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The presentation will cover basic design philosophies involved in properly designing a liquid liquid separation vessel along with some case studies.

In this webinar the speaker will show examples of drone acquisitions applied to geology, and share ideas on the techniques and areas of application of this technology.

Saudi Aramco has been drilling horizontal and multilateral wells to develop gas fields. Due to production-induced decreasing reservoir pressures along with tight nature of the reservoir rock, development activities have focused more in placing wells towards the minimum horizontal stress direction and complete with multistage hydraulic fracturing aimed to improve lateral reservoir contact enabling higher production at sustained rates thereby increasing recovery with less number of wells to be drilled.

With the implementation of new technology on deep-water units, there have been huge strides made towards a safer and more efficient way of drilling wells. However, with the introduction of these advancements different challenges also arise. In fact, as new technologies are introduced, the more important team skills, or Crew Resource Management becomes.

My lab has generated micromodels, which are combined with high-speed imaging to visualize asphaltene deposition and transport in microfluidic devices with permeability contrasts, fractures, and multiple phases. The surfaces can be altered to mimic the chemistry and wettability found in reservoir systems. I will discuss how these devices can be utilized to advance our understanding of oil flow processes and design better strategies to address flow assurance problems.

Content for this webinar is provided by Materia. By registering, your contact information will be shared with the sponsor.

The oil industry is in a period of transition during which companies, professionals, governments and academic institutions await what may be a new cycle in oil prices or a complete change in market dynamics due to policies, technologies and CO2 emission regulations. More often, innovation has come up as a common topic either because of process optimization, cost reduction or for disruptive solutions.

Presented by W. Scott Meddaugh

This presentation will discuss how the Internet of Things (IoT) is irreversibly changing the way businesses think about field automation and data collection, as well as the current state of leading edge IoT, the advantages and disadvantages of SCADA, and the future of leading edge IoT technologies.

The talk will be focused on ideas and technologies that can be applied to achieve 20-50% improvement in CAPEX or operating efficiency without increasing risk profile. Specific field development ideas and efficiency improvements will be discussed.

This presentation will outline the theory of cross-well EM system, survey design and modelling, data acquisition configuration and workflow. Two field examples will be presented to demonstrate the usefulness of the method for fluid monitoring, reservoir characterization and locate by-passed hydrocarbon.

Content for this webinar is provided by PSE. By registering, your contact information will be shared with the sponsor.

Presented by Pavel Bedrikovetsky

The city of Houston developed a countering human trafficking risk strategy as part of post-disaster for the business community. This includes understanding human trafficking and labor exploitation and post disaster risks. This presentation will discuss potential risks to the industry and provide recommendations for intervention and prevention of labor exploitation.

Confidence in multiphase flow predictions can influence key decisions on design, location, and operations of pipeline and associated facilities. These decisions in turn can profoundly affect system reliability, operability, safety, and overall project economics.

Content for this webinar is provided by Cold Jet. By registering, your contact information will be shared with the sponsor.

The offshore Wheatstone LNG Project in Western Australia utilizes subsea big-bore gas wells as the preferred method of producing the field.

The webinar will offer straightforward practical steps you can use immediately in the workplace. Some interactive exercises will get you thinking about your own non-technical competence.

By moving algorithms to the wellsite, the oil and gas industry will be able to take advantage of the new field of Edge Analytics. This webinar will discuss what will be needed to permit high frequency Edge solutions at the point of data acquisition.​

This four-part webinar series will cover the reserves reporting regulations of the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission.

The subject of Well Intercept has frequently been dealt with in best practice manuals, guidelines and check sheets. This eBook will attempt to capture in one document the main points of interest for public access through the Society of Petroleum Engineer (SPE) Wellbore Positioning Technical Section (SPE WPTS) or otherwise commonly referred to as the, Industry Steering Committee on Wellbore Survey Accuracy (ISCWSA).

Content for this webinar is provided by QRI. By registering, your contact information will be shared with the sponsor.

Increased activity in unconventional (shale) reservoirs has prompted advances in electron microscope imaging and it has resulted in formulation of protocols for shale reservoir characterization. We will discuss characterization workflows and illustrate results.

The presentation discusses the drivers for reducing venting and flaring and gives a step by step approach to address EPA Compliance Alert from project identification to ultimate success in sending gas to a gathering or sales pipeline. The characteristics of storage tank vent gas are discussed.

Two industry experts will provide insights on new coiled tubing technology applications focused on driving innovation and incremental well performance. This will be a combined webinar presentation that will focus on cost effective abrasive jetting technologies and real time assessment of stimulation fluid diversion by employing coiled tubing fiber optics.

Presented by Daniel Tormey

The API Process Safety Site Assessment Program was developed in 2011.This presentation will provide an overview of the program and present some of the mechanical integrity learnings, trends and benchmarking data developed from the assessments based on the five-year history of the program.

These videos help the end user recognize we encounter risk every day, and we mitigate this risk by introducing barriers.​

These videos help the end user recognize we encounter risk every day, and we mitigate this risk by introducing barriers.

These videos help the end user recognize we encounter risk every day, and we mitigate this risk by introducing barriers.

Wellbore tortuosity is a critical element in drilling complex horizontal wells and deep verticals. The current three-dimensional borehole trajectory model, based on the minimum curvature method [MCM], tends to mathematically smoothen the wellpath.

The aim of the presentation is to show that vertical multiphase flow, which is known to have some very complex features, can be modeled well with 1D methods, using relatively simple assumptions.

Presented by Dan Gibson

This presentation will recap the methods AI has developed for this sort of symbolic representation and automated "thinking slow" reasoning, the progress over the last several decades, and the current state of the art, and illustrate some of this with examples from our applications in the oil and gas industry.

The Butler-Volmer equation for surface electrochemistry potential and Laplace equation for electrolyte solutions have been available in CFD code for a while, but the challenge remains to find a numerically affordable way to model the mass-transfer-limited corrosion rates.

This presentation will review what we know and try to answer certain questions so we can truly "engineer" geological barriers and achieve effective and robust well integrity.

This panel session will cover topics regarding how we need to be better prepared for global health threats and how partnerships are the way to go for adequate preparedness and response.

Prof. Dov Zohar will explain the components of Safety Climate and its role in a Safety Management System. He will also summarize case studies and strategies for its improvement, and explain how Safety Climate can be bench marked and reliably compared across organizations.

This webinar provides you with the latest update on the SPE DSATs Drillbotics Competition.

For the past ten years, as the technology to collect, share and analyze huge amounts of data expands across various industries, leaders in the upstream oil and gas industry have called for workable data solutions for their specific needs.

This presentation explores the opportunities for digital applications in the E&P sector with some practical examples. It will also discuss the practical challenges that E&P firms need to address in order to unlock the full value of digital technologies. And lastly we’ll revisit the lessons learned and best practices collected from DOF experience.

This presentation will address the challenges that operators face in the early stage of assessment and how they have been attacking them providing some promising results and ways forward as they move into predevelopment or development.

This new webinar series provides comprehensive information about the Digital Oilfield (DO), from it’s history to current applications.

In this webinar, we will look at a method for continuously modeling the bit position in real-time between surveys and ahead of surveys. Examples will be shown where this modeling has resulted in better decisions, leading to wells with less tortuousity and higher accuracy.

This presentation will discuss current trends in edge computing, with possibilities on how these technologies can shape the future of upstream O&G applications.

This presentation aims to highlight unforeseen consequences as well as provide design solutions or operating adjustments based on historical troubleshooting that address the entire field life.

This new webinar series provides you with career tools to get noticed and rise above the rest.

The Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) has been actively involved in developing classification systems for oil and gas resources assessment and reporting since 1965.

We will review multiple diagnostics tools that provide insight into the effectiveness of diverting material. The tools that will be reviewed include fiber optic monitoring (DAS-DTS), radioactive (RA) tracers, and real-time pressure monitoring of the treatment well and offset wells.

Presented by Edward Grave

The presentation first discusses the varied landscape of source use by the industry and associated risks. It then describes the mitigation steps underway, especially their complex nexus, associated challenges and cross-disciplinary impacts to pose the question: Would these steps suffice or must source-use be abandoned? The talk explores why and how the industry can partner with various stakeholders in the mitigation efforts to address this multilayered challenge.

Rock mechanical properties are essential for drilling programs, well placement and well-completion design. Facies classification helps to improve estimates of rock mechanical properties by identifying a rock type from geophysical data. A facies classification open challenge, organized by the Society of Exploration GeoPhysicsts (SEG), investigated the application of artificial intelligence and pattern recognition techniques to identify complex patterns in the geophysical data which were impossible for humans to explore. The advent of artificial intelligence (AI) and technological advancements in computing and big data infrastructure, enables us to apply the process knowledge in less time and with minimal experience. Machine learning algorithms can extract patterns from data and make predictions based on these patterns. This webinar illustrates the workflow of machine learning algorithms followed in the SEG machine learning contest and how it is determining the rock type classification.

Conscious Inclusion is both a mindset and a skill set. Within a consciously inclusive environment, individuals proactively and intentionally seek, identify, and seize opportunities to leverage organizational diversity.

This webinar will highlight our studies that have focused on leveraging perception and machine learning in creating a set of CSI algorithms and software tools.

Sophie Theys will present the application of circular economy concepts to decommissioning and propose ways of integrating such circular concepts at the earliest stage of building oil and gas assets.

This presentation focuses on our recent research work in three parts: 1) the development of a new bit-rock interaction model which is a key part in bit optimization; 2) a new method to layout primary cutters to increase drilling efficiency and stability; 3) a new method to layout backup cutters to extend bit life without sacrificing rate of penetration.

Natural gas continues to be the fuel of choice for the power and industrial sectors in many parts of the world, in part, because of its lower carbon intensity compared with coal and oil.

In this talk, an overview of available reservoir fluid sampling methods will be provided with an emphasis on recent developments related to subsea sampling. Guidance will be provided on recommended sampling practices for flow assurance related characterization processes.

The presentation will discuss the novel and disruptive technology for Subsea inspection, maintenance and repair.

This webinar will cover the common causes for misplaced wells and their typical impact. It will refer to unidentified real world examples where better procedures, equipment, management or communications could have avoided very significant cost or production delay.

Oil & gas producers have deferred investment for some time but to address long-term business needs the production companies can no longer defer modernization and now invest for cost reduction.

Content for this webinar is provided by Weatherford. By registering, your contact information will be shared with the sponsor.

In this webinar, MIC is explained in engineering terms. In addition, existing methods for recognition and treatment of MIC with their limitations and intrinsic drawbacks will be explained.

The drilling industry is currently pushing the boundaries of data management and how to take full advantage of connecting real-time analysis with simulated results from design stages. This presentation will try to untangle some of the concepts introduced and discuss if a connection can be made between accurate modelling and real-time data analysis. A strategy is also proposed to take advantage of the modelling tools available and the data feeds streaming from rigs.

Presented by Steve Mackie

We present in this paper an analysis of the transient phenomena that limit the existing detection techniques, and explain how those effects can be accounted for with proper modeling. This leads to a significant extension of the domain of applicability of the traditional approaches.

While you hear about reports and news articles on self-driving cars, trucks and even ships, Autonomy has been accepted use in the deep-water Oil and Gas industry since 2001 in Unmanned AUVs.

This webinar will show how a multi-variate analytical approach enables the completions engineer to determine an optimal completion design for the criteria their company may be aspiring to achieve.

Presented by Daniel Yang

Improving performance requires a cycle that includes setting clear objectives, making improvements, measuring performance and assessing the results. In this webinar Peter and Flora will explore the challenges and dilemmas, and suggest ways to address them.

​El Liderazgo Inspirador va más allá del Liderazgo convencional, en el sentido de que ayuda a todas las personas del equipo a trabajar con motivación intrínseca y pasión. Las personas hacen el trabajo porque les apasiona e inspira, no porque tienen miedo a perder su trabajo o quieren conseguir una suma extra de dinero en forma de recompensa. O sea, el famoso “palo y zanahoria” deja paso a una manera más sostenible de motivación, que se puede mantener en el tiempo y obtiene mejores resultados.

After a tough year in GoM, BP decided to establish a permanent Flow Assurance Team to support GoM Operations in 2012. The goal of this talk is to have an open discussion about key lessons from 5 years in operations, best practices, difficult challenges that we have been facing, and how we are evolving as a discipline to cope in the current business environment. Career advice will also be "sprinkled" throughout the talk.

Digital Oilfield is an Intelligent Energy concept that ensures a continuous optimisation of an asset or group of assets through integration of standard tools, right people, defined business processes and appropriate facility or space.

This course goes far beyond learning to create inspiring speeches. It will give participants the tools to create a powerful presence so that they can have more influence on their projects and work environments.

Recent developments in climate change policy such as The Paris Agreement1 developed at COP212 present a new landscape of opportunities and challenges for SPE and its members. This presentation will provide an overview of the strategy that the SPE Board of Directors approved at the March 2017 Board meeting in Bangkok, Thailand.

This webinar will highlight some of the more common communication issues related to onshore oil and gas development, chemical exposure and disease outbreaks.

Content for this webinar is provided by Weatherford. By registering, your contact information will be shared with the sponsor.

This presentation shows job seekers how to use marketing techniques to increase their visibility and stand out from the crowd so they can get noticed and hired.

Unmanned aerial vehicles (drones) are achieving widespread acceptance in other industries such as agriculture, construction and mining. Drones will also play an important role in the petroleum industry. The aerial vehicles themselves are quite similar in design and flight capabilities. The key innovations are in the sensors carried by the drones. This webinar will review some of the most impressive new drone sensors including; lightweight radar for beyond line of sight operation, an advanced infrared camera for aerial inspection of low to very high temperature (0° C to 1,500° C) infrastructure and real-time GPS technology accurate within 2 centimeters.

It is not unusual that the difficulties encountered during a drilling operation can be tracked down to choices made during the planning stage. However, generating a robust drilling operation plan is not easy as there are often substantial uncertainties associated with the actual geological context.

Horizontal well developments, focused on transverse hydraulic fracture stimulation, have evolved rapidly over the past decade. Many of these completions may have missed or bypassed significant reserves that were intended to be produced from the well. This webinar, based on an SPE paper discusses the potential reasons for these inefficient completions, candidate selection for refracturing, and the impacts of offset depletion/infill wells on refracturing.

The CO2 Capture Project, consisting of BP, Chevron, Petrobras, and Suncor in 2016, with the assistance of consultants from ERM, completed a study on the transitioning of EOR projects to CO2 storage.

Learn how to become the kind of leader that everyone wants to follow, a leader who knows himself well, is smart enough to learn from others and has the ability to rally team members around a central Mission and a compelling Vision … The journey begins as an ‘inside job’.

Paraffin deposition in oil-field production and flow lines can cause fouling and plugging issues and may cause further damage to the installed equipment. It can lead to production upsets and loss for the crude oil producers.

Content for this webinar is provided by Baker Hughes. By registering, your contact information will be shared with the sponsor.

