Monday, April 15
08:30 - 17:00
12:00 - 19:00
13:00 - 16:00
Field Trip: Stanford Energy Facility
Departs from the Palo Alto CrownePlaza.
13:00 - 17:00
17:00 - 19:00
18:30 - 20:30
Tuesday, April 16
07:00 - 17:00
07:30 - 18:30
08:00 - 09:45
Panel: The Future of Geothermal
Room Mediterranean 2&3
Moderator
- Rita Okoroafor, Texas A&M University
Panelists
- Roland Horne, Stanford University
- Jack Norbeck, Fervo Energy
- Paul Spielman, Ormat Technologies
- Lorenzo Trimble, Bureau of Land Management
08:00 - 18:00
10:00 - 11:40
01
Digital Technologies for Field Optimization
Mediterranean 2
Session Chairpersons
Shipeng Fu - knowledgette LLC
Time | Paper # | Presentation |
---|---|---|
1000-1025 | 218865 | Labeling Job Type And Technology For Large Operational Datasets |
1025-1050 | 218847 | A Real Time Cloud-based Transient Modeling Of Wellbore Fluids Enabling Safer Deep Transient Testing |
1050-1115 | 218833 | Advancing Digital Rock Imaging With Generative Adversarial Networks |
10:00 - 11:40
02
Well Evaluation and Intervention
Mediterranean 3
Session Chairpersons
Mohamad Salman - Chevron Corporation
Time | Paper # | Presentation |
---|---|---|
1000-1025 | 218829 | Investigation Of Coupled Wellbore Temperature, Pressure, And Stress Response In Stage-by-stage Hydraulic Fracturing |
1025-1050 | 218837 | Advanced Realtime Early Kick and Loss Detection (EKLD) Through a Hybrid Data-driven And Physics-constrained Approach |
1050-1115 | 218848 | Efficient and Sustainable Scale Removal: Unveiling The Power of Pressure Pulsing in Restoring Wellbore Accessibility |
1115-1140 | 218878 | Engineered High Performance Water Based Mud Application and Integrated Geo-Mechanics Help Drill Through Challenging Shale Formation With Record ROP in the Fold Belt Kirthar Concession - A Case Study From Pakistan |
10:00 - 11:15
03
Reservoir Engineering - Low Silinity Water Flooding
Mediterranean 1
Session Chairpersons
Birendra Jha - University of Southern California
Time | Paper # | Presentation |
---|---|---|
1000-1025 | 218876 | Experimental Investigation Of Waterflood Performance Challenges In A Low-Permeability Morrowan Sandstone Reservoir: Implications For Mechanistic Modeling and Enhanced Oil Recovery Optimization |
1025-1050 | 218844 | Improving the Performance of Smart Waterflooding Through Surfactant-Assisted Process for a Carbonate Oil Reservoir |
1050-1115 | 218874 | Descriptive Statistical Analysis of Experimental Data for Wettability Alteration with Smart Water Flooding in Carbonate Reservoirs |
11:50 - 13:30
Regional Awards Luncheon Keynote Speaker: Medhat (Med) Kamal, 2023 SPE President, Chevron Fellow Emeritus
Cypress
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13:30 - 17:00
04
Approaches to Using Machine Learning within Upstream
Mediterranean 2
Session Chairpersons
Andrei Sergiu Popa - Chevron Corporation
Time | Paper # | Presentation |
---|---|---|
1330-1355 | 218873 | Improving ESP Production For Unconventional Wells Through Real-time Machine Learning Based Changepoint Detection |
1355-1420 | 218836 | Enhancing Pressure Transient Analysis With Automatic Model Identification: A Machine Learning Approach |
1420-1445 | 218863 | Effective Production Forecasting and Robust Rate Optimization Using Physics Informed Neural Networks |
1445-1510 | 218871 | Enhancing Continuous Well Flow Rates Estimation with Ensemble Machine Learning Models |
