The GTW will give you a chance to learn about the application of up-to-date methods, and you will also have the opportunity to discuss and share ideas and to bring together geology, geophysics, and engineering to develop a deeper understanding of unconventionals, including shales and carbonates.

Sidney Green, Schlumberger
“Rocks Matter: Ground Truth in Geomechanics” (2007)
An article that provides an overview of the input parameters and workflows for a mechanical earth model that has predictive value.
http://www.slb.com/~/media/Files/resources/oilfield_review/ors07/aut07/rocks_matter.pdf

Sidney Green, Schlumberger
“Tight Shales: Not All Shales Are Created Equal” (2011)
http://www.slideshare.net/Pomcert/21-tight-shalesnot-all-shales-are-created-equal-sidney-green

Amy Fox, Canadian Discovery
“Geomechanical Principles for Unconventional Reservoirs”
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=4&ved=0CEUQFjAD&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.microseismic.com%2Fcomponent%2Fdocman%2Fdoc_download%2F75-2013-geomechanical-principles-for-unconventional-resources&ei=6pS_UZutAci-rgHX0YCYBQ&usg=AFQjCNEhkszbEr9nTwn_E_mAolYt3RNDjg&sig2=VRhRzEPmgUlfo6cAH36ZrQ

Neal Nagel, Itasca Houston
Unconventional Wisdom in Shale Completions and Microseismic Interpretation:
Fundamental Geomechanical Concepts and Simulation Answers
http://www.spwla-houston.org/topical_conf/2013/SPWLA_0513b.pdf

Some Common Rock Properties:
http://www.stanford.edu/~tyzhu/Documents/Some%20Useful%20Numbers.pdf

Natural Fractures and Fracture Mechanics:
Anderson, T.L., 2004, Fracture Mechanics, Fundamental and Applications, 3rd Edition, Taylor & Francis Publishing
http://makel.org/fractures/content/article_15_fracture%20mechanics.html
http://www.naturalfractures.com

World Stress Map:
http://dc-app3-14.gfz-potsdam.de/pub/introduction/introduction_frame.html

We hope you enjoy the articles and presentations. If you’d like more links to work by some of the presenters, please contact AAPG Education at educate@aapg.org 

Click here for a link to the full program and to register.  

Why Baltimore? It was the site of one of the best GTWs we’ve ever had. The environment was extremely conducive to conversation, focus, and very nice insights.  Our meeting space is at Pier 5 in the Inner Harbor district, within walking distance of great food and historical sites.

Baltimore Inner Harbor, Pier 5: site of AAPG Geomechanics GTW

Space is limited — it’s a one-day workshop in conjunction with AAPG’s Summer Education Conference. Invest in yourself and your future — new technologies and approaches to EOR in carbonates have the potential to improve recoverable reserves in a very significant way.

Name of course: Engineering Aspects of the Mid-Continent Carbonate Reservoir Developments: Focus on Mississippian & Arbuckle
http://www.aapg.org/education/sec/details.cfm?ID=269

Questions?  educate@aapg.org

The event is in conjunction with the establishment of AAPG’s new division, Structure and Geomechanics, which ushers in a new era and level of interdisciplinary, applied, and cutting edge knowledge transfer.

Please click the link for more information on this important event, which is value-priced in a wonderful location designed for engaging, in-depth discussions and new knowledge. The workshop will be followed by online access to materials (presentations and articles).

This 1-day course will include an introduction to many of the facets of the Mississippian Play, including stratigraphy, tectonics, depositional setting, drilling statistics, plays and subplays and analogs to other plays. Shelf-to-basin lithofacies will also be discussed. There will be several exercises and problem sets relating to log interpretation of the Mississippian oil and gas reservoirs, encompassing many of the different log types such as microresistivity, spectral gamma ray, NMR and core log calibration and electrofacies.

In the afternoon, several different case studies from the Kansas shelf will be shown, including Bindley, Schaben and Dickman Field; Welch-Bornholdt-Wherry Fields; Glick & Spivey-Grabs Basil Fields; and Wellington Field in the Sedgwick Basin.

The instructor is Lynn Watney, Kansas Geological Survey.

For more information, http://www.aapg.org/education/sec/details.cfm?ID=268

Summer Education Conference

Registration for the entire week is $1,795 for members, $2,095 nonmembers. Goes up to $1995/$2295, and/or individual course prices increase by $50/course day after 5/13/2013.

The instructor is Eugene Holubnyak, Kansas Geological Survey.

For more information, http://www.aapg.org/education/sec/details.cfm?ID=269

Summer Education Conference

Registration for the entire week is $1,795 for members, $2,095 nonmembers
Goes up to $1995/$2295, and/or individual course prices increase by $50/course day after 5/13/2013.
Includes refreshments and buffet lunch each day in addition to course notes.
No refunds for cancellations after 5/13/2013.

After you have finished the materials, please drop us a line at educate@aapg.org to let us know if you’d like to see a full-length low-cost face-to-face course at section meetings. Also, let us know if you’d like us to add examples of resumes, and a podcast with a discussion of success strategies to nail your next interview.

AAPG cares about your career development — Learn and Earn!