This webinar will provide an overview of the state of the art of in-well fiber-optic monitoring by presenting up-to-date examples of field projects that use permanently installed and intervention-based fiber optic sensing systems to optimize field development and production operations.

Today, more than ever, it is important for employees in the Oil & Gas sector to have every skill available to increase their opportunities for the jobs that are available, and also to be able to perform at their maximum performance level. Soft Skills can give you the edge to perform at your maximum abilities.

This webinar presents some of the most prominent barriers to efficiently using drilling data for performance gains and improved wellbore quality and offers solutions to them.

The lateral section in the horizontal wells used to develop unconventional reservoirs is analogous to a surface flowline. In the case to the well, the lateral reaches out into the reservoir a mile or more to access reserves and deliver production to the well. At the surface, flow assurance disciplines are employed to ensure adequate performance of a flowline/pipeline. It is only logical that these principles be applied to the downhole horizontal lateral.

Presented by Jennifer Cross, Sociology Professor at Colorado State University

Presented by Stuart Orr, WWF International

Presented by Anne Gadegaard, Novo Nordisk

Presented by Joseph Lima, Schlumberger

Present by Matthias Beer, BMO Global Asset Management

Presented by John Westerheide with GE Energy Systems

Presented by Will Sarni, Deloitte Consulting

Presented by Doug Bannerman, Statoil

Presented by Michael Oxman, Acorn International LLC

Presented by Kevin Preister, The Center for Social Ecology & Public Policy

Presented by Peter Harvey, Rio Tinto Diamonds and Minerals

Presented by Peter Milhofer

Join Ross Philo (CEO of Energistics) and Jay Hollingsworth (CTO) as they present an overview of these new capabilities and the impact they will have in delivering critical well-related information in a trusted format more quickly, and more comprehensively, than ever before. Learn how standards help save time and costs, open up the competitive landscape, and are the key to innovation and digital transformation.

The aim of this presentation is to illustrate how an inadequate sizing methodology hinders scrubber performance.

For successful delivery of Well Integrity, there needs to be an understanding of the risks that can cause undesirable events such as safety hazards or loss of containment. Performing a risk assessment on a well, or type of well, will help determine and rank the potential risks and provide information that allows limited resources to be applied in the most effective manner.

You may not be able to make it to the presentations in Houston, TX, but there's no reason we can't bring it to you. By registering for this session, you can listen to the speaker live and watch the slides broadcast from the presentation without leaving your desk.

Creativity is necessary to make innovations. The talk will discuss the drivers for creativity and how to facilitate creativity.

You may not be able to make it to the presentations in Houston, TX, but there's no reason we can't bring it to you. By registering for this session, you can listen to the speaker live and watch the slides broadcast from the presentation without leaving your desk.

The SPE R&D Committee has identified 5 Grand Challenges that face the oil and gas industry as it addresses growing energy demand, the need for sustainable operations, declining production from older reservoirs, and new resources in harder to reach and harsher environments. Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS) is one of these Grand Challenges and a technical section has recently been formed to support SPE members globally. At this webinar authors of an updated white paper will present the case for CCS, the challenges it faces, the current state of R&D, and areas for further research.

“Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it”- Dwight D. Eisenhower The Webinar “Inspiring leadership based on Engagement” will start with this quote from Eisenhower’s definition of Leadership. Inspiring Leadership goes beyond Leadership (getting people to do the right things to achieve a result) in the sense that people will feel motivated intrinsically to do those things.

Oil and gas operators are progressively adopting novel sensor and data-streaming technologies and their powerful data analytics capabilities in their continuous quest to improve drilling efficiency and remove risk and uncertainty. In this presentation, it is shown how operators partnered with the drilling automation research group (RAPID) at the University of Texas at Austin to develop a workflow for big data analysis and visualization. The objectives were to maximize the value derived from surface and downhole data, establish an analysis toolkit, and train students on data analytics—a necessary job function of any future drilling engineer. The operators provided data sets, business and technical objectives, and guidance for the project, while a multi-disciplinary group of undergraduate and graduate students piloted an analysis workflow.

What are analytics? Analytics vision and core beliefs Components of successful analytics strategy

Content for this webinar is provided by Weatherford. By registering, your contact information will be shared with the sponsor. Join us 17 January as Weatherford production experts discuss innovative solutions to address the unique challenges of unconventional assets.

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More teams are operating virtually and the degree of virtual working could encompass a team that is spread across the globe, or one where individual team members tele-work. Virtual working is defined as a situation where separated team members need to collaborate, share knowledge and use IT tools to communicate.

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This presentation highlights an integrated Well Integrity Risk Assessment Process (WIRAP) that is used to quantitatively assess well integrity risks and leverage this information to provide operational decision support.

The webinar discusses newly in-house developed and implemented a set of scientific modules for Drilling kick detection and well control. This involves case studies and their business impact on drilling safety and efficiency.

Effectively managing well barriers and maintaining well integrity within limits is challenging for aging wells and have a major influence on maximizing the life of wells and reducing operational costs. This is critical not only for the design phase of the well but also for the operational phase.

Many may recall what a profound impact the industry’s worst offshore Oil & Gas incident has had on our business. In fact you will rarely here it referred to as an incident as it has, since the day it occurred, been referred to as the Piper Alpha Disaster. Survivor Steve Rae will discuss his thoughts and experiences from Piper Alpha to hopefully influence how safety can be improved by us all as individuals through accepting personal accountability and adopting a more proactive approach.

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Shales and other low-permeability formations require multistage completions, hydraulic fracturing, and horizontal wells to produce at economic rates. This webinar focuses on the multistage completion systems that are used in these applications, including plug-and-perf, ball-activated systems (frac sleeves), and coiled tubing-activated systems (annular fracturing). Participants will learn the different types of wellbore completion options and how they compare in different applications. Also, the challenges and options of refracturing existing wells will be discussed.

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There are many misconceptions regarding refracturing, resulting in poorly selected candidates and much more expensive treatments than necessary. Mike will present an interactive webinar that will challenge our notions about why we should refrac, what actually occurs during a restimulation injection, and which candidates will be most profitable.

The current state of the drilling industry tends to focus on technology and techniques that reduce the cost of well construction. One approach is to use drilling automation to help improve ROP, and perhaps more importantly, to mitigate drilling dysfunctions and human errors than can lead to large, unplanned expenses. SPE’s Drilling Systems Automation Technical Section (DSATS) created an international university competition to encourage the development of new drilling algorithms and to get more young people involved in drilling.

Electrostatic dehydration and desalting are essential processes for reducing corrosion during transportation and refining processes.

Why do women often feel belittled, betrayed, or sabotaged by other women in the workplace? Why do women so often report feeling unheard and unsupported in workplace environments? Based on her original research, published in her book, NEW RULES FOR WOMEN: Revolutionizing the Way Women Work Together (Third Bridge Press; September 2014), Dr. Anne Litwin reveals startling paradoxes that spur misunderstandings, conflict, and between women on the job, along with structural issues that can make it difficult for women to feel valued or supported. She will share powerful solutions and tools for ways male and female leaders can create work environments that truly value the contributions of both women and men.

This Webinair will provide a number of examples of the application of Wellbore Strengthening, where resulting frac operations appear to have been hampered or complicated by the use of the Wellbore Strengthening approach and/or associated mud conditions.

This webinar is intended to inform professionals who either manage health contracts or who have responsibilities in supporting contracts of this nature (Procurement, HSE professionals, etc.) that in the workplace, an effective health management system requires active and positive collaboration bewteen operators and contractors.

