Sunday, 20 June

Typical Cultural Night

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Monday, 21 june

Opening Comments:  Keynote speaker, Ricardo Sarmiento, Ecopetrol

This presentation addresses major challenges for conventional and unconventional difficult-to-produce oil fields and how the industry, services companies, and academia overcome these problems. It also covers the use of technologies in well construction for heavy oil fields, such as: horizontal and multilateral wells for maximizing reservoir contact, based on statistics; potential opportunities; challenges; and impact on resources and reserves.

Session 1: Reservoir Analysis

This session will address worldwide best practices for evaluation of opportunities and selection of suitable areas based on reservoir characterization and assessment of resources and reserves potentially contacted by non vertical well technologies.

Session Chairs: Adriano Lobo, Ecopetrol and Hubert Borja, Hocol.

Discussions for Session 1

Participants are invited to ask and share experiences, questions or comments in order to have a group discussion.

Session 2: Well Design and Planning of Complex Well Construction Projects

This session will focus on design practices, selection of technologies and methods for planning complex cost effective well construction projects. Special consideration is given to data acquisition strategies and equipment included in the design in order to reduce uncertainties and to mitigate risks during the life cycle of the well.

Session Chairs: Orlando Mercado, Ecopetrol and Ruben Beltran, Weatherford

Discussions for Session 2

Session 3: Well Construction Operations for Maximum Productivity and Recovery

Field experiences and learned lessons for construction operational issues and practices are reviewed including logistics, completion tools, and geo navigation technologies.

Session chairs: Jorge Velez, Halliburton and Enrique Zapata, Schlumberger

Discussion for Session 3

Session 4: Production Considerations

Session focuses on production issues such as highly efficient artificial lift methods, multiphase flow handling and processing, well performance and reliability evaluation, monitoring, data acquisition, instrumentation, control and automation and special well performance assessment within the framework of EOR projects (thermal, chemical, waterflooding, chemical flooding, biotechnologies), lessons learned, challenges, best practices.

Session Chairs: Rafael Quintero, Savia and Orlando Mercado, Ecopetrol

Discussions for Session 4

Participants are invited to ask and share experiences, questions or comments in order to have a group discussion.

Welcome Reception

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Tuesday, 22 June

Registration and Continental Breakfast

Session 5: Well Project Management Challenges

Best practices during well project life cycle are presented and discussed, particularly during definition, planning, execution and controlling the project. How to integrate well projects into field development plans, technology field laboratories, EOR pilot projects. Well Project Management under Risk and Uncertainty. Soft skills required for well project teams, front end engineering and benchmarking methodologies.

Session Chairs: Fabian Fernandez, Ecopetrol and Jose Luis Ortiz, Consultant

Discussion for Session 5

Session 6: Multilateral History Cases

This session reviews successful experiences and lessons learned from actual field history cases and technology projects. Some projects can be submitted for discussions during round tables at the end of the sessions. A choice is provided for those cases with information and data that can be related to sessions 1 to 5. Special interest is given to those cases with recovery and productivity increase in complex reservoirs (heterogeneous, fractured, carbonates, HT/HP) and presentation of key performance indicators for IOR/EOR related cases is welcome.

Session Chairs: Alvaro Prada, Ecopetrol and Ysnardo Moya, Baker Hughes

Discussion for Session 6

Closing Session/Remarks

Summary: Sessions 1–6: Wrap up and lessons learned