Title: ARMA/AAPG SedHeat Workshop on Successful Engineering of Sedimentary Geothermal Systems
Date: Friday and Saturday, 24-25 June 2016, 8:00 am – 6:00 pm
Venue: The Westin Galleria Houston
Cost: $250; Two lunches included.
Objective: The sedimentary geothermal resource in the United States is of the order of 100,000 EJ with the potential to contribute significantly to the current carbon-focused consumption of energy in the US of ~100 EJ/year. This workshop is the third in a series to examine crucial issues impacting the successful development of sedimentary geothermal resources (NSF, 2011), challenges in detecting, defining and controlling flow pathways (Penrose, 2013) and now focused on engineering challenges.
This workshop will explore the impediments to making sedimentary geothermal reservoirs a commercial reality and in particular will examine the potential to leverage new practices and techniques evolving from subsurface engineering in low permeability and environmentally challenging environments – such as for shale gas and for geothermal energy.
Please send expressions of interest to contribute to the workshop in any of these areas to Derek Elsworth elsworth@psu.edu
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This workshop is sold out. If you are interested in being put on the waiting list, please email Gang Han at gang.han@aramcoservices.com
Title: Workshop on Hydraulic Fracturing
Date: Friday, 24 June 2016, 8:00 am – 4:00 pm
Venue: The Westin Galleria Houston
Cost: $125; Lunch included; Limited to 70 participants.
The objective of the workshop is to improve understanding of fundamental physics involved in hydraulic fracturing. This workshop will focus on three important fracturing processes: fracture initiation, propagation, and closure.
- Fracture Initiation, including near-wellbore complexity, fracturing criteria, plasticity, heterogeneity, fracture interference, etc.
- Fracture Propagation, considering discontinuities, natural fractures, brittle-ductile layers, multi-fracturing and branching, rock and fluid coupling, etc.
- Fracture Closure, covering diagnostics, propped fracture, effective conductivity, fluid leak-off, SRV, etc.
Besides featuring three overviews and ten invited speakers, the workshop is specially designed to leave 50 minutes in each session for dialogue and audience participation in discussions.
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Title: Geomechanics in Unconventionals Workshop for Asset Teams
Date: Saturday, 25 June 2016, 8:30 am – 5:15 pm
Venue: The Westin Galleria Houston
Cost: $125 – Lunch included
Organized by:
ARMA (American Rock Mechanics Association)
OilField Geomechanics LLC
This one-day workshop will be comprised of six, one-hour sessions on geomechanics-related subjects that are critical to the asset teams that characterize, develop, drill, complete, and refrac unconventional plays. Key topics will include the role of natural fractures, stresses, and pore pressure as well as key issues such as monitoring, stimulation design and design tools, and refracturing. The emphasis of each session will be on geomechanics and be led by a single keynote speaker with 40 minutes of presentation and 20 minutes of facilitated discussion.
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Title: How Laboratory Geomechanics Testing Adds Value to Exploration and Production
Date: Saturday, 25 June 2016, 12:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Venue: The Westin Galleria Houston
Cost: $125; Transportation to and from laboratory included
Starting from prevention of well blowout to designing effective hydraulic fracturing schemes to produce from ultralow permeability reservoir, principles of geomechanics have been used frequently in the past few decades. For geoscientists or reservoir engineers, typical practice involves extracting critical information from sonic logs and/or seismic data to construct pore pressure prediction model or detailed 3D earth models. However, the log measurements need to be validated against laboratory measured values to increase confidence in modeling exercise. This workshop aims at familiarizing the audience with various laboratory testing techniques, how to design a laboratory test program, to develop an understanding of good vs. bad data, and how to use the data subsequently. Following this, audiences will be taught how to construct a wellbore-centric mechanical earth model using laboratory data. As a final step, audiences will be given a tour to the laboratory where they will be shown up close how to set up a test and acquire data, common problems and troubleshooting. This workshop and laboratory visit are hosted by MetaRock Laboratories.
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Title: Microseismic Geomechanics from Laboratory to Field Scale Across All Industries
Date: Sunday, 26 June 2016, 8:00 am – 5:30 pm
Venue: The Westin Galleria Houston
Cost: $125; Lunch included
This workshop covers microseismic geomechanics technology explained by experts across a wide range of industries who are studying the physics of rock deformation over a wide range of length scales.
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Workshop #6 has been cancelled.
Title: ARMA Future Leaders/Students Open Discussion: “What’s Your Problem?
Date: Sunday, 26 June 2016, 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Venue: The Westin Galleria Houston
Cost: There is no cost for this workshop, but you must register.
This workshop is an open forum for students and early career researchers to discuss problems they are having in any aspect of their research in an open and positive environment. The ARMA Future Leaders will supply a group of researchers from all aspects of rock mechanics to help answer questions and solve problems you are having with your research. Example problems include, but are by no means limited to: instrument calibration, data validation, experimental techniques, code optimization, solution convergence, and model calibration.
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