GREETINGS FROM THE CHAIRMAN
Did you attend the National SPE convention in Denver? I hear it was well
attended, I was pleasantly surprised to find a greater than expected attendance
from California. Headquarters in Richardson wanted a report on the unique
format of our Environmental Study Group forum. They had heard of the popularity
of that group and asked for an oral report. Sam Sarem represented our Section.
Check out Sam's report on the Section Officers Workshop.
Speaking of innovation, we are now fully online with our LASPE home page.
Use the site to check on local events, for details on our own Western Regional
Meeting, and for links to other interesting sites.
I had heard of an Internet site mentioning early termination of some offshore
oil fields in the Santa Barbara Channel. For details, I logged on to LASPE,
jumped to the SPE International home page, then searched various industry
links. Did I find what I was looking for? No - but I sure found a lot of
oil related sites that can provide useful information. Since I didn't check
out any games or frivolous sites, I never felt guilty for using company
time for this research. Using the Internet gives new meaning to Net Oil
.
Our section recently approved the funding of four scholarships for 1997.
Each award will be worth $1600 to a deserving student. The Los Angeles Basin
Section has historically supported students at USC and Cal Poly Pomona.
Pomona has notified us that they will no longer have an emphasis in petroleum
engineering. However, Long Beach State has just started a program emphasizing
petroleum engineering. So we can now help a new department with scholarship
and moral support. Two of our members, Ed Meyer and Wes Wisdom have already
acted as advisors to the department.
As we enter the holiday season (can you believe the time is near?), we have
a lot to be thankful about: Oil prices have shown a surprising robustness
over the entire year; our industry appears stronger and more stable than
in years past; there is more local activity and higher morale; the election
is almost over; and we can soon get on with the business of gift shopping.
Have a good Thanksgiving.
Mitch Findlay
Chairman
PETROLEUM TECHNOLOGY FORUM
Bruce Hesson, Chairman, Div. of Oil and Gas, Dept. of Conservation - (310)
590-5311
Ron Behrens, Program Chairman, Chevron Petroleum Technology Co. (310) 694-7813
Ed Santiago, Treasurer, Div. of Oil and Gas, Dept. of Conservation - (310)
590-5311
John Thompson, Secretary, Southern California Gas Co. - (310) 578-2689
LUNCH MEETING
DATE: December 3, 1996
TIME: Registration: 11:15 a.m.
Lunch: 11:45 a.m.
Speaker: 12:15 p.m.
Finish: 1:00 p.m.
PLACE: Long Beach Petroleum Club
3636 Linden Ave., Long Beach
Reservations not required.
PRICE: $15.00 - $5.00/students
SPEAKER: MR. MATT HIKULICH, SPE DISTINGUISHED LECTURER
TOPIC:
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ENVIRONMENTAL & STUDY GROUP FORUM
CO-CHAIRS
Vivian K. Bust, Consultant, (714) 786-1185
Scott Hara, Tidelands Oil Production Co.,
(310) 436-9918
Ed Mayer, Consultant, (818) 796-4437
Allan Spivak, Duke-Intera, (310) 979-4777
Warren Hildenbrandt, Consultant, (818) 992-0477
THE WEST COAST PETROLEUM TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER COUNCIL
Iraj Ershaghi, USC, Regional PTTC Director (213) 740-0321
Hooshang Kharabaf , USC, Manager WCPTTC (213) 740-8076
Chris Hall , Drilling and Prod. Co. , PAG Chairman, (310) 328-2405
Mark Kapelke, Tidelands Oil Production Co. , PAG Vice Chairman, (213) 436-9918
WORKSHOP
DATE: Monday, November 25, 1996
TIME: 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
PLACE: Long Beach Petroleum Club
3636 Linden Avenue
Long Beach (310) 427-7966
TITLE: PROBLEM IDENTIFICATION
SPONSORS: SPE, PTTC AND CIPA
PROGRAM
SUMMARY: Five presentations in the morning, luncheon and breakout sessions
with brainstorming on important issues.
WHO SHOULD
ATTEND: Operators, managers,
engineers, geologists,
environmental professionals,
consultants and other
professionals
AGENDA
9:30-11:30 a.m. MODERATOR ED MAYER
Case Studies of Successful Horizontal and Multilateral Drilling
Dr. George Cooper, UC Berkeley
Recent Advances in Estimation of Porosity and Detection of Hydrocarbons
in Cased Holes
Dr. Dan Moos, Stanford University
Novel Sand Consolidation Completion Technique Using Alkaline Steam Injection
in the Tar Zone, Wilmington Field
Julius Mondragon, Tidelands Oil Production Co.
Development and Operations Under Environmental
Constraints
Paul Mount, Chief of Mineral Resources Management Division, State Lands
Commission
Multimedia and Petroleum Tech Transfer
Mark Kapelke, Vice President, Tidelands Oil Production Co. and The PAG Vice
Chairman
11:45 LUNCHEON
Chris Hall, PAG Chairman
PTTC and Oil and Gas Producers
Dan Kramer, Executive Director , CIPA
"Producers Point of View"
1:30-3:00 WORKSHOP SESSIONS
Q and A on Environmental Regulations -
Discussion Leaders: Bruce Hesson, CADOGGR and Paul Mount, SLC
Point/Counter Point on
Horizontal/Multilateral Drilling
Discussion Leaders: George Cooper, UCB and Eric Upchurch
Point/Counter Point on Estimation of Oil Behind Pipe
Dan Moos, Stanford and Scott Walker Tidelands Oil Production Co.
