WORKSHOP 1: Wellbore Diagnostics for CCUS Projects
INSTRUCTORS: Dr. Luis Quintero & Robert Gales – Halliburton
Date: Saturday, June 10, 2023
Time: 8:00 am – 4:30 pm
Fee: $375.00 for registered attendees; $475.00 non-registered (includes lunch)
Maximum Capacity: 50
ABSTRACT: Technologies for carbon capture utilization and storage, CCUS, are being used to address concerns about climate change. While different processes exist for the capture and utilization, thus far the one that has been technically and commercially demonstrated is through wells that target underground storage in reservoirs.
The oil and gas industry is uniquely well positioned to scale the underground carbon capture, utilization, and storage process by providing the required expertise in well location, design and construction. It is also the best suited for the evaluation and diagnosis of the borehole conditions for optimum injection efficiency.
However, while in traditional open hole and cased hole log analysis for production wells, the pressure and to a lesser degree temperature regimes are determined by processes that are either steady state (geologic time) or pseudo steady state in nature, that is not necessarily case for CO2 storage. The relatively rapid changes in pressure, temperature, and composition have enormous impact on injectivity, reservoir and well integrity, and containment..
The objective of the workshop is to focus on the near wellbore area, to explain how wellbore diagnosis via wireline logs, fiber – DTS/DAS/VSP, core and cuttings, fluid sampling, digital rock, can minimize the uncertainty of the long term storage performance and integrity of underground CO2 storage.
Overview:
- The Regulations – what we understand today
- The near wellbore “integrity” areas
- The wellbore – cement and tubulars
- Injection zones
- Characterization
- Confining layers – above and below
- Aquifers
- Saturation monitoring
- Measurements and changes over the injection cycle
- Difference between injection and monitor wells
- Importance of baselining, monitoring and verification
Team:
Dr. Luis Quintero – Halliburton
Dr. Hani Elshahawi – NoviDigiTech, LLC
Katy Larsen – Carbon Sequestration Consultant
Robert Gales – Halliburton
Meet the Instructors:
SPWLA Alternative Subsurface and Energy Transition Workshop – SIG Advisor
Dr. Luis Fernando Quintero began his oil career in the oil fields of India in 1994. Since then, he has worked as a petrophysicist, reservoir engineer, asset evaluation leader, production manager, financial analyst, and reserves auditor. He has worked in Venezuela, India, USA, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Russia, Ukraine, Greece, Indonesia, United Arab Emirates, Colombia, and the United Kingdom.
Dr. Quintero started in the SPWLA in 1993 with the reactivation of the Venezuelan chapter. He was a member of the Technology Committee 1997-2005; director for Europe, 2002; vice president of finance, 2005; in 2014, vice-president of technology and in 2015, elected president of the SPWLA worldwide. He has chaired talks at conferences in Japan, Australia, Norway, Colombia, Mexico, Australia, Scotland, Abu Dhabi, USA, and Canada.
Luis’s has been qualified to perform reserves reports, and audit reports for private companies in USA, and for public companies traded in the Toronto Stock Exchange, the Australian Stock Exchange, and for Petrosa, in South Africa.
He has also had the opportunity to be the keynote speaker and give his perspective of the oil industry for TV in India, Colombia, London, Houston, Japan, Nigeria, Azerbaijan, and Saudi Arabia. He has written about energy policy in the World Energy Monthly Review.
Luis Fernando Quintero holds an Electronic Engineer from Universidad Simón Bolívar – Venezuela, with a Master’s and Doctorate in Petroleum Engineering from Louisiana State University – USA; he has 14 patents and more than 35 technical publications.
Robert Gales is Chief Geoscientist, Halliburton – Geoscience and Production, responsible for leading a team of diverse SMEs.
Robert has a BS in Math and Physics from South Dakota State University Robert has over 30 years experience, starting on a logging truck and subsequently holding various leadership positions. He has worked on projects in several countries with emphasis on reservoir-oriented production challenges and subsurface data integration of logs, core, mud logs and production data to reduce reservoir uncertainty. Robert has given 100’s of client seminars and workshops on conventional, unconventional and “energy transition” reservoirs.
He is a lifetime member of SPWLA and SPE and served on numerous committees. He was President SPWLA San Joaquin Well Logging Society 2016-2019, SPE Western Section 2018 Formation Evaluation Award and SPWLA Technical Committee 2021-2023.