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Gaffney, Cline & Associates (formerly Epic Consulting Services)
2 Day Course: Tight Oil Waterflood Surveillance and Asset Optimization
Presented by: Kerry Sandhu, Cam McBurney and Richard Baker
October 27 & 28, 2011 (Thursday/Friday)
Telus Convention Centre
136 – 8th Avenue SE
Room 106 (main floor; Telus North Building)
We invite you and your colleagues to join us at our upcoming course. The course material has been developed over the last 20 years by Richard Baker and recently refined in collaboration with the presenters. An overview of the principles of waterflood surveillance and diagnostics will be presented and discussed. Earth science and engineering data are integrated to provide improved prediction of waterflood performance and optimization of hydrocarbon recovery. The following topics are covered:
An understanding of why waterflooding is important
Address the question: “What is reasonable recovery?”
Common causes of waterflood 'failure'
What key considerations are important when developing a waterflood
Using surveillance techniques to understand and predict waterflood performance
Considerations for waterflood pilot design; including what data needs to be collected both prior to and during the pilot phase.
Special considerations for tighter rocks and/or smaller pools.
What are the questions you should be asking in waterflood diagnosis or implementation?
Various techniques used in waterflood diagnostics will be introduced including:
Analytical tools including, material balance, fractional flow curves and importance of PVT data
Composite Plot analysis
Decline Analysis; what is physically going on
Well pair analysis
GOR vs. Time, WOR vs. Time
WOR vs. Cumulative Oil Plot
Throughput rate
Conformance Plot
Comparing Voidage Replacement Ratio vs. Time with pressure data
Gas fill up consideration
Derivative of WOR vs. Time
Dykstra Parsons coefficient
Hall plot
Numerous field examples will be presented. This course will be of interest to anyone who wants to learn how waterflood surveillance and diagnostic techniques can be used to improve waterflood performance. Attendees will receive a hard copy of all presented material along with our waterflood surveillance handbook.
Time: 8:30am – 4:30pm Snacks & Lunches: Included
Cost: $1900/person in advance
Limited Seating: first 40 registrants only.
Register via:
website: Online Registration - this page
Phone: (403) 537-3400 or
Fax: (403) 537-3811
Registration Deadline: Oct 20, 2011
Please take a moment to fill out our online registration form.
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Presenter Bio's:
Kerry Sandhu, P.Eng - General Manager Canada, Baker RDS/Epic Consulting Services
He has worked on numerous reservoir characterization/reservoir simulation projects both locally and internationally. He graduated with distinction from the University of Calgary with a B.Sc. in Oil and Gas Engineering. He has worked as a reservoir engineer at Epic for 10 years where in addition to co-authoring several technical papers has worked on various reservoir engineering studies, including projects focused on tight oil reservoirs, waterflooding, CO2 immiscible/miscible flooding, naturally fractured reservoirs, offshore waterflooding of reservoirs, heavy oil waterflooding, thermal simulation (SAGD, CSS, and steam flooding), and horizontal multi-stage frac optimization. He is a registered professional engineer in Alberta and is a member of both SPE and APEGGA.
Cam McBurney, P.Eng - Manager of Engineering, Baker RDS/Epic Consulting Services
Manager of Engineering, at RDS Epic Consulting Services of Baker Hughes Canada, is a reservoir engineer with over 11 years experience in the oil and gas industry. He holds a B Sc. in mechanical engineering w/ a minor in Petroleum from the University of Calgary. Specializing in reservoir characterization and reservoir simulation, he has worked in both a consulting capacity and in various production companies. His project experience covers a wide spectrum in the industry, both locally and internationally. This includes expertise in both light and heavy oil waterflooding, tight gas reservoirs, naturally fractured reservoirs, horizontal multi-frac wells and various tertiary recovery methods such as thermal, ASP and miscible flooding . He is a registered professional engineer in Alberta and is a member of both SPE and APEGGA.
Richard Baker, M.Sc., P.Eng. - Chief Technical Officer, Baker RDS/Epic Consulting Services
Reservoir Engineer with over 24+ years of practical experience in reservoir engineering, simulation and implementation of miscible flood and thermal projects. The experience includes waterflood and miscible flood simulations, reservoir characterization of naturally fractured reservoirs, reservoir simulation for EOR predictions, economics, cost estimation and performance analysis of waterflood and EOR projects.
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