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Workshop Summaries
Petroleum Technology Fair
The North Midcontinent PTTC conducted a "Petroleum Technology Fair" on March 27, 2002 in Wichita, Kansas at the Hilton. There were 95 in attendance from Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Oregon and Indiana.
The purpose of the fair was to aquaint oil and gas producers with technologies that could benefit their operations. There were 10 exhibit booths displaying information on their products, services and technologies.
Dr. Sam Campbell from Baker- Petrolite spoke on the topic "Treating Gas Wells in Cold and Sour Environments", Richard Schmidt from J. Integral Engineering presented a talk on "Using the GasGunTMfor Effective and Economical Stimulation of Kansas Reservoirs", Stan McDonald from Plugging Systems, LLC spoke on "Low Cost and Environmentally Sound Plugging of Abandoned Wells", Lisa Silipigno-O'Brien from Schlumberger presented a talk on "Through Casing Resistivity Logging", Susan Nissen of the Kansas Geological Survey spoke on the topic "Seismic Attribute Analysis Tools for the Explorationist", Blasé Leven of Kansas State University gave a talk on "Advances and Efforts to Clean up Oil and Brine Spills" and J.T. Portwood of TIORCO presented a talk on "Recent Advances in the Use of MARCITSM Gelled Polymers to Economically Decrease Water and Increase Oil Production in the Kansas Arbuckle Formation".
Exhibitors at the fair were JACAM Chemical, Munger Co., Plugging Systems, LLC, Pumper's Friend Radiator Sales, The Rosel Co., TIORCO, University of KS - TORP, J. Integral Engineering, Kansas State University and Oklahoma Geological Survey
Evaluations from attendees were favorable. Several operators mentioned that they would use information from the fair within the next 6 months.
Improving Oil Recovery Using Integrated Evaluation
Techniques
The North Midcontinent PTTC conducted a workshop Improving Oil Recovery Using Integrated Evaluation Techniques on April 23, 2002 in Wichita, Kansas at the Hilton. There were 38 in attendance from Kansas and Oklahoma.
The purpose of the workshop was to demonstrate cost-effective techniques for analyzing reservoirs using readily accessible data and low cost software to identify improved oil recovery potential. The goal was a quantitative characterization of a reservoir for evaluation of improved oil recovery activities such as water flood potential and targeted infill drilling.
Tim Carr of the Kansas Geological Survey spoke on the topic "Accessing Kansas Digital Data", John Doveton of the Kansas Geological Survey presented a talk on "Evaluating Electric Log Data", Lynn Watney of the Kansas Geological Survey spoke on "Mapping Reservoir Properties Including Determining Original Oil in Place and Estimating Recovery Factors", Alan Byrnes of the Kansas Geological Survey and Rodney Reynolds of the North Midcontinent PTTC spoke on "Additional Reservoir Properties Needed to Develop Reservoir Model Using Special Core Analysis and Transient Testing", Bill Johnson of Discovery Capital, LLC presented a talk on "Computer Simulations to Identify the Most Efficient Recovery Process" and Marty Dubois of the Kansas Geological Survey spoke on "Economic Analysis.
Evaluations from attendees were favorable. One operator commented, "This was an excellent workshop. Any future workshops of this high of quality would be well worth our investment of time. Thanks a lot!"
Log Analysis in Kansas: An Excel Spreadsheet Workshop
A one-day course on "Log Analysis in Kansas: an Excel Spreadsheet Workshop" was held at the Kansas Geological Survey in Lawrence on May 23. The instructors were John Doveton, Bill Guy, and Dana Adkins-Heljeson. The course was designed to be a seamless integration of a Powerpoint sequence of training in petrophysical concepts with interactive demonstrations of spreadsheet functions for log analysis with Kansas examples, as well as Internet access to log sources, both hard copy and digital. The use of the KGS Computer Training Lab allowed all participants individualized interaction with the spreadsheet software to ensure hands-on experience throughout the day. The participants were provided with the spreadsheet workbook, "The Log Analysis Yellow Pages" as freeware templates to use in their own work, as well as a workshop manual of log analysis concepts and examples presented in the course. All participants were from the energy industry, mostly from Kansas, and numbered ten. The course was offered for 6 hours of Professional Education credits. There are plans to repeat the course sometime this Fall.