We would like to invite you and your colleagues to the April London Section evening meeting for lectures on unitisation and BPs deployment of digital technologies.
This event will be held at Department of Earth Science and Engineering, Imperial College, Royal School of Mines, Prince Consort Road, London, SW7 2BP.
The Royal School of Mines is about 15 minutes walk from South Kensington tube station via Exhibition Road and Prince Consort Road.
Map available here.
Directions : Please note the main entrance to the Department is via the Royal School of Mines Building on Prince Consort Road, between 10 and 12 on the campus map
Booking: All booking must be paid in advance and online please
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Cost 34 for SPE/PESGB/EI members, 44 non-members, 19 unemployed members. Non-refundable 5 for students booking by Friday, 20 April (19 after). All tickets have an additional Eventbrite fee.
BEFORE DINNER: 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm
How new technologies are changing the oil and gas industry.
Jeff Parkes, BP Subsurface Centre
This talk is about how new technologies are changing the oil & gas industry, and particularly how the digital transformation is impacting us. Digital transformation as a term is rather over-used, and oil & gas is characterised as a digital laggard. Ill be discussing whether and how the subsurface is digitally transforming.
Jeff has been working in and around the oil industry for about 20 years. Originally trained as a geophysicist, he has worked offshore in Completions and Drilling, onshore in Petroleum Engineering and base management, before settling down to reservoir engineering in BP. For the last few years he has managed BPs central teams of petrophysicists, fluids experts, geomodellers and reservoir engineers, focussing on improving characterisation of subsurface uncertainty in our workflows.
Jeff works in BPs Subsurface Technical Centre, hosted within its Upstream Technology function. This is a group of some 150 subsurface experts who focus on pushing the boundaries of existing technology in Seismic Imaging, Rock, Fluid and Reservoir Characterisation, Integrated Modelling, and Enhanced Oil Recovery.
AFTER DINNER: 7.15 pm – 8.45
Petroleum Unitisation: How to Do Better.
Paul Worthington, Park Royal P&P
Most petroleum unitisations are flawed, a state of affairs that leads to disruptive problems during the life of a straddling field. Yet, many of these difficulties can be averted. This presentation brings out ways of doing that so that unitisation is rendered more equitable. The key is to follow certain ground rules that have often been ignored. This message is reinforced through pertinent examples.
Paul F Worthington is Principal of Park Royd P&P (England) Ltd, where his main interests are the unitisation and equity redetermination of petroleum reservoirs. Previously he was with BP and Gaffney, Cline & Associates. Paul is a past president of SPWLA and has twice served as a distinguished lecturer for SPE. He holds PhD and DEng degrees from the University of Birmingham.
Park Royd P&P (England) Limited is a consulting organisation that offers independent specialist advice, support and training to the petroleum industry, primarily in the areas of unitisation and equity redetermination, technical troubleshooting of problematic reservoirs, and maximising the effectiveness of integrated reservoir studies especially in the improved recognition of net pay.