In an effort to assist authors submit their best papers to conferences and journals, SPE is offering a web event hosted by SPE member Byron Haynes, Jr. P.E. on How to Write a Good Technical Paper. In this presentation, Mr. Haynes will cover both basics and some more advanced methods for authors. Post presentation, he will field questions from participants.

In this presentation, the speaker will demonstrate how to use a nano drug carrier used by the pharmaceutical industry for delayed drug release to entrap, protect, and delay the release of enzymes for effective fracturing fluid cleanup.

You may not be able to make it to the presentations in Houston, TX, but there's no reason we can't bring it to you. By registering for this session, you can listen to the speaker live and watch the slides broadcast from the presentation without leaving your desk.

You may not be able to make it to the presentations in Houston, TX, but there's no reason we can't bring it to you. By registering for this session, you can listen to the speaker live and watch the slides broadcast from the presentation without leaving your desk...all for FREE.

In this four-part webinar series, participants will review fundamental computer science and programming concepts in the context of writing Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) "macros" to automate Microsoft Excel.

When using analytical data in real-time to produce predictive answers and situational awareness, having confidence in the data is paramount. This webinar will discuss a few examples of the impact of low quality of acquired data and how it will errode the confidence needed to make real time decisions. We will further discuss a few examples of how data can be assessed for appropriate use and a few techniques to augment this data when answers are needed. This webinar helps show how a company can use open standards-based solutions like the proposed Energistics Data Assurance process to qualify data for use in the analytical and decision making processes.

The optimization of production from unconventional reservoirs is a multi-component process that requires proper characterization and understanding of the reservoir properties that control flow capacity and deliverability,coupled with economic considerations for the development. Improving the performance from these complex reservoirs requires collaboration between the geoscience discipline and the reservoir and completion engineers.

This webinar will present several components of the drivers for innovation. The role of the individual and skills needed to bring into team work will be discussed, as well what soft skills are necessary to be a successful member of a team. This webinar will include the possible impact of the current product price on the drive to reduce cost through collaborative effort.

Data driven capabilities are migrating from science experiment to main stream capabilities at many E&P companies. This brings with it a need to have sound workflows. In this webinar we will present common methodologies that frame the analytics lifecycle of converting raw sensor measurements and unstructured data into scalable, auditable and repeatable solutions. SAS and Intel in conjunction with the PD2A and DSATS technical sections of the SPE will present a webinar on the step by step workflows required to do this. The Webinar will close with a look into the future of both advanced analytics and on device intelligence.

A comprehensive overview will be given of latest developments in Dr. van Oort’s Drilling R&D group at the University of Texas at Austin and its collaborating partners. New work will be presented in the fields of cementing/zonal isolation, novel drilling fluid testing and design, drilling-related rock mechanics, drilling automation and drilling data analytics. If you want to learn more about what is new in the fields of real-time cementing sensors, superior alternatives to portland cement and improved zonal isolation & well abandonment, high-performance water-based mud replacements for oil-/synthetic-based muds, novel shale-fluid testing techniques, conventional and new thermal wellbore strengthening, multi-phase flow simulation / automated well control / MPD control, and high-frequency data analytics, then this is a presentation you should consider attending.

Petroleum engineers are challenged to address complex problems with numerous constraints in volatile markets. Since diverse groups of people produce better outcomes than similarly skilled but non-diverse groups, fully leveraging the value of diversity to fuel innovation is critical.

The webinar discusses the data infrastructure that Saudi Aramco has built to support the initiated Upstream initiative “Drilling Ahead of Bit”. This involves addressed challenges, enabled applications and technologies and their business impact.

This webinar focuses on the different aspects and requirements that need to be considered in order to obtain an optimal separator and internals design for floating facilities.

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What is Decision Quality and how is it helping companies and partnerships in the energy industry? Whether you are a decision maker, joint venture manager, team member, expert on Decision Quality or novice, this webinar will provide insight into working with multi-disciplinary, multi-company teams to enable quality decisions. Attend this webinar and learn strategies to evaluate and communicate complex decisions, and become familiar with the decision-maker’s toolbox and how the tools can best serve you and your organization in your multi-company and internal projects.

Digital Oilfields aim to maximize oilfield recovery, eliminate non-productive time, and increase profitability through the design and deployment of integrated workflows. In practice, Digital Oilfield implementations have proven to be challenging; largely due to the complexities of transforming workflows that cross functional boundaries and from the technical difficulty of integrating disparate systems. In this webinar, Steven Smart will discuss industry lessons learned from Digital Oilfield projects around the world, and share some of his own insights into how these complex systems can best be developed in a cost-effective way.

Shifting our own perspectives about other cultures is a result of an internal reflection and approach to work and life that proves to be pivotal in to enable progressive career paths and business expansions in the oil industry worldwide.

You may not be able to make it to the presentations in Houston, TX, but there's no reason we can't bring it to you. By registering for this session, you can listen to the speaker live and watch the slides broadcast from the presentation without leaving your desk...all for FREE.

Striking out on your own can be appealing. It’s exciting and can be rewarding. This presentation will discuss things you should consider before doing so. Is entrepreneurship right for you? What questions should you ask yourself first? What are the first steps? What resources are available to help you get started?

This presentation will discuss the main reasons for failures (the Don'ts), and will provide the audience with recommendations (the Do's) for their consideration, debate, use, further investigation and feedback.

This talk will look at technologies ranging from robust multi-modal sensing, shared representations, compliant actuation and real-time learning and adaptation that are enabling us to reap the benefits of increased autonomy while still feeling securely in control.

In this presentation is an exploration of the origins of the most influential types of ICD in use today, contrasting strengths, weaknesses, published performance characteristics, and ideal reservoir application.

Scale control is becoming more important as wells are deeper, as they produce more water, and ironically as wells produce low water cuts (evaporation).

A great opportunity to learn of the many legal obligations employees need to be aware of during transition.

Climate change is a popular topic in today’s society. It is difficult to go a day without hearing something about it in the media. Let’s take the emotions out of the equation and learn from the world renowned scientist, Dr. Judith Curry, about the science behind climate change.

No matter what we call our Digital Oil Fields – intelligent, smart, integrated, or whatsoever, the ultimate fact is that those fields are data-driven oilfields that are interconnected in between and integrated with business networks and systems. Technological systems may be vulnerable within and may fail due to outside impacts including the cyber risks, however the technology advancement wheel would not stopover because of such emerging cyber threats. We do understand that there is no fully secure system on this earth, however we can still have an advanced level of robust cyber security controls that can be injected during the design of the digital oil field that makes it robust against the emerging cyber threats.

You may not be able to make it to the presentations in Houston, TX, but there's no reason we can't bring it to you. By registering for this session, you can listen to the speaker live and watch the slides broadcast from the presentation without leaving your desk...all for FREE.

Identification of conditions that impair 3 phase separation performance: gas quality, oil quality, or water quality and ways to address is critical in systems design and operation.

This lecture will describe the MPD planning and design process required to get the full benefit from MPD technology. Drawing from the lecturer’s long experience in MPD and his contributions to development of dynamic influx control methods, the lecture presents the material within both a theoretical and practical context.

Jefferson will discuss the traditional price/employment cycle with examples from his 38-year career with Chevron and will provide takeaways helpful in defining your energy career.

This presentation will broadly outline useful handrails for logically assessing risk environments along with providing an appreciation of fundamental risk mitigation strategies.

This presentation will take you through some of the history of artificial lift monitoring, both down hole and on surface, so you have a background in what is out there today, and also highlights what can be done today and what is possible, and will attempt to high light the challenges of implementing digital oilfield projects from a field equipment suppliers perspective.

This personal branding webinar is for professionals who want to raise their level of influence in their area of expertise, stand out in a crowded market and ultimately create new career opportunities for themselves.

This webinar will debut the SPE Sustainability Track at the upcoming @16HSE Conference in Stavanger, Norway. Please join us for a sneak peak at the insights to be shared on the most pressing sustainability challenges for our industry.

The webinar covers the following topics; Challenges facing mature oil and gas fields, description of surface jet pump (SJP) and how it works, recent examples of various applications of SJPs in oil and gas production, best locations for SJPs onshore and offshore, guideline for selection of best candidate wells, operation issues, economics and benefits of the system.

You may not be able to make it to the presentations in Houston, TX, but there's no reason we can't bring it to you. By registering for this session, you can listen to the speaker live and watch the slides broadcast from the presentation without leaving your desk...all for FREE.

Specific subjects include common areas of damage within gas and oil wells and common types of damages including corrosion, wear, fatigue and erosion. Investigation methods include pressure testing, cement evaluation tools (CET), cement and stimulation pump charts, downhole imaging devices (cameras, calipers, electrical logging tools), and other approaches are also discussed.

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This webinar will expand on a complementary area of technical competence: the passion to use competence to achieve excellent business results.

You may not be able to make it to the presentations in Houston, TX, but there's no reason we can't bring it to you. By registering for this session, you can listen to the speaker live and watch the slides broadcast from the presentation without leaving your desk...all for FREE. The Society of Petroleum Engineers' (SPE) Gulf Coast Section HSSE-SR study group is pleased to invite you to our March 4, 2016 meeting. We will host Hazem Abdel-Moati who is based in Doha, Qatar.

Eight mechanisms have been identified, including two primary and six supportive mechanisms, which will allow for oil and gas production systems to be operate temporarily within the hydrate stable region without resulting in a hydrate blockage.

This webinar discusses a case study in the Eagle Ford shale in which a practical drawdown management workflow was developed to maximize well deliverability.

The modern oil patch has become digital as well as physical. The deployment of a wide array of sensors, smart machines and process control systems has created a digital version of the physical oil & gas producing platform.

This is group of webinars covers various topics on Data-Driven Analytics.

Improved oil recovery in initially oil-wet carbonate core floods will be demonstrated. Implication for the field scale will be discussed.

This webinar serves as an introduction to a two-day course on Facilities Sand Management (FSM).

This webinar will introduce you to a practical, user friendly approach to negotiation and conflict resolution known as the mutual gains model.

This presentation reviews the fundamental causes and impact of sand production before introducing the various sand control techniques used across the industry along with their respective advantages and challenges.

The main objective of this study is to develop new and “simple” models to mitigate some of these limitations.

​This webcast outlines a study that investigated the common characteristics among eight 'breakthroughs' in drilling and completion performance.

​Bringing wells to completion safely and ahead of schedule is a complex challenge. Technologies and engineering processes developed in the aerospace industry can be leveraged to address this challenge. The webinar will discuss the revolution that is occurring in the control of cyber-physical systems and how this can be applied to the drilling industry.

Проф. А.Б. Золотухин

Presented by Anatoly Zolotukhin

The buzz regarding data and what it can do for business today is everywhere. It has captured imaginations. Some imaginations have turned into reality, giving rise to real-time translation tools and self-driving cars. More exciting products will hit the market soon. The excitement that has been stirred by this new trend has made managers and engineers in the oil and gas industry excited. Presented by Shahab Mohaghegh.

A must-see video for anyone serving on an SPE Programming Committee, SPE Member and former SPE International Production & Operations Technical Director, Shauna Noonan explains the process for reviewing, rating, and selecting abstracts at SPE Conferences.

Here are the major incentives to reduce footprint or weight during the design of production facilities. Tune in to learn more!

The presentation provides a good general overview for a new oil industry professional, while providing some interesting nuggets for experienced professionals on the connection between downhole dynamics and optimization and automation of drilling processes.

In the midstream and upstream oil and natural gas industry, changes in equipment, personnel and processes are constant. Many of these changes involve increases or shifts in operational risks and associated exposure points. Like many exploration and production companies, Anadarko has operations around the globe, including the Americas, Africa and New Zealand. These assets, coupled with ongoing world-wide exploration, development and acquisition of assets, translate into near-constant change and risk exposure for Anadarko’s operations, personnel, business processes and systems.

Instructors will use a system level gap analysis and closure model to clarify how soft skills are employed with the five system principles to achieve desired results.

The safety and environmental protection aspects in the design, construction, operation and maintenance of drilling and producing systems is of paramount importance. The industry has always been concerned with safety. After all no one wants to be killed or be the cause of a fellow worker or employee losing his life or becoming seriously injured. However, our awareness of how to act on that concern and what is possible from the standpoint of safety has changed over the years.

​The testing of proppants in the laboratory to determine conductivity and permeability at closure stress provides critical data for evaluating proppant performance. The data obtained from these tests are important for proppant suppliers and manufacturers in evaluating their sources of supply or in adjusting or modifying manufacturing processes. For the operator it is a basis for comparing performance, quality and value. The webinar will discuss how this data is obtained and the limitations in its use and application.

This event shall focus on “The Role of the Facilities Engineer in Upstream”.

The purpose of this seminar is to illustrate the effectiveness of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) in guiding re-design of a scrubber inlet within the constraints of the project team.

Data-Driven Smart proxies take advantage of the “Big Data” solutions (machine learning and pattern recognition) to develop highly accurate replicas of numerical models with very fast response time. The novelty of Smart Proxy Modeling stems from the fact that it is a complete departure from traditional approaches to modeling in the oil and gas industry and constitutes a major advancement in utilization and incorporation of Big Data solution in the E&P industry. Presented by Shahab Mohaghegh.

The second in a series of events leading to a culminating workshop that will be held with the 2016 SPE International HSE Conference in Stavanger, the SPE Gulf Coast Section is hosting an interactive session to initiate the industry's conversation as to how we can eliminate HSE incident occurrence.

This event will review the introduction of automation to safety-critical industries and demonstrate that humans are never fully taken out of the operational loop; rather their roles and tasks are redefined, sometimes requiring different personnel altogether.

Horizontal shale wells are inherently prone to slugging through a mechanism completely comparable to terrain slugging in pipeline-riser systems. This slugging can lead to large fluctuations in the sand face pressure, which may degrade the quality of hydraulically generated fracture systems.

The third in a series of events leading to a culminating workshop that will be held with the 2016 SPE International HSE Conference in Stavanger, the SPE Gulf Coast Section is hosting an interactive session to initiate the industry's conversation as to how we can eliminate HSE incident occurrence.

This webinar will discuss these impacts and considerations that should be made when designing stimulation treatments in horizontal wells under various conditions.

Webinars on Wellbore Stability Topics

Presented by: Vaihab Bahadur (first place); Mustafa Akbulut and Cenk Temizel (second place) and Omar Laghrouche (third place).

As companies expand across the globe, challenges to communications grow as well. To work effectively with others from different cultures, the first step is to recognize, and understand differences, then deal sensitively with people from other backgrounds.

Oil and gas industry interest in applying Human Factors Concepts in managing risk has grown significantly since the Macondo Spill. The range of literature, industry studies, workshops, and presentations covering human factors (HF) topics is extensive. Crew Resource Management (CRM) is one of the elements of human factors also getting a lot of recent attention. The challenge is to synthesize this information, get beyond theory, and present operating company managements with specific ideas and recommendations - insights and actionable ideas as to how human factors and CRM concepts can be applied to reduce the overall risk exposure of the enterprise. The presentation will discuss and suggest several key “take aways” – potential “low hanging fruit” of ideas where human factors and CRM can help manage enterprise risk.

