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May 2001
Los Angeles Basin
Section Newsletter
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Letter from the Chair . . . John Jepson
As we are coming closer to our major fund
raising event, the SPE Charity Golf Classic in June, I want to take this
opportunity to tell you about one of the programs we have been funding. But
first we need to give several people a well deserved thanks.
Last month we had another outstanding barbecue
at Weatherford in
Carson. A hardy thank you goes to Roy Kassinger and his crew for going
above and beyond. The tri-tip and beans were the best I ever tasted. Thanks
also to Ed Santiago for planning and organizing the event. Ed was responsible
for obtaining most of the major raffle prizes from the Hyatt, Westin and
Marriott Hotels. Ed, another outstanding job! Thanks also to John Thompson for the donation of a
gift basket and a gift certificate from the Southern California Gas Company.
An SPE thanks to all those who donated prizes and attended the event.
A very important program the Los Angeles Section
is funding is the Future Scientists and Engineers of America (FSEA) at Maple
Paine Elementary School in Yorba Linda.
Future
Scientists and Engineers of America (FSEA) is a national after-school program
that promotes technology, science and engineering in grades 4-12. The primary
mission of FSEA is to interest, motivate and educate young people in
technology, math, engineering and science. FSEA Chapters are made of 20-30
students and are sponsored by businesses, professional societies and community
organizations. The goal is to establish chapters in all elementary, junior
high and high schools through-out the nation
Dr.
Sam Sarem, LA Basin Section past Chair and Dr. Lyman Handy, past Chair of USC
Petroleum Department are the mentors for this program at Maple Paine.
The
LA Basin Section FSEA Committee is now working to create at least five
petroleum engineering related projects for FSEA. If you are interested in
helping develop petroleum related science projects for distribution to FSEA
chapters throughout the nation contact Sam Sarem at sam4iprc@aol.com or at (714) 692-1198.
For more information about Future Scientists and
Engineers of America look at their website at www.fsea.org.
Please
plan to join us on May 8 for our last SPE Distinguished Lecturer of the year,
Chris Wright (announcement below). See you there.
As always, please
contact me with your ideas or concerns regarding the Section. Looking forward
to hearing from you.
John Jepson
Section Chairperson
Students
from Long Beach International School enjoyed the SPE Easter Egg Hunt on April
12. Thanks to all the SPE members who took part.
Legion of Honor Awards
Congradulation
to the following SPE members for attaining the Legion of Honor Award. The
award is given each year to the engineers that have been members for 50 years.
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John
F. Bergquist
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Richard
J. Aseltine
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Henry
J. Welge
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Joshua
M. Tharp Jr.
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Orhan
Salman
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Downs
McCloskey Jr.
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John
D. Lindner
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Don
E. Evert
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Phillip
G. Cook
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William
S. Bachman
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The
Legion of Honor Awards will be presented during the June Petroleum Forum
meeting on
June
12. Please mark it on your calender and join us.
Forum.
Pictures above are Scholarship Chairman Ted Garland, from Stocker Resources,
Professor Iraj Ershaghi, USC, award winners Juan
Anguiano, USC, Montserrat Martin, CSULB, Manuel Nuno, CSULB and John Jepson,
Section Chairperson. Not pictured are scholarship receipients Ursula Wylie and Nitesh Rastogi.
URBAN OIL FIELDS OF
LOS ANGELES
July 26
A combined field
trip for the SPE and Los Angeles Geological Society
This field trip will
introduce you to the historical oil fields of the Downtown Los Angeles. We
will visit the 100-year-old wells in the Los Angeles City oil field. Then
view the oil seeps near Wilshire Blvd. on our way to the La Brea Tar Pits
and the Salt Lake Oil Field. Lunch will be at the Farmers Market. In the afternoon
we will visit an urban oil production drillsite in the Beverly Hills Oil Field.
Estimated
cost for the trip will be $50.
For
more information contact John Jepson at jjepson@consrv.ca.gov
SPE PETROLEUM TECHNOLOGY
LUNCHEON FORUM
DATE: Tuesday, May 8, 2001
TIME: 11:30 am
– Social
12:00
pm – Lunch
12:30
pm – Presentation
PLACE: Long Beach Petroleum Club
3636
Linden Avenue
Long
Beach
COST: $15.00 General Admission,
$5.00 Students
RESERVATIONS: Not Required
SPEAKER: Chris Wright, President of Pinnacle
Technologies
TOPIC:
Unraveling the Mystery of Hydraulic
Fracture Growth: Direct Observations and Modeling Strategies
Hydraulic Fracturing has
proven to be a fruitful well stimulation technique in an ever-increasing range
of environments. Application has spread from enhancing production rates in low
permeability reservoirs to fracturing poorly consolidated high perm reservoirs,
fracturing of horizontal and deviated wellbores, fracturing of unconventional
(often naturally fractured) reservoirs, fracturing for waste disposal, etc.
While significant progress has been made in engineering hydraulic fracture
treatments, the process complexity is still alarming.
Physical models of the fracturing process have been developed to predict the
size and shape of hydraulic fractures. Production data analysis and well
testing have also been employed. However, direct observation of created fractures has been an elusive
goal that has only recently become feasible outside of research settings. This
seminar will present some conclusions drawn from direct diagnostic observations
on hundreds of hydraulic fracture treatments. The direct diagnostic
observations are mainly from downhole and surface tilt mapping, but also
include observations from tracer logging, microseismic mapping, fracture growth
into offset wellbores, and intersecting-well fracture core-throughs.
Widespread application of
direct fracture diagnostics has answered many specific questions and identified
complexities of fracture growth, but to fully exploit these findings,
predictive modeling tools must incorporate them. A fracture model is required
to evaluate economic tradeoffs of alternative stimulation or completion
designs, in other words, to predict how a particular fracture design will grow.
The seminar will conclude with some comments on how to enhance or
“calibrate” our existing models with direct diagnostic observations
of fracture growth in specific environments.
Biography:
Chris is the founder and
president of Pinnacle Technologies. Chris has spent the last 14 years working
on various aspects of
hydraulic fracturing – including technology development, consulting and
services, and teaching numerous courses. He was co-chairman of the 1998 SPE
Forum on Hydraulic Fracture Diagnostic Methods; and has received various awards
for his contributions to hydraulic fracture technology. Before founding
Pinnacle in 1992, he led the development of the Fracpro system at Resources
Engineering Systems (RES).
For additional information, please contact:
John
Jepson, DOGGR (714) 816-6847, chair@laspe.org,
Tom Hoy, Long Beach Dept. of Oil Properties (562) 570-
3943, tohoy@ci.long-beach.ca.us
Brennan Campbell, THUMS (562) 624-3536,
Brennan_Campbell@oxy.com
Thais Montenegro de McComb, (714)962-1723, tmontenegro@prodigy.net
John Thompson, The Gas Company
(310) 578-2689, jathomp12@earthlink.net
Chris Wright
