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The Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) chartered the Oil and Gas Reserves Committee (OGRC) to maintain and update the Petroleum Resources Management System (PRMS). The PRMS is a system developed for consistent and reliable classification and categorization of hydrocarbon resources according to technical uncertainty and project maturity and commerciality. The development of the current 2018 PRMS received the support from the World Petroleum Council (WPC), the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG), the Society of Petroleum Evaluation Engineers (SPEE), the Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG), the European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers (EAGE), and the Society of Petrophysicists and Well Log Analysts (SPWLA). The current 2018 PRMS version can be obtained at https://www.spe.org/en/industry/reserves/, The OGRC is committed to continue to provide a relevant resources framework to the industry as technology and business drivers change.
- Reservoir Description and Dynamics > Reservoir Characterization (1.00)
- Reservoir Description and Dynamics > Reserves Evaluation (1.00)
- Reservoir Description and Dynamics > Formation Evaluation & Management > Open hole/cased hole log analysis (0.58)
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This project aims toward increasing the geohazard resiliency and safety of the communities in Guatemala through implementing community-based educational workshops about earthquake and volcanic hazards, increasing Instituto Nacional de Sismología, Vulcanología, Meteorología e Hidrología (INSIVUMEH)'s seismic and volcanic monitoring capacity, and reducing disaster response time by using the implementation of a regional seismic array consisting of low-cost "Raspberry Shake" 3C seismometer stations in Zacapa near the Motagua-Polochic fault system and significantly improve INSIVUMEH's earthquake and volcanic monitoring infrastructure including Early Warning Systems (EWS).
- North America > Guatemala > Zacapa > Zacapa (0.36)
- North America > United States > Oklahoma (0.16)
- Geology > Structural Geology > Tectonics > Plate Tectonics > Earthquake (1.00)
- Geology > Geological Subdiscipline > Volcanology (0.97)
- Reservoir Description and Dynamics > Reservoir Characterization > Seismic processing and interpretation (0.85)
- Health, Safety, Environment & Sustainability (0.85)
About a decade ago, the SPE conducted a series of workshops to define the grand challenges in technology and R&D for the following decade. As we consider the grand challenges for the next decade, we face a very different situation-- one in which the traditional oil and gas industry faces multiple threats and opportunities that have rapidly emerged, with growing climate and sustainability concerns as well as the rapid penetration of fundamentally new energy technologies. We have formulated a set of Grand Challenges for the next decade, leveraging an SPE workshop held in Austin, TX in January 2023. This workshop focused on defining Grand Challenges that would be impactful for society and our industry, have a significant R&D / technology component, and are aligned with the skills and experience of the SPE membership. We arrived at a list of five Grand Challenges: Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage, Geothermal, Net-Zero Operations, Improved Recovery from Tight / Shale Resources, and Digital Transformation.
- Reservoir Description and Dynamics > Storage Reservoir Engineering > CO2 capture and sequestration (0.61)
- Health, Safety, Environment & Sustainability > Environment > Climate change (0.61)
- Europe > United Kingdom > North Sea (0.27)
- Europe > Norway > North Sea (0.27)
- Europe > North Sea (0.27)
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- Well Completion > Hydraulic Fracturing (1.00)
- Reservoir Description and Dynamics > Storage Reservoir Engineering > CO2 capture and sequestration (0.60)
- Health, Safety, Environment & Sustainability > Environment > Climate change (0.60)
CCS – CO2 Storage Management and Key Technical Challenges Regulators Face – "Monitoring, Modeling, Sampling & Containment":CO2 Resource Storage Management System (SRMS) and technical challenges for regulators. Flow Assurance for CCS: Why flow assurance is critical to design in the booming carbon capture and storage industry. CCS Analytics – AI-based Carbon Capture and Storage: The scientific and realities foundation of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning and its true application in Reservoir Engineering used for CCS. GHG and CCS Regulatory and Legal Framework: The evolving regulatory and legal frameworks that will govern Green House Gases (GHG) and the emerging field of CCS.
