About the Workshop

History often repeats itself, and failures in sand control and sand management are no exception. Unless we accurately understand what has gone wrong and make appropriate improvements, the success of our industry depends on what we learnt from our past achievements and failures, and how we use those lessons in future developments and operations. Although failures typically offer greater opportunities for learning, instinctively, we as engineers and managers prefer to share our success stories instead. With this tendency, invaluable lessons from failures can be forgotten or dismissed, causing wasteful cycles of learning from scratch and reinventing the wheel, and progress may be hampered.

In previous years, the SPE sand control and management workshops focused mainly on sharing technical and commercial successes. This year, for the first time, we will focus on failures and lessons learnt. We will review case studies on the causes and consequences of sand management failures and, if applicable, how improvements were identified and implemented.  Such improvements can be in the areas of reservoir characterisation, geomechanical prediction, wells completion and production operations, procedures, new methodologies or technologies, digitalisation, operational efficiencies, organisational realignment, systematic architecture, accessibility of failure databases, and more. 

Workshop Objectives

The workshop aims to gather industry practitioners for holistic and focused discussions on failures, causes, improvements in the areas of sand production physics, technologies, practices, remediations for both subsurface and surface. This workshop is an open sharing forum with discussion of experiences, solutions, best practices, and lessons learnt to meet the business’s immediate and long-term needs, and potentially lead to improved industry practices and standards in sand control and management.

Benefits of Attending

• Exchange and acquire experiences from the industry centred in integrated sand management for potential applications to their own assets and researches
• Learn from multi-disciplinary background for holistic sand control and management solutions
• Increase productivity and optimise production through learnings from failures
• Participate in important discussions in the road to success
• Network and exchange knowledge with peers and experts in the field

Join the Virtual Workshop at Your Local Time

Please note that all times are Coordinated Universal Time +8 (UTC+8)