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1 - 3 August 2016

San Antonio

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The integrated event for unconventional resource teams

Sponsoring Organizations:

Society of Petroleum Engineers American Association of Petroleum Geologists Society of Exploration Geophysicists

Supporting Organizations:

Association for Iron and Steel Technology Association for Iron and Steel Technology American Society of Mechanical Engineers American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Society of Petrophysicists and Well Log Analysts The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society Society of Petrophysicists and Well Log Analysts The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society

Wednesday Afternoon Technical

Technical Program   >   Wednesday   >   Wednesday Afternoon Technical

1:45 p.m.
Introductory Remarks
1:50 p.m.
Geomechanical Modeling of Flowback Scenarios to Establish Best Practices in the Midland Basin Horizontal Program
K. Wilson, I. Ahmed, K. MacIvor
1:50 p.m.
Quantifying Shale Oil Production Mechanisms by Integrating a Delaware Basin Well Data From Fracturing to Production
H. Sun, D. zhou, A. Chawathe
2:40 p.m.
Role of Multivariate Analysis to Define the Key Driver’s Governing the Well Productivity in Marcellus Shale Play
A. Shrivastava, M. Gupta, P. Jain, M. Srivastava, B. Deka

1:45 p.m.
Introductory Remarks
1:50 p.m.
Phase Behavior of Hydrocarbon Mixtures in the Organic Nanopores of Unconventional Gas Condensate Reservoirs
X. Dong, Z. Chen
2:15 p.m.
Producing Gas-Oil Ratio Behavior of Tight Oil Reservoirs
R. S. Jones
2:40 p.m.
Wettability Characterization of the Most Important Unconventional Liquid Reservoirs in the United States and Its Impact in Oil Recovery
J. O. Alvarez, D. S. Schechter
3:05 p.m.
Effect of Adsorption in Flow of Gases in Organic Nanopores: A Molecular Dynamics Study
M. Kazemi, A. Takbiri Borujeni
3:05 p.m.
Refreshment Break
3:40 p.m.
Thickness and Stability of Water Film Inside Shale Nanocapillaries and Nanochannels: Effect of Surface Force Interactions
J. Li, K. Wu, J. Shi
4:05 p.m.
Impact of Pore Topology on Gas Diffusion and Productivity in Barnett and Haynesville Shale Plays
D. Davudov, R. G. Moghanloo
4:30 p.m.
Adsorption and Capillary Condensation in Heterogeneous Nanoporous Shales
Y. Ma, J. Chen, A. Jamili

1:45 p.m.
Introductory Remarks
1:50 p.m.
Mexican Unconventional Plays: Geoscience, Endowment and Economic Considerations
R. Aguilera, M. Cruz, E. Urban, R. F. Aguilera
2:15 p.m.
A Geological Evaluation of Jurassic Shale Oil Plays in Southern England
C. O. Iwobi, S. More, J. Major, I. Verhagen, S. Brindle, R. Reboul, D. O'Connor
2:40 p.m.
Phosphoria Carbonate Resource Potential in the Big Horn and Wind River Basins of Western Wyoming
R. D. Fritz
3:05 p.m.
Refreshment Break
3:05 p.m.
Understanding Depositional Environments of the Shublik Formation of Arctic Alaska using XRF Chemostratigraphy
I. Yurchenko, S. Graham, A. Hosford Scheirer , M. Al Ibrahim
3:40 p.m.
Applying Digital Rock Characterization to a New Anadarko Basin Shale Play
T. Hintzman, A. Morcote, J. Walls
4:05 p.m.
Productive Potential of Upper Ordovician and Lower Silurian Shale Gas Plays in the Sichuan Basin
X. Li
4:30 p.m.
Dawn of a New Gas Play in North Carolina: The Walnut Cove and Cow Branch Shales
J. C. Reid, K. B. Taylor