- Reservoir Description and Dynamics > Storage Reservoir Engineering > CO2 capture and sequestration (1.00)
- Health, Safety, Environment & Sustainability > Environment > Climate change (1.00)
ExxonMobil's Liza Phase 1 and Phase 2 project was announced as the recipient of the IPTC Excellence in Project Integration Award in the category for projects above USD 500 million at the 2024 International Petroleum Technology Conference (IPTC) taking place this week in Dhahran. "This prestigious accolade acknowledges the company that has demonstrated exceptional achievements in integrating multiple disciplines to execute an oil and gas project from discovery to delivery. Over the years, this award has garnered significant interest within the industry, becoming a highly esteemed form of recognition for those involved in the E&P sector," said Woodlands Energy Services' Executive Vice President Mohammed Badri, who presented the awards and serves on the IPTC Board of Directors. The award is given to a project that adds value to the industry and exemplifies strong teamwork, solid geoscience knowledge, reservoir and production engineering acumen, determined and watchful construction, and outstanding facilities engineering practices. Equally important, a successful project requires a pervasive culture of HSE and a positive impact on the communities it affects.
- Asia > Middle East > UAE (0.27)
- Asia > Middle East > Saudi Arabia > Eastern Province > Dhahran (0.26)
- South America > Guyana > North Atlantic Ocean (0.17)
- Asia > Middle East > UAE > Abu Dhabi > Arabian Gulf > Rub' al Khali Basin > Bab Field > Thamama Group Formation (0.99)
- South America > Guyana > North Atlantic Ocean > Guyana-Suriname Basin > Stabroek Block > Liza Field > Liza-1 Well (0.98)
- Reservoir Description and Dynamics > Storage Reservoir Engineering > CO2 capture and sequestration (1.00)
- Health, Safety, Environment & Sustainability > Environment > Climate change (1.00)
- Facilities Design, Construction and Operation (1.00)
- Management (0.95)
In this paper, we investigated causal factors of induced seismicity in the Permian Basin by collecting and processing data on reported earthquakes, hydraulic fracture operations and salt water disposal. We collected data from five online sources: (1) the TexNet Earthquake Catalog, which provides earthquake data for Texas; (2) the TexNet Injection Volume Reporting Tool, which provides daily salt water disposal data for select Texas wells; (3) the FracFocus Chemical Disclosure Registry, which provides hydraulic fracture data to the public; and (4) B3 Insight and (5) IHS Enerdeq Browser, which are proprietary database services that provide current and historical well data through paid subscriptions. TexNet makes their data available to the public at dynamic map websites. We automate data processing and data management using Python and ArcGIS Pro tools. The workflow produces quick, reliable, consistent and reproducible output. We developed a Python script for each collected data table to filter, select fields and write a new table. We created ArcGIS Pro Model Builder models for each new table to control format properties at import to geodatabase. Further models contain customized ArcToolbox tools arranged in order to run geospatial, quality assurance and quality control processing steps. In addition to discussing the source data and general workflow, we also review results of the automated data processing. To illustrate our method, we create areas of investigation around the 5.4 magnitude Coalson earthquake to collect and process available data to create maps, charts and data products for use in subsequent analysis. We make our Python scripts available on GitHub (https://github.com/ut-beg/py4_texnet_eqcat).
- Energy > Oil & Gas > Upstream (1.00)
- Water & Waste Management > Water Management > Lifecycle > Disposal/Injection (0.94)
- North America > United States > Texas > Permian Basin > Yeso Formation (0.99)
- North America > United States > Texas > Permian Basin > Yates Formation (0.99)
- North America > United States > Texas > Permian Basin > Wolfcamp Formation (0.99)
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- Well Completion > Hydraulic Fracturing (1.00)
- Reservoir Description and Dynamics > Reservoir Characterization > Seismic processing and interpretation (1.00)
- Health, Safety, Environment & Sustainability > Environment > Water use, produced water discharge and disposal (1.00)
- Data Science & Engineering Analytics > Information Management and Systems (1.00)
Abstract High-resolution acoustic imaging technology has been developed and deployed to map the downhole location and orientation of fiber optic lines in unconventional oil and gas and carbon capture wells. Fiber optic installations are long term monitoring solutions providing continuous measurement of temperature, sound, or strain. These fiber lines provide significant insight into the operation and optimization of downhole assets but require a large capital investment, typically upwards of a million dollars. By accurately mapping fiber optic lines, operators can prevent damaging or perforating through these costly systems during completion and production operations. High-resolution acoustic imaging technology allows operators to directly locate and map in-situ fiber optic systems at logging speeds up to ten times faster, with high accuracy, and more efficiently than legacy technologies by overcoming the requirement to install additional costly detection components. The