Preliminary Technical Programme

Monday, 26 July

Session 1: Introduction/Opening/Keynote Addresses

Session 2: Intelligent Completion Strategies

This session covers present completion examples where the completions were or are designed and installed with no planned interventions. The session will address the following:

• Strategies to achieve completion reliabilities along with completion
• Completion examples where intervention are planned for life of well reliabilities

Session 3: Intelligent Well Technology

This session will discuss about present Intelligent Well Technologies as well as non proven field trials being applied within the industry. The session subtopics include:

• The value of the technology in reliable completion installation
• The installation method for wells that are outside the deployment window from ERD wells to well control issues

Session 4: Low Cost Environment – Break the Cost Paradigm

Smart wells are not just for the high cost environments. What completions are being installed in marginal field and/or non conventional wells development? What can the high cost environment learn from these completions? This session will address the following:

• Marginal field Applications
• Non-conventional Well Development

 

Tuesday, 27 July

Session 5: Measurement I

This session will discuss the various options for measurement in subsea intelligent wells, flow measurement and control; as well as the future of intelligent well technology.

• Measurement in subsea intelligent wells
  • Downhole reservoir and production data in subsea wells are far more critical than conventional dry-tree wells due to expensive intervention cost. What are the limitations and challenges in today subsea completion design, subsea architecture and infrastructure to enable the full range of reservoir monitoring covering P, T and Q and well control? How is the latest technology addressing this issue? And how is the industry adopting this technology and changes?
• Flow measurement and control
  • Options available for flow measurement and their effectiveness
  • Options associated with flow control; best type of completion to ensure success, what type of completion methods need an intervention (e.g. wireline) or can be controlled from the surface?
• The future of intelligent well technology.
  • Today we have the P/T sensors, flow and fraction meters, DTS, seismic, multipoint temperature sensors for reservoir monitoring; what is coming up and how will the new technology address the ever increasing demand for reservoir monitoring?

Session 6: Intelligent Wells Reservoir Management in 2010 and Beyond

This session will discuss the current status of intelligent wells and the visions for the future. This session sub-topics include:

• The ability to monitor and control the reservoir. What is available today?
• Reservoir Management - Closing the Loop from Data Acquisition to Taking Action (Long-term reservoir management)
• Production Optimization - Real time (day to day basis) Reservoir Management
• Comparison of planned and actual value being generated by Intelligent wells
  • Case histories of reservoir management.

Session 7: Data – What to do with it all?

This session will address the following issues:

• Data management issues – how to handle the volume of data being transmitted from the reservoir?
• Distribution of data - why each discipline is looking from a different point and what they really want?
• System reliability and how to obtain the true value of the increasing amount of data being produced?
• Current advancements in technology available for transmission and processing of the increasing amount of data being produced.

Session 8: The Multidiscipline Team

This session will discuss the dynamics of the multidiscipline team, and address the following:

• Bringing the team together and planning
  • What value is gained by each discipline when using the technology?
  • The importance of getting buy in from each discipline before you try to embarking on a project and the consequences of not
• Managing the conflicting requirements and objectives of different disciplines
  • The challenge of installing complex intelligent completions vs. simple and minimal completions
  • Reduced well costs vs. greater life cycle operating costs and risk
• Overcoming the obstacles
  • Developing a strong business case for using Intelligent Completions.

Wednesday, 28 July

Session 9: Reservoir Simulation

This session will address the following issues:

• Are today's tools being fully utilised to model Intelligent completions when analysing reservoir risk/uncertainty?
• What is the best way to model different types of intelligent completions (e.g. inflow control valve, inflow control device)?
• Does better modelling of intelligent wells improve well planning or placement?
• Discussion on latest simulation techniques. (Software packages, techniques)

Session 10: Measurement II

This session will address the various options for measurement, particularly in the following areas:

• Intelligent Completions in extended reach horizontal well
  • The success and failures, lesson learned, and way forward
  • What is the difference between ER wells and any other completion?
  • 20-30 zone wells.
• Quantitative vs. Qualitative Measurements.
  • What tools are currently available and how do the results compare? This could bring some light to the benefits of each side and help the decision making process on when and what to use
• New Completion techniques and practices to accommodate these measurement practices.

Session 11: Break out Session/Group Discussion

Session 12: Summary & Wrap-up