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New DEA CEO: “Adapt and adjust” 1 @SPEgermany Newsle er of the German Secon of the Society of Petroleum Engineers | Volume 27 | Issue 1 | April 2018 INTERVIEW WITH MATTHIAS MEISTER, 2014-2017 SPE REGIONAL DIRECTOR OF SCE EUROPE “This industry will remain in place for another lifeme!” STC´18 STUDENT TECHNICAL CONFERENCE CALL FOR ABSTRACTS 8 - 9 November 2018 Freiberg — Germany Petroleum & Drilling Engineering Hydrocarbon-related Geosciences Geothermics SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS: Due by 17th June 2018 via online form: http://connect.spe.org/germany/stc/ Travel & accomodation will be supported Contents 3 CALENDAR OF EVENTS 5 THE “SCHWEINEZYKLUS” 7 INTERVIEW WITH MATTHIAS MEISTER, 2014-2017 SPE REGIONAL DIRECTOR OF SCE EUROPE 18 SECTION NEWS & SPE INFO SPE student field trip: Gubkin@Aachen Eindrücke von der SPE ATCE 2017 in San Antonio, Texas COVER GSSPE Young Professionals Lunch’n’Learn Photo compilaon of Mahias Meister’s life 2nd Internaonal Oil and Gas Majoring Students Forum “New Generaon: during the last 35 years. 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Coman. 31 UPSTREAM NEWS Technology deals and new digital partnerships show industry is embracing new ways of working Baker Hughes, a GE company Announces March 2018 Rig Counts New licences for DEA in Norway First visit to Egypt Maria Moræus Hanssen visits Egypt’s Minister of Petroleum Tarek El-Molla on her first foreign journey as DEA’s new CEO New DEA CEO: “Adapt and adjust” IMPRESSUM Wintershall connues to invest in domesc oil and gas producon PUBLISHER Wintershall awards subsea contracts for Nova field Deutsche Sekon der SPE publicaons Society of Petroleum Engineers e.V. 38 @SPEGERMANY TWEETS Suhrenkamp 29 22335 Hamburg Secon Chair: Dr. Oksana Zhebel EDITOR Dr. Radu Coman Baker Hughes, a GE company Radu.Coman(at)bhge.com (+49)5141 203 6920 Daniela Marum Baker Hughes, a GE company Daniela.MarnsMarum (at) bhge.com Arcles published in this newsleer reflect the view of the author(s) and not necessarily reflect any posion of the SPE Germany, its officers, or members. 1 Wir fördern Zukunft. 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Mehr über die Förderung von Öl und www.wintershall.de Gas in Deutschland auf unserer Website @SPEgermany | Volume 27 | Issue 1 | April 2018 Calendar of Events For latest informaon and details on SPE Germany events visit our website and/or our event page on Facebook. connect.spe.org/germany facebook.com/pg/SPEgermany/events Date Type Event Locaon April YP Lunch ‘n’ Celle, Young Professionals Lunch 'n' Learn @ DGMK in Celle 18 Learn Germany April SPE 2018 SPE Bergen One Day Seminar Bergen, Norway 18 Conference April DGMK/ÖGEW Celle, Frühjahrstagung / Spring Conference 18-19 Tagung Germany April SPE 2018 SPE Saudi Arabia Secon Annual Symposium & Dammam, 23-26 Conference Exhibion Saudi Arabia April 30 – Houston, Conference Offshore Technology Conference May 3 Texas, USA May SPE Germany Details will be made public via email, website, and social Hannover, 17 Lecture media (Facebook, Twier, LinkedIn) Germany June SPWLA 59th Annual SPWLA Symposium London, UK 2-6 Conference June SPE Copenhagen SPE Europec featured at 80th EAGE Conference and Exhibion 11-14 Conference Denmark June SPE Germany Details will be made public via email, website, and social Hannover, 14 Lecture media (Facebook, Twier, LinkedIn) Germany June SPE SPE Internaonal Oilfield Corrosion Conference and Exhibion Aberdeen, UK 18-19 Conference June SPE Copenhagen 2018 IADC World Drilling Conference 18-19 Conference Denmark June Bucharest, SPE Workshop Well Integrity in Mature fields: Challenges and Perspecves 19-20 Romania Sep. SPE Bremen, 4th Young Professional Workshop 19-20 Workshop Germany Sep. SPE Dallas, Texas, SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibion 24-28 Conference USA Oct. Munich, Congress Praxisforum Geothermie.Bayern 16-18 Germany November SPE Germany Freiberg, STC (Student Technical Conference) 2018 8-9 Conference Germany Nov. Essen, Congress German Geothermal Congress 27-29 Germany 3 Growing with Responsibility Embracing responsibility, increasing e iciency and sustainable growth – these are the ingredients of DEA’s success story. The Mittelplate Drilling and Production Island at the edge of the Wadden Sea National Park in Germany is a good example of DEA’s approach towards the en- vironment. The German E&P company is currently producing more than 50 % of Germany’s domestic crude oil from Mittelplate and has