About the Workshop

Sand management’s primary focus has always been finding improvement from past achievements and failures, for future development and operation. However, post-Covid has enforced the oil and gas industry to lean more toward low-cost well solutions to ensure projects were economical for sanction. Despite the available resources, there seems to be a lack of push when it comes to finding more optimum and conclusive approaches for sand, fines control and management to control quality, efficiency, and reduce carbon emission. There is still a gap in the integration of bulk data as an integral library and data analytic and digital technologies to fully realise its digital transformation goals.

Lookback analyses were performed in previous years. This year, the SPE Sand Control and Management workshop will focus on sand control techniques and case studies to maximise overall business value as part of the total solutions. Effective sand control and sand management are crucial to achieving optimum design through collaboration from multi-disciplinary parties between geology, petrophysics, geomechanics, reservoir engineering, production technology, drilling, completions, process, facility and more.

Workshop Objectives

This workshop aims to gather industry practitioners focused on improving the efficiency in sand production, fines control, technologies, and management. This workshop is an open sharing forum with the discussion of experiences, solutions, best practices, and lessons learnt to meet the business’ immediate and long-term needs, and potentially lead to improved industry practices and standards in sand control and management.