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PTTC /LA-SJV SPE July Workshops
Downhole Water Control
Long Beach, July 27, 2010
The Grand, 4101 E. Willow Street
Bakersfield, July 28, 2010
Petroleum Club, 5060 California Ave, Suite 1200,
The West Coast Petroleum Technology Transfer Council (PTTC) and the Los Angeles and San Joaquin Valley SPE will jointly sponsor workshops July 27 and July 28 in Long Beach and Bakersfield.
COURSE DESCRIPTION
This downhole water control course will cover:
- Mechanisms of excess water or gas production and poor sweep in matrix and fractured reservoirs.
- Diagnosis of excess water or gas production mechanisms.
- Factors that affect selection of appropriate candidate wells for water or gas shut off in producers and sweep improvement treatment of injectors.
- Established technologies for water and gas shutoff and conformance improvement.
- Which technologies work best for given problem types (traditional methods plus chemical methods).
- Misconceptions about what water and gas shutoff chemicals can do; where they will and won't work.
- Status of emerging water and gas shut off and sweep improvement technologies.
- Case histories relevant to water problems in California reservoirs
COURSE OUTLINE
8:00 am Registration
8:30 Downhole Water Control: Dr. Robert Lane Texas A&M University
- The oilfield fluid cycle and the impacts of excess water production
- Mechanisms of excess fluid production and cycling
- Determining mechanisms of water and gas influx using existing data
- Additional diagnostics, with emphasis on low cost approaches
12:00 Lunch
- Technical and economic issues of established and emerging technologies;
- Mechanical methods and cement;
- Downhole separation methods;
- Polymer gel technologies: what they do best (and what they do not!); design, placement and field QC
- Case histories of field work addressing problems relevant to the local region
3:00 Adjourn
Registration and Payment
Registration fee of $120 includes workshop, materials, refreshments, and lunch.
Register and make payment online using PayPal on the PTTC West Coast website.
OR
Contact PTTC West Coast, 5100 California Ave Suite 200, Bakersfield, CA 93309
Phone: PTTC West Coast at (661) 635-0559
Email: pttcwestcoast@ccogp.org
INSTRUCTOR
Dr. Robert Lane has extensive experience in both academia and industry. He spent 15 years working with international operators in research and field operations engineering positions. He has experience in formation damage, producer and injector stimulation, remedial cementing, coiled-tubing workovers and water and gas shutoff in Alaska. He also spent eight years as an independent consultant to national and international operators solving excess water and gas production problems. He has been an SPE Distinguished Lecturer (1999 2000) on chemical methods of water and gas shut off. Dr. Lane currently holds the Aghorn Energy Development Professorship in Petroleum Engineering at Texas A&M University, College Station.
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