Workshops
Workshop #1
Title: Geomechanics Solutions for Environmental and Technical Challenges in Unconventional Resources
Date: Friday, 22 June 2012, 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Venue: The Westin Michigan Avenue Hotel, Chicago
Cost: $125 Lunch included
Organized by
ARMA (American Rock Mechanics Association)
UNGI (Unconventional Natural Gas and Oil Institute)
Geomechanics is one of the key disciplines that provide solutions for the technical and environmental challenges experienced in unconventional resource drilling, reservoir characterization, stimulation, field development and production. These highly complex resources require not only novel technical approaches but also the environmental sensitivity needed to meet state and federal regulations, particularly in the field development stages. With such complexity, economics becomes an important component of the decision-making process towards unlocking these reservoirs. The concern for land, surface and groundwater contamination with completion and fracturing fluids requires paying close attention to the selection of environmentally friendly chemical additives and to the monitoring and control of fracture dimensions and orientation as a result of the stimulation operations. This workshop, sponsored by the American Rock Mechanics Association (ARMA) and the Unconventional Natural Gas and Oil Institute (UNGI), brings together experts from the energy industry, academia and federal and state government organizations to discuss technical and environmental issues and challenges, and showcase the findings from ongoing field studies.
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Workshop #2
Title: ISRM-ARMA Workshop on Petroleum Geomechanics Testing
Date: Saturday, 23 June 2012, 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Venue: The Westin Michigan Avenue Hotel, Chicago
Cost: $125 Lunch included
Organized by:
ARMA (American Rock Mechanics Association)
International Society for Rock Mechanics
ARMA and the ISRM have started a new series of workshops which will focus on Rock Properties for Petroleum Geomechanics Applications. This is part of a broader initiative that has the goals of harmonizing industry workflows through the development of a best practice manual, and raising the awareness of the importance of high quality geomechanical analyses as an integral part of sub-surface characterization and reservoir management.
The first one day Workshop will take place before the formal ARMA 2012 sessions, and we invite you to contribute with presentations and/or through your participation in the discussions. The plan is to make this Workshop a regular event for the coming years.
The aim is to explore how to efficiently obtain quality rock properties relevant to field development planning (FDP), for design issues such as hydraulic fracture design, borehole stability, sand production, reservoir compaction and stress path issues, cold and produced water re-injection, cuttings re-injection, thermal stimulation and rock fluid interaction during aggressive fluid injection.
This first workshop will focus on coring and testing issues including, coring guidelines and best practices, minimizing core damage, identifying core damage, sample preparation and handling, ’best-practice’ testing protocols, index testing, non-standard tests (e.g. creep, high temperature, high pressure, reactive fluids, fractured rock) and the use of analogue materials. We will defer a number of important issues to future workshops, such as: quantifying measurement error/uncertainty, log-property correlations, developing 3-D Mechanical Earth Models (using 3-D seismic data for spatial interpolation of rock mechanics properties), and optimizing the testing programs.
There will be no formal written articles in this 1st workshop. However, it is our intention to make all presentations available (subject to release by the presenter) on a webpage in the ISRM website. All participants are also encouraged to bring along posters in support of the discussions and/or provide written contribution/suggestions to the broader ISRM community through the same webpage. In addition, contributions of formal papers to the proceedings of the main conference are encouraged.
It is the intention, within four years, to compile the outcome from these workshops into the comprehensive ISRM Suggested Methods for Rock Testing in Petroleum Geomechanics. You are cordially invited to join us in this endeavor. Please contact any of the following to express your interest:
| Tony Addis | tony.addis@bakerhughes.com |
| Maurice Dusseault | mauriced@uwaterloo.ca |
| Russ Ewy | russewy@chevron.com |
| Axel Makurat | axel.makurat@shell.com |
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