Preliminary & Scheduled Meeting Dates [ Fall 2007 - Spring 2008 ]        

Tuesday May 13, 2008
Time:  11:30 AM
Place: Odessa Country Club, Odessa, Texas
Gold Room
Cost: $ 20.00
Section Meeting

Savio Saldanha

WellDynamics’ Flow Control

Field testing is now underway by a major operator on WellDynamics' groundbreaking new sFrac™ Valve, a technology that can help you unlock tight gas reserves -- all while reducing operating expenditure. Designed and developed by WellDynamics with significant input from key customers, the remotely-operated sFrac™ Valve promises to:

• Give selective control of high-rate stimulation of multiple interval horizontal wells
• Eliminate the need for mechanical intervention
• Selectively shut off zones in case of water or gas encroachment

Bio:

Savio Saldanha is WellDynamics’ Flow Control product line manager and is responsible for the strategic planning and implementation of flow control products including valves, zonal isolation devices, and downhole control systems. Saldanha has over 18 years experience in the petroleum industry, including 15 years with Schlumberger Oilfield Services in gravel pack and completions. He worked with Halliburton in deepwater completions prior to joining WellDynamics in 2006. Saldanha holds a Bachelor of Science degree in structural engineering from Goa University in India.

  sFrac Valve Data

Wednesday April 9, 2008
Time:  11:30 AM
Place: Odessa Country Club, Odessa, Texas
Gold Room
Cost: $ 20.00
Section Meeting

Society of Petroleum Engineers
Distinguished Lecturer 2007-08 Lecture Season 

 Wellbore Cementing Challenges Present and Future

David A. Ross
BJ Services Company

 Abstract:

 Regardless of the vast amount of work that has been performed over the years to better understand wellbore cementing requirements, obtaining effective long term zonal isolation still remains one of the biggest problems facing the oil and gas industry today. Over the last decade a considerable amount of research has been performed to better understand the forces imposed on a cement sheath during the life of a well and the mechanical parameters required from the cementing materials to withstand these forces. As a result of this work engineering tools, cementing materials and methodologies have been developed which allow engineers to design fit for purpose cementing designs that can indeed provide long term wellbore isolation if executed properly. Despite the advances that have been made the challenge remains for the cementing service providers to re-educate the industry about the new methodologies pertaining to wellbore cementing design, and to snuff out the beliefs in old cementing paradigms that are still the norm rather than the exception.  This re-education process combined with the search for improved cementing materials that can perform in increasingly extreme environments will continue to pose additional challenges for cement design engineers. This presentation will address in detail the aforementioned challenges facing the industry.

Biography:

David is currently an Associate Member of InTuition Energy Associates an organization with the primary objective of setting new standards in upstream oil and gas training. David obtained a BS degree in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Texas in 1982.  Immediately after graduating he began his career with BJ Services Company. During his 24 years of service with BJ Services, David gained a broad range of experience in the engineering disciplines of Hydraulic Fracturing, Well Cementing, Acidizing, Sand Control, Completion Fluids and Coiled Tubing Services. During his career he has been fortunate to work in a wide range of geographical environments that span the globe including, Alaska, Europe / North Sea, South America South East Asia, Russia, the Middle East, Canada as well as South & West Texas. During his career David has been active in the SPE and has authored or co-authored numerous technical papers pertaining to cement slurry designs, completion techniques, sandstone acidizing systems, personnel training and QHSE management systems. He was also a principal co-author of the “ Understanding Formation Damage and “Clear Brine Completion Fluids” technical manuals.

Tuesday March 11, 2008
Time:  11:30 AM
Place: Odessa Country Club, Odessa, Texas
Gold Room
Cost: $ 20.00
Section Meeting

TBA

Wednesday February 13, 2008
Time:  11:30 AM
Place: Odessa Country Club, Odessa, Texas
Gold Room
Cost: $ 20.00
Section Meeting

Earl Freeman
Executive VP Prop Testers Inc.

Qualifying Proppant Performance

Qualifying proppant performance prior to a frac job, or simply verifying proppant performance after a frac job, can add significant value to propped fracture stimulations.  Through a blend of established practices and new technology, data can be generated that will give an engineer insight into how specific proppants are designed to perform.  This is without running expensive and time consuming conductivity and permeability tests on every job.