Low oil prices are driving low utilization rates resulting in downward pricing pressure across many key segments. Find out the answers to the most common questions and more in our panel session, Water Management in a Down Market.

In an effort to assist authors present papers at conferences, SPE is offering a web event hosted by SPE member Byron Haynes, Jr. P.E. on How to Present Your Paper. In this web event Byron will take the author from preparation to delivery within the presentation process. Post presentation Byron will field questions from participants.

Presented by Larry Eoff

Presented by Larry Eoff

What You Need to Know about Investigations, including a discussion of how internal and government-driven investigations work, what to expect if your company is being investigated, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and other laws affecting operations in the oil and gas industry, and related ethical issues, presented by Tracy LeRoy and David Denton of Sidley Austin, LLP.

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The first in a series of events leading to a culminating workshop that will be held with the 2016 SPE International HSE Conference in Stavanger, the SPE Gulf Coast Section is hosting an interactive session to initiate the industry's conversation as to how we can eliminate HSE incident occurrence.

Presented by Dr. Andrei Popa

Presented by Dr. Andrei Popa

Hydraulic Fracturing (HF) is a well-established process to enhance the productivity of oil and gas wells. This stimulation process is conducted in reservoirs where the rock does not naturally flow the petroleum fluids. This is the case in many oil and gas reservoirs especially shales. In the HF process, the reservoir stresses are overcome by use of fluids to initiate fractures. The initiation of the fracture is not enough to produce petroleum fluids. This process involves key and critical changes in the physical and chemical properties of the fluids involved. This lecture will shed light on these changes from material science point of view. Various existing technologies for HF fluids will be discussed. This should give a clear understanding of the current state of the art in this field. The talk will also shed light on the current challenges that the industry faces. This will help the attendees draw broad lines on the current research themes in this area.

You may not be able to make it to the presentation in Houston, TX, but there's no reason we can't bring it to you. By registering for this session, you can listen to the speaker live and watch the slides broadcast from the presentation without leaving your desk...all for FREE. Most projects overrun their budget and/or schedule significantly and/or produce less oil/gas than promised. The complexity of our projects and project design teams is at least partially responsible for project failure rates. An SPE Work Study group is presently addressing the impact of complexity and its contribution to project failures. The presentation will include preliminary findings from that study.

Basic scrubber design and internal technologies were highlighted in the STTS 3-March 2015 Webinar: “Scrubber Design for Gas-Liquid Separation: A Holistic Approach”. In continuation with our theme on Scrubber Designs, this webinar will focus on high capacity internals advancements and services in which these internals may be applied. Enhanced separation efficiency and/or capacity can be further obtained when combined with a pre-separator upstream of the high capacity scrubber in the form of an inline cyclonic separator. Various concept and layouts will be presented and discussed.

In an effort to assist authors submit their best papers to conferences and journals, SPE is offering a WebEx hosted by SPE member Byron Haynes, Jr. P.E. on How to Write an Abstract. In this WebEx Byron will cover both basics and some new changes within the abstract process along with how to effectively construct your abstract. Post presentation Byron will field questions from participants.

Drilling Automation Webinars

Digital Manufacturing (“Digital Thread”) encompasses the idea of high-levels of connectivity, data aggregation, and digital models to drive efficiency, safety, and growth in distributed systems. More concretely, there is a trend in manufacturing operations towards having a common data model that guides the creation of products from design engineering, through manufacturing all the way to maintenance, support, and end-of-life reclamation. The presentation will provide an overview of current activities in other industries and their relation to drilling system automation.

Presented by Dr. Tayfun Babadagli

Much is yet to be learned about how and why we make decisions, one of our most complex and essential human behaviors. Decision making occurs at all levels in organizations, from strategic decision makers to operational decision makers. Typically, it is the outcome of the decision that determines whether a decision is good or not, however, typically it is the decision making process that affects the outcome. This presentation will include factors that influence both individual and collaborative decision making, including the impact of cognitive biases. The factors that can help, as well as hinder, decision making will also be discussed. Suggestions from the SPE Technical Report, 2013, entitled The Human Factor: Process Safety and Culture, will be described in the context of improving the decision making process.

This presentation focuses on advanced automation architectures and software techniques that leverage data analytics and system modularity to achieve greater operational efficiency and reliability. Doing 'more with less' is highlighted through specific technologies that combine advanced hardware and software into unified platforms.

This web event will cover the essential components of a Fatigue Risk Management Plan, the first steps to implement a Fatigue Risk Management Plan and a case study on measuring fatigue risk exposure in an operational setting.

You may not be able to make it to the presentation in Houston, TX, but there's no reason we can't bring it to you. By registering for this session, you can listen to the speaker live and watch the slides broadcast from the presentation without leaving your desk...all for FREE. It wasn’t but a few months ago that we discussed the dire situation the oil and gas industry finds itself in. However, high oil prices cushioned the effect of poor practices and muffled the hearing of the industry! What a difference a few months make! This talk will draw upon the vast Independent Project Analysis, Inc. (IPA) database of capital projects and lessons learned to present an agenda for the lull. Specifically, we will discuss the things businesses should be doing right now that will make their companies emerge stronger from this crisis.

Presented by Martin Rylance

Webinars on Well Integrity

Well Plug & Abandonment (P&A) is the final operation in a well, this work required by local governments represents a huge liability for the oil & gas industry. This webinar will provide a high level overview of how to perform a well abandonment. It will touch briefly on the regulations and guidelines and thereafter go step by step through the P&A process of an example well schematic while highlighting some of the technical challenges.

This presentation will cover the aspects of how the industry can be effective in protecting workers against Ebola.

Ideally, enterprise resource planning (ERP) efforts would include health, safety, security and environment (HSSE) in scope. So why don’t they? The presentation will show why HSSE should be included in ERP efforts, discuss the value consequences of not including HSSE, and suggestions on how to make the business case for why HSSE should be included in scope from Day One.

The Flow Assurance Technical Section presents this web event on how the challenges of subsea developments are exponentially increasing as we go not only deeper but also further into sea. This presentation will give an overview on some significant flow assurance challenges and various state-of-the art flow assurance technologies.

Drilling depleted or weak zones has always been a challenge; with typical problems associated while drilling these types of intervals being lost circulation, stuck pipe and wellbore instability resulting in significant and expensive non-productive time (NPT) and costly remediation operations. A new approach is an integrated one that combines the planning and testing, products and systems, implementation and maintenance, and monitoring and reporting on their success of Wellbore Strengthening (WBS) solutions. This approach will be reviewed along with the accompanying technologies for WBS.

This series includes six webinars on different unconventional reservoir topics. Each webinar will be about one-hour long followed by Q&A.

In an effort to assist authors submit their best papers to conferences and journals, SPE is offering a web event hosted by SPE member Byron Haynes, Jr. P.E. on How to Write a Good Technical Paper. In this presentation, Mr. Haynes will cover both basics and some more advanced methods for authors. Post presentation, he will field questions from participants.

Presented by Aziz S. Odeh.

Presented by Aziz S. Odeh.

The deadliest industrial accident in human history occurred on Dec 3, 1983. A chemical release in Bhopal, India killed thousands. A lax safety culture contributed to the accident and to the extreme consequences of the accident. This webinar will tackle some challenging questions such as – ‘How is safety culture different today?’ and ‘What impact did Bhopal have?’ ‘Did it have more impact on design or on operations?’

