum Industry at USC. Sam is the current SPE Western North American Region Director, 2009-12.

Joe Hower, PE, DEE: Mr. Hower is the Managing Principal and Air Quality Practice Leader of ENVIRON International Corporation’s Southern California operations and is based out of Los Angeles. He has 30 years of experience in air quality management, including greenhouse gas mgmt, regulatory compliance, permitting, litigation support, expert witness work, risk mgmt, and pollution control engineering. Specific projects have ranged from Title V permit evaluations to managing the installation and start-up of multi-million dollar air pollution control systems. Joe received his MS degree in Mechanical Engineering from University of Southern California.

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Thermal Oil Recovery
Tony Kovscek, Louis Castanier, Stanford University
Steam injection, and thermal recovery in particular, is the most popular enhanced oil recovery method. This one-day course is intended to cover thermal recovery principles and practice from analytical models for vertical wells to field-scale simulation. Both steam injection and in-situ combustion methods are examined. The course consists of lecture, examples, and case studies. 

Course Outline

Heavy-oil overview: physical properties and thermal recovery processes/potential
Fundamentals of thermal recovery: viscosity versus temperature functions, and thermal expansivity of oil and rock
Fundamentals of thermal recovery: viscosity versus temperature
Analytical and semi-analytical models for evaluation of cyclic steam and steam-drive recovery efficiency.
Wellbore heat losses
Case studies of field implementation
Overview of steam assisted gravity drainage
In-situ Combustion from laboratory tests to field studies

Who should attend
This course is intended for engineers and geologists who wish to expand their knowledge of thermal recovery methods and heavy oil. Primarily a reservoir engineering viewpoint is taken. Prior experience with steam injection, in-situ combustion, and heat and mass transfer in porous media is not assumed.

Instructors
Dr. Tony Kovscek is an Associate Professor of Energy Resources Engineering and Director of the SUPRI-A project on Thermal and Unconventional Hydrocarbon Recovery. He holds PhD and BS degrees from the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Washington, respectively. 

Louis Castanier is Technical Manager of SUPRI-A. He holds PhD, ME, and BS degrees from Toulouse University. Collectively, the SUPRI-A group has contributed over 250 reports and papers on thermal and heavy oil recovery to the literature.

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Introduction to Petroleum Engineering
Mason Medizade, Petrolects, LLC
This half day intensive course discusses petroleum geology, exploration methods,  reservoir rocks, reservoir fluids, reservoir rock and fluid systems, fluid flow in porous media, types of reservoirs, reserve estimation, primary, secondary, and tertiary recoveries.

Course Outline

Reservoir Fluid Properties, Brine, Oil, and Gas
Reservoir Rock Properties, Permeability, and Porosity
Reservoir Rock and Fluid Properties, Fluid Saturations, Capillary Pressure, Relative Permeability Concept, and J Function
Fluid Flow in Porous Media, Linear, Radial Flow, Compressible, and Incompressible Flow
Oil and Gas Reservoir Classifications
Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Productions
Oil and Gas Reserve Estimation Methods
Definition of Enhanced Oil Recovery Methods, Water Injection, Gas Injection, Steam Injection, etc

Instructor
Dr. Mason Medizade has twenty five years of experience in the oil and gas industry, worldwide. His oilfield experience spans from reservoir engineering, drilling & completion, to enhanced oil recovery, and petroleum production. Specifically, he has done engineering work related to real time production monitoring, production enhancement, drilling fluids, reserve estimation, filtration, sand control, surface facility design, and reservoir management. He has been involved in consulting, research and teaching in renewable and non-renewable energy sources since 1984. Dr. Medizade is president of Petrolects, LLC. Petrolects is a petroleum engineering consulting and training services company focusing in digital oilfields.
Dr. Medizade has been a faculty member in the mechanical engineering department at Cal Poly State University in San Luis Obispo where he focuses on energy, thermodynamics and fluid mechanics. Professor Medizade has taught numerous, short courses in petroleum engineering to clients such as California Division of Oil and Gas, Petroleum Technology Transfer Council, PTTC, Texaco, NIOC, Pertamina and others. Dr. Medizade is an active member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers and many other professional societies. He has authored numerous technical papers and won different awards and certificates for his teaching and research work. He holds PhD and MS degrees from USC in petroleum engineering and BS in chemical engineering from Abadan Institute of Technology, AIT in Abadan, Iran.

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Facility Engineering for Non-Facilities Engineers
Lisa Denke,  DCCK Engineering    
This workshop will describe the flow of fluids through typical oil field facilities.  The workshop is geared for people who do not currently work in facilities, but want to become familiar with how the plants and gathering systems work.  

