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June 22, 2007

Epic's Richard Baker Recognized by SPE

Epic's Richard Baker was honored by the SPE Rocky Mountain North America Region at its 50th Anniversary celebration for his outstanding contributions to reservoir characterization.

June 12, 2006

PTAC Announces Results of 'Ramping Up Recovery' Study

PTAC announced the results of the "Ramping Up Recovery" study headed by Epic. The report indicates the potential to increase recovery by 6 billion barrels and 22.5 tcf of gas with a potential revenue benefit of over 1 trillion dollars. Further details may be found here.

June 01, 2006

Epic Offers Courses at 2006 CIPC Conference

Epic is offering two courses at this year's CIPC conference.

  • Reservoir Surveillance Methods
  • Material Balance and Other Analytical Methods Overview

June 01, 2005

Epic and geoLogic Announce New Software Partnership

Epic and geoLogic Systems Ltd. have formed a software partnership. Under the agreement, geoLOGIC becomes the exclusive marketer of geoSCOUT-integrated versions of three Epic products: ResSurveil, ResBalance and ResWorks. More details may be found here.

 

November 10, 2004

Technical Luncheon Presentation - "Gas Diagnostics: To Drill or Not to Drill?"

For those of you who were unable to attend, here is an overview of our last technical talk.

We invite you to our information session on how to determine if infill drilling has the potential to be beneficial for your field development. We will present diagnostic techniques that are simple to use and do not require a lot of time to perform.

We will demonstrate techniques to help you:

  • determine OGIP in gas reservoirs
  • determine average reservoir capacity/productivity (Kh)
  • calculate expected pressure profiles
  • gas rate diagnostics (depletion and Kh index)
  • evaluate infill effectiveness and potential
  • rapidly evaluate effect of increased compression and/or further infill drilling on production rates
  • forecast expected well performance
  • present 2 examples with very different results

 

February 23, 2004

CIM Luncheon Presentation

For those of you interested in the PowerPoint presentation on Reserves Growth presented by Richard Baker at the February 18, 2004 CIM luncheon please click HERE. If you are interested in the technical paper you can find it in the 'Publications section of this site.

June 9 - 12, 2003

GO-Expo Schedule

We are proud to announce our schedule for the upcoming GO-Expo. In addition to participating as an exhibitor we are also offering 3 tutorials, presenting 3 technical papers and taking part in a special panel session at the Technical Conference.

  • Tutorials - Monday June 9, 2003 Waterflood Surveillance for Asset Optimization and/or Acquisition - Richard Baker - Morning Session 8:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
  • Well Performance and Well Reservoir Diagnostics - Shelin Chugh - Morning Session 8:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
  • Reservoir Management - "Toolkit" Check-up! - Richard Baker and Susan Bialowas - - Afternoon Session 1:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
  • Conference Technical Program - Wednesday June 11, 2003 Morning Special Session 13: Well Test Panel Discussion - Louis Mattar, Dale W. Wong, Richard Baker and Tony Settari.
  • Afternoon Session 16: "PVT Error Analysis for Material Balance Calculations" - Richard Baker, Chris Regier and Ryan Sinclair.
  • Conference Technical Program - Thursday June 12, 2003 Morning Session 23: "Using Decline Curves to Forecast Waterflooded Reservoirs: Modeling Results" - Richard Baker, Kerry Sandhu and Trisha Anderson.
  • Afternoon Session 28: "Using Decline Curves to Forecast Waterflooded Reservoirs: Fundamentals and Field Cases" - Richard Baker, Kerry Sandhu and Trisha Anderson.

September 16, 2002

Epic at SPE Conference 2002 – We are pleased to announce that we will be exhibitors at the 2002 SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition 29 September – 2 October in San Antonio, Texas, USA.

Our booth location is in Exhibit Hall B # 210.

July 26, 2002

Epic Consulting Services and StreamSim Technologies are proud to announce that they will be offering a short 1-day course entitled: " Reservoir Simulation Using Streamline Technology" during the SPE conference in San Antonio on September 29, 2002.

May 10, 2002

Epic is pleased to announce the release of ResBalanceTM, an oil and gas diagnostic material balance software. Full details are found on the web site. Or contact Epic to request a demo CD.

April 25, 2002

Epic is offering two courses at this year's CIM conference.

  • Waterflood Surveillance and Diagnostics
  • Waterflood Optimization with Streamline Simulation

March 15, 2002

Epic is pleased to announce the release of ResAssistTM 2002, the second version contains many enhancements requested by end-users.

January 11, 2002

Epic launches its revamped website on January 11, 2002. This new website features improved functionality and a fresh new look.

October 1, 2001

Epic’s Dennis Beliveau received SPE 2001 Reservoir Engineering Award

Dennis was honored for his expertise and significant contributions to waterflooding; advanced reservoir characterization, especially in naturally fractured and carbonate reservoirs; reservoir surveillance; the of horizontal wells; and the study of risk and uncertainty. Dennis is also author of numerous reservoir engineering papers, including “Honey, I Shrunk the Pores”. Dennis received the JPT Best Paper of 1995 Award for his paper entitled “Heterogeneity, Geostatistics, Horizontal Wells, and Blackjack Poker”.

Dennis is the only Canadian to have ever received this award.

April 1, 2001

ResAssist™ featured in the April 2001, JCPT


Each April the JCPT is dedicated to advances in petroleum and reservoir technology. A streamline simulation plot generated by Epic’s ResAssist™ program was featured on the front cover of the April 2001 JCPT. The streamline image represented the latest in reservoir simulation.