Workshops

AGORA Workshop on Effective Models Leading to Business Solutions

Sunday 22 May

AGORA Mission

The EAGE and SPE (EUROPEC) have been conducting programmes of joint annual conference since 2005. Over that time the societies have come to learn of each other strengths and the time is right to take that to another level by deeper engagement at the heart of this meeting. The mission of the Advanced Geoscience Organised for Reservoir Applications (AGORA) is to address a series of themes on a tri-annual rotating basis that have, and will continue to have, a long term interest to the professionals in both societies.  In each theme there will be a clear link between technology, people, communication and the need for a business decision. 

The theme for the AGORA workshop at the 2011 EUROPEC conference in Vienna will be “Effective Models Leading to Business Solutions”. 

Workshop

The workshop will be focussed on the state of the art practices in building effective models for infill well planning and incremental resource definition. Leading technical authorities in geoscience and reservoir management will provide presentations in their disciple areas.  These presentations will be technically reviewed before the workshop.  Application and discussions on the learning points will be done through focussed cross-disciplinary team exercises on a real reservoir problem.  Abstracts on the presentations and the interactive exercise are given at the end of this document.  Deliverables from the workshop will be a summary document and papers at the next EUROPEC conference.

Read more about the Workshop Abstracts.

Agenda

Session A. Technical Transfer
09:00	Introduction
09:05	Geological Models - Gérard Massonnat (Total)
09:55	Geophysics Models - Aart-Jan van Wijngaarden (Statoil)
10:45	Break
11:05	Petrophysics Models – John Owens (Maersk)
11:55	Reservoir Management – Mike King (Texas A&M)
12:45	Lunch
Session B.  Exercise
13:45	Exercise on focussed on incremental reserves & infill wells
15:45	Feedback
17:00	Close workshop

Organisation

Speakers have been selected on the basis of a wide appreciation of the link between discipline based technologies and their application to solving business decisions.  Each speaker will be encourage to reveal, data limitations, weaknesses in interpretation models, current challenges, train crashes, potential solutions, so that each participant is guaranteed to have a learning experience.   The morning session will ‘set-up’ the afternoon working sessions.

• All participants are encouraged to share their experiences in the discussions and syndicates to promote improved understanding. The number of attendees has been limited to provide an informal and fruitful interchange of technical information and ideas.
• Invited speakers will provide a brief synopsis of their presentations.
• All participants are asked to fill a survey (about 30 questions) handed out at the beginning of the workshop, collected during the break, compiled and analysed during the lunch. The results will be presented at the beginning of the afternoon.

Who Should Attend

This workshop is aimed at professionals and academia in the oil and gas industry who are interested in multidisciplinary and integrated reservoir characterisation and management and in the conditioning of reservoir models to dynamic data in particular. The most relevant disciplines for the workshop are Reservoir Engineering, Geology, Production Engineering, Petrophysics, Geophysics and Earth Science.

Unconventional Gas Resource: Moving From Appraisal to Full Scale Development

Monday 23 May
0900-1700

Convenors

• Marco Brignoli, ENI
• Marita Gading, Statoil
• Daniel Perez, Schumberger
• Ben Stewart, Haliburton

Abstract

Unconventional gas plays (like shale gas and CBM) are becoming always more important outside the traditional North America areas. Technology advancements allowed unconventional resources to be economically developed in United States, where gas coming from such resources supplies a continuously increasing amount of the energy production.

On the other side, unconventional gas resources are generally at an earlier stage of development in other parts of the world. To accelerate such development two main factors are essential: first, a proper transfer of the existing unconventional gas knowledge and, second, its combination with new technologies and processes tailored to specific resource plays.

The workshop aims at giving different perspectives to the unconventional gas development issues, with emphasis to Europe and North Africa resources, by grouping together participants from various professional groups and specialties, going from geology and geosciences to reservoir, drilling and production engineering. Shale gas and CBM resources development requires a real multi-disciplinary integration from the exploration phase to the production one. Therefore, attention will be given not only to the field and business cases that will be presented but also to open questions and issues both in technical, economical and environmental areas.

The workshop will focus on what differentiates the evaluation and development of an unconventional resource and to stimulate unconventional thinking, part of the afternoon session will be devoted to interactive discussions of the key elements for the optimum asset development.

Workshop Objectives and Deliverables

The purpose of the workshop is to group together various disciplines experts from oil companies, service companies, academia and research institutions in order to:

• Share the situation of unconventional gas through the review of representative field cases.
• Discuss present technical limitations and challenges and how to accelerate the learning cycle from appraisal to full development phase.
• Discuss potential impact of development of unconventional resources on adjacent markets
• Learn particularities with respect to environmental and social issues that will impose a different approach, outside North America, to the development of unconventional gas resources.

The outcome of the interactive session will be collected and summarized in the form of bullet points. Such memo and the copy of the slides presented will be distributed to the workshop participants shortly after the event.

Workshop Format

• Presentations by invited speakers, multi disciplinary team approaches, collaborative and interactive discussions will be used to illustrate unconventional gas various technical and economical issues.
• All participants are encouraged to share their experiences and to promote knowledge transfer.

Who Should Attend

The workshop is designed for professionals in the oil & gas industry, academia and research institutions who are actively involved in unconventional gas themes; particularly to people whose principal interest falls into the following categories:

• Geosciences
• Reservoir Engineering
• Production engineering
• Drilling engineering
• Environmental energy representatives
• Government Energy Representatives
• Business development representatives