With the APA Licencing round launched last year and with the announcement of the 24th licencing rounds expected before summer 2017, numerous new developments are on the horizon, in both mature and new fields in the NCS. With estimates that only around 42 percent of the total expected resources on the Norwegian continental shelf (NCS) have been produced, an enhanced understanding of each reservoir is key to unlocking the potential from these fields, and optimising performance across the lifetime. This event will explore innovative solutions on formation evaluation and reservoir characterisation. Our experts will share their knowledge and global experience through a series of case study presentations, so you can develop and enhance understanding of your reservoir and how to optimise reservoir recovery.

1. Maximise Reservoir Recovery – formation evaluation and reservoir
characterisation

2. AGENDA
08.30-09.00 Registration, Welcome refreshments
09.00-09.10 Welcome from LR
09.10-09.40 Future Wells – Cost Cutting or Value Generation
 Bridging the gap between wells and reservoirs
 Improved well design and improved recovery
 The value of wells
09.40-10.10 How fractures can be identified/predicted and characterised in carbonate/clastic
reservoirs for a better recovery”
 How rock mechanical properties and the strain, caused by folding and
faulting, can be used for characterisation of the fold-related and fault-
associated fractures in a reservoir
 Advantages and disadvantages of fractures on the field development
 How the well drilling can be optimised in the fracture reservoirs to enhance
the recovery and minimise the production failure
10.10-10.30 Coffee break & networking
10.30-11.00 Coupled Geomechanical modelling for waterflooding caprock integrity and casing
deformation risk assessment
 How a geomechanical model can help your field development plan
 Example output from coupled reservoir models highlighting key risks and
controls on fracture growth
 Assessing the risk of reservoir compaction to casing integrity
 Case studies examples
11.00-11.30 A Petrophysical approach to the investigation of top-hole geology
 Methods by which top-hole geohazard risk analysis can be considerably
enhanced at minimal extra cost;
 Clarification of and refinement of complex risk scenarios;
 Carry out more rigorous analysis of your High Resolution seismic data.
11.30-12.00 The Value of Integrating Gas Log Ratio Analysis into a Petrophysical Interpretation
 When budgets and circumstance only allow for a reduced set of data to be
acquired, greater emphasis needs to be made at maximising the value of all
the data that is available.
 Gas logs are one example of data that is quite often underutilised, however
there is clear value in working the data up into an integrated interpretation
 This presentation includes a case study that focuses on how interpretation
of gas log ratios correctly predicted hydrocarbon type in a formation where
well logs alone were inconclusive.
12.00-13.00 Lunch and Networking

3. Our Speakers:
Michael Byrne, Global Technical Head – Formation Damage
Michael has 20 years’ industry experience chiefly working with formation damage
evaluation. He has written many key technical papers on the subject, is an active participant
in SPE events and publications and has SPE Distinguished Lecturer status. Michael spent
many years with Corex in the UK before joining LR in 2007, where he is principal formation
damage consultant. He has written several training courses and presented these around the
world for over 15 years. Michael offers unique insight into formation damage and its
avoidance and remediation.
Ali Gholipour, Principal Geologist
Ali has over 33+ years of experience in the oil and gas industry. During his career, he has
been responsible for studying the exploration and development potentials of several
conventional/unconventional projects world-wide. He has a proven track record in capturing
acreage and has managed several major development and exploration projects worldwide,
including North Africa, Middle East, Caribbean Sea, North Sea and Central Mid Asia. Ali’s
niche speciality is in fractured reservoir characterisation, 3D modelling and development. He
has been responsible for the modelling of many carbonate and some clastic fractured
reservoirs worldwide, for example in the Middle East, Ukraine and North Africa – right now
working on a field in Iran.
Ali completed his MSc, PhD and DIC at Imperial College in London and developed a detailed
theoretical model for prediction and 3D modelling of fractures in folded fractured reservoirs.
This has been successfully used in many fractured reservoir projects world-wide and has
been published in Petroleum Geoscience (EAGE).
Phil McCurdy, Geomechanics Manager
Philip McCurdy is currently the Geomechanics manager with Lloyds Register (formerly
known as Senergy) in Aberdeen. He has a Beng honours in Engineering , and has 20 years of
experience working on geomechanics for the oilfield. He currently works predominantly on
projects involving pore pressure, wellbore stability, sand failure prediction and sand control
recommendations.

4. Francis Buckley, Principal Geoscientist
Principal Geoscientist and technical lead for geohazards at LR. Francis graduated in Geology
at the University of Liverpool in 1981 and then spent 20+ years in offshore geohazard data
acquisition, interpretation and reporting across a number of survey consultancies and
contractors. He joined LR in 2008 where he has developed a series of advanced geohazard
interpretation and reporting work-flows and has made significant contributions to the
understanding of North Sea Quaternary geology. Results of these endeavours have been
presented at international conferences and published in peer reviewed academic journals.
He maintains an active programme of collaboration with academic institutions, including
regular contributions towards MSc petroleum geology project material at the University of
Manchester.
Ed Downer, Discipline Head Petrophysics
After obtaining a BEng (Hons) in Chemical Engineering at Nottingham University he joined
the industry as a Wireline Logging Engineer for Western Atlas (now part of Baker Hughes) in
Aberdeen. Following time in the field, he held several positions in training and technology
before leaving Baker Hughes in Houston to study an MSc in Reservoir Evaluation and
Management at Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland. On completion of his Masters,
Ed joined the software group at LR as a Petrophysicist helping in the development of
Interactive Petrophysics, Ed now heads up the Petrophysics Team. Ed is a keen ambassador
for Petrophysics and oversees the technical program of MSc Petrophysics and Formation
Evaluation (offered by the University of Aberdeen and developed by LR). Ed is also the
President of AFES (Aberdeen Formation Evaluation Society) the Aberdeen Chapter of the
Society of Petrophysicsts and Well Log Analysts.