SPE London Evening Programme meeting 29th May 2018

We would like to invite you and your colleagues to the May London Section evening meeting.

The afternoon will start at 4pm with a presentation of this year’s two best Field Development projects by the MSc in Petroleum Engineering students. The Field Development project is a group integrated study of the evaluation and development of a North Sea oil field (currently, Wytch Farm). Each team will have 20 minutes for their presentation, plus 5 minutes for questions. The audience will then help select the best presentation, which will be awarded the Colin Wall prize, named after one of the founding petroleum engineering professors from Imperial. The prize (�300 in �1 coins) will be given at the dinner.

From 5pm until 8.45 pm there will be lectures on Carbon Capture and Storage, and Frac optimisation.

This event will be held at Imperial College; Royal School of Mines, Prince Consort Road, London, SW7 2BP.

The Royal School of Mines is about 15 minutes� walk from South Kensington tube station via Exhibition Road and Prince Consort Road.

Please, read more about the agenda, talk content and the booking information below.

Regard

Tim Lines
SPE London Section – Programme Chairman
Email: tim.lines@oilfieldinternational.com

Agenda:

Venue:� The event will be held at� the Department of Earth Science and Engineering, Imperial College London

Map available here.
Directions : Please note the main entrance to the Department is via the Royal School of Mines Building on Prince Consort Road, between 10 and 12 on the campus map

Booking via Eventbrite:� All booking must be paid in advance and online please

Email: katespe@aol.com

Cost �34 for SPE/PESGB/EI members, �44 non-members, �19 unemployed members. Non-refundable �15 for students booking by Friday, 25 May (�19 after). All tickets have an additional Eventbrite fee.

BEFORE DINNER:

5.00 pm � 6.30 pm, Can the UK be a world leader in Carbon Capture and Storage.
Nikki Brain, Policy Manager, Carbon Capture and Storage Association.

Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) remains crucial to global decarbonisation efforts, with all central scenarios showing a significant role for CCS technologies in order to meet the Paris Agreement goal of limiting the global temperature increase to well-below 2�C. However, the pace and scale of development to date have been well behind that expected. In 2017, the UK Government announced an ambition to deploy Carbon Capture, Utilisation and Storage (CCUS) �at scale� in the 2030s, subject to costs coming down sufficiently. The UK has the potential to become a global leader in this space, due to its geological assets, the skills base from the existing oil and gas industry, industry clusters already closely located to significant storage capacity, and a strong research base. This talk will explore recent developments at a global and national level, and how barriers can be overcome to meet the ambition to become a leader in this space.

Nikki Brain is Policy Manager at the Carbon Capture and Storage Association, leading on the organisation�s policy development in the UK and at an EU level. Prior to the CCSA, Nikki worked for the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Renewable and Sustainable Energy, supporting a cross-party group of MPs focused on the energy transition. Nikki is also co-founder and Director of Power Up North London, a community energy project based in Camden. She holds a degree in International Politics from Aberystwyth University.

The Carbon Capture & Storage Association (CCSA) exists to represent the interests of its members in promoting the business Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) as a means of abating atmospheric emissions of carbon dioxide and tackling climate change. From its base in London the CCSA brings together specialist companies in manufacturing & processing, power generation, engineering & contracting, oil, gas & minerals as well as a wide range of support services to the energy sector such as law, banking, consultancy and project management. As a non-technical trade association, the CCSA is unique in its focus on the business and policy side of CCS and efforts to ensure commercial-scale CCS projects can play a part in moving towards a low-carbon global economy.

AFTER DINNER: 7.15 pm – 8.45pm:

7.15 pm � 8.45 pm, Fracture Simulation Parameters:� Addressing the needs of Completion Engineers:� A Petrophysical Perspective.
Fred Jenson, Product Strategy Manager Petrophysics and Geomechanics, CGG.

A clear understanding of the subsurface and factors controlling production for a specific play is an ongoing issue, particularly in fractured reservoirs. In shale plays, for example, production can vary across plays and even between wells drilled from the same pad due to the differences in the generated fractures. Yet, frac design and analysis is currently applied in only a very small percentage of hydraulic fracturing projects, largely due to the length of time required to gather input data for fracture simulation models. Completions engineers use the resulting models to design optimum hydraulic fracturing projects and improve well performance.

Generating the proper parameters to predict the fracture height, width and length is critical to reservoir performance. We will work through an example of a petrophysical analysis and generate the formatted file of rock and fluid properties required for Fracture simulation. The study is conducted in an integrated petrophysical analysis tool and the outputs will then be calibrated to mini-frac measurements.� These calibrated results will be used to show an example of the frac simulation predictions based on the analysis.

Fred has over 38 years in the industry focused on Petrophysics with strong interests in Geology, Geophysics and Engineering. He has Extensive knowledge in Petrophysical Interpretation projects worldwide, and Petrophysics and Geomechanics expertise.