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Artificial Lift and Production Optimization Solutions How A CONNECT SPE GULF COAST SECTION JANUARY 2018 Why the Artificial Lift How a Petroleum Permian Basin and Production Geologist is a Sustainable Optimization Generates Resource Solutions Prospects JANUARY FEATURES JANUARY PERMIAN BASIN CONTINUING EDUCATION PETRO-TECH 01 CHAIR’S CORNER JANUARY 2018 Two Resolutions for the New Year TREY SHAFFER, 2017 – 2018 SPE-GCS CHAIR I am pleased to to improve our safety performance. If we didn’t initiate welcome you to the discussion, we have all probably been invited to join the first edition a discussion on how to improve safety performance. I of the SPE Gulf suspect that visible leadership is at the top of every list Coast Section as one of the most important values associated with digital newsletter. achieving our safety performance goals. This is an exciting Over the past 18 months, a dedicated team of SPE moment for the Gulf Coast Section that we need to volunteers lead by Jack Hinton at Baker Hughes, a GE celebrate with the arrival of the new year. Under the Company have been developing an SPE Technical Report leadership of Brian Marlborough, Communications on “Getting to Zero and Beyond: The Path Forward.” We Chair, and Karin Gonzalez, Newsletter Editor, and anticipate that this Technical Report will be published in with the help of our partners and advertisers, we have early 2018. As the authors drafted the document, they successfully transitioned our newsletter to this new digital were able to incorporate a number of key safety leadership format, which will enable a highly portable and dynamic activities and engagements that SPE has conducted over the newsletter that will feature our advertisers and showcase last decade. Most recently, in 2016, we conducted a global the tremendous work of the Gulf Coast Section for years series of engagements on five continents that sought to to come. Countless volunteers like Buddy Woodroof engage local groups of professionals on the topic of “getting and many other leaders contribute to the creation of to zero.” We identified a number of values and asked our the newsletter every month, and we greatly appreciate global participants to score the top five identified values your service. This newsletter is truly the work of many necessary to achieve zero incidents and fatalities. About 750 hands, and it would not be possible without your ongoing SPE members provided feedback, and nearly one-third said commitment to this enterprise. that visible leadership was the top priority for achieving As I reflect on this accomplishment and consider the year zero incidents and fatalities. Trust, openness to change, ahead and the many challenges to come, I wanted to share integrity, and teamwork also play an important role in my hopes for you all as you consider your resolutions for creating a strong safety culture at work. the New Year. I hope that you will each consider adding two New Year’s resolutions to your list! TRUST 8 Resolution #1: Be a visible safety OPENNESS TO CHANGE 11 leader at work and at home INTEGRITY 19 Why have I focused on the topic of visible safety TEAMWORK 21 leadership as the number one resolution for the new year? Safety is where it all begins. When we each commit VISIBLE LEADERSHIP 29 to visible safety leadership, great things happen. We create tremendous value for ourselves, our colleagues, 0 8 15 23 30 our families, our companies, and our industry when we return home safely every day. Visible safety leadership The response from SPE members around the world and our ongoing dedication to ensuring a safe work confirmed what we all know: Visible leadership is a critical environment both create a lasting impact! ingredient to safe performance, and the benefits of visible leadership are powerful. Many of us have likely spent some time with our teams or our organization identifying or seeking opportunities Continued on page 3 02 CONTENTS JANUARY 2018 In Every Issue RESERVOIR PROJECTS, FACILITIES & 15 1/10/2018 CONSTRUCTION CHAIR’S CORNER What Makes the Delaware Tick? 22 1/17/2018 Platform Decommissioning – 01 Trey Shaffer 1/18/2018 15 An Operator’s Point of View Gulf of Mexico: CALENDAR & Enhancing Value Through WESTSIDE MEMBERSHIP REPORT Subsea Tieback 1/17/2018 November 2017 23 05 COMPLETIONS Using Drilling Data to Optimize & PRODUCTION Completion Efficiency in a Low- VOLUNTEER SPOTLIGHTS Permeability Formation 1/17/2018 Deodath Mahase & Jeremy Vila 16 07 A New Hybrid Physics-Based Multi-Variate Statistical Approach Committees THEN & NOW to Optimize Completions in MEMBERS IN 09 Buddy Woodroof Unconventional Reservoirs TRANSITION (MiT) GENERAL 1/19/2018 STUDENT CHAPTERS 25 MEETING 24th Seminar Series Texas A&M University 1/11/2018 34 17 CONTINUING EDUCATION Accessing E&P Capital in 2018 EVENT HIGHLIGHTS 27 1/12/2018 Business Development Workshop: Young Professionals: Houston NORTHSIDE 35 Value Stream Mapping for Food Bank Volunteers 1/16/2018 18 Drilling Engineers Surfactant Chemistry and Its 35 HSSE&SR: Health, Safety and Impact on Oil