  A primary objective is to establish representative, reliable and reproducible data via a sample collected from a large mass.   American Petroleum Institute Recommended Practices identify three primary tenets:   

• representative sampling from a flowing stream
• standardized testing with calibrated equipment
• sample retention for follow-up evaluation 

 Application of these practices ensures that proppant test data is valid (representative, reliable, and reproducible).  These practices alone typically quantify quality but do not qualify proppant performance.  

 Correlation of valid well-site proppant data with published information (literature, web-sites, or fracturing simulators) enables one to identify disparities.  Any differences in part may be the result of mining anomalies, manufacturing defects, transportation abuse, and/or contamination.  These can directly impact the delivered performance of your chosen proppant.  Since proppant flow capacity or conductivity is a key measure of that performance, some empirical results have been assimilated for well-site and public data.

 As a consumer, having information that describes the proppant at the well-site is important to deciding application and value.  By compiling historical well-site proppant data one can set a minimum threshold of required properties or specification.  This provides the opportunity to identify a greater range of proppants that meet reservoir, economic, and supply chain needs.

Bio:

Mr. Freeman is Executive Vice President of PropTester Inc.  He has more than 30 years of experience in research, product development, engineering, operations, sales, and management with Borden Chemical, BJ Services, and the Western Company of North America.   Freeman is a graduate of the University of Texas at Arlington and has authored 2 US Patents and several SPE papers on fracturing & cementing.  He serves as a member of the Technical Advisory Board of the Energy Literacy Project based in Golden, Colorado, and is current chair of the 2008 Public Service Award committee.  In 2004 he was honored as an SPE distinguished member.

Tuesday January 8, 2008
Time:  11:30 AM
Place: Odessa Country Club, Odessa, Texas
Gold Room
Cost: $ 20.00
Section Meeting

Stim Tunneling - An Intro
Jason Skufca, Region Technical Manager
BJ Coiled Tubing Services 

Stim Tunneling - A new alternative stimulation technique for carbonate open hole completions which helps to achieve maximum contact with the reservoir by utilizing acid to construct multiple drain holes extending from the main wellbore.  This technique uses conventional coiled tubing equipment to provide a cost effective alternative to conventional stimulation processes. 

Bio 

Jason Skufca is the region technical manager for BJ coiled tubing services based in Houston, Texas.  He has a Civil Engineering degree from Texas A&M University.  He has over 11 years of coiled tubing experience having worked in East Texas, Gulf of Mexico, South Texas, corporate training and in his current role of region technical manager.

Wednesday December 5, 2007
Time:  11:30 AM
Place: Odessa Country Club, Odessa, Texas
Gold Room
Cost: $ 20.00
Section Meeting

Society of Petroleum Engineers
Distinguished Lecturer 2007-08 Lecture Season

Oilfield Scale – A New Integrated Approach to Tackle an Old Foe
Dr. Eric J. Mackay
Heriot-Watt University 

Abstract:

Mineral scale formation in oilfield production systems has been a problem in the industry for almost 50 years – this “old foe” has been viewed very much as a “production” problem.  Although oilfield scale is a long standing problem, we are constantly facing new challenges in managing it, such as those created by operating in deepwater and other harsh environments, or from the need to integrate scale management with other technical disciplines and perform appropriate economic evaluation.  The key is to demonstrate that proper scale management adds value to a project, and the challenge we face is to develop a comprehensive scale management strategy as early as possible in project life to make best use of the novel and exciting technological options that are now available.  Thus, scale management is becoming more proactive rather than reactive.  Limited field data must be used optimally to make scale management decisions during the early stages of a project.  We will describe how this is carried out making novel use of various reservoir simulation and thermodynamic scale prediction tools.  These allow us to identify the severity of the potential scaling regime, and to quantify the impact of the scaling problem in the field.  This in turn helps us to identify the various scale management options that are available practically, and the new (and conventional) technology that can be deployed. Thus we predict and preempt the problem by taking a wider “reservoir and fluid system” approach rather than simply seeing scale as a “production” problem.  In effect, the reservoir produced brine compositions are “telling a story” and this is extremely valuable information when correctly interpreted using various modeling and prediction tools.  However, the appropriate use of these predictive tools requires a thorough understanding of their potential and their limitations, and should always be validated by monitoring of appropriate field indicators once a field is under production.  This lecture outlines the potential threats to production and safety that oilfield scale may present if not managed appropriately, and then discusses the criteria for analysing and selecting the optimum control strategy.  The general approach is illustrated by several field examples from the North Sea, West Africa, the Gulf of Mexico and the Campos basin which the author has worked on in very close collaboration with a number of international oil companies.

