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A Holistic Approach to Ensuring Fluid Production from Reservoir to Sales Meter

Tuesday, 2 December 2008

0900 - 1600 hours

In this short course, we will introduce and classify elements of flow hindrance influencing the basis of well design, instrumentation, and operation. Although these elements are essential for field development planning in challenging deepwater environments, they are equally applicable to onshore and shallow-water operations. We will elaborate characterization and interpretation techniques, and show management approaches through field examples from various arenas around the world.

Introduction & Classification
a.Fluids, organic and inorganic solids
b. Heavy oil and emulsion
c. Fluid-flow and heat-transfer in wellbores
d. Erosion, corrosion, foam and soaps
Fluid Sampling and Characterization
a. Collecting representative sample
b. Oil-based mud contamination and its influence on fluid properties
c. Organic solids characterization methodologies
Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer in Wellbores and Flowlines
a. Resurrecting flow in self-flowing wells (conditions for a dead well)
b. Computing flow rate from temperature data and identifying flow hindrance using DTS information
c. Understanding fluid flow and heat transfer issues in designing flowlines
Production Monitoring
a. Diagnosis of reservoir performance w/pressure/rate monitoring
b. Well testing with multiphase meters and detection of flow impediments
Integrated Asset Modeling
a. Issues w/handling multiple gas/condensate fields with integrated-asset modeling approach
b. Commingling gas and oil from stacked reservoirs and the consequent asphaltene instability

About the Instructors:

Jamal Jamaluddin is an advisor of fluids and flow assurance at Schlumberger’s Deepwater Technology Hub in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Before joining Schlumberger in 1998, he worked in various positions both at Noranda Technology and Hycal Energy Research Laboratories in Canada. He is an active SPE member having served on various committees, including those of ATWs and Forum Series. He also served as an SPE distinguished lecturer during 2004–2005. He holds five patents and has coauthored over 60 papers, three of which received the best paper awards. Jamaluddin holds MSc and PhD degrees from the U. of Calgary.

Shah Kabir is a Consulting Reservoir Engineer at Chevron Energy Technology Company in Houston. He has more than 30 years of experience in the oil industry with the last 18 of these at Chevron. His experience includes pressure-transient testing, wellbore fluid- and heat-flow modeling, and reservoir engineering. He has published more than 100 papers and two books, including the 2002 SPE text Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer in Wellbores. He has served on the SPE editorial review committee of several journals and has received multiple commendations as an outstanding technical editor. He was 2006-2007 SPE distinguished lecturer and became a distinguished member in 2007. He holds an MS degree in chemical engineering from the U. of Calgary, Canada.

Room 307
CEU: 0.7 CEUs (Continuing Education Units/7 hours) will be awarded for this course

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