​Presented by Jennifer L. Miskimins

Hydraulic Fracturing Webinars

Scrubber design is not a simple matter of selecting whatever demisting technology you want and applying a K-factor. First the required separation performance must be determined based on the service. Then scrubber design starts upstream with the inlet piping sizing, components (valves, etc.) and routing. Proper inlet design ensures a stable flow regime, low entrainment of liquid into the gas due to shearing, and prevents swirling flow from entering the scrubber. A low shear inlet distributor is necessary to minimize shearing of large droplets into smaller harder to separate droplets and to provide adequate distribution into the vessel. The scrubber design should also account for proper disengaging space for bulk liquid separation (gravity separation) and flow distribution between internal elements.

This is the last in a series of eight webinars on Artificial Lift. Click to find out more information about this event and the rest of the series!

Fiber Optic (FO) technology is quite unique for diagnostic evaluation of wells as the fiber can be used in multiple ways. Initially, application of fiber for in-well technology concentrated on temperature profiling. This limited its application to processes with strong thermal signatures. More recently the use of fiber for acoustics and strain measurements has expanded the applicability of distributed fiber sensing to other areas of data acquisition and well management.

The aim of this presentation is to address meter selection and provide pointers to assist engineers within the four major categories listed above. The aim of this presentation is to address meter selection and provide pointers to assist engineers within the four major categories listed inside.

Presented by Mark S. Brinsden

Course Description • The business case for and footprint of Energistics data exchange standards • WITSML Overview, Energistics’s drilling data exchange standard • Future development plans

You may not be able to make it to the presentation in Houston, TX, but there's no reason we can't bring it to you. By registering for this session, you can listen to the speaker live and watch the slides broadcast from the presentation without leaving your desk...all for FREE. This presentation will discuss some of the applications where multiphase meters are currently used, what challenges are commonly seen, and how the use of multiphase meters can effectively be used for these complex scenarios. The current status of multiphase meters will be covered, and examples of applications successfully (and not so successfully) uses of multiphase meters in real life applications will be presented.

Multi-fractured horizontal wells in Shale plays exhibit, sometimes dramatic, performance decline due to deterioration in completion efficiency. In order to overcome the reduced effective fracture dimensions, it is necessary to evaluate the performance of the multi-fractured horizontal wells and its remaining potential and the impact of re-fracturing. In this webinar we discuss an analog model, developed from a statistically significant dataset of over 80 wells in the Haynesville Shale, for estimating the economic value, the potential uplift and the minimum threshold volume required. We also discuss methods to achieve this potential including implementation. Some of these points were presented by Jacobs7 in a JPT article.

The basic operating principles of four metering technologies: Positive Displacement (PD) Meters, Coriolis Mass Meters, Turbine Meters, and Ultrasonics will be discussed and the application range of each one of these technologies in terms of viscosity and flow rate will be covered.

Jim Christie will share lessons learned from decommissioning three interconnected offshore platforms in the UK North Sea, comprising almost 100,000 tonnes of topsides and 40,000 tonnes of jackets, together with abandoning over 100 wells and hundreds of kilometers of pipelines.

This is the seventh in a series of eight webinars on Artificial Lift. Click to find out more information about this event and the rest of the series!

Low-permeability black oil reservoirs (“light-tight oil” or LTO) are currently a significant focus of development in North America. High profile examples include developments of certain areas of the Eagle Ford, Bakken and Wolfcamp formations in the U.S., and the Bakken and Cardium formations in Canada. Commercial development of these plays has been enabled by the use of multi-fractured horizontal wells (MFHWs), however quantitative evaluation of well-performance remains a challenge. The intent of this webinar is to discuss recent advances in RTA that have made possible the analysis of LTO reservoirs that exhibit complex reservoir and fluid behavior.

This session covers fiscal and allocation metering and will address meter selection criteria, installation effects, calibration, shrinkage/flash and diagnostics and troubleshooting.

Could "cyber espionage" impact digital oilfield operations? Could you be part of the solution? During this session we will review recent cyber campaigns and how and why cyber adversaries have their sights set not only IT systems, but also engineering systems, control systems and industrial devices of some of the largest companies in the world, including manufacturing and energy. We will also discuss how everyone -- engineers, scientists, IT personnel and executives in the energy industry can collaboratively combat the cyber adversaries that threaten the future of our global digital oilfields.

In an innovative move, the University of Texas under the guidance of Professor Eric van Oort has opened laboratories targeting drilling automation. The drilling automation laboratory features a drill rig simulator, the first of its kind at an American University, and students and faculty have access to state-of-the-art equipment and facilities that supports research, development and teaching.

Presented by Patrick Hudson

You may not be able to make it to the presentation in Houston, TX, but there's no reason we can't bring it to you. By registering for this session, you can listen to the speaker live and watch the slides broadcast from the presentation without leaving your desk...all for FREE. The presentation considers original end of field life design constraints on crude oil separators and in a logical progression illustrates how hidden capacity in a separator can be identified and used to upgrade the separator, both by maximizing the use of available volume in the separator and also by the use of upgraded process internals. The presentation also describes the methods available for installing upgraded internals covering clamp type internals through to full vessel modification including fitting of new process nozzles.

This is the sixth in a series of eight webinars on Artificial Lift. Click to find out more information about this event and the rest of the series!

This is the fifth in a series of eight webinars on Artificial Lift. Click to find out more information about this event and the rest of the series!

This preparatory study course will share best practices for engineering professionals getting ready to take the professional registration or the SPE certification exam.

This web event includes presentations from two speakers on the topic. Dr. Mollicone will give an overview of biological factors that contribute to fatigue in a context relevant to the oil and gas industry. He will discuss leading tools to objectively quantify fatigue-related performance deficits and will demonstrate the brief 3-minute Psychomotor Vigilance Test (PVT). ______________________________________________________________ In the last ten years three new streams of R&D have upset the 100 year status quo of how we view light at night. Dr. Martin Moore-Ede will discuss the progress of this R&D, and some innovative new approaches to managing these risks and avoiding an LED-induced shift worker health epidemic.

Presented by Dr. Mohan Kelkar

Since 2007, Robotic Drilling Systems AS (RDS) has developed robotic technology for an unmanned drill floor. This has included the development of a new generation of pipe handlers, iron roughnecks, elevators, slips, control systems and man-machine interfaces, and a new machine: the drill floor robot. RDS will present the results and status of its research and development program, and discuss how the robotic drill floor will be introduced in the industry.

This is the fourth in a series of eight webinars on Artificial Lift. Click to find out more information about this event and the rest of the series!

The Oil & Gas industry has been designing and constructing facilities for decades, and they have all been started up and operated successfully. Why do we need to pay special attention to “Facility Operability?” The truth is that facility start-ups have been less than efficient and have resulted in months of delay before reaching nameplate rated performance. When planned and executed correctly, a comprehensive Facility Operability program should not result in added facility costs or delayed project schedule. In this presentation the speaker will share the things of primary importance with regard to ”Facility Operability” ie. the experiences and learnings of almost 10 years of working with these issues. This presentation is intended to be an interactive session where the audience will share experiences and ask plenty of questions.

Research sponsored by the International Association of Oil and Gas Producers and others has suggested that creating a sense of ‘chronic unease’ in relation to barrier integrity and operation of safety-critical systems, combined with understanding of the psychological issues that create error-producing conditions, will strengthen defenses against major accidents occurring. The question remains as to the best way to embed the necessary skills through teaching, coaching, and assessment and their integration into routine working practices. The purpose of the webinar is to present the concept of Threat and Error Management to the audience, to engage with them and to seek their feedback as to whether this approach is viable in today’s operational climate. If not, then what?