Biography:

Dr Eric Mackay is a Research Fellow at the Heriot-Watt University Institute of Petroleum Engineering, where his research interests include the application of Reservoir Engineering principles and data to better understand production issues.  For the past eight years he has worked on oilfield scale, developing and applying flow models to predict scale precipitation and to design squeeze treatments.  He has over 60 publications related to scale management.  In 2004 he was invited to make a keynote presentation at the SPE 6^th International Symposium on Oilfield Scale, and he has been elected Programme Committee Chair for the 2006 SPE Oilfield Scale Symposium.  He has prepared and co-presented SPE short courses on Oilfield Scale and is a Technical Editor for SPE Production and Facilities.  As well as being responsible for software development, support and training within the Flow Assurance and Scale JIP at Heriot-Watt University, Eric has carried out both theoretical and field applied studies with many of the operating and service companies that support the JIP.  Eric has led over 20 industrial training sessions in the use of software for oilfield scale management and he has taught practical Reservoir Simulation to the residential and distance learning MSc classes at the Institute of Petroleum Engineering at Heriot-Watt since 1990.  He has also delivered the simulation course to the Heriot-Watt distance learning students in xxx in China.  Eric holds a BSc in Physics from the University of Edinburgh and a PhD in Petroleum Engineering from Heriot-Watt University.

Tuesday November 20, 2007
Time:  11:30 AM
Place: Odessa Country Club, Odessa, Texas
Gold Room
Cost: $ 20.00
Section Meeting

Stephanie Sparkman
Vice President, Corporate Relations
Energy America, Inc.

Stephanie will give a report on the FutureGen Project and its future. Also presented are discussions on the future Energy Growth in Alternatives and Renewables in association with the Oil & Gas Industry.

In Stephanie’s words, “the Permian Basin is America’s Energy Epicenter.  As future transitions occur from being an oil and gas-based economy into an energy economy, we will see our economy blossom like never before.  Most importantly, we will see an economy that levels out, without the mountains and valleys we’ve always known as the boom and bust cycle.  The prosperity derived from the oil and gas economy of our past will pale in comparison with the prosperity derived from our energy economy.”

Stephanie serves on several committees and is active in the local Permian Basin communities and State.

Energy America, Inc. – Vice President of Corporate Relations

Founder and Executive Director of the Energy Technology Initiative located in Midland, Texas, a non-profit organization that is transforming the Permian Basin into America’s Energy Epicenter.

Spearheaded efforts to bring federal FutureGen project to the Permian Basin, now one of four on the shortlist.

Official Spokeswoman for the Permian Basin FutureGen Taskforce and serves on local, state and federal relations committee.

Sits on Governor’s Energy Cluster and Renewable/Sustainable Energy Committee.

Chairs the Geothermal Sector within the Governor’s Renewable/Sustainable Energy committee.

Hosted energy-related television talk show, “Fueling the Future.”

Tuesday October 9, 2007
Cancelled
Section Meeting

Tuesday September 18, 2007
Time:  11:30 AM
Place: Elegante Hotel, East Loop 338 and University Ave, Odessa, Texas
Gold Room
Cost: $ 20.00
Section Meeting

Abstract:

Thursday August 16, 2008
Time:  6:00 PM
Place: Petroleum Club, Midland, Texas 
Room 2
Halliburton Sponsoring Dinner
Section Board Meeting

TBA
 - Irran
 - Monahans

No title or speaker information is available at this time.

For more information regarding this meeting, please contact Matt Lippman @ (432) 368-1267, Jared Booker @ (432) 238-0070, or Prentice Creel at (432) 688-3788.

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