New Interfaces for the On-line Calif. Oil and Gas Database
Discussion Leaders: Jeff Waggoner, LLNL and Shahed Meshkati, USC
3:00-3:30 SUMMARY AND WRAP-UP, Iraj Ershaghi, USC
Reports from workshops
Upcoming events
3:30 ADJOURN
Registration fee is $25 and includes refreshments, luncheon and the workshop
materials. Because of space limitations, early registration is recommended.
To reserve a place, call either Ed Mayer at (310) 624-3377 or PTTC at (213)740-8076
and leave your name and phone number by November 20, 1996.
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SECTION OFFICERS WORKSHOP DURING 1996 ATCE IN DENVER
This year's Section Officers Workshop had an innovative format. It was started
by three panelists reviewing the details of the best practices of their
Sections: Hans Lorup of Stavanger Petroleum discussed their highly professional
Newsletter; Roy Williamson of the Permian Section talked about their newly
created Internet/Home Page and I talked about the Programming in our Section.
I highlighted our very successful Gem sessions (those presented by our Environmental
and Study Group Forum) that have improved the attendance by 178% during
the past two years with an average attendance of 43 and a high of 110. In
addition, I spoke about our last three crowd-getting Community Relations
Banquets and our upcoming plan to have a geologist from the White House
as Community Night after-dinner speaker. The presentations were followed
by many questions and answers. As many as 20 questions were asked about
our programming, mostly on the format used, how we picked our topics and
speakers and how much we charged. While the talks about the Newsletter and
Internet were very interesting, I believe our Section is doing as well as
they are. Nevertheless, there were some good suggestions that will be passed
on to our Newsletter Editor and Webmaster.
Next, Region Director Mike Gatens reviewed the following SPE Vision and
Mission statements and urged the section chairmen to help SPE achieve these
goals:
SPE VISION: To be the preeminent technical society of the worldwide oil,
gas and related industries in the provision of services to its professionals.
MISSION STATEMENT: To provide the means for collection, dissemination, and
exchange of technical information concerning the development of oil and
gas resources, subsurface fluid flow, and production of other materials
through wellbores for the public benefit; and to provide opportunities through
its programs for interested (and qualified ) individuals to maintain and
upgrade their individual technical competence in the aforementioned areas
for the public benefit.
He then introduced another SPE Director, Laura Hyman, who discussed SPE's
new Scribe Program. That program is established to give financial support
for dissemination of the best local section practices to other sections
through audio and video taping of the activity and making them available
to all other sections. I asked Laura if they would consider videotaping
our 'Gem' sessions during the WRM in June. The answer was a definite yes.
However, they need a detailed funding request from us in the near future.
Then the audience was broken into small discussion groups, each with an
appointed Scribe, in a number of tables around the room. The Scribes recorded
the discussions and briefly reported the results to the entire group. The
suggestions will be discussed at our next local section meeting.
Next, Leanne Helgaas, SPE Sections Affair Manager thanked the large audience
and the speakers and panelists for their participation and interest.
Sam Sarem,
Vice Chairman
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ATTENTION
You can email your articles for this Newsletter to: colbdop@ix.netcom.com
, Attn: Carol Rawnsley. This net address is for Newsletter articles only!
AS HEARD IN THE PATCH
Downhole video logging has been used extensively for nearly two years at
Stocker Resources, Inc. In the L.A. Basin. To date, over 150 surveys have
been performed, resulting in quite a large video library as well as valuable
information from which to make daily well work decisions.
Nearly 50% of the video logging has been associated with evaluation of shut-in
wells for return to production. For these wells, the tool is used to assess
general casing integrity as well as production potential to identify oil
and water entries. There have been several instances of increasing the oil
rate and decreasing the WOR in wells which have been returned to production
after doing work based on video log results.
Casing evaluations (e.g., for sand entry, suspected casing damage) comprise
40% of the remaining video log work at Stocker and fishing operations include
10% of the work. To date, a 70% success rate of obtaining a good video log
has been achieved, which is outstanding, considering the amount of prep-work
often needed in order to provide a clear picture. Future video logging enhancements
which have been recognized and suggested by Stocker include increasing the
higher end of the temperature tolerance to log deeper wells and combining
a spinner tool to the camera assembly to detect fluid rates.
Terry Woods,
Editor
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PACIFIC ENERGY ASSOCIATION
NOVEMBER WORKSHOP
DATE: Wednesday, November 6, 1996
TIME: 12:00 - 4:00 P.M.
COST: $60.00, includes course materials and beverages.
PLACE: Elk's Lodge, 4101 E. Willow St., Long Beach
TOPIC: Proactive Reliability Improvement Techniques
Please reserve your placement by calling the P.E.A. Office at (310) 594-8729,
as soon as possible.
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