Well Integrity Evaluation: Challenges and Best Practices 19 September 2018 – SPWLA SAC conducted a topical workshop on “Well Integrity Evaluation: Challenges and Best Practices.” This workshop was an opportunity to review and discuss important aspects of well integrity; i.e., producing our field safely, environmental consciously, efficiently, and cost effectively. This workshop [...]
Challenges of Long-Term Reservoir Monitoring and a Brief Overview of Pulsed-Neutron Technologies Past, Present, And Future 08 August 2018 – A technical presentation was given by Chris McIlroy, Integrated Cased Hole Advisor –Halliburton, the talk entitled “Challenges of Long-Term Reservoir Monitoring and a Brief Overview of Pulsed-Neutron Technologies Past, Present, And Future”. [...]
Have I Learned Anything in 41 years? 24 July 2018 – Saudi Arabia Chapter (SAC) of SPWLA organized a luncheon event to formally introduce the chapter new president, Dr. Faisal Alenezi, Head of Saudi Aramco Gas Development Petrophysics Unit, and to bid farewell to a long time outstanding SPWLA member, Steve Crary, [...]
59th SPWLA Annual Symposium Student Paper Contest in London, UK 6 June 2018 – Amjed Hassan, a PhD student at KFUPM and winner of the 2017 SPWLA SAC / SPWLA-KFUPM Chapter Student contest, presented his research paper “Determination of Water Saturation Distribution for Complex Reservoirs” at the 59th SPWLA Annual Symposium Student [...]
International Outstanding Chapter Award for 2017 8 May 2018 – Dr. Ping Zhang, principal geophysicist in SLB Dhahran Carbonate Research Center, presented a great talk entitled “electromagnetics: technologies for reservoir surveillance and monitoring.” He explained the theory and workflow of cross-well EM system, survey design and modeling, data acquisition, processing, and interpretation. [...]
Challenges and Advancements in Petrophysics 22 April 2018 – SPWLA Saud Arabia Chapter (SAC), in collaboration with SPE Saudi Arabia Section, convened a topical workshop on “Challenges and Advancements in Petrophysics” at Dhahran Kempinski Al Othman Hotel. Keynote speakers of this workshop were Mr. Khalid Zainalabedin, SPE Middle East Director, and Mr. [...]
NMR Application in Carbonate Reservoir Characterization 22 March 2018 – SPWLA Saudi Arabia Chapter held a second luncheon technical event in March by Dr. Philip Tracadas, Global Product Champion for Wireline Acoustics at Halliburton. The topic was on “Use of Advanced Acoustic Petrophysics in Characterizing Formation Anisotropy - Conventional and Unconventional Reservoirs’’ [...]
NMR Application in Carbonate Reservoir Characterization 14 March 2018 – SPWLA Saudi Arabia Chapter conducted a luncheon technical event by Ahmed Abouzaid, Petrophysics and Formation Evaluation Manager in BHGE with 60 participants. The theme of the event was on NMR Application in Carbonate Reservoir Characterization. Before the event started, the audience was [...]
2017 Chapter Recognition Ceremony 20 February 2018. The SPWLA Saudi Arabia Chapter (SAC) concluded a successful 2017 year with Chapter Recognition Ceremony on 20 Feb 2018, participated by senior management of Saudi Aramco, KFUPM, BHGE, Halliburton, Schlumberger and Weatherford. The mission of providing a platform for knowledge sharing and keep its members [...]
A review of low-resistivity and low-resistivity-contrast pay with focus on Africa 31 January 2018 – SPWLA Saudi Arabia Chapter SAC started 2018 year with conducting a technical luncheon meeting with record of 80+ participants, Michel Claverie, Petrophysics Technical Director for Schlumberger, delivered a talk on: “A review of low-resistivity and low-resistivity-contrast pay [...]
