PROGRAMS SPE Gulf Coast Section 2013-2014 KICKOFF 16 AUGUST 2013

1. PROGRAMSSPE Gulf Coast Section2013-2014 KICKOFF16 AUGUST 2013

2. Our Mission… why we meet… • Exchange technology • Promote volunteerism • Offer related short courses in conjunction with meetings and provide CEU’s for members and nonmembers • Promote young professionals involvement and membership retention • Provide professional development opportunities and special sessions • Generate income for SPE’s worldwide operations • Generate income for regional/section activities • Offer networking opportunities • Market industry products and services • Increase SPE membership

3. Planning • Define your program goals • Line up your speakers well in advance • Provide program data in time to be on the websites, included in email blasts and in the monthly newsletter • Establish a backup plan for missing speakers: • Prepared presentation by study group member • Existing ATCE presentations • Existing TIG group presentations • Minimize clustering your programs on same or near same day with other study groups • Make use of the Distinguished Lecturer Series • Advertise your meetings as much as possible and within the SPE guidelines

4. Rules • Avoid judgmental remarks or opinions as to the technical competence, personal character, or motivations of any individual, company, or group • Avoid discussion of matters involving prices and terms of competition • Conduct programs fairly, responsibly, and in good faith • Honor anti-trust laws • Exercise caution so that in these programs no impression of attempting to influence legislation exists

5. Distinguished Lecturers

6. Brad Berg Characterizing Shale Plays — The Importance of Recognizing What You Don't Know Brad Berg Anadarko Petroleum Corporation Abstract: Shale plays typically exhibit much more uncertainty in individual well performance than conventional reservoirs. Understanding this uncertainty is particularly critical during the exploration drilling program when one has relatively few wells on which to base decisions. A systematic approach to understanding and managing this uncertainty can be used to address key questions during the early phases of a drilling program, including "how many wells do I need to drill before I have confidence in the results?" and "does the well performance I’ve seen to date provide the encouragement needed to keep drilling?" To answer these questions, one must quantify the uncertainty surrounding individual well results. Key elements of this evaluation process include: 1) identifying analogs that can provide insights into the level of well performance uncertainty to expect; 2) stochastically modeling the potential range of well results from the testing program; 3) deciding what level of risk is acceptable to the decision-makers; and 4) planning and executing a testing program that incorporates these elements.

7. Andrei Popa Understanding the Potential of Case-Based Reasoning in the Oil Industry Andrei Popa Chevron Corporation Abstract: Case-based-reasoning (CBR) is another soft computing technology developed to deal with uncertainty, approximate reasoning and exploit knowledge domain. Case-based reasoning, also known as computer reasoning by analogy, is a simple and practical technique that solves new problems by comparing them to ones that have already been solved in the past, thus saving time and money. This paper provides a general framework of case-base reasoning along with a review of the four-step cycle that characterizes the technology (retrieve, reuse, revise and retrain), followed by two specific applications where the technology was used in field operations. The proposed methodology extracts the relevant historical information thus capturing critical knowledge, utilizes a rule-based system to make adaptations, and then suggests the most appropriate solution for decision making. These simple case-studies demonstrates how case-base reasoning can be applied to improve the design, planning and execution of well operations, thus significantly increasing the job execution success while avoiding known pitfalls.

8. Shawn Maxwell What Have We Learned About Fracturing Shales After 12 Year of Microseismic Mapping? Shawn Maxwell Schlumberger Abstract: Effective hydraulic fracture stimulation is critical for shale development, and microseismic is the only technology able to map the growth of these hydraulic fracture networks. Since the advent of commercial mapping in the Barnett Shale in 2000, microseismic has been used to investigate hydraulic fracture treatments around the globe. Microseismic can be used to tune the stimulation to cover just the intended reservoir depth interval without fracturing out of zone, understand the primary fracture orientation to optimize the well orientation, define the optimum spacing between stages and detect unexpected fracture growth such as fault activation. More fundamentally, however, microseismic images of complex fracture networks have fundamentally changed the conceptual view of hydraulic fractures from simple, planar fractures to intersecting fracture networks in various directions. The recent development of complex fracture models, which implicitly simulate both the geomechanics and mass balance of the injected fluid volume, offer promise to estimate the effective propped volume of the fracture network. These geomechanical simulations also provide insight into not only where the rock is fracturing, but also allow interpretation of microseismic source deformation and mechanism attributes which provide further insight into how the fractures deform.

9. Programs Chairs

10. How Can I Serve You?… David Tumino Programs Chair SPE Gulf Coast Section m 713.582.7342 tuminospe@hal-pc.org