1:45 p.m.
Introductory Remarks
1:50 p.m.
Bakken Flare Mitigation Field Trial
C. C. Ruffer, S. Ravindran*, L. Sneary
2:15 p.m.
Regional Saltwater Disposal Facility Planning Utilizing Data Analytic Methods
C. E. Kronkosky, A. Ettehadtavakkol
2:40 p.m.
Unconventional Gas Sources and Carbon Sequestration Interplay in Mui Basin, Kitui County, Kenya
A. D. Obwocha
3:05 p.m.
Real-time Coaxial Cable Casing Imager for CO2 Leakage Risk Detection
Y. Li, R. Nygaard, W. Zhu, H. Xiao
3:30 p.m.
Refreshment Break
3:40 p.m.
ESP Real Time Data Enables Well Testing With High Frequency, High Resolution and High Repeatability in an Unconventional Well
L. Camilleri, M. El Gindy, A. Rusakov
4:05 p.m.
Using Advanced Workflows to Track KPIs and Minimize Invisible Lost Time from the Rig Floor to the Head Office
D. Johnson, R. Trujillo
4:30 p.m.
Shale Gas & Oil Development and Water Management Issues in Tunisia
A. Gaaya

1:50 p.m.
Textural and Mineralogical Control on Tensile Strength of Laminated Organic-Rich Shale
J. Zhang, H. Liu, B. Lai, H. Li, D. Georgi
2:15 p.m.
Multiscale Shale Pore Network Characterization
C. Verba, D. Crandall, J. Moore
2:40 p.m.
The Use of Advanced Analytical Techniques to Characterize Micro- and Nanoscale Pores and Fractures in the Bakken
J. Sorensen, B. Kurz, S. Smith, M. Foster, B. Aylsworth, J. Walls, A. Morcote
3:05 p.m.
Fracture Characterization Using AFM (Atomic Force Microscopy)
K. Liu, M. Ostadhassan, V. Rasouli
3:30 p.m.
Introductory Remarks

1:45 p.m.
Introductory Remarks
1:50 p.m.
Unraveling the Reservoir Heterogeneity of a Complex Hybrid Play by Integrating Results from Core, Outcrops and Well Logs: A Case Study From the Bakken Formation in Williams and McKenzie Co., Williston Basin
S. Edwards, A. Phelps, M. H. Hofmann, S. D. Fluckiger
2:15 p.m.
Organic-Rich Stratigraphic Units in the Vaca Muerta Formation, and Their Distribution and Characterization in the Gas Window of the Neuquén Basin (Argentina)
R. F. Dominguez, M. J. Continanzia, K. Mykietiuk, C. Ponce, R. R. Guerello, G. J. Perez, O. Catuneanu, E. Cristallini
2:40 p.m.
Rock Mechanical Behavior at the Inch Scale in a Thinly Laminated Unconventional Formation
S. Zeroug, B. Sinha, T. Lei, J. Jeffers
3:05 p.m.
Integration of GR Spectroscopy, Geological Core Description, Acoustic Logging, and Geomechanics for Improved Characterization of Mudstone Reservoirs
C. M. Achong, P. Desjardins
3:30 p.m.
Refreshment Break
3:40 p.m.
Reservoir Quality and Stratigraphy of the Frontier to Dakota Interval of the Powder River Basin, A Core-Log-Seismic Exercise
C. Davies, R. Kenny*, S. Purvis, J. Fenton, R. Trevino, K. Geesaman, V. Pandey, S. Bose, R. Lu
4:05 p.m.
Integrated Multidisciplinary Reservoir Characterization of the Three Forks Formation in the Williston Basin, Divide County, North Dakota
S. M. Mogensen, S. D. Fluckiger, R. Brinkerhoff, M. H. Hofmann, I. Tsybulkina, V. Bansal, C. Marin, S. Randazzo
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Team presentations are given additional time to display integrated approaches to unconventional plays. Each team consists of no more than three members with different technical backgrounds (geosciences, petrophysics, engineering, operations etc.).

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