been operating the fi eld without any harmful infl uence on the nature reserve for 30 years now. DEA takes responsibility towards humankind and the environment in all its upstream activities – in countries like Germany, Norway, Denmark, Egypt, Algeria and Mexico – every day. Growing with Energy DEA Deutsche Erdoel AG, Überseering 40, 22297 Hamburg, Germany dea-group.com @SPEgermany | Volume 27 | Issue 1 | April 2018 The “Schweinezyklus” “Schweinezyklus”? Some terms you have picked up in your childhood, at school or at university are coming up in different periods of your live. Normally very unexpected. The so called “Schweinezyklus” a german term describing a self-regulang period, comes to my mind every me I look at the SPE Membership data. Pipe failure due to internal pressure exceeding limits. Another such term is “Sausage Stress”. This term was me. This happened to be coiled tubing. Now my coined by a professor at university trying to explain the understanding of combined stresses acng on a pipe failure mechanism of a pipe under pressure. We could under pressure had a total new meaning and the not get our head around the concept of combined sausage stress helped me a lot to understand the results stresses acng on a pipe and the resulng failure of our design soware. mechanism. Once the professor realized our struggle he explained the concept using a sausage on a grill. In this Eventually I was assigned as training manager for coiled tubing services. Now I was standing in front of a group of case the sausage casing is represenng a pipeline or a young people and looking into faces with expressions of tank since it has a radius which is a lot smaller than its deep stress while trying to understand the concept of a length. pipe failure under combined stresses. Guess what, even here in an internaonal environment the sausage stress He asked us to analyze the way sausages failed while concept helped the students to grasp the concept. Since being heated on the grill. In this case failure meant a it was in the UK, sausages at breakfast where plenful crack in the sausage casing and a resulng fire caused and served as examples to confirm the concept. by a loss of primary containment (LOPC). The crack in the sausage has always the same shape, independent Now back to the “Schweinezyklus” as menoned in the on the type of sausage. It is a longitudinal crack with a beginning. The SPE Membership data follows a regular length roughly equal to the circumference of the up and down trend on a yearly basis. Towards December the numbers increase from a drop starng in January. So sausage. Each and every me we could observe the far in the last ten years the total number remained same failure. At the me we grilled a lot of sausages to somewhat at the same level. The queson is, will that confirm the concept. We never saw a sausage fail in any connue? Can we rely on the reputaon the SPE has and other way as the professor described! As a result the programs SPE supports that this trend connuous? working with the related formula which describes the Do we enough for our long me members in the age total equivalent stress as shown below was a lot easier. group 50plus? What is interesng for them to keep them in the community? Is Twier the soluon? Facebook groups or Young Professionals? Do we need to promote some influencers within the membership community? My feeling is, that we need to take up the challenge on how we can reach out to new members and at the same me keep the long term members acve in SPE. If you have any ideas please share them and enjoy the upcoming spring. Maybe with a nice barbecue watching Total Equivalent Stress (von Mises). carefully the sausages on the grill. Years later I joined the oilfield working for an Best Regards, internaonal service company. 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Learn more at bhge.com @SPEgermany | Volume 27 | Issue 1 | April 2018 Interview with Matthias Meister, 2014-2017 SPE Regional Director of SCE Europe Interview by Radu Coman, BHGE, CommunicaƟon Chair & Editor SPE Leoben 60th Anniversary – SPE Panel Session (2016). Mr. Meister, in October 2017 you completed your three-year term as SPE Regional Director of South, Central and East Europe (SCE Europe). What are the main tasks of a SPE Regional Director? The main tasks are to visit and keep in close contact with the secons and student chapters in your region, collect ideas and concerns from them to bring forward to the internaonal board of directors and promote the mission and vision of SPE.