SAGE 2022
SAGE 2022 Continuing Education
We are presently organizing our continuing education program for SAGE 2022 and will update this page as we confirm additions. If you are interested in organizing a short course or running a field trip in the south Louisiana area, please contact us at sage2022@sagetech.org.
SAGE 2022 Short Course 1: Reservoir Fluids Behavior and Analysis for Earth Scientists
Toddy is currently Technical Sales Advisor for Core Labs, based in Lafayette, LA. He also handles sales in the Southeastern Gulf Coast region overseeing technical sales and corporate business development east of Texas and is the Core Labs domestic Subject Matter Expert for Reservoir Fluids. Toddy has an M.S. in Mathematics from the University of Southwestern Louisiana and has been involved in the industry for over 35 years.
He can be reached in Lafayette at 337–837–8616, toddy.guidry@corelab.com.
Instructor: Toddy Guidry, Core Laboratories
Date & Time: Wednesday, March 23; PM Only
Cost: $60 (Professional Registration); $30 (Student Registration)
Location: Petroleum Club of Lafayette
Course Description: Many times the only exposure a geologist gets to fluids is hearing the reservoir engineer ‘talk’ about getting ‘PVT samples’. This ½ day short course will take a detailed look at fluids behavior, sampling, analysis, production trends and cover experimental methods performed as part of the blueprint for a comprehensive fluids program.
The need for good, representative reservoir fluid samples is critical to the effective design and operation of any development project. The decision to build and deploy production facilities exposes producers to millions and even billions of dollars of investment risk, and a solid understanding of formation fluids right after discovery plays an essential part in mitigating that risk. Whether obtaining wireline formation test tool samples from 20,000 feet in deepwater environments or surface separator samples in Louisiana, fluid analysis provides the ammunition needed for more efficient use of assets.
The “big picture” may include many separate investigations, including determining drive mechanisms, formation rock properties, geophysical properties as well as formation fluid properties. Fluids analysis provides data critical to predicting well and reservoir performance, surface and subsea facilities design, and fluid quality assessment for determining market price. These data also can provide vital information on what hardware will be needed, including metallurgy for wells and production facilities, valve sizes and type, maximum flow line length and optimum diameters for subsea tiebacks as well as a host of other factors in development.
Outline of Topics Covered:
- Introduction to PVT analysis: Why? When? What? Who?
- Reservoir Engineering 101
- Phase Behavior
- Fluid Properties, Fluid Diagnosis
- Geochemistry, Fingerprinting, Crude ‘Quality’
- Production Trends for Oil and Gas Reservoirs
- Overview of Sampling Sources
- Surface vs. Subsurface
- Pros/Cons of Each
- Formation Test Tool Sampling
- Blueprint for Complete Fluids Program
- Chemistry, Component Analyses, Impurities
- Physical Properties, ‘PVT’ Experiments
- Flow Assurance
- Enhanced Oil Recovery
- Estimating Surface Recoveries
- Mathematics, Modeling, etc.
- Report Formats, “How good” ARE the Data
- Bringing it All Together—The Real Value of Fluids Analysis
- How are the Data Used
- Bottomline: Increasing RRR and Decreasing F&D!
SOLD OUT—SAGE 2022 Field Trip 1/AAG Field Trip 5: Bourbon on the Bayou, Revisited:
Ancient and Modern Fluvial Depositional Systems
March 25–27, 2022 • WSAG Field Laboratory and Wildlife Preserve, St. Martinville, LA
Participants will examine aspects of fluvial depositional systems from the ancient Mississippi River natural levee through the Red River depositional system, to the modern Bayou Teche (the 17th U.S. National Water Trail) at the WSAG Field Laboratory and Wildlife Preserve in St. Martin Parish, Louisiana, in a leisurely field excursion with food and drink, including canoeing/kayaking to the nearby Keystone Lock, which when constructed a century ago raised the local base level by several feet. Sequence stratigraphic and depositional aspects record this base level rise and subsequent in-filling of the rapidly-created accommodation space. This recent fluvial activity modifies a landscape created by the earlier Mississippi and Red River systems. Observed aspects will be related to oil and gas reservoir/seal/source development and hydrologic systems.
March 25, 2022 evening – Bourbon on the Bayou Icebreaker. Camping at WSAG.
March 26, 2022 morning – Breakfast and On-Land Examination (Phase 1)
March 27, 2022 afternoon – Lunch and Over-Water Examination
March 27, 2022 evening – Dinner and Party. Camping at WSAG.
March 28, 2022 morning — Breakfast and On-Land Examination (Phase 2)
Note: This event has reached maximum capacity.
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