Presented by Khosrow Biglarbigi

Occurrences (accidents and incidents), whether they take place in the transportation industry, health care settings or in highly industrialized plants, occur regularly and all too frequently, sometimes with fatal and disastrous results. Occurrences place a great burden on organizations, their workers, and at times the general public. They are very costly both in personal and financial terms, as are the investigations into the causes of these occurrences in terms of time and money. Drawing on hard experience gained by conducting systematic safety investigations in a variety of industrial settings, the webinar will address the challenges organizations face when confronted by the need to conduct a safety investigation.

This is the third in a series of eight webinars on Artificial Lift. Click to find out more information about this event and the rest of the series!

Presented by Jorge Landa

Presented by George Waters

This course focuses on the basics of budgeting for organizations. It should prove helpful for any manager who needs to know about budgeting.

In November 2012, SPE named the six inaugural winners of the SPE Research Fellowship Award. The award provides initial seed funding to new faculty for creative research ideas and enables them to secure initial research funding to establish their network and credibility with the industry, in their field of study. It is also directed at developing and retaining faculty. This webinar is the second of two webinars, presenting the findings of three of the six award winners: Behnam Jafarpour, Ryosuke Okuno and Rami M. Younis.

Incredibly the average E&P asset development over the past 15 years has had a generally dismal outcome and has delivered only 60% of the value (NPV) that it promised at sanction. Due to the increasing technical complexity and to some extent the demographics of the industry – both ours and our supply chain providers in EPC industry – we find ourselves unable to make consistent and robust profits on new field developments. This presentation looks at recent records of delivering E&P asset developments and their performance.

Presented by John M. Walsh

In November 2012, SPE named the six inaugural winners of the SPE Research Fellowship Award. The award provides initial seed funding to new faculty for creative research ideas and enables them to secure initial research funding to establish their network and credibility with the industry, in their field of study. It is also directed at developing and retaining faculty. This webinar will be the first of two webinars, presenting the findings of three of the six award winners: Reza Barati, Zoya Heidari and A. Dahi-Teleghanii.

Presented by Stan Christman

This is group of webinars that cover various topics on Deepwater topics:

Presented by Dr. Rod Batycky

Presented by Dr. Luigi Saputelli

Presented by Mr. Voorhis, Ms. Audrey Mascarenhas

Presented by Rajan Chokshi, Bill Lane

Presented by Andrew Shaw

This is the first webinar in the series and will introduce participants to what, why and how of the artificial lift space. Presented by Rajan Chokshi, Bill Lane

Presented by Steve Frampton

Presented by Tom Freeman

Presented by David N. Friedman

Presented by William (Bill) Wren

Presented by Austin Johnson

Presented by Daniel Moos

Presented by Roper Cleland, Yadaira Orsini, Ursula Wynhoven, Nili Safavi

Presented by Gene E. Kouba

Presented by George E. King

Presented by Andrew Dingee

Presented by Dr. John Walsh

Presented by Kenneth E. Arnold, J. Ford Brett, Andrew Dingee

Presented by Nicholas Clarke

This hour-long presentation is intended to meet the continuing education requirements of most state boards and to remind engineers of some of the obligations they carry as part of their professional careers.

Presented by Alison Colwell

Presented by Dr. C. Mark Pearson

Presented by Howard Duhon

Presented by Dr. David DiCarlo, Dr. Shenglai Yang, Dr.Phaneendra Kondapi

Presented by Eve Sprunt, Ph.D.

Presented by Mike Power

Presented by Gunnar DeBruijn

Presented by Shahab D. Mohaghegh

This seminar will introduce the audience to the concepts and applications of distributed fiber-optic sensing for well and reservoir monitoring.

Presented by Dr. Erdal Ozkan

Presented by Art J. Schroeder Jr., James Dech, Brock Williams

Presented by Fernando L. Benalcazar, Michael Frederik Ellekjaer

Presented by Michael Choi

Presented by John Lee, Professor of Petroleum Engineering and holder of the Cullen Distinguished University Chair at The University of Houston.

Presented by Williams Chirinos

Presented by Kyle Friehauf

Presented by Rodney (Rod) Schulz

This webinar will give an engineer a few tools and thoughts on how to quantify and think about their unique situations so that they can better serve their companies, the industry and society at large.

Presented by John M. Walsh

This webinar presents an holistic approach to flow assurance.

This webinar presents an holistic approach to flow assurance.

Presented by Larry K. Britt

Advanced Data-Driven Analytics provides much needed insight into hydraulic fracturing practices in Shale. Presented by Shahab D. Mohaghegh

Presented by Melanie Brooke-Lander, David Hollas, David Hollas

Presented by T. Scott Campbell, Rajan Chokshi, Bill Lane, Stephen W. Turk

This one day virtual workshop looks at various elements within the domain of waterflooding including the design, practice, implementation, and surveillance of effective waterflooding.

Presented by Dr. Luigi Saputelli

Presented by Ashok Belani, Einar Gamman, Ram Shenoy, Russ Capper

This webinar discusses strategies for completing unconventional wells that require multistage hydraulic fracturing. This webinar defines completions as both the wellbore completion and the hydraulic fracturing. Presented by Aaron Burton, Sergey Kotov

This webinar will provide an overview and update of current greenhouse (GHG) regulations and policies as they apply to the production and use of both conventional and unconventional oil & gas. Presented by Kipp Coddington

Presented by Dr. Zaki Bassiouni

Presented by Dr. Tor Palmgren

Presented by Libby Cheney, Brian Sullivan

Presented by Professor Omar K. Matar

This webinar will explore the challenges that our industry face in turning data into information. Presented by Shahab D. Mohaghegh

Presented by Stephen A. Holditch, George Moridis George E. King

Presented by John H. Cohen

Webinars on MPD and UBD

Presented by Artur Stankiewicz

Presented by Behnam Jafarpour, Ryosuke Okuno, Rami M. Younis

Presented by Behnam Jafarpour, Ryosuke Okuno, Rami M. Younis

Presented by Thomas A. Blasingame

Presented by Ilse Castellanos

Presented by Ilse Castellanos

Presented by Dr. Wally John Georgie

Presented by Reza Barati, Zoya Heidari

Presented by Mr. Michael Parker, Mr. Eric J. Esswein

Presented by JC Cunha

Presented by Ron Harrell

Presented by Stuart Cox

Where is the industry in terms of ESP technology and reliability? This presentation will strive to provide answers, plus provide information on work in progress around the globe that may also be applicable to understanding and improving ESP performance. Presented by Shauna Noonan

Presented by Roar Fjøsne

Presented by Paul Hopmans

Presented by Dr. Matthew Balhoff, Yildiray Cinar, Dr. Marshall C. Watson

Presented by Larry W. Lake

Presented by Robert D. Barree

Presented by Ms. Audrey Mascarenhas

Presented by Dr. Chehroudi

Presented by Edward Skompski

Presented by Dwyann Dalrymple

Presented by George E. King

This Webinar will start with a broad overview of the different types of flotation equipment available on the market for produced water treating. Presented by John M. Walsh

Presented by Brian C. Gahan

Presented by Katherine Price, M-I SWACO

Presented by Randy C. Tolman

Presented by David Burnet

Presented by Ted Frankiewicz

Presented by Cris Heijckers

Presented by Ben Bloys

Presented by John Morgan

Presented by David Stiles

Presented by Martin Blunt

Presented by S.M. Farouq Ali

Presented by Don Reitsma