1545-1610 | 218859 | Formation Evaluation and Behind Casing Opportunity Analysis Using Multi-output Regression and Machine Learning Techniques |
1610-1635 | 218864 | Reservoir Properties Estimation using Flow Zone Indicator and Artificial Neural Network Integration: A Case Study |
1635-1700 | 218838 | Machine Learning Models to Predict Total Skin Factor in Perforated Wells |
13:30 - 17:00
05
Role of CCS and Renewables in Getting to Net Zero
Mediterranean 3
Session Chairpersons
Alan Arthur Burzlaff - Humble Engineering Advisors, Inc., Fnu Suleen - Chevron Corporation
Time | Paper # | Presentation |
---|---|---|
1330-1355 | 218852 | What Will it Take to Get to Net-zero Emissions in California? |
1355-1420 | 218860 | Long-Term Wind Energy Production from Shallow Water Offshore Platforms Destined for Removal |
1420-1445 | 218854 | The Green Energy Conundrums |
1445-1510 | 218855 | Fluid Migration Along Faults: Implications For CCUS |
1545-1610 | 218851 | A Reinforcement Learning Approach to Optimize Co2 Removal From Flue Gas in Carbon Capture Applications |
1610-1635 | 218858 | Carbon Sequestration In Mid Ocean Ridge Hydrothermal Systems |
13:55 - 17:00
06
Innovations and Case Studies
Mediterranean 1
Session Chairpersons
Vivek Peraser - BP America Inc, Abhijit Yeshwant Dandekar - University of Alaska - Fairbanks
Time | Paper # | Presentation |
---|---|---|
1355-1420 | 218839 | Monitoring Low And Intermittent Methane Emission From Orphaned and Idle Wells |
1420-1445 | 218861 | Successful Perforation Of Fiber Glass Casing For The 1St Time In KOC To Convert Idle Observation Well To Producer, A Case Study |
1445-1510 | 218869 | Improving Production and Hydrocarbon Recovery from Viscous Oil Reservoirs in Ecuador While Minimizing the Carbon Intensity of Production Using AICD Technology |
1545-1610 | 218857 | Machine Learning Models to Predict Production Rate of Sucker Rod Pump Wells |
1610-1635 | 218939 | Advancements in Gas Field Operations: A Path to Achieving Zero Flaring |
15:10 - 15:45
17:00 - 18:30
Wednesday, April 17
07:00 - 14:00
07:30 - 14:00
08:00 - 09:45
Panel: The Evolving Role of AI in Energy
Room Mediterranean 2&3
Moderator
- Markus Zechner, Stanford University
Panelists
- Anthony Corso, Stanford University
- Nefeli Moridis, NVIDIA
- John Godlewski, SLB
- David Robbins, Chevron
08:00 - 17:00
09:45 - 10:00
10:00 - 11:40
07
Data-Driven and Deep Learning Case Studies
Mediterranean 2
Session Chairpersons
Iraj Ershaghi - University of Southern California, Donald Lee Paul - Eandt Strategies
Time | Paper # | Presentation |
---|---|---|
1000-1025 | 218841 | A Data-Driven Journey Into Liquid Loading Detection and Prediction |
1025-1050 | 218862 | Deep Learning-Based Segmentation for Quartz Overgrowth Quantification in Geothermal Sandstone Reservoirs from Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) Images |
1050-1115 | 218834 | MWD Tools' Electronic Components Data-Driven Failure Detection |
1115-1140 | 218870 | Condition-Based Maintenance of Oilfield Cement Pumper: A Data-Driven Approach |
10:00 - 11:40
08
Risk and Regulation
Mediterranean 3
Session Chairpersons
Michael Eghre-bello - Chevron Corporation, Sarah Sausan - Stanford University
Time | Paper # | Presentation |
---|---|---|
1000-1025 | 218905 | Digital Decarbonization in the Oil and Gas Industry |
1025-1050 | 218887 | The Integrity of Idle and Abandoned Wellbores in California |
1050-1115 | 218901 | Determination of Optimal Corrosion Logging Frequencies for Gas Storage Fields |
1115-1140 | 218883 | Chemical Reduces Risk of Stuck Pipeline Cleaning Equipment on Deepwater Subsea Flowlines |
11:50 - 13:30
Keynote Luncheon
Cypress
Keynote Speaker: Sally Benson, Professor and Co-Director of the Stanford Center for Carbon Storage and the Stanford Carbon Removal Initiative
13:30 - 17:00
10
Geothermal Resources
Mediterranean 2
Session Chairpersons
Souheil M Ezzedine - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Roland N. Horne - Stanford University
Time | Paper # | Presentation |
---|---|---|
1330-1355 | 218898 | Integrate Carbon Sequestration In Enhanced Geothermal System Through Surface Dissolution |
1355-1420 | 218940 | Integration of Geothermal Energy Recovery and Carbon Sequestration of an Egs By Co2-water Mixtures |
1420-1445 | 218937 | Repurposing Idle Wells for Low Temperature Geothermal Water |
1445-1510 | 218932 | Boosting The Performance Of Geothermal Wells Using Progressively-burning Propellant And High-rate Acidizing |
1545-1610 | 218886 | Predicting Future Heat Outputs From Enhanced Geothermal System Utilizing Machine Learning Approach |
1610-1635 | 218899 | Challenges and Recent Advances in Modeling and Simulation of Geothermal Systems |
13:30 - 17:00
11
Hydrogen
Mediterranean 3
Session Chairpersons
Tae Wook Kim - Stanford University
Time | Paper # | Presentation |
---|---|---|
1330-1355 | 218921 | Investigation on the Impact of Cushion Gases in Saline Aquifer: Implication for Underground Hydrogen H2 Storage |
1355-1420 | 218944 | Hydrogen Storage in Saline Aquifers: Experimental Observations of Viscous-dominated Flow |
1420-1445 | 218922 | Numerical Investigation of Hydrogen Storage Loss in Saline Aquifers |
1445-1510 | 218942 | Impact of Wettability and Relative Permeability Hysteresis in Saline Aquifers; Implication of Hydrogen Underground Storage |
1545-1610 | 218902 | Mechanisms Of Hydrogen Generation During In-situ Combustion Gasification Of Heavy Oil |
1610-1635 | 218948 | Maximizing Hydrogen Yield: Pioneering Gas Injection For Enhanced Light Oil Reservoir Utilization |
13:55 - 17:00
12
Reservoir Engineering - Modeling and Monitoring
Mediterranean 1
Session Chairpersons
William J Milliken - RETIRED
Time | Paper # | Presentation |
---|---|---|
1355-1420 | 218949 | Fractal Approach for Naturally Fractured Reservoirs Characterization Using Reservoir Simulation |
1420-1445 | 218925 | Application of Streamlines in Natural Depletion Systems |
1445-1510 | 218938 | Enhanced Reservoir Parameter Redistribution in Single Well Reservoir Modeling: An Inversion Approach Using Pressure Transient Analysis Data |
1545-1610 | 218872 | Numerical Investigation of Co2 Convective Transport in Stochastically Generated Heterogenous Media: Implications for Long-Term Co2 Sequestration In Saline Aquifers |
1610-1635 | 218906 | Parametric Study of CO2 Sequestration in Deep Saline Aquifers Using Data-driven Models |
15:10 - 15:45
Thursday, April 18
07:00 - 12:00
07:30 - 12:00
08:00 - 11:00
08:00 - 11:40
13
Enhanced Oil Recovery
Mediterranean 2
Session Chairpersons
Anthony Robert Kovscek - Stanford University, Muhammad Shahzad Kamal - King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals
Time | Paper # | Presentation |
---|---|---|
0800-0825 | 218882 | Experimental Studies of Sulfonated Polymer Adsorption in Carbonates under Challenging Conditions |
