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SPE International Heavy Oil Conference and Exhibition
December 10–12, 2018
Kuwait City, Kuwait
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978-1-61399-640-9
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Day 2 Tue, December 11, 2018
Modelling Heavy Oil Performance to Optimise the Future
Assessment of Waterflood Performance in a Heterogeneous Heavy Oil Field in Northern Kuwait
Paper presented at the SPE International Heavy Oil Conference and Exhibition, Kuwait City, Kuwait, December 2018. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/193726-MS
Improvement and Learnings from Reservoir Performance Analysis in a Large Scale Thermal Pilot in North Kuwait
Paper presented at the SPE International Heavy Oil Conference and Exhibition, Kuwait City, Kuwait, December 2018. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/193651-MS
Augmented AI Solutions for Heavy Oil Reservoirs: Innovative Workflows That Build from Smart Analytics, Machine Learning And Expert-Based Systems
Paper presented at the SPE International Heavy Oil Conference and Exhibition, Kuwait City, Kuwait, December 2018. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/193650-MS
Business, Management and Leadership (BML): Enabling Success, Enhancing Talent and Products
Optimizing Training Paths in the Heavy Oil Realm: Insights Developed in KOC
Paper presented at the SPE International Heavy Oil Conference and Exhibition, Kuwait City, Kuwait, December 2018. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/193684-MS
Refining Technology and Processing Developments
Paper presented at the SPE International Heavy Oil Conference and Exhibition, Kuwait City, Kuwait, December 2018. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/193672-MS
Investigating the Viscosity Reduction of Ultra-Heavy Crude Oil Using Hydrocarbon Soluble Low Molecular Weight Compounds to Improve Oil Production and Transportation
Paper presented at the SPE International Heavy Oil Conference and Exhibition, Kuwait City, Kuwait, December 2018. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/193677-MS
Strategic Competencies for Non-Conventional Heavy and Extra Heavy Oil Fields: Identification, Definition and Measurement
Paper presented at the SPE International Heavy Oil Conference and Exhibition, Kuwait City, Kuwait, December 2018. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/193671-MS
Solutions for Challenges in Drilling and Completion in Heavy Oil
Loss Circulation Materials Testing Methods: Literature Review
Paper presented at the SPE International Heavy Oil Conference and Exhibition, Kuwait City, Kuwait, December 2018. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/193678-MS
Engineered Hybrid Drill Bit Technology Doubles Drilling Performance in Impact-Prone Carbonates Heavy Oil Application
Paper presented at the SPE International Heavy Oil Conference and Exhibition, Kuwait City, Kuwait, December 2018. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/193704-MS
Evaluation of Well Completions in the First Steam Flood Pilot Performed in an Unconsolidated Sandstone Reservoir in Kuwait
Paper presented at the SPE International Heavy Oil Conference and Exhibition, Kuwait City, Kuwait, December 2018. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/193653-MS
Tackling High Water Production in Oman South Fields with New Technology
Paper presented at the SPE International Heavy Oil Conference and Exhibition, Kuwait City, Kuwait, December 2018. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/193658-MS
Maximising Recovery Through Innovative Artificial Lift Strategies
Conceptual ESP Completion Design to Maximize Rig-Less Intervention and Reduce Overall Workover Rig Utilization
Paper presented at the SPE International Heavy Oil Conference and Exhibition, Kuwait City, Kuwait, December 2018. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/193729-MS
Successful Installation of Stand Alone Screen in Challenging Environment in Umm Niqa Field
Paper presented at the SPE International Heavy Oil Conference and Exhibition, Kuwait City, Kuwait, December 2018. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/193698-MS
Industry First; Rigless ESP Enables Wellbore Access to Perform a Coiled-Tubing Clean Out.
Paper presented at the SPE International Heavy Oil Conference and Exhibition, Kuwait City, Kuwait, December 2018. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/193652-MS
Innovations to Unlock Heavy Oil Recovery
Hydraulic Dilation Stimulation to Improve Steam Injectivity and Conformance in Thermal Heavy Oil Production
Paper presented at the SPE International Heavy Oil Conference and Exhibition, Kuwait City, Kuwait, December 2018. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/193681-MS
The Application of CO2 Assisted Cyclic Steam Stimulation
Paper presented at the SPE International Heavy Oil Conference and Exhibition, Kuwait City, Kuwait, December 2018. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/193676-MS
Hot Dry Air Diffusion HDAD Technology for Lower Fars Heavy Oil
Paper presented at the SPE International Heavy Oil Conference and Exhibition, Kuwait City, Kuwait, December 2018. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/193703-MS
Managing Heavy Oil Fields: Monitoring and Surveillance
Maintaining Seal Integrity During Waterflooding in Shallow Depleted Heavy-Oil Sands: Implications to Geomechanical Model
Paper presented at the SPE International Heavy Oil Conference and Exhibition, Kuwait City, Kuwait, December 2018. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/193674-MS
Downhole Receiver Based Technology for Geophysical Monitoring of Super-Viscous Oil Deposits Development by Steam Injection
Paper presented at the SPE International Heavy Oil Conference and Exhibition, Kuwait City, Kuwait, December 2018. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/193662-MS
Satellite INSAR Technology for Cap Rock Integrity Monitoring of CSS and SF Heavy Oil Production Kuwait
Paper presented at the SPE International Heavy Oil Conference and Exhibition, Kuwait City, Kuwait, December 2018. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/193701-MS
Workflows to Assist in Managing a Heavy Oil Field in the Middle Magdalena Basin, Colombia
Paper presented at the SPE International Heavy Oil Conference and Exhibition, Kuwait City, Kuwait, December 2018. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/193722-MS
Knowledge Sharing ePoster Sessions
Thru-Tubing Conveyed Rigless ESP Technology: A 20-Year Case History of Wireline Retrievable ESPs.
