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WORKSHOP
3–5 February 2015 | Falkensteiner Hotel Leoben | Leoben, Austria

Application of Fit-for-Purpose
Smart Technology to Improve
Mature Assets Workshop
Who should attend?
Attendees from across all disciplines in the industry
are encouraged to attend this workshop because
successful management of mature assets requires the
interaction among all disciplines. Although experience
is essential for the successful workshops, we strongly
encourage young graduates with new ideas to join.

Committee Members
Workshop Description
Co-Chairs:
More than 70% of today’s hydrocarbon production comes from mature assets.
Siegfried Müssig
RAG
It continues to be a major contributor to global oil and gas production and will
continue to do so for many decades to come. More than 65% of the reserves
Reinhard Pongratz
OMV remain locked in these reservoirs with conventional methods.
Extending the life of a mature field and thus getting hold of more reserves is
Committee Members:
equally challenging across four primary fronts:
Jonathan Abbott
Schlumberger • Reducing or balancing out the production decline in assets with
Peter Benjamins restricted budget capabilities
RWE-DEA • Improving recovery from the reservoir beyond an average of 35%
Helge Christian Beuthan by applying integrated technical solutions from the sand face to
Wintershall Holding GmbH
the delivery point
Sasa Blazekovic
OMV • Applying fit-for-purpose technologies directed to extend the lifetime
Dwyann Dalrymple of facilities and equipment
OMV • Give EOR a new beginning
Herbert Hofstätter
MUL These challenges have many facets that must be explored. They may be
Rob Hull
related to well interventions, infill drilling, well integrity, facility integrity,
Halliburton reservoir monitoring, flow assurance, water handling, and improved/enhanced
Greg Jackson recovery processes. With so many facets and huge volumes of data available,
Weatherford multidisciplinary cooperation is essential for effective and sustainable
Pieter Kapteijn implementation, including associated risks and economics considered.
Consultant
Jan Lillie
Mature assets are more complex and therefore more challenging for E&P staff.
GDF Suez Budget restrictions always play a major role. Therefore the use of fit-for-purpose
Jakob Monberg smart technologies across the whole value chain is essential to improve and
Maersk Oil sustain the performance of mature assets.
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Application of Fit-for-Purpose Smart Technology to Improve Mature Assets

