President's Page

2020 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 232-232
Author(s):  
Dan Ebrom
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
East China ◽  
Multiple Events ◽  
Oil Companies ◽  
Service Companies

SEG has addressed the challenges of meeting the needs of a global membership with the opening of regional offices in the Middle East, China, and Malaysia. The China office is now financially self-supporting, and the Middle East office is running a positive net budget with multiple events each year. The success of these offices in addressing the needs of our membership and our profession has led us to look at Houston. Ironically, in Houston, where the SEG was founded and which continues to serve as a technical and organizational center for many oil companies and geophysical service companies, there is only a minimal permanent SEG presence.

Characterization of Unconventional Reservoir for Development and Production: An Integrated Approach

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Omprakash Pal ◽  
Bilal Zoghbi ◽  
Waseem Abdul Razzaq
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Advanced Technology ◽  
Additional Parameter ◽  
Unconventional Reservoir ◽  
Reservoir Properties ◽  
Capillary Suction ◽  
Geomechanical Properties ◽  
Oil Companies ◽  
Geochemical Properties

Abstract Unconventional reservoir exploration and development activities in the Middle East have increased and are expected to continue to do so. National oil companies in the Middle East have a strategy for maximizing oil exports as well as use of natural gas. This has placed emphasis on use of advanced technology to extend the lives of conventional reservoirs and more activities in terms of “unconventional gas and oil.” Understanding unconventional environments, such as shale reservoirs, requires unique processes and technologies based on reservoir properties for optimum reservoir production and well life. The objective of this study is to provide the systematic work flow to characterize unconventional reservoir formation. This paper discusses detailed laboratory testing to determine geochemical, rock mechanical, and formation fluid properties for reservoir development. Each test is described in addition to its importance to the reservoir study. Geochemical properties, such as total organic carbon (TOC) content to evaluate potential candidates for hydrocarbon, mineralogy to determine the formation type and clay content, and kerogen typing for reservoir maturity. Formation fluid sensitivity, such as acid solubility testing of the formation, capillary suction time testing, and Brinell hardness testing, are characterized to better understand the interaction of various fluids with the formation to help optimize well development. An additional parameter in unconventional reservoirs is to plan ahead when implementing the proper fracturing stimulation technique and treatment design, which requires determining the geomechanical properties of the reservoir as well as the fluid to be used for stimulation. Properties of each reservoir are unique and require unique approaches to design and conduct fracturing solutions. The importance of geomechanical properties is discussed here. This paper can be used to help operators obtain a broad overview of the reservoir to determine the best completion and stimulation approaches for unconventional development.

STATUS AND TRENDS IN LOGGING

Geophysics ◽  
1970 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hilton B. Evans
Keyword(s):  
Digital Processing ◽  
Acoustic Parameter ◽  
Physical Parameters ◽  
Log Data ◽  
Oil Companies ◽  
Service Companies ◽  
Open Hole ◽  
Multiple Measurements ◽  
Processing Techniques ◽  
Parameters Of Interest

Logging service companies are attempting to provide a fairly good selection of devices which have proven to be popular with the oil industry. However, the introduction of new devices or new services is being limited because oil companies are standardizing the logging‐suites run in their various geographic operating areas. Some of these new techniques appear to have significant applications. Recently, standard logging‐suites and evaluation‐techniques have evolved; these can be evaluated in terms of open‐hole and cased‐hole applications and the physical parameters of interest. Generally, these standard procedures depend on the differences in responses of multiple electrical and porosity devices. The multiple measurements are input to response equations which yield the parameters of interest. Although mining companies have been slow to adopt logging techniques, the use of logging devices and interpretation methods in nonpetroleum mineral (groundwater, nonmetals, metallic sulfides, etc.) exploration and evaluation, and in providing geophysical survey parameters is increasing. Nuclear, electrical, acoustic, and other methods are utilized, and newer applications of these to exploration, particularly in lithology determination, suggest themselves. Log digitizing and computer processing of log data have become routine in most major oil companies, but techniques, programs, and equipment vary significantly. Currently, commercial digitizing services are too expensive to be used extensively; the per‐log costs, however, are declining as more digitizing companies offer competitive services. Two basic commercial systems for transmission and computation of log data are functioning. To date, these systems yield “quicklook” reconnaissance parameter computations. Current research and development emphasis is on pulsed neutron‐spectroscopy and acoustic‐parameter measurements and on digital processing techniques.

China's real Middle East outreach will be cautious

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
East China ◽  
Content Type

Headline MIDDLE EAST/CHINA: Real outreach will be cautious

The rise of the national oil companies and impact on Australia

2009 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 591
Author(s):  
Brent Steedman
Keyword(s):  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Price Volatility ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
Oil Companies ◽  
Service Companies ◽  
National Oil Companies ◽  
Current Period ◽  
Service Contracts ◽  
Emerging Issues

The oil and gas industry is facing a period of major transition as national oil companies (NOCs) improve their operating capabilities and change their investment models KPMG’s Global Oil and Gas Centre of Excellence has commissioned a report which analyses this changing environment, interviews senior executives from major NOCs to understand their views and offers our insights into emerging issues for the oil and gas industry. NOCs are moving outside their national boundaries, partially privatising their assets and demanding more from potential partners and investors. The key findings from this survey are as follows: the growing capabilities of NOCs the definite shift from the use of ownership to service contracts; the success of service companies; international oil companies are responding to the changing landscape; and, investment in people and skills is a top NOC priority. The potential impact of the above findings on the Australian oil and gas sector are significant, and include: reduced access to international service companies; shortage of skills increased opportunities for Australian service companies; and, increased focus by international oil companies on upstream opportunities in Australia. KPMG’s report was prepared during a period of rising oil prices. Even during the current period of price volatility, the majority of findings continue to be relevant for participants in the oil and gas industry.

OFFICIAL REPORT OF THE SYMPOSIUM ON SUBSURFACE GEOSCIENCE RECORDS AND MATERIALS—Sponsored by the Office of Oil and Gas of the Federal Energy Administration

Geophysics ◽  
1975 ◽  
Vol 40 (5) ◽  
pp. 909-910
Keyword(s):  
Oil And Gas ◽  
State Governments ◽  
Science Data ◽  
Oil Companies ◽  
Storage And Retrieval ◽  
Service Companies ◽  
Official Report ◽  
Private Interests ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Science Information

The Office of Oil and Gas completed its initial effort to improve and standardize the acquisition, storage, and retrieval of subsurface geo‐science information with the holding of a symposium on the subject in Dallas on April 10, 1975. Among the 80 persons attending were representatives of the USGS, 13 State governments, 4 universities, 13 major oil companies, 3 geological societies, numerous independent companies, several service companies, and several geological consultants. Fifteen speakers representing Canada, Federal and State Governments, and private interests reviewed the development of the present situation, discussed materials presently being stored and systems being used, and suggested future possibilities in the storage and cataloguing of subsurface geo‐science data. Two groups then met simultaneosly to discuss what information would be stored and how the facilities should be developed.

Prologue

2019 ◽  
pp. 11-52
Author(s):  
Giuliano Garavini
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Dominant Role ◽  
Oil Companies ◽  
The World ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
The 1960S

The Prologue describes the rise of Anglo-American “petrocapital” after WWII and the formation of the “concessions system” in the Middle East in the 1920s and 1930s. The chapter concentrates on the formation of the first “petrostate”, Venezuela, that by the end of the 1920s had become totally dependent on oil rent, as well as being the largest petroleum exporter in the world up to the end of the 1960s. The chapter also describes the first nationalist reactions in Latin America as well as in the Middle East to the dominant role of the oligopoly of international oil companies.

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