unique sensor probe employs a circumferential array design, comprised of up to 512 individual elements which are electronically controlled from advanced imaging software. The integration of machine vision algorithms has led to a 100% success rate at detecting, orientating, and mapping of fiber optic lines to prevent damaging these costly and critical monitoring installations. Through a series of validation tests and field applications, this paper details how the solid-state imaging probe was used to identify the submillimetric indentations made at each fiber clamps installation. These contact points indicate the depth and phase orientation of each clamp in a well, enabling the generation of a high-resolution fiber optics system map. While legacy ultrasonic tools rely on a direct reflection principle, this novel, intra-steel imaging technology measures diffuse acoustic reflections at any point on, or inside of, the casing steel. Diffuse reflections are highly sensitive to indentations and markings on the casing surfaces; this removes the legacy-technology requirements for excessively slow logging speeds and the installation of costly steel detection bars. Following successful validation testing, this technology was field deployed and successfully located, oriented, and mapped all the fiber optic clamps ahead of perforating the casing of a carbon capture well. The platform imaged and mapped over 2,060 clamp contact points with a sub-radian azimuthal or phase resolution. In addition to this, high- resolution acoustics have shown fiber optic systems wrap around the casing circumference multiple times, highlighting the inability for fiber optic systems to be accurately installed and oriented. Using this dataset, the operator effectively executed subsequent perforation activities without damaging the fiber optic lines used to monitor the well and reservoir.
- Geophysics > Borehole Geophysics (1.00)
- Geophysics > Seismic Surveying > Borehole Seismic Surveying (0.92)
- Well Drilling > Casing and Cementing > Casing design (1.00)
- Well Completion > Completion Installation and Operations > Perforating (1.00)
- Reservoir Description and Dynamics > Storage Reservoir Engineering > CO2 capture and sequestration (1.00)
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2023 wrapped up nicely with COP28 in Dubai. The key highlights were the commitments by both governments and the private sector to zero-methane production by 2030, net-zero greenhouse gas emissions from operations by 2050, and triple renewable power-generation capacity and double energy efficiency in this decade. There has been tremendous progress on our collective journey toward cleaner energy production, and now we must take it a notch higher. In the past couple of years, JPT’s Seismic feature has been marked by highly innovative seismic techniques and machine-learning work flows focused on reduction of carbon footprint; frontier exploration, expanding heartlands and brownfield development; and improved seismic survey, imaging, and attribute analysis for reservoir characterization and fracture diagnostics, which are in line with the COP28 pledges. This year’s feature is no different. Recent technical-paper titles have further shown the steady increase in the application of advanced seismic techniques and machine learning to mature “stranded” and “advantaged” hydrocarbon-bearing accumulations to production; improve carbon capture, storage, and leak detection; and analyze naturally and artificially induced fractured reservoirs and seismicity. The selected papers are reflective of these themes. In addition, some remarkable applications of seismic techniques are presented in the recommended papers. They include the following: - 2D nonlinear seismic site response analyses used to determine if the capacity of a silty sedimentation could support the load of a pipeline end termination in the event of an earthquake - The results of a pilot test of the Marine Vibrator, an industry-leading seismic-survey technique - High-resolution modeling to infer if an increase in seismicity is caused by an increase in pore pressure from wastewater injection in the Fort Worth Basin of north central Texas - 4D time/depth shifts and strain signals successfully used to estimate pressure depletion in the Gulf of Mexico Others are applying advanced measurement and modeling techniques to optimally place a long horizontal injector well in multilayered heterogeneous sandstone reservoirs and predicting reservoir presence from seismic velocity and pore-pressure prediction. These topics will supply the insights that will help us achieve the COP28 targets while we look forward to more exciting innovations in 2024. Recommended additional reading at OnePetro: www.onepetro.org. OTC 32267 Seismic Stability Assessment of a Mudmat on Liquefiable Seabed by Brian Carlton, Norwegian Geotechnical Institute, et al. OTC 32393 Predicting Reservoir Presence From Seismic Velocity Mapping and Pore-Pressure Prediction by Matthew James Legg, Shell OTC 32741 Marine Vibrator Milestone: A Pilot Seismic Survey by R. Alfaro, TotalEnergies, et al. SPE 212951 High-Resolution Modeling of Pore-Pressure Change, Fault Slip Potential, and Induced Seismicity in the Fort Worth Basin by Changqing Yao, Texas A&M University, et al. URTeC 3870451 Impact of Fracture Roughness on Fines Migration and Fracture-Aperture Growth in Calcareous Shale Rocks During Acidized Corefloods by Hasan J. Khan, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, et al.