Course Outline

Gathering systems and testing
Oil dehydration
Water processing
Oil removal
Filtration
Softening for steam service
Steam generation
Piping

Instructor
Lisa Denke is a project manager with DCCK Engineering. Her experience includes drilling, completion, production and surface facilities engineering with Dowell Schlumberger, Texaco, Aera Energy LLC, TJ Cross Engineers, and Berry Petroleum Company. She has a BSEE from the University of Wyoming, and additional graduate work in geology at California State University, Bakersfield.

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Streamline Simulation for Reservoir Surveillance and Flood Management -
Marco Thiele, Streamsim Technologies
Streamline-based (SL) flow simulation has traditionally been viewed as a modeling approach that is complementary to other flow simulation methods. However, streamlines are also ideally suited to the much more common application of reservoir surveillance of mature floods.  Because the streamline paths themselves yield well drainage regions and well-pair allocation factors, engineers can easily reduce complex production data down to the pattern level.  Streamline based patterns then highlight areas of fluid cycling vs efficient use of injected fluids, or longer term metrics such as overall pattern sweep efficiencies.  Furthermore, knowing well pair connections and pattern efficiencies also provides the basis of flood optimization via updated well rate targets.  The elegance of a streamline-base surveillance model is that it accounts for historical flow rates, well geometry, and any level of field geology, meaning it is not subject to an engineer's "best guess" of implied patterns.  These models can be quick to build and easy to run, yet are surprisingly robust when compared with more detailed history match flow simulation models.  In fact, given the ease with which streamline-based surveillance models can be constructed, any large mature water or miscible flood should have a streamline-based surveillance model, as it is another way to interpret the production/injection data.

Course Outline

Introductory concepts of streamline simulation

Using streamlines to build surveillance models

Well Allocation Factors
Injection Efficiency and Conformance Plots
Examples

From surveillance to predictive models

Streamline-based flow simulation models
The need for history matching
Managing a flood using SL-derived data
Examples

Wrap-Up

Pros and cons of SL simulation
Other possible applications & SL-based workflows
Discussion

Instructor
Dr. Marco R. Thiele is president of Streamsim Technologies, a software company specialized in the development and application of streamline simulation technology to modern reservoir simulation practices. He is also a Consulting Professor in the Department of Energy Resource Engineering at Stanford University. He received his PhD in Petroleum Engineering from Stanford University in 1994 and his MS and BS from the University of Texas at Austin in 1989 and 1986, respectively. He is the recipient of the 1996 SPE Cedric K. Ferguson Medal, and winner of 1994 International SPE Student Paper Contest. He is an associate editor for the SPE Reservoir Evaluation and Engineering Journal, and serves on the SPE Books Committee.
He has published widely on reservoir flow modeling and application of streamline-based flow simulation to reservoir engineering, and is a frequent invited speaker on the topic at international conferences and symposiums.

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Drilling Engineering 101
Val Lerma, Orchard Petroleum
This course is designed to introduce drilling concepts to the novice. The presentation is based on the book, Applied Drilling Engineering, an SPE text book available online. Topics covered include initial preparation for drilling operations, mud, cement, bit and casing design considerations. BE SURE TO BRING A CALCULATOR TO CLASS. If you have the text book, please bring that as well. 

Course Outline

The Drilling Rig and Laying the Groundwork to Drill

People
Research
Permits
Equipment
Exercises and Discussion

Mud

Functions
Properties
Treatment and Diagnostic Tests

Solids Control Equipment and Costs                               
Exercises and Discussion

Cement
Language of Cement
Cement Additives
Types of Cementing

Exercises and Discussion

Bits

IADC Code
Rate of Penetration
Bit Grading
Economics of pulling bit
Exercises and Discussion

Casing
Types of Casing
Connectors
Design Criteria
Exercises and Discussion

Instructor
Val Lerma began her career with Chevron in 1982 as a company well site supervisor on both on and offshore drilling rigs. After 8 years at Chevron, she started her own engineering practice as Troy Consulting. Val consulted on numerous drilling, production, and reservoir engineering projects for Chevron, PXP, Aera, Venoco, and various small independent operators for LA Basin and Ventura oil fields. She joined Orchard in 2005, and became president this in 2009.
Val has participated in numerous PTTC workshops which included teaching a segment on well abandonment procedures. She has been teaching the Drilling Engineering class at USC since 2003. She has been a member of SPE since 1978, has authored and co-authored several technical papers, and served on the SPE board in Ventura. Val has BS and MS degrees in petroleum engineering from USC, and an MBA from California Lutheran University. She is also a registered professional engineer in the State of California.

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