Dear members:
We would like to invite you and your colleagues to the September London Section virtual evening meeting. From 5 pm until 8.15 pm there will be lectures on Chrysaors vision of the future of UK and Norwegian North Sea oil and gas production and Importance of Geomechanical Studies for CCS.
The event will be held via ZOOM. Once we have received your booking, the Zoom details will be sent on the day of the event.
Regards,
Tim Lines SPE London Section – Programme Chairman
Email: tim.lines@oilfieldinternational.com
Agenda
5.00 – 6.30
Talk 1: Chrysaors vision of the future of UK and Norwegian North Sea oil and gas production.
Bob Fennell, EVP Operations and Emma Spence, SVP – Communications & Excellence
6.30 – 6.45 BREAK
6.45 – 8.15
Talk 2: Importance of Geomechanical Studies for CCS.
Mohammad Nassir, CGG Services Ltd., Crawley, UK
Venue: The event will be held via Zoom.
Booking: All bookings must be paid in advance and online, please via Eventbrite.
Email: katespe@aol.com
Cost:
Students/retirees/unemployed – 5
Members – 10
Non-members – 15
All tickets have an additional Eventbrite fee. ?
FIRST SESSION: 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm
Chrysaors vision of the future of the UK and Norwegian North Sea oil and gas production.
The UK and Norwegian Continental Shelf has seen a sharp rise in mergers, acquisitions and divestments over the past years. This increase in activity has been driven by a combination of market confidence as oil prices have risen, and greater competitiveness around the world. Chrysaors acquisition of ConocoPhillips UK positioned them with a portfolio of high quality, long-life assets and numerous opportunities to maximise growth and embrace change to secure their future.
Bob Fennell, EVP Operations
Bob is a Chartered Engineer with an MSc/DIC in Petroleum Engineering from Imperial College and a BSc (Hons) in Civil Engineering from Leeds University. He spent the first 20 years of his career working in drilling and completion roles within BP, Elf, Transocean, and Nexen. For the last 12 years, he has run large E&P businesses in the UK, Yemen and Canada. He is also the co-chair of Step Change in Safety.
Emma Spence, SVP – Communications & Excellence
Emma joined Chrysaor in 2017 to support the transition of an asset purchase from Shell before assuming her current role in 2018. She holds a degree in International Relations and Psychology and has experience with acquisitions and start-ups in the International Oil Industry having worked on projects in the UK, the US and the Middle East.
SECOND SESSION: 6.45 pm – 8.15pm
Importance of Geomechanical Studies for CCS
Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is one of the key technologies that can be used to achieve the reduction in carbon emissions below 2C. Carbon capture technologies play an important role in the de-carbonization of the electricity sector to produce low-carbon electricity by 2040. Geomechanics studies form an integral part of the risk analysis for CCS projects to predict for instance the behaviour of the cap rock and fault stability. Physics of hydrocarbon reservoirs includes both fluid and solid and their conjoint interactions. Variation in fluid pressure, along with temperature change, possess the strength to rupture the rock, compromising the integrity of the hydrocarbon containment or adversely reduce the conductivity of naturally open fractures. In larger scales, their respective changes in reservoirs modify other stratas stress states and could potentially trigger faults in the vicinity or induce subsidence/heave at the ground level. In this webinar, we will review a coupled reservoir and geomechanics example related to caprock integrity and surface deformation in carbon capture utilization and storage (CCUS).
Dr Mohammad Nassir is a reservoir geomechanics specialist in CGG UK.
Mohammad holds a PhD from the University of Calgary with Dr Tony Settari in Reservoir Engineering & Geomechanics. He has more than 14 years of work experience on different coupled/uncoupled reservoir and geomechanical projects including CCS, CCUS, SAGD, CSS, waterflooding, MOP, dilation startup, heave and compaction, fault stability, wellbore stress modelling and stability analysis, sand production modelling, hydraulic fracture and stimulated reservoir modelling for different clients around the world. He is also involved in geomechanical finite element development and enhancement of CGG Taurus GEOSIM software.