SPE Distinguished Lecturer Program 2012-13

Program review Featuring 28 speakers from various disciplines and professions, the 2012–13 Distinguished Lecturer Program emphasizes current industry trends, challenges, and technology through diverse topics. Subject areas and speakers featured in this year’s program are listed here. Advancement in Sand Control Fluid Technology The number of reservoirs requiring sand control is growing at a fast pace. Fluids play an important role in successful design, execution, and performance of sand control completions. This presentation will familiarize the audience with key fluid technologies, examine benefits and limitations, review development processes, demonstrate success with the aid of case histories, and identify technology gaps. Bala Gadiyar is a principal engineer at Schlumberger in Houston. He holds a BS degree from the University of Pune and MS and PhD degrees from the University of Oklahoma, all in petroleum engineering. Improved Recovery and Reduced Costs With Intelligent Interventions—Make Your Wells Intervention Friendly This presentation will offer an operational perspective on the state of light intervention technology available in the industry and how it is changing the way some operators design their wells for intelligent interventions by making them more intervention friendly. It will also discuss the merits of integrating more contingency planning into subsea, intelligent, and unconventional wells based on light well intervention experience within the industry. Brian Schwanitz is a graduate of Michigan Technological University in applied geophysics and has worked in the oilfield service industry for the past 34 years. Crosswell Seismic: Imaging and Monitoring of the Reservoir This talk highlights the resolution benefit of crosswell seismic, including recent technology enhancements in crosswell imaging that make the method suitable in real-world reservoirs and a number of examples from a variety of applications where crosswell seismic adds economic value in reservoir development, both in high-resolution reservoir characterization and reservoir monitoring Bruce Marion is general manager of DeepLook-CS, Schlumberger, in Houston. He has been involved in crosswell seismic technology and operations for more than a decade.