Practical Wireline Formation Testing and Sampling

Disciplines: Reservoir

Course Description

This course is designed for petro physics and reservoir engineers who are involved in formation sampling and testing.

Upon completion of this course, participants will become familiar with:

The latest techniques and tools available
How to perform pressure interpretation and acquisition
Sampling knowledge (best practices)
What to do to get a representative sample and how to design a tool string for a given problem

Topics:

Pressure Acquisition
Sampling
Hardware Review
- Probes
- Fluid Analyzers
- Sample Chambers
- Pump
Advanced Applications
- PVT Properties Prediction
- Formation Static Temperature
- Effective Permeability
- Compaction Monitoring

Course Length

1 Day

Why Attend

To learn about reservoir characterisation using formation testers, to be able to interpret pressure and fluid properties, and to design a successful sampling and testing operation.

Who Attends

This class is designed for geophysicists, reservoir engineers and any engineers involved or interested in wireline formation sampling and testing including petro physical engineers, production engineers and testing engineers.

Special Requirements

There are no special requirements for this course. It is recommended for participants to bring their own examples to contribute to course discussions.

CEUs

0.8 CEUs (Continuing Education Units) are awarded for this 1-day course.

Cancellation Policy

All cancellations must be received no later than 14 days prior to the course start date. Cancellations made after the 14-day window will not be refunded. Refunds will not be given due to no show situations.

Training sessions attached to SPE conferences and workshops follow the cancellation policies stated on the event information page. Please check that page for specific cancellation information.

SPE reserves the right to cancel or re-schedule courses at will. Notification of changes will be made as quickly as possible; please keep this in mind when arranging travel, as SPE is not responsible for any fees charged for cancelling or changing travel arrangements.

We reserve the right to substitute course instructors as necessary.

Instructor

Dr. Mohamed Hashem is a Dragon Oil consultant, responsible for Reservoir Engineering and Development and Production of Dragon Oil fields around the world. During his tenure at Dragon, he managed to take the oil production from 70,000 to over 100,000 BOPD, and increase oil reserves by 240 MMBO.

Mohamed joined Dragon Oil from Shell after working there for 25 years. His last assignment was in Kazakhstan as the New Technology Manager for the North Caspian Operating Company working on bringing challenging technology to develop the giant Kashagan field and its satellites, seconded from Shell.

Previously he was Shell’s Regional Technology Manager for the Middle East, Caspian, and South East Asia. Mohamed was also Shell’s Principal Technical Expert (PTE) for formation testing and sampling. This is the highest technical level achievable in Shell short of a chief scientist.

Mohamed joined Shell in 1990, and worked on shelf and deepwater in the Gulf of Mexico exploration, development and production projects including Shell’s flagship Auger project (first deepwater project). For the last 12 years, Mohamed worked on global Shell projects from Australia to Norway.

Before 1990 he worked for Schlumberger and was a lecturer at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.

Throughout his career, he has worked on major projects in the Far and Middle East, Europe, Africa, Australia and the Americas. He is author of 16 patents, numerous publications, and chaired many major SPE conferences. Mohamed was an SPE Distinguished Lecturer in 2010, and SPWLA Distinguished Lecturer from 1998 to 2008.

He is considered a world expert in Wireline Formation Testing.

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