0825-0850 | 218931 | Characterization and Evaluation of Novel Zwitterionic Surfactants for Enhanced Co2 Foam For Co2 Sequestration In Saudi Arabian Reservoirs |
0850-0915 | 218891 | Research on Performance Evaluation and Mechanism Analysis of a Novel Nano Oil-displacement System |
0915-0940 | 218923 | Technical Assessment of Temporary Gas Storage to Avoid Flaring: A Case Study |
1000-1025 | 218842 | Geochemical Modeling of Low Salinity Polymer Flooding for Carbonate Rocks |
1025-1050 | 218875 | Prediction of Surfactant Performance from Surfactant Huff-puff in Carbonate Reservoirs Using A Data-driven Approach and Desktop Application Development |
1050-1115 | 218934 | Effect of Stress and Thermal Deformation Modes on Correlation of Permeability of Naturally Fractured Sandstone and Shale Formations |
1115-1140 | 218918 | An Analysis of Effect Different Fracturing Fluids on the Productivity of Multi-stage Fractured Marcellus Shale Horizontal Wells |
08:00 - 11:40
14
Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage
Mediterranean 3
Session Chairpersons
Priya Ravi Ganesh - Battelle Memorial Institute, Sarah Saltzer - Stanford University
Time | Paper # | Presentation |
---|---|---|
0800-0825 | 218946 | 3-D Leakage and Seismic Hazard Assessment for a Potential CO2 Storage Site in the Southern San Joaquin Basin, CA |
0825-0850 | 218920 | Experimental Investigations of Caprock Integrity for Geological Carbon Storage Using Three-dimensional Digital Image Correlation |
0850-0915 | 218884 | Optimizing Injection Well Trajectory to Maximize Storage Security and Minimize Geomechanical Risk |
0915-0940 | 218879 | Spatial Monitoring of Geological Carbon Storage Progress Using Time-lapse Satellite Images |
1000-1025 | 218908 | Numerical Simulation of CO2 Storage in the Soft Sediments of Depleted Reservoirs in the Gulf of Mexico |
1025-1050 | 218924 | A Novel Approach to Foam Characterization Using Multi-Frequency Dielectric Technique for Enhanced Oil Recovery |
1050-1115 | 218919 | Adapting Oilfield Operational Strategies for Optimizing Injectivity in Complex CCS Systems - a Scoping Study |
1115-1140 | 218947 | Exploration of Co2-sensitive Chemicals as Potential Sealing Agents for Subsurface Co2 Storage |
08:00 - 11:40
15
Reservoir Characterization
Mediterranean 1
Session Chairpersons
Kelvin Abaa - Exponent, Inc., Marco Roberto Thiele - Streamsim Technologies, Inc.
Time | Paper # | Presentation |
---|---|---|
0800-0825 | Invited Presenter - Application of Interval Based Computations for Reservoir Characterization | |
0825-0850 | 218896 | Temperature Warmback Test Design and Interpretation in Presence of Long Injection History |
0850-0915 | 218881 | Advancing Reservoir Understanding: Integrating Deep Learning into Automated Formation Micro-Imaging Log Interpretation for Enhanced Reservoir Characterization and Management |
0915-0940 | 218915 | Application Of Cole Plot To Better Estimate Reserves In A Complex, Multi Layered, Water Drive Gas Reservoir |
1000-1025 | 218890 | Applied Machine Learning for the Imputation of Missing Core Petrophysical Property Data in Clastic and Carbonate Reservoirs |
1025-1050 | 218913 | Data Analytics and Machine Learning Application for Reservoir Potential Prediction in Vuggy Carbonate Reservoirs Using Conventional Well Logging. |
1050-1115 | 218903 | Classification and Evaluation of Microscopic Pore Structure in Carbonate Rocks by Integrating MICP-based Dynamic Information |
09:40 - 10:00