In anticipation of the webinar, a few tough questions came to mind, and Patrick Horner was nice enough to answer them.  Patrick Horner, who is also from Fountain Quail, is an expert in distillation systems, and has a great deal of experience with several different plays and formations, with a wide range of TDS and types of impurities.

Here are the questions that Patrick answered in the interview:
1.  How easy is it to get started distilling water from a well that is making 100 bbls of fluid a day, with 5% oil cut and 50 mcf gas?

2.  Do you have to let the water settle longer? Do you recommend using surfactants to separate the water and oil more quickly?

3.  Can you use the produced gas as energy for the distillation / condensation process?

4.  How pure is the end product?  Is it potable?

5.  Does distillation remove aromatic HC?

6.  Do you get EPA Drinking Water approval at the wellsite, or should we take the water elsewhere for further processing / testing?

To read “Getting Started in Purifying Produced Saltwater, the Overlooked Resource in Resource Plays,” click the link.

AAPG GTWs have included sessions on water sourcing, water treatment, and sourcing, including Solving Water Problems (February 26-27, Fort Worth) and Eagle Ford (March 18-20, San Antonio).

Questionnaire for Drought-Stricken Communities: New Solutions?

Does your community need new sources of water? Please fill out the questionnaire (3 minutes).

AAPG is investigating new ways to bring together geoscientists, industry, and communities to find solutions for water issues in drought-stricken communities. One approach involves implementing new technologies to purify the brine that is produced along with oil and gas in many fields. As you may be aware, this can be a sizable volume of water, and often it is simply reinjected into deeper formations, never to be retrieved again. One option would be to purify the produced water to the point it can be used for agricultural and other community needs. Then, instead of disposing of the water in injection wells, it could be put to good use.

AAPG Woodford Shale Forum

Thursday, April 11, 2013

Skirvin Hotel, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Morning Session

8:00—8:15           Introduction to Woodford Shale Forum
Susan Nash, AAPG

8:15—9:15           Woodford Shale: From Hydrocarbon Source Rock to Reservoir
Brian Cardott, Oklahoma Geological Survey

9:15—9:45           Woodford Shale: Rock Properties and Reservoir Characterization

Jim Puckette, Oklahoma State University

9:45—10:15        Preliminary High-Resolution Stratigraphic Analysis of the Caney
and Woodford Shales in a Continuous Shallow Corehole
Lynn Watney, Kansas Geological Society

10:15-—10:30 Break

10:30-—11:00 Sequence stratigraphy of the Woodford Shale and applications
to drilling and production
Roger Slatt, University of Oklahoma

11:00—12:00 Anadarko Woodford Shale: Improving Production by Understanding
Lithologies/Mechanical Stratigraphy and Optimizing Completion Design
Craig Caldwell and Phillip Johnson, Cimarex

12:00 to 1:00 Networking Lunch

Afternoon Session

1:00—2:00 Oil Production from the Woodford Shale in Central Oklahoma -
Successes and Lessons Learned

Paul W. Smith, West Star Operating

2:00—2:45 Well Thought out Completions Change Economics in Horizontal Wells

Charlie Smith, Halliburton

2:45—3:00      Break

3:00—3:30           Conventional Log Evaluation in Organic Shales

Cody Knepper, NuTech

3:30—4:00           Using Core-to-Log Correlations to Characterize the Woodford Shale
and Identify Productive Horizons

Christopher Altoff, Mt. Dora Energy

4:00—4:30          Geomechanics of Shales
Patrick Hooynam, Baker Hughes

4:30—5:00           Big Data and the Woodford

James Yockey, and Zack May, Oseberg Energy

5:00—6:00           Panel Discussion-
Lively Interaction with Presenters and audience

Reception:       6:00 to 7:30 PM Wildcatter Corner

The goal of this e-symposium is to provide an overview of the latest trends and technologies for water management for oil and gas drilling, completions, and production. The esymposium will include a number of in-depth case studies as well as descriptions of new directions (including new technologies and legislation). A discussion of new recycling initiatives will be covered as well.

Topics include:

Oilfield water management – a complicated issue?
Dominant factors in oilfield water management.
     The biq question: freshwater or saltwater?
Charting a logical path towards a water management strategy.
Beware of black boxes.
Case Studies:
    Case Studies A&B, Freshwater
    Case Studies C&D, Saltwater
    Case Study E, Brackish Water

Sustainable Wastewater Solutions

Each e-symposium consists of one-hour live e-symposium, along with material for one full day of independent study. The live portion will be followed by a full day of independent study (not a live event). The one-hour live e-symposium can be accessed from any computer anywhere in the world using a high-speed internet connection. After the event is over, you will receive via email information about accessing the asynchronous segment (not live) which consists of your independent study materials, to be accessed and studied at any time. You will be able to email responses to the readings, along with your study question answers for CEU credit (if you sign up for the extended package).

Here is a partial listing of presenters and their topics:  http://www.aapg.org/forum/2013/woodfordshale/program.cfm

Fee Includes: course program, course presentations, articles & “test your knowledge” quizzes, continuing education credit, luncheon, 2 networking breaks, reception