Petroleum Technology News
Upcoming Events and Workshops
The North Midcontinent Region of the Petroleum Technology
Transfer Council will sponsor four events/workshops in March,
April and May. Registration forms for these workshops are included
in this newsletter.
On March 27th a "Petroleum Technology Fair" will be
presented at the Wichita Airport Hilton from 8:00 am to 4:00
pm. The purpose of this workshop will be to acquaint oil and
gas producers with technologies that have the potential to benefit
their operations. Service company exhibitors will have booths
to demonstrate their technologies. Presentations will be made
throughout the day on different technologies including chemical
treatments for gas wells, stimulation using Gas GunTM technology,
an alternative low cost and economically sound method for plugging
and abandoning wells, through casing resistivity logging, seismic
attribute analysis tools for the explorationist, advances and
efforts to clean-up oil and brine spills, recent advances in
the use of gelled polymers to economically decrease water and
increase oil production in the Kansas Arbuckle formation. A fee
of $50 will be charged which includes refreshments, lunch and
manual containing presentation information.
On April 16th the North and South Midcontinent Regions of PTTC will cosponsor an "Independent's Day" in conjunction with the Society of Petroleum Engineers/U.S. Department of Energy's "Thirteenth Symposium on Improved Oil Recovery" in Tulsa, Oklahoma. This event provides operators the opportunity to attend one day of the symposium for a fee of $75 (registration for the entire symposium is $325 for SPE members and $400 for non-SPE). Attendees for Independents Day will have access to the regular SPE technical sessions, technology update series (presentations by exhibitors), PTTC independent's session, exhibit area, poster session and a beer 'n' bratwurst party. Detailed information on activities for the day and registration information is included in this newsletter.
On April 23rd a workshop titled "Improving Oil Recovery Using Integrated Evaluation Techniques" will be presented at the Wichita Airport Hilton from 8:30 am to 3:30 p.m. The objective of the workshop is to demonstrate cost-effective techniques for analyzing reservoirs using readily accessible data and low cost software to identify improved oil recovery potential. The goal is a quantitative characterization of a reservoir for evaluation of improved oil recovery activities such as waterflood potential and targeted infill drilling. Another goal is to demonstrate the minimum data required for reservoir simulation. Workshop topics will include accessing digital data, evaluating electric log data, mapping reservoir properties including determining original-oil-in-place and estimating recovery factors, additional reservoir properties needed to develop a reservoir model, computer simulations to identify the most efficient recovery process and economic analysis. There will also be a case study poster session of projects in Kansas that have used these evaluation techniques. A workshop fee of $50 will be charged which includes refreshments, lunch and course manual.
On May 23rd a one-day course on petrophysical log analysis titled "Log Analysis in Kansas: an EXCEL Spreadsheet Workshop" will be conducted at the instruction lab at the Kansas Geological Survey in Lawrence Kansas. The course is both an introduction and a review of current methods in the estimation of porosity, fluid/gas saturation, producibility, and permeability from logs for both clastic and carbonate reservoirs in Kansas. Participants will review log analysis examples on individual PCs using EXCEL spreadsheet software. They will also learn how to enter log information from blueline logs into a spreadsheet log analysis, as well as to read digital logs both from diskette and downloaded from the Internet. In addition to the course manual, participants will be provided with a disc of public-domain spreadsheet files that contain case studies and techniques described in the course. Due to the limited number of computers, registration will be limited to 15 participants. This course is offered for 6 hours of professional education credits. A workshop fee of $45 will be charged which includes refreshments, lunch and course manual.