Tuesday and Wednesday, October 11th and
12th
8 a.m. - 5 p.m. daily
Weatherford Laboratories,
Geological Center of Excellence
5200 North Sam Houston Parkway W., Suite 500,
Houston, TX 77068
Weatherford Laboratories would like to invite you and your
colleagues to attend their upcoming Shale Workshop being taught by
industry renowned speakers Alan Kornacki and Chris Laughrey.
The workshop will be presented in three phases, using a
"hands-on" technique where the participants will learn how to
asses, evaluate and develop/manage reservoirs.
· Phase #1 (Assess Resources): "Mine" old
data and interpret new data to assess the potential of a gas-shale
resource. The training course will illustrate the importance
of carefully characterizing source rocks, interpreting geological
data available on shale intervals, and applying basin-modeling
technology to reduce the uncertainty about the scope of the
play.
· Phase #2 (Evaluate Prospects):
Obtain/analyze a wide variety of rock and fluid samples from
exploration and appraisal wells. The training course will
illustrate how to interpret geological, geochemical, petrophysical,
and geomechanical data obtained on cuttings, cores, mud gas
samples, desorption canister samples, and produced fluid samples;
and then integrate those data with other kinds of subsurface data
to identify shale intervals that contain commercial volumes of
natural gas that can produced profitably.
· Phase #3 (Develop/Manage Reservoirs):
Interpret data obtained on reservoir rock samples and produced
fluid samples (principally gas and water) to support well/reservoir
management programs. Use HC fingerprinting technology, the
composition of produced water samples, and other kinds of rock and
fluid data to evaluate reservoir connectivity, well completions,
and dynamic reservoir properties."
Cost for registration:
$1,500
For more details and to register,
please visit our website at www.weatherfordlabs.com.
Christopher D. Laughrey is a Senior Geosciences
Advisor with Weatherford Laboratories at their Unconventional
Reservoir Services facility in Golden, Colorado. He has 34 years of
experience in reservoir petrology, basin analysis, and both isotope
and petroleum geochemistry, particularly with regard to
unconventional plays. His work at Weatherford is international in
scope and includes project consulting, teaching in-depth workshops
on both unconventional and conventional reservoir geology and
geochemistry, and collaborating with other Weatherford scientists
on research and business development efforts within the
company.
Dr. Alan Kornacki received his B. S. degree
(1974) in geology from the University of Missouri at Rolla, and his
Ph.D. (1984) in geology from Harvard University. Alan
recently retired from Royal Dutch Shell, where for 26 years he
specialized in developing, implementing, and integrating
geochemistry and fluid property technology for a wide range of
E&P applications. Alan developed new workflows to integrate and
interpret data obtained on rock and fluid samples from
unconventional HC resources, including the Colorado Oil Shale,
Canadian tar sands, and numerous gas-shale plays in the USA,
Canada, and China: e.g., Haynesville and Bossier Formations;
Eagleford Formation; Marcellus Shale; Montney and Doig Formations;
Hilliard and Baxter Formations. Alan also championed the
integration of reactive transport modeling technology (TOUGHREACT)
with dynamic reservoir modeling technology and core-flood
experimental results to support CO2 sequestration projects.