Paper presented at the SPE International Heavy Oil Conference and Exhibition, Kuwait City, Kuwait, December 2018. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/193783-MS
Does Polymer's Viscoelasticity Influence Heavy Oil Sweep Efficiency and Injectivity at 1ft/Day?
Paper presented at the SPE International Heavy Oil Conference and Exhibition, Kuwait City, Kuwait, December 2018. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/193771-MS
The Application of Chemistry to Manage Wellbore Instability While Drilling the Mechanically Weak Burgan Shale Formation and the Vugular Shuaiba Limestone Formation
Paper presented at the SPE International Heavy Oil Conference and Exhibition, Kuwait City, Kuwait, December 2018. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/193803-MS
Application of a New IPR Model with a Comparison to PGOR Test and PLT Data to Evaluate Wells Productivity
Paper presented at the SPE International Heavy Oil Conference and Exhibition, Kuwait City, Kuwait, December 2018. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/193786-MS
Controlled Source EM to Monitor Steam Injection in the Ratqa Heavy Oil Reservoir
Paper presented at the SPE International Heavy Oil Conference and Exhibition, Kuwait City, Kuwait, December 2018. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/193643-MS
Solar Energy Enhanced Oil Recovery: A Case Study for Kuwait
Paper presented at the SPE International Heavy Oil Conference and Exhibition, Kuwait City, Kuwait, December 2018. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/193801-MS
The Study of Spontaneous Co-Current and Counter-Current Imbibition in Heavy Oil Fractured Reservoirs with the Focus on their Distinctions in Numerical Simulation Methods
Paper presented at the SPE International Heavy Oil Conference and Exhibition, Kuwait City, Kuwait, December 2018. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/193767-MS
Concentric Coiled Tubing Technology for Well Cleaning & Evaluation in Shallow Horizontal Wells: A Case Study from Heavy Oil Field Kuwait
Paper presented at the SPE International Heavy Oil Conference and Exhibition, Kuwait City, Kuwait, December 2018. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/193782-MS
Optimization of Outflow Control Devices Placement and Design in SAGD Wells with Trajectory Excursions
Paper presented at the SPE International Heavy Oil Conference and Exhibition, Kuwait City, Kuwait, December 2018. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/193773-MS
Technical and Economical Aspects of Use of Solar Energy in Oil & Gas Industry in the Middle East
Paper presented at the SPE International Heavy Oil Conference and Exhibition, Kuwait City, Kuwait, December 2018. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/193768-MS
Bayesian Based Approach for Hydraulic Flow Unit Identification and Permeability Prediction: A Field Case Application in a Tight Carbonate Reservoir
Paper presented at the SPE International Heavy Oil Conference and Exhibition, Kuwait City, Kuwait, December 2018. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/193752-MS
Reducing Operating Costs through Accurate Measurements
Paper presented at the SPE International Heavy Oil Conference and Exhibition, Kuwait City, Kuwait, December 2018. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/193794-MS
Sand Production Assessment & Sand Control Selection for Steam Flood in South Oman
Paper presented at the SPE International Heavy Oil Conference and Exhibition, Kuwait City, Kuwait, December 2018. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/193777-MS
Experimental Investigation of Nanoparticles/Polymer Enhanced CO2- Foam in the Presence of Hydrocarbon at High-Temperature Conditions
Paper presented at the SPE International Heavy Oil Conference and Exhibition, Kuwait City, Kuwait, December 2018. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/193802-MS
Optimization of Steam Injection for Heavy Oil Reservoirs Using Reinforcement Learning
Paper presented at the SPE International Heavy Oil Conference and Exhibition, Kuwait City, Kuwait, December 2018. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/193769-MS
New Insights of Low Salinity Water Flooding in Low Permeability-Low Porosity Clay Rich Sandstone Reservoir
Paper presented at the SPE International Heavy Oil Conference and Exhibition, Kuwait City, Kuwait, December 2018. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/193744-MS
Implementation of Well Performance Management System WPMS Leads to Significant Cost, Time Reduction
Paper presented at the SPE International Heavy Oil Conference and Exhibition, Kuwait City, Kuwait, December 2018. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/193667-MS
Economic Benefits of Implementing Alternative Energy: A Heavy Oil Fields Case Study
Paper presented at the SPE International Heavy Oil Conference and Exhibition, Kuwait City, Kuwait, December 2018. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/193717-MS
Experimental Study on the Matching Relationship between PPG Size and Reservoir Heterogeneity
Paper presented at the SPE International Heavy Oil Conference and Exhibition, Kuwait City, Kuwait, December 2018. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/193709-MS
