SPE Workshop: Complex Reservoir Fluids - De-complexification of the Complexity

How to Achieve Simplicity by Removing Layers of Complexity

The oil industry has entered a new phase after being exposed to lower oil prices in 2014 with the expectations of “lower and longer”. This impacted many new developments with respect to pre-2014 times. As a reaction to such an environment, the industry shifted gears in various dimensions, like more constrained/disciplined capital-spending, digitalisation and continued increasing of unconventional oil production. Naturally, this had implications in technology development and research applications.

This also brought changes and developments in the area of PVT and fluid characterisation. In this workshop, we will cover the most recent developments especially in the context of capturing the behavior of complex reservoir fluids. Particularly, the focus will be on the challenging questions of when and what is needed for fluid properties under various conditions, of course within the constraint of the current environment. Some of the key elements to be covered, but not limited, to the following:

- Why do we need the data or computations or "gold-plated" approaches? - The test question: if it was your money would you do it (ask for experiments or extra computations that may be perceived to be not necessary)?
- What PVT means in terms of recovery optimisation and flow assurance
- What are the main obstacles for new technologies and their deployment?
- Why is unconventional PVT different? And does it matter?
- To what extent reservoir fluid evaluation can contribute to the field development plan?
- Digitalisation and new approaches – where are we today and what will be the next?

Speakers: Birol Dindoruk, University of Houston, Tao Yang, Equinor , Francois Montel, University of Pau and Pays de l'Adour, Simon Andersen, Technical University Denmark / DHRTC , Wei Yan, Technical University Denmark , Niels Lindeloff, TOTAL, Henrik Sorensen, Calsep, Magali Pujol, TOTAL, Paul Toplack Wintershall, Arwa Ahmed Mawlod, Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, Shahin Negahban, The University of Kansas, John Nightswander, Schlumberger, Dengen Zhou, Chevron, Yun Wang, BP, Martin Trusler, Imperial College, Sander Suicmez, QRI, Raj Deo Tewari-Dr, Petronas, Fredrik Saaf, Shell, Jarle Larsen, Equinor, Ryosuke Okuno, The University of Texas at Austin, Harvey Yarranton, University of Calgary in Alberta, Antonin Chapoy, Heriot-Watt University, Markus Hays Nielsen, Whitson , Martin Trusler, Imperial College London