1730-1900

Welcome Reception

0700-0800

Registration

Continental Breakfast

0800-0930

Session 1: Well Integrity Management Systems

Session Chairpersons: Obadah Al Sawadi, ZADCO; Alexander Stark, Shell

There is considerable variability as to how operators manage, execute, and assess well integrity activities. The use of integrated management systems can allow for improved preventative and corrective maintenance scheduling, effective exception-based execution, and improved  analytical capabilities. Such systems may allow for large numbers of wells to be robustly and efficiently managed to internal and regulatory standards.

0930-1000

Coffee Break

1000-1130

Session 2: Defining and Managing Non-Thermal Wells in a Thermal Field

Session Chairpersons: Ian Cameron, FMC Technologies; Mike Mullaly, Sanjel

How does industry handle having wells that initially were not in a thermal field but are now? What considerations need to be made as far as suspended or abandoned wells in these areas?

1130-1300

Lunch

1300-1430

Session 3: Well Planning and Construction

Session Chairpersons: Gregori Colomine, Nexen Inc.; Isaac Khallad, Cenovus Energy

Well integrity starts from the moment an application to drill is submitted. Fit for purpose design and sound engineering practices for drilling and completing the well are requirements to ensure the envisioned productive life can be achieved. There are loads to consider in the design stage such as thermal stresses, cyclic loading, formation pressures, geomechanical stress, and these loads have to be managed thru casing design, drilling and completion techniques, cement placement, as well as operating practices.  Beyond the loads the well will be subjected to, the potential for corrosion, tight well spacing, and future drills have to be considered as well. Well integrity failures and near misses continue to occur in spite of several design approaches, technologies and practices developed to manage the risks. This session will share well design, drilling and completion technologies, and best practices developed to reduce likelihood of well integrity failures in typical heavy oil thermal recovery operations.

1430-1500

Coffee Break

1500-1630

Session 4: A Global Perspective on Thermal Well Integrity

Session Chairpersons: Giovanni Bustamante, Statoil Canada Ltd.; Todd Zahacy, C-FER Technologies

With the growth of thermal heavy oil and bitumen recovery projects in Western Canada, and in particular the large number and increasing scale of the steam assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) and cyclic steam stimulation (CSS) projects in the oil sands regions of Alberta and Saskatchewan, significant focus has been placed on wellbore integrity issues, practices and learnings in these applications. There are significant numbers of thermal wellbores, however, in enhanced oil recovery (EOR) projects located in other heavy oil regions around the world, such as in the United States, South America, Asia and the Middle East, and in other high-temperature applications, including the production and injection wells used in geothermal energy projects. In this session, wellbore integrity issues, practices and learnings related to the thermal wells employed in these non-Western Canadian EOR applications will be shared and discussed.

1630-1800

Networking Reception

0700-0800

Hot Breakfast

0800-0930

Session 5: Well Integrity Data

Session Chairpersons: Alejandro Bello, Statoil; Christian Hamuli, Suncor Energy

Engineers rely on available data to assess risk and make decisions impacting well integrity. Well integrity management system ensures relevant data is acquired, centralized, analyzed, and acted upon in relation to wellbore failure during drilling and completion, operations, suspension, and abandonment. This session seeks to generate a discussion on what could constitute a thermal well integrity management system, why it is needed, and how it would be maintained to enable sound well integrity monitoring and decisions for the life of the well.

0930-1000

Coffee Break

1000-1130

Session 6: Types of Failure Mechanisms in Intermediate Production Casing

Session Chairpersons: Bob Dyck, Remedy Energy Services; Will Remmer, Canadian Natural Resources Ltd.

Casing strings in thermal wells are subjected to combined loading mechanisms during the well life cycle and failures may occur as a result of the combined loads. This session will examine fatigue, corrosion, thermal, and geomechanical failure mechanisms that are key causes of casing degradation which ultimately may lead to failure.

1130-1300

Lunch

1300-1430

Session 7: Casing Failure Remediation

Session Chairpersons: Tim Bibby, Southern Pacific Resource Corp.; Sarah Whitton, Schlumberger

The presenters in this session will cover the various casing failures experienced in thermal oil sands operations, identify remediation options chosen, and highlight experiences gained through remediation efforts.

1430–1500

Coffee Break

1500–1630

Session 8: What does the Future Hold?

Session Chairpersons: Bob Dyck, Remedy Energy Services; Isaac Khallad, Cenovus Energy

This session will look at some of the new challenges facing our industry and of the research that is underway.