and Gas Recovery 1/19/2018 Environmental Outreach 28 in Shale Plays Artificial Lift and Production Permian Basin: Second Annual Optimization Solutions 36 HSSE-SR Permian Basin Panel Discussion 1/24/2018 1/16/2018 29 19 Introduction to Intellectual Mechanical Integrity Lessons Property Laws Study Groups Learned from API Process Safety PETRO-TECH Site Assessments: Driving Operational Excellence YOUNG 12 1/9/2018 PROFESSIONALS How a Petroleum Geologist PERMIAN 1/18/2018 Generates Prospects 30 BASIN Managing Your Career BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT 20 1/16/2018 1/14/2018 Why the Permian Basin Is a 30 1/9/2018 Volunteering at the Houston Marathon 13 Sustainable Resource 2018 SPE-GCS Mergers, Acquisitions & Divestments EDUCATION DRILLING Symposium Where Are They Now? Past Scholarship 1/18/2018 31 21 Winner: Omar Abou-Sayed 13 1/31/2018 MPD: Current Uses and Citizen Energy – Pure Play Future Prospects SCHOLARSHIP Approach to Oklahoma INTERNATIONAL 32 2017-18 SPE-GCS Scholarship Information DATA ANALYTICS 1/18/2018 1/25/2018 21 14 The Leviathan Project: INNOVATE Machine Learning Applications Groundbreaking Discoveries, 3/21/2018 - 3/22/2018 in Upstream O&G & New Massive Untapped Potential 33 Technology for Production & Long-Term Reliability IES: Innovation & Forecasting Entrepreneurship Symposium 03 CHAIR’S CORNER Chair’s Corner, Continued from page 1 In a presentation I delivered in October 2017, I engaged with an audience and asked them to help define visible leadership. The feedback and passion on this topic was strong. The messages I heard are clear: Lead by example, walk the talk – connect actions to ideas, start the conversation, be present – in the moment, be mindful, and make an impact. Each one of these messages can be a starting point for you to demonstrate your commitment to being a visible safety leader in 2018 and beyond. Resolution #2: Be an exemplary SPE volunteer The work of SPE and the Gulf Coast Section is accomplished largely through the efforts of SPE’s volunteers. As an organization with about 165,000 members, it takes a tremendous amount of volunteer hours to achieve our mission. As of November 2017, the Gulf Coast Section has a total active membership of 15,339 members, including 1,864 students and 2,764 Young Professional members. This is a large and important group within SPE, and we need a large, robust group of volunteers to make it happen. We need EXEMPLARY SPE VOLUNTEERS! As we begin the year, I thought it would be useful to reflect on the mission of the Gulf Coast Section as stated in our bylaws. The mission of the Section shall be the promotion of mutual cooperation in furthering the objectives of the Society of Petroleum Engineers International, Inc. This shall be accomplished by: A Providing forums that afford members the opportunity to upgrade and maintain professional competence. B Providing social interaction that increases member participation in Section activities as a whole, while striving to maintain the integrity of the Section. C Supporting programs in local primary and secondary schools to encourage students to develop their abilities in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. D Supporting engineering programs at the university level. E Enhancing the image of the Oil and Gas Industry by sponsoring community service programs. JANUARY 2018 Participating in our events is definitely a valuable But the ambition of the section does not stop with this contribution because we need the active financial support new flagship. Bill Davis, Program Chair, and many of our members and the broader upstream oil and gas study groups are planning an extraordinary roster community to sustain the investments necessary to of half-day and full-day events to deliver amazing achieve our mission. But there is no doubt in my mind that content to the members of SPE and the SPE Gulf Coast volunteering is where the opportunities and the benefits are Section this year: truly created for our members. As an exemplary SPE Gulf • Business Development – Mergers, Acquisitions and Coast Section volunteer, you will grow in many ways: Divestments Symposium (January 9) • You will enhance your leadership skills. • Completion & Production One-Day Event (February) • You will influence SPE programs and activities with your knowledge and experience. • Annual Drilling Symposium (March 15) • You will meet and work with other members near you and • Upstream Oil and Gas Hiring Event (March 27) around the globe. • Geomechanics Congress 2018 (April 18) • You will contribute in your area of interest at both the local and international levels. • Data Analytics One-Day Event (April 19) I think it is fitting to end by featuring some of the • Reservoir Technology Symposium (April 27) fantastic work that our exemplary section volunteers are doing to create a vibrant platform of learning and • Regulatory Roundtable on Emerging HSE Issues: networking opportunities that will benefit our members Potential Impacts, Challenges and Opportunities for in the spring of 2018.
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