Unconventional Resources Special Interest Group Conference
Date: July 27, 2011
Location: Anadarko offices
Allison Hall, 3rd Floor
The Woodlands, TX
Parking: Anadarko Parking Garage
Cost: $50
To reserve a seat please contact: Barry Summers: Barrett.Summers@shell.com or
Scott Birkhead: Stanley.Birkhead@anadarko.com
Payment at the door or follow link:
https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=DRYZATFS24YD4 (Technical issues have prevented a Web broadcast of this year's event)
Agenda
MORNING
7:00-8:00 Registration
7:30 Continental Breakfast
8:00-8:15 Opening
8:15-8:45 From Source Rock to Shale Reservoir, Quinn Passey, ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company
8:45-9:15 From Correlations to Mechanisms: Petrophysical Models for Organic Mudstones, Peter Day, Marathon Oil Company
9:15-9:45 Electromagnetic Properties of Shale, Teruhiko Hagiwara, Aramco Services
9:45-10:15 Break - Refreshments
10:15-10:45 Comparative Study of Formation Evaluation Methods for Unconventional Shale Gas Reservoirs: Application to the Haynesville Shale (Texas), Thaimar R. Ramirez, J. Klein, Ron Bonnie, J. Howard; ConocoPhillips.
10:45-11:15 Shale-gas Evaluation with Conventional Well Logs Using Enhanced Lithology Assessment, Petrophysical and Elastic Properties, and Rock Typing, Zoya Heidari, Philippe Marouby, Andy Popielski, and Carlos Torres-Verdin, The University of Texas at Austin
11:15-12:45 Lunch - On Your Own
AFTERNOON
12:45-1:15 Quad-Porosity Model for Accurate Characterization of Shale-Gas Reservoirs, John Hudson, Faruk Civan, Guillermo Michel, Deepak Devegowada and Richard Sigal, University of Oklahoma
1:15-1:45 Modeling Transport in Nano-Porous Organic Pores, Guillermo Michel, Richard Sigal, Faruk Civan and Deepak Devegowda, University of Oklahoma
1:45-2:15 NMR T1/T2 ratios for Brine and Hydrocarbon Relaxation in Mature Organic Shales, Ayse Ozen and Richard Sigal, University of Oklahoma
2:15-2:45 Break - Refreshments
2:45-3:15 Pore-Scale Estimation of Shale-Gas Apparent Permeability and Electrical Resistivity in the Presence of Organic Matter with Various Degrees of Maturity, Vahid Shabro, Carlos Torres-Verdнn, Farzam Javadpour, and Kamy Sepehrnoori, The University of Texas at Austin
3:15-4:15 General Discussion
UR SIG Steering Committee:
Chairman: Richard Sigal, Consultant
Past Chairman: Russell Spears, ExxonMobil
Secretary: Stanley (Scott) Birkhead, Anadarko
VP Technology: Chengbing (CB) Liu , Chevron
Treasurer: Greg Praznik, Halliburton
Webmaster: Tony Holmes
Members at large:
Mike Walker , Weatherford
Craig Merritt , CoreLab
Valerie Jochen , Schlumberger
Barry Summers, Shell
Russell Anderwald, Baker Hughes
Liz Berger, ConocoPhillips