- North America > United States > Texas > Tarrant County > Fort Worth (0.47)
- Europe > United Kingdom > North Sea > Central North Sea (0.25)
- Geology > Geological Subdiscipline > Geomechanics (1.00)
- Geology > Structural Geology > Tectonics > Plate Tectonics > Earthquake (0.56)
- Geology > Rock Type > Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Rock > Sandstone (0.56)
- Geology > Rock Type > Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Rock > Mudrock > Shale (0.56)
- Reservoir Description and Dynamics > Reservoir Characterization > Seismic processing and interpretation (1.00)
- Health, Safety, Environment & Sustainability > Sustainability/Social Responsibility > Sustainable development (1.00)
- Health, Safety, Environment & Sustainability > Environment > Climate change (1.00)
Shale gas producer BKV Corp. has made the leap into the US carbon capture and storage (CCS) sector, becoming the latest upstream firm to challenge the idea that only industry giants can make significant moves in this emerging arena. Founded in 2015 as a privately held subsidiary of Thailand’s coal and energy conglomerate Banpu, BKV and its fewer than 400 employees have quickly built the company into the 17 largest gas producer in the US. In addition to its upstream operations in the Barnett and Marcellus shales, BKV’s business model borrows from its Thai energy roots and includes ownership of two natural gas power plants in Texas. But the firm is better known within upstream technical circles for its leadership in refracturing horizontal wells in the Barnett where it is the largest operator both in terms of acreage and flowing wells. No stranger to diversification, BKV is now shifting its focus to CCS—a market anticipated to balloon almost fivefold from $3 billion to over $14 billion by the end of the decade. This growth is being propelled in the US by new legislation offering $85 in tax credits for each ton of CO2 sequestered, effectively turning the greenhouse gas into a valuable commodity. The company’s inaugural CCS project, in collaboration with Dallas-based EnLink Midstream, launched this past November in Bridgeport, Texas. Called the Barnett Zero Project, BKV and its partner are targeting the sequestration of approximately 210,000 mtpa of CO2e. Hitting that target means potentially generating over $17.8 million in annual tax credits, a sum that offers a swift return on investment for those who can manage costs. BKV has also established a new business unit called dCarbon Ventures which is leading a separate CCS joint venture in the Barnett play called Cotton Cove. The $17.6-million project, $9 million of which will be put up by BKV, is expected to begin injecting up to 45,000 mtpa by the end of next year. Beyond that, BKV and its subsidiaries have secured rights for a large-scale project spanning 21,000 acres in neighboring Louisiana which would source its emissions from the industrial and petrochemical plants around the New Orleans area. Steering these ambitious projects is BKV’s CEO, Chris Kalnin, alongside Lauren Read, vice president of the gas company’s dCarbon Ventures. Under their leadership, BKV hopes to achieve net-zero Scope 1 and 2 emissions by next year—decades ahead of most industry reduction targets. The company is not stopping there and is ambitioning to do what most US-based operators have so far refrained from, which is to offset its Scope 3 emissions sometime next decade. In the following Q&A, Kalnin and Read discuss the motivations behind the Barnett Zero Project, its significance in the context of independent producers, and what it signals about BKV’s broader strategy.
- North America > United States > Texas (0.45)
- North America > United States > Louisiana > Orleans Parish > New Orleans (0.24)
- North America > United States > West Virginia > Appalachian Basin > Marcellus Field > Marcellus Shale Formation (0.94)
- North America > United States > Virginia > Appalachian Basin > Marcellus Field > Marcellus Shale Formation (0.94)
- North America > United States > Texas > Fort Worth Basin > Barnett Field > Barnett Shale Formation (0.94)
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- Reservoir Description and Dynamics > Storage Reservoir Engineering > CO2 capture and sequestration (1.00)
- Health, Safety, Environment & Sustainability > Environment > Climate change (1.00)