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TECHNICAL PROGRAM
THURSDAY MARCH 6
8:00 AM
8:30 AM
9:00 AM
9:30 AM
Artificial Lift and Production Optimization
Session Chairs: Josefina Salazar, PDVSA Intevep
and Alex Damnjanovic, KUDU Industries
EOR Technologies
Session Chairs: Frans G.A. van den Berg, Shell
Global Solutions and Jian-Yang Yuan, Osum Oil
Sands
Reservoir Characterization
Session Chairs: Nestor Hernandez, Bankers
Petroleum and Javier Hinojosa Puebla, PEMEX
SAGD Technologies I
Session Chairs: Hart Golbeck, Alberta Innovates
and Eric Delamaide, The EOR Alliance
Refining
Session Chairs: Wim Tuegals, Nynas
STRAND 10
STRAND 11
STRAND 12
STRAND 13
STRAND 1
Case Story: All Metal Progressing Cavity
Pumps (AMPCP) Deployed in Canadian
SAGD Field
(WHOC14-120)
Chris Sooinn Jang, Shell Canada
Performance of Enhanced Heavy Oil
Recovery in Alberta
(WHOC14-142)
Patrick Zhang, Alberta Energy Regulator
Use of Multifunctional LWD technology for
Well Placement and Advanced Formation
Evaluation in Temblador Group of
Dobokubi Field, Orinoco Oil Belt,
Venezuela
(WHOC14-313)
Luis Javier Castañeda, Schlumberger
SAGD Producer Wellbore Optimization –
Concept to Completion
(WHOC14-109)
Devin Smith, Devