Dear
friends and colleagues, time has come to gather for our traditional Christmas
Dinner Meeting! So let's meet friends and colleagues in the industry and enjoy
a good Pinnekjøtt dinner. We are pleased to invite you all to the Hotel Continental Tuesday December
2nd at 17:30!
This year, we have the pleasure to offer you two presentations!
The
first one will be on Evaluation of Polymer and WAG on Johan Sverdrup using a
new generation simulator, and will be presented by Geir Magnus Sæternes and
Jens-Petter Nørgård from Lundin Petroleum and Dmitry Eydinov from RFDY
(tNavigator). The second presentation will be from Håvard Morset Klokk from DNO
International about their Lessons and Experiences in their middle east
operation and especially in Kurdistan. You will find the presentation abstracts
and the speakers bios at the end of this email.
- 17:30-18:00 reception
- 18:00 -19:15 technical presentations
- 19:15-23:30 Dinner
Please
register online here.
We
are looking forward to see you all!
Best
regards,
SPE
Oslo Team
Evaluating Polymer and WAG on Johan
Sverdup Using New Generation Simulator
Geir Magnus Sæternes, Lundin Petroleum;
Jens-Petter Nørgård, Lundin Petroleum; Dmitry Eydinov, RFDY (tNavigator)
Lundin
as operator of the PL501 license has put significant effort into understanding
the sub-surface of the large Johan Sverdrup field. One topic that is given
attention is IOR. Polymer flooding is considered one method that may have
potential on this field. Lundin initiated an R&D project with Tiorco of
Denver to study polymers for Johan Sverdrup and other reservoirs. Several core
flooding experiments were performed and the polymer characteristics recorded.
To quantify the effect and economical impact of polymer flooding Lundin wanted
to apply the characteristics of the best polymers in a dynamic simulation.
Simulation time was soon identified to be a major challenge, especially when
combined with water alternating gas (WAG) injection. This talk will describe
the solution; a new generation simulator, and how this was implemented into the
workflow.
Over
the last few years, the hardware architecture has changed significantly. Every
desktop or even a laptop is a multicore supercomputer now. One of the key
challenges for reservoir simulation software is to be aligned with the hardware
evolution, and deliver performance results proportionate to the growth of the
computational power available on the hardware market. The most recent studies
of modern parallel computation methods show that the model simulation time can
be reduced almost boundlessly as the number of CPU grows. In this talk, we will
give an overview of the modern hardware trends and discuss some practical
aspects that help to maximize the hardware performance in the reservoir simulation
applications.
DNO International Lessons and Experiences: Kurdish Delight
Håvard
Morset Klokk, Development Manager, Kurdistan Subsurface
The
presentation will give a brief overview of the DNO portfolio, with main
emphasis on the Kurdistan assets. DNO operated production in Kurdistan will
soon reach 200,000 bopd, and with 9 more reservoirs in early development phase
there is still potential to increase further. This will show the key steps on
how we aim to do just that.
DNO
is a Norwegian exploration and production company focused on the Middle East
and North Africa. The company holds stakes in oil and gas blocks in various
stages of exploration, development and production, both onshore and offshore,
in the Kurdistan region of Iraq, Yemen, Oman, the United Arab Emirates, Tunisia
and Somaliland.
Speakers bio:
Geir Magnus Sæternes graduated from Norwegian University of Technology
and Science (NTNU) in 2009, and started the graduate programme in Statoil. He
worked three years in operated assets Tyrihans and Kristin with various
reservoir simulation and modeling tasks. In October 2012, Geir Magnus started
working in Lundin as senior reservoir engineer. He is following Lundin non-op
assets in Alvheim area, and also a company representative offshore during well
testing of exploration wells.
Jens-Petter Nørgård graduated from Norwegian University of Technology
and Science in 1998 with a Master in Petroleum Technology. He started his
career with PGS Reservoir where he also wrote his Master thesis. After this he
held various positions with Enitel, Petrel, Schlumberger and SPT Group. He was
5 years with DNO managing the petek and sub-surface activities on their
Kurdistan assets and in particular the Tawke field. Since 2012 he has been with
Lundin as sub-surface lead for Johan Sverdrup and currently Johan Sverdrup
Future Phase Lead within Lundin.
Dmitry Eydinov holds the position of Business Development Director in Rock Flow
Dynamics – a software company developing reservoir simulator tNavigator. He
completed MSc in Applied Mathematics and Physics in Moscow Institute of Physics
and Technology in Russia. He holds PhD in Applied Mathematics and Computer
Science from The University of Bergen in Norway. After graduation he was working
several years for SPT Group as the MEPO representative in Russia&CIS.
Dmitry has wide experience in software development. The range of applications
includes dynamic reservoir modelling, uncertainty quantification and assisted
history matching.
Håvard Morset Klokk holds a MSc in Reservoir Engineering from NTNU, and
started his career in A/S Norske Shell in 2006. There he worked as reservoir
engineer working in the production optimization team on the Draugen oil field,
and later in field development on the Ormen Lange gas field. In 2011 he joined
DNO ASA as senior reservoir engineer focusing on the Tawke field development.
From 2012 he was the reservoir engineering lead for the Kurdistan business
unit, and in 2013 he was appointed subsurface development manager for all
Kurdistan assets. He is currently also the project manager for the Benenan
Najmeh heavy oil development.