Seismic Facies Classification and Rock Typing to Better Understand Heavy Oil Reservoirs: A Case Study from North Kuwait
Paper presented at the SPE International Heavy Oil Conference and Exhibition, Kuwait City, Kuwait, December 2018. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/193806-MS
Reservoir Characterization of Heavy Oil in Burgan Formation of North Kuwait
Paper presented at the SPE International Heavy Oil Conference and Exhibition, Kuwait City, Kuwait, December 2018. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/193765-MS
Cost Optimization Study of Soak Period and Production Cycles of Cyclic Steam Injection in Lower Fars Heavy Oil LFHO Reservoir
Paper presented at the SPE International Heavy Oil Conference and Exhibition, Kuwait City, Kuwait, December 2018. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/193766-MS
Surfactant-Polymer Flooding: One-Spot EOR Pilot Design for a Middle-Eastern Heavy Oil Reservoir
Paper presented at the SPE International Heavy Oil Conference and Exhibition, Kuwait City, Kuwait, December 2018. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/193743-MS
Balancing Sub-Surface Needs, Surface Planning and Reduction in Operational Cost for Placement of Observation Wells in a Kuwait Heavy Oil Field
Paper presented at the SPE International Heavy Oil Conference and Exhibition, Kuwait City, Kuwait, December 2018. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/193787-MS
An Innovative Approach to Test Heavy Oil in Burgan Reservoir of Greater Burgan Field
Paper presented at the SPE International Heavy Oil Conference and Exhibition, Kuwait City, Kuwait, December 2018. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/193793-MS
In Situ Heavy Oil Upgrading by Electric Enhanced Oil Recovery, Complex Carbonate Heavy Oil Field Case
Paper presented at the SPE International Heavy Oil Conference and Exhibition, Kuwait City, Kuwait, December 2018. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/193778-MS
Miscible Gases Based EOR in Unconventional Liquids Rich Reservoirs: What We Can Learn
Paper presented at the SPE International Heavy Oil Conference and Exhibition, Kuwait City, Kuwait, December 2018. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/193748-MS
Characterization of the Stratigraphic Column in an Extra Heavy Oil Field to Optimize Production Costs, From the Disposal of Wastewater Effluents to the Evaluation of Shallow Aquifers for Water Production. Cerro Negro Area, Venezuela.
Paper presented at the SPE International Heavy Oil Conference and Exhibition, Kuwait City, Kuwait, December 2018. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/193732-MS
Investigation Wettability Contact Angle Measurement in Kuwaiti Heavy Oil Reservoir and Modeling Using 2D Imaging Technologies
Paper presented at the SPE International Heavy Oil Conference and Exhibition, Kuwait City, Kuwait, December 2018. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/193706-MS
Doing the Right Things…Taking Risk Management to the Next Level: Managing H2S Risks in Heavy Oil Facilities in Kuwait Oil Company
Paper presented at the SPE International Heavy Oil Conference and Exhibition, Kuwait City, Kuwait, December 2018. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/193799-MS
Sand Control Strategy for Unconsolidated Sandstone Heavy Oil Reservoir in Kuwait
Paper presented at the SPE International Heavy Oil Conference and Exhibition, Kuwait City, Kuwait, December 2018. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/193792-MS
Process Safety Management Challenges in Heavy Oil Production
Paper presented at the SPE International Heavy Oil Conference and Exhibition, Kuwait City, Kuwait, December 2018. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/193790-MS
Use of Air with Different Solvents Mixtures for Improved Foam Stability and Cost Effective Heavy Oil Recovery
Paper presented at the SPE International Heavy Oil Conference and Exhibition, Kuwait City, Kuwait, December 2018. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/193761-MS
Study on Radio Frequency Heating Pattern of Heavy Oil Reservoir Based on Multi-Antenna Configuration
Paper presented at the SPE International Heavy Oil Conference and Exhibition, Kuwait City, Kuwait, December 2018. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/193774-MS
Application of Supercritical Water Coupled with Toe-Point Injection Technique for Heavy Oil EOR: A Case Study
Paper presented at the SPE International Heavy Oil Conference and Exhibition, Kuwait City, Kuwait, December 2018. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/193720-MS
A Cost-Effective Water Management Strategy for Developing Large Heavy Oil Field in Northern Kuwait
Paper presented at the SPE International Heavy Oil Conference and Exhibition, Kuwait City, Kuwait, December 2018. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/193736-MS
Application of Super-Critical Water for Heavy Oil EOR: A Case Study from Pilot Field Test
Paper presented at the SPE International Heavy Oil Conference and Exhibition, Kuwait City, Kuwait, December 2018. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/193756-MS
