In addition to Mr. Al-Saif's keynote speech, Saudi Aramco researchers and engineers are authors and co-authors of dozens of technical papers that will be delivered during the conference at its technical sessions, which last through March 14. The company also has set up a large display area that showcases the advanced technologies used to manage Saudi Arabia's unmatched hydrocarbon reserves.
Mr. Al-Saif focused on three key drivers shaping the petroleum industry: bringing a new generation of talent to the industry, promoting research and development, and executing strategies more efficiently and effectively.
The first driver, Mr. Al-Saif noted, is at a critical stage, as the industry as a whole is facing a skills shortage characterized by an aging workforce with a lack of young engineers to take its place. "Reaching out to top students should therefore be a top priority for our industry, so that we engage them as they begin to think about their higher educational and subsequent career choices," Mr. Al-Saif said.
One way to reach out, he suggested, is to clearly articulate the contributions the industry makes to the wellbeing of the world's people. "We need to make it clear to this generation that pursuing a career in energy means devoting yourself and your talents to solving some of the most difficult and urgent problems facing humanity today," he said, "ranging from economic prosperity, poverty-alleviation and social development to environmental protection and preservation."
When it comes to the R&D driver of the industry, Mr. Al-Saif noted that even as total oil demand continues to rise, many of the world's most prolific oil and gas fields have been in production for decades, requiring more attention and new technology to keep them on production. And, he added, remaining fields yet to be discovered are generally expected to be less prolific and located in more difficult environments. These twin challenges mean forward-looking R&D is an essential component of the industry's continued ability to provide. "Without those research investments, the technology pipeline will eventually run dry, and our ability to grow supplies will be seriously impacted," he said, noting that R&D spending on petroleum is not enough to keep pace with future demand.
Technological advances also have a critical role to play in environmental stewardship, Mr. Al-Saif contended. "We have to do a better job of harmonizing the production of energy with the protection of the environment, since sustainable economic development cannot be achieved if either of those activities is neglected," Mr. Al-Saif said, adding that, "The brilliant minds within our industry have an important role to play."
When it comes to the industry driver of efficient execution, Mr. Al-Saif said that a company's ability to deliver comes down to business processes that are lean and agile, with strong built-in oversight, which allow people to do their best.
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The MEOS 2007 technical sessions begin on March 12 at 8:30 a.m. Below is a listing of the papers being presented that include Saudi Aramco personnel as authors or co-authors:
Monday, March 12
Technical Session 1
9:30 a.m. Nuclear magnetic resonance logging while drilling, wireline and fluid sampling
10:30 a.m. Fit for purpose laboratory core analysis program for field reservoir saturation monitoring
11:30 a.m. Issues of underbalanced drilling in wireline and logging-while-drilling data acquisition and interpretation
Technical Session 2
9: 30 a.m. Long term production results from a field trial using new additives for fracture conductivity enhancement in a high gas screenless completion in the Jauf Reservoir, Saudi Arabia
Alternate Novel treatment for enhancing gas productivity in retrograde gas reservoirs
Technical Session 4
10:30 a.m. Applications of mechanical external casing packer
11:30 a.m. The longest deep extended single lateral gas well drilled in Saudi Arabia: Design, implementation, lessons learned and way forward
Technical Session 5
4:30 p.m. Permeability and water saturation distribution by lithologic facies and hydraulic units: A reservoir simulation case study
5:00 p.m. Optimizing development well placements within geological uncertainty utilizing sector model
Alternate Overcoming the challenges of building 3D stochastic reservoir models using conceptual geological model: A case study.
Technical Session 6
2:00 p.m. Accelerating technical competency development to meet future challenges: The Saudi Aramco approach
Technical Session 7
3:00 p.m. Lessons learned from pickling old/sour gas wells
4:30 p.m. Improved calculations for scale and metal loss utilizing multi-arm caliper logging for corrosion monitoring in the sweet gas wells of Saudi Arabia: A step-by-step guide
Technical Session 8
4:00 p.m. A systematic approach to remove iron sulfide scale: A case history
4:30 p.m. The largest acid stimulation for horizontal power water injector in Saudi Aramco
5:00 p.m. Performance evaluation of acid treatments in injector wells with reference to two clean-up techniques
Tuesday, March 13
Technical Session 9
10:30 a.m. A novel approach to the petrophysical evaluation of thinly-laminated reservoirs of the pre-Khuff formations: Ghawar field, Saudi Arabia
Technical Session 10
10:30 a.m. Controlled water production helped keep water in place and improved reservoir performance
11:00 a.m. A case study of the application of slim-hole production equalizer to revive wells with tubular limitation in a mature field
Technical Session 12
11:30 a.m. A new tool to evaluate the feasibility of petroleum exploration projects using a combination of deterministic and probabilistic methods
Technical Session 13
4:30 p.m. Development of a dual medium full-field simulation model to optimize injection/production strategy for two communicating mature carbonate reservoirs
5:00 p.m. Application of a hybrid dual-porosity, dual-permeability representation of large-scale fractures to the simulation of a giant carbonate reservoir
Technical Session 14
Alternate Fifty years of wettability measurements in the Arab-D carbonate reservoir
Technical Session 15
2:00 p.m. The evolution of advanced well completions to enhance well productivity and maximize recovery in Saudi Aramco's offshore fields
4:30 p.m. Case studies of emulsion behavior at reservoir conditions
5:00 p.m. Simplified approach to monitor water injection well performance
Wednesday, March 14
Technical Session 17
9:30 a.m. Pressure transient behavior of horizontal and slant wells intersecting a high-permeability layer
11:00 a.m. Validation of splitting the hydrocarbon plus fraction; first step in tuning equation-of-state
Technical Session 18
9:00 a.m. Cross-well electromagnetic tomography: pushing the limits
9:30 a.m. Improving injector efficiencies using streamline simulation: A case study in a giant Middle East field.
11:00 a.m. Maximum Reservoir Contact wells performance update: Shaybah field, Saudi Arabia
Alternate The event solution: A new approach to fully-integrated studies covering uncertainty analysis and risk assessment
Technical Session 19
9:00 a.m. Long-term evaluation of low-density cement based on lab study and field application
Technical Session 21
2:00 p.m. Pore network modeling: Analysis of pore size distribution of Arabian sandstone samples
2:30 p.m. Fully upscaled saturation-height functions for reservoir modeling based on Thomeer's Method for analyzing capillary pressure measurements
5:00 p.m. Linking well test interpretations to full-field simulations
Technical Session 22
2:00 p.m. Case history of Haradh 194: The world's first maximum reservoir contact well with intelligent well system and fiber-optic monitoring
2:30 p.m. Smart wells experiences and best practices at Haradh Increment III, Ghawar field
4:00 p.m. A case study of an intelligent completion in a level-four multilateral, offshore Saudi Arabia
Technical Session 23
4:30 p.m. Haradh III: Industry's largest field development using maximum reservoir contact wells, smart well completions and i-Field concept
CONTACT:
Jamal T. Kheiry, Saudi Aramco International Media Relations
Tel.: +966-3-874-5350
Monday, March 12
Technical Session 1
9:30 a.m. Nuclear magnetic resonance logging while drilling, wireline and fluid sampling
10:30 a.m. Fit for purpose laboratory core analysis program for field reservoir saturation monitoring
11:30 a.m. Issues of underbalanced drilling in wireline and logging-while-drilling data acquisition and interpretation
Technical Session 2
9: 30 a.m. Long term production results from a field trial using new additives for fracture conductivity enhancement in a high gas screenless completion in the Jauf Reservoir, Saudi Arabia
Alternate Novel treatment for enhancing gas productivity in retrograde gas reservoirs
Technical Session 4
10:30 a.m. Applications of mechanical external casing packer
11:30 a.m. The longest deep extended single lateral gas well drilled in Saudi Arabia: Design, implementation, lessons learned and way forward
Technical Session 5
4:30 p.m. Permeability and water saturation distribution by lithologic facies and hydraulic units: A reservoir simulation case study
5:00 p.m. Optimizing development well placements within geological uncertainty utilizing sector model
Alternate Overcoming the challenges of building 3D stochastic reservoir models using conceptual geological model: A case study.
Technical Session 6
2:00 p.m. Accelerating technical competency development to meet future challenges: The Saudi Aramco approach
Technical Session 7
3:00 p.m. Lessons learned from pickling old/sour gas wells
4:30 p.m. Improved calculations for scale and metal loss utilizing multi-arm caliper logging for corrosion monitoring in the sweet gas wells of Saudi Arabia: A step-by-step guide
Technical Session 8
4:00 p.m. A systematic approach to remove iron sulfide scale: A case history
4:30 p.m. The largest acid stimulation for horizontal power water injector in Saudi Aramco
5:00 p.m. Performance evaluation of acid treatments in injector wells with reference to two clean-up techniques
Tuesday, March 13
Technical Session 9
10:30 a.m. A novel approach to the petrophysical evaluation of thinly-laminated reservoirs of the pre-Khuff formations: Ghawar field, Saudi Arabia
Technical Session 10
10:30 a.m. Controlled water production helped keep water in place and improved reservoir performance
11:00 a.m. A case study of the application of slim-hole production equalizer to revive wells with tubular limitation in a mature field
Technical Session 12
11:30 a.m. A new tool to evaluate the feasibility of petroleum exploration projects using a combination of deterministic and probabilistic methods
Technical Session 13
4:30 p.m. Development of a dual medium full-field simulation model to optimize injection/production strategy for two communicating mature carbonate reservoirs
5:00 p.m. Application of a hybrid dual-porosity, dual-permeability representation of large-scale fractures to the simulation of a giant carbonate reservoir
Technical Session 14
Alternate Fifty years of wettability measurements in the Arab-D carbonate reservoir
Technical Session 15
2:00 p.m. The evolution of advanced well completions to enhance well productivity and maximize recovery in Saudi Aramco's offshore fields
4:30 p.m. Case studies of emulsion behavior at reservoir conditions
5:00 p.m. Simplified approach to monitor water injection well performance
Wednesday, March 14
Technical Session 17
9:30 a.m. Pressure transient behavior of horizontal and slant wells intersecting a high-permeability layer
11:00 a.m. Validation of splitting the hydrocarbon plus fraction; first step in tuning equation-of-state
Technical Session 18
9:00 a.m. Cross-well electromagnetic tomography: pushing the limits
9:30 a.m. Improving injector efficiencies using streamline simulation: A case study in a giant Middle East field.
11:00 a.m. Maximum Reservoir Contact wells performance update: Shaybah field, Saudi Arabia
Alternate The event solution: A new approach to fully-integrated studies covering uncertainty analysis and risk assessment
Technical Session 19
9:00 a.m. Long-term evaluation of low-density cement based on lab study and field application
Technical Session 21
2:00 p.m. Pore network modeling: Analysis of pore size distribution of Arabian sandstone samples
2:30 p.m. Fully upscaled saturation-height functions for reservoir modeling based on Thomeer's Method for analyzing capillary pressure measurements
5:00 p.m. Linking well test interpretations to full-field simulations
Technical Session 22
2:00 p.m. Case history of Haradh 194: The world's first maximum reservoir contact well with intelligent well system and fiber-optic monitoring
2:30 p.m. Smart wells experiences and best practices at Haradh Increment III, Ghawar field
4:00 p.m. A case study of an intelligent completion in a level-four multilateral, offshore Saudi Arabia
Technical Session 23
4:30 p.m. Haradh III: Industry's largest field development using maximum reservoir contact wells, smart well completions and i-Field concept
CONTACT:
Jamal T. Kheiry, Saudi Aramco International Media Relations
Tel.: +966-3-874-5350
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