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Pieridae Energy has reconfirmed its expectations to sell its abandoned Goldboro LNG project prior to the end of June 2024. Proceeds will be used to partially repay its 22 million convertible bridge term loan which matures on 13 December 2024. The Canadian independent said last November that it was walking away from the project, which it had been pursing since 2012. Once the sale is completed, it will mark the conclusion of Pieridae's pivot away from east coast LNG and toward an Alberta-focused natural gas production and processing business. "Our intent to divest our LNG business was previously communicated, and we advanced the planned sale of the Goldboro Nova Scotia LNG assets in the fourth quarter of 2023," company President and Chief Executive Darcy Reding told investors this month.
The Department of the Interior has announced a proposal for a second offshore wind energy auction in the Gulf of Mexico. The proposed lease sale includes four areas offshore Louisiana and Texas totaling 410,060 acres, which the department says have the potential to power 1.2 million homes. "Today's announcement is another step forward in the Biden/Harris administration's pursuit of building a clean energy future and permitting 30 GW of offshore wind energy capacity by 2030," said Interior Secretary Deb Haaland. "We are taking action to jumpstart America's offshore wind industry and using American innovation to deliver reliable, affordable power to homes and businesses, while also addressing the climate crisis." Since the beginning of the Biden/Harris administration, Interior has approved the nation's first six commercial scale offshore wind projects, held three offshore wind lease auctions--including offshore New York and offshore in the Pacific and Gulf Coasts--initiated environmental review of 12 offshore wind projects, and advanced the process to access and establish additional Wind Energy Areas in Oregon, the Gulf of Maine, and the Central Atlantic.
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He has 40 years' experience in upstream oil and gas, geothermal energy, power generation, and district heating. He co-founded Oilfield International, an energy consultancy; served on the boards of UK, Thailand, and Cyprus energy companies, controlling 1.2 billion bbl of oil reserves; and led a legislative team drafting regulatory and tariff frameworks for district heating and central heating plants for central and eastern Europe countries. Lines authored Chapter 7 of "The Future of Geothermal in Texas," The University of Texas at Austin, January 2023, and on behalf of SPE collaborated on the winning Project InnerSpace/SPE/Geothermal Rising tender submission for the 165 million US Department of Energy GEODE grant, "Geothermal Energy from Oil and Gas Demonstrated Engineering."
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Adeshina Badejo is a petroleum engineering PhD student at Texas A&M University under the Texas A&M at Qatar Strategic Research Initiatives Program. He has a strong interest in reducing the environmental impact of the continued use of fossil fuels. His research focuses on flow assurance challenges of the CO2 value chain from the extraction point to the subsurface injectivity point with the integration of machine learning. Badejo has been actively involved with SPE since 2016 as a volunteer. He led the Heriot-Watt University PetroBowl team to the regional qualifiers in Zagreb, Croatia, and received the 2023 SPE Aberdeen Section Student Bursary Award. He also served as the 2018–2019 SPE Programs Chairperson during his undergraduate studies and co-initiated the inaugural edition of The Industry Discourse, a student-led energy conference. He holds a master’s degree in subsurface energy systems from Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh and a bachelor’s degree in petroleum and gas engineering from the University of Lagos, Nigeria.
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Zhenzhen Wang is a lead simulation engineer and research scientist at Chevron Technical Center with 7 years of work experience. He has expertise in the areas of surrogate reservoir modeling, field development optimization, history matching, subsurface uncertainty assessment, pressure/rate transient analysis, and miscible flooding. Wang has published more than twenty papers and reviewed more than seventy manuscripts for various journals. He is the recipient of the Outstanding Technical Reviewer Award from SPE Journal and Reviewing Award from both Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering and Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering. He holds a PhD from Texas A&M University, a master’s degree from the Pennsylvania State University, and a bachelor’s degree (summa cum laude) from China University of Petroleum–Beijing, all in petroleum engineering.
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In this episode of Get To Know, 2023 SPE North America Regional Director Simeon Eburi discusses his various professional roles at Chevron, as well as his nearly 20-year history with SPE. SPE is looking for members to volunteer on committees that manage various programs and activities. Your knowledge, experience, and participation is needed to help ensure the success of these SPE programs. See the full list of opportunities. There are many local, global, and virtual opportunities that need volunteers.
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Numerous surface-felt earthquakes have been spatiotemporally correlated with hydraulic fracturing operations. Because large deformations occur close to hydraulic fractures (HFs), any associated fault reactivation and resulting seismicity must be evaluated within the length scale of the fracture stages and based on precise fault location relative to the simulated rock volumes. To evaluate changes in Coulomb failure stress (CFS) with injection, we conducted fully coupled poroelastic finite-element simulations using a pore-pressure cohesive zone model for the fracture and fault core in combination with a fault-fracture intersection model. The simulations quantify the dependence of CFS and fault reactivation potential on host-rock and fault properties, spacing between fault and HF, and fracturing sequence. We find that fracturing in an anisotropic in-situ stress state does not lead to fault tensile opening but rather dominant shear reactivation through a poroelastic stress disturbance over the fault core ahead of the compressed central stabilized zone. In our simulations, poroelastic stress changes significantly affect fault reactivation in all simulated scenarios of fracturing 50-200 m away from an optimally oriented normal fault. Asymmetric HF growth due to the stress-shadowing effect of adjacent HFs leads to 1.) a larger reactivated fault zone following simultaneous and sequential fracturing of multiple clusters compared to single-cluster fracturing; and 2.) larger unstable area (CFSgt;0.1) over the fault core or higher potential of fault slip following sequential fracturing compared to simultaneous fracturing. The fault reactivation area is further increased for a fault with lower conductivity and with a higher opening-mode fracture toughness of the overlying layer. To reduce the risk of fault reactivation by hydraulic fracturing under reservoir characteristics of the Barnett Shale, the Fort Worth Basin, it is recommended to 1.) conduct simultaneous fracturing instead of sequential; and 2.) to maintain a minimum distance of ~ 200 m for HF operations from known faults.
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- Geology > Structural Geology > Fault (1.00)
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- South America > Argentina > Patagonia > Neuquén > Neuquen Basin > Vaca Muerta Shale Formation (0.99)
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