WORKSHOP
Sponsorship Support
Sponsorship support helps offset the
Workshop Timetable (As of 21 August 2014)
cost of producing workshops and
allows SPE to keep the attendance Monday, 2 February
price within reach of operations-level 1930–2030 ​SPE Registration and Welcome Reception​
individuals, those who benefit most
from these technical workshops.
Tuesday, 3 February
Sponsors benefit both directly and
indirectly by having their names
0845–1030 ​Session 1: Introduction ​
associated with a specific workshop. 1030–1100 Coffee Break​
While SPE prohibits any type of 1100–1230 ​Session 2: Understanding the Challenge​
commercialism within the technical 1230–1330 ​Lunch​
session room itself, the society
recognises that sponsoring 1330–1500 ​Session 3: Improved Oil Recovery (IOR)​
companies offer valuable information
to attendees outside the technical
1500–1530 ​Coffee Break​
sessions. 1530–1700 ​Session 4: Flow Assurance​
For a detailed list of available 1900–2200 ​Workshop Dinner​​​
sponsorships, including benefits and
pricing, please contact Dean Guest Wednesday, 4 February
at dguest@spe.org.
0900–1030 ​Session 5: Posters​
Sponsorship Categories 1030–1100 Coffee Break​
Sponsorships are offered on a
first-come, first-served basis. 1100–1230 ​Session 6: Artificial Lift​
The sponsorship opportunities 1230–1330 ​Lunch​
available include:
1330–1500 ​Session 7: Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR)​
• Audio-Visual Equipment
• Welcome Reception 1500–1530 ​Coffee Break​
• Welcome Dinner 1530–1700 ​Session 8: Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR)
• Coffee Breaks
• Lunch Breaks T​ hursday, 5 February
Sponsorship Benefits 0900–1030 ​Session 9: Well Integrity
In addition to on-site recognition, 1030–1100 ​Coffee Break​
SPE will recognise sponsors on the
SPE website and in printed material
1100–1230 ​Workshop Wrap-Up​​
for the workshop. 1230–1330 ​Lunch
Poster Presenter
Opportunities
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Preliminary Technical Agenda
Tuesday, 3 February
Session 1 0845–1030
Introduction
Session Managers: Siegfried Müssig and Reinhard Pongratz
Managing oil fields in the best way possible has always been at the centre
of interest for oil companies. Production maintenance and optimisation,
deferment minimisation, efficient monitoring of well, reservoir, and
facility performances, fit-for-purpose technology applications, cross-
function collaboration, and many other related issues all represent the
building blocks in a successful and efficient field management structure.
The aim of this session is to set the scene for mature field operations
by using best practices, lessons learnt, and applied technologies that
can help surface and subsurface engineers, asset managers, solutions
and technology providers, and operators manage wells and reservoirs in
mature assets and thus maintain production and utilise the reserves in an
optimal manner.
Session 2 1100–1230
Understanding the Challenge
Session Managers: Jonathan Abbott and Rob Hull
Understanding the reservoir over time is critical to ensure that development
and production strategies are current to meet production goals and properly
manage the life of an asset. Over the life of a reservoir, hydrocarbons can
migrate to other parts of the reservoir, waterfloods can lose their sweep
efficiency, and artificial lift systems can lose their effectiveness if the
current reservoir is not well understood. Developing and maintaining this
understanding is a key challenge in mature assets, often due to a lack of data,
old data, correlating new data with old, budget restrictions, and economic
conditions, to name but a few. The goal of this session is to address this
challenge with the help of relevant case studies, open discussion, and
healthy knowledge sharing.
Topics can include, but are not limited to, the following:
1. New techniques and technologies for efficient surveillance of mature
assets, with proven examples.
2. Examples of data integration of new and old datasets to improve reservoir
understanding, which have in turn resulted in value added to the mature
asset in terms of production optimisation or life extension.
3. Work with examples identifying what data is important for the long-term
surveillance and production optimisation of a mature asset.
Session 3 1330–1500
Improved Oil Recovery (IOR)
Session Managers: Helge-Christian Beuthan and Saša Blazekovic
With mature and aging fields, which are in decline or approaching
their economic cut-off, Improved Oil Recovery (IOR) methods present
an opportunity to increase production—or lower the decline, improve
economics, and raise the ultimate recovery. However, IOR methods
are often technically challenging and capital intensive, hence their
incorporation into redevelopment options and need for careful
consideration and planning from numerous sides. This session will
discuss IOR methods that can be applied, including field examples, with
the aim of stimulating ideas and discussions.
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Session 4 1530–1700
Flow Assurance
Session Manager: Dwyann Dalrymple
Flow assurance deals reducing and controlling unwanted water, preventing
scales, hydrates, asphaltene and paraffin deposits, and other problems that
could hinder flow of hydrocarbon from the subsurface to the wellhead. What
compounds the flow assurance task even further is that these deposits can
interact with each other and can cause catastrophic blockages and result
in flow assurance failure. This session will target this extremely diverse
topic, encompassing many discrete and specialised subjects, and attempt
to bridge the full gamut of engineering disciplines.
Wednesday, 4 February
Session 5 0900–1030
Posters
Session Manager: Dwyann Dalrymple
This is a poster session that will showcase the changes and impacts that
environmental conditions and regulatory requirements have on mature fields.
Session 6 1100–1230
Artificial Lift
Session Managers: Greg Jackson and Siegfried Müssig
A significant portion of operating costs in brownfields is related to lifting
costs and maintenance of artificial lift equipment.
In this session we will explore two keys to success: 1. The analysis of
available technologies along the production chain, the identification of
advanced materials, and the development of stringent processes, all
directed to extend the lifetime of the equipment; 2. A dedicated team from
all disciplines working with the asset to create tailor-made solutions for the
particular applications in the field.
This session will provide detailed insight of the basket of technical solutions
and the commercial impact to improve artificial lift performance.
Session 7 1330–1500
Session 8 1530–1700
Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) (i) and (ii) respectively
Session Manager: Greg Jackson (7)
Session Managers: Helge-Christian Beuthan and Jan Lillie (8)
Bringing the oil recovery factor beyond the average by improving the sweep
for enhanced drainage, tertiary methods can be very advantageous in oil
fields.
However, with the given complexity and uncertainty of reservoirs combined
with challenging fluid properties and significant associated costs, the
implementation and accomplishment of individual methods can be intricate.
EOR techniques extend over the lifecycle of the field but undoubtedly need
thorough planning and convincing arguments.
Unlocking the remaining oil with the application of chemicals, surfactants,
or other innovative techniques has gained renewed interest in the industry,
with a strong focus on mature assets.
This session should serve as a forum to present field cases, share
experiences with applied EOR techniques, or discuss boundary conditions
in their execution.
Due to the broad and comprehensive topic, EOR will be arranged into two
separate sessions.
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Session 9 0900–1030 FORMAT
Well Integrity Two and a half days of informal
sessions with a number of short
Session Managers: Peter Benjamins and Jan Lillie presentations, breakout discussions,
Mature fields account for the vast majority of the total oil production today. an evening welcome reception on
Monday, 2 February, and dinner on
Enhancing asset integrity and extending the lifespan of aging infrastructure is key to Tuesday, 3 February. Full details will
maintaining or even increasing production from mature fields. be provided with the registration
pack, which will be sent in January.
Typical challenges are:
• Reducing operating costs while maintaining high HSE standards ATTENDANCE
Between 75 and 85 attendees from
• Adapting facilities to flow-rates and fluid compositions for which they have not been relevant disciplines with proven
designed experience and/or knowledge of the
subject areas being covered.
• Improving asset integrity against the background of long years of corrosion,
maintenance backlogs, lack of data, and rising environmental awareness ATTENDANCE CERTIFICATE
• Securing licence to operate All attendees will receive a certificate
from SPE attesting to their participation.
• Proving that wells do not pose a risk during production
An optimal strategy covers enhancement, replacement, maintenance, and operations of CONTINUING EDUCATION UNITS
The workshop qualifies for SPE
assets and requires an integrated view from the well to the delivery point. Continuing Education Units (CEU) at
the rate of 0.1 CEU per hour of the
Wrap-Up 1100–1230 workshop.
Session Managers: Peter Benjamins, Helge-Christian Beuthan, and Pieter Kapteijn
SCRIBE’S REPORT
The previous sessions will have demonstrated just how many challenges exist when it The steering committee will appoint
comes to getting more barrels out of mature fields. Success requires a well-concerted a scribe to make a full report of
effort by various engineering and G&G disciplines and deployment of leading-edge the workshop, summarising all
presentations and discussion.
technology. Despite the complexity of the subject, we will try to capture some of the key This report will be circulated to all
learnings while boldly attempting to identify future trends and developments. attendees. The copyright of the
scribe’s report will belong to SPE.

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Application of Fit-for-Purpose Smart Technology
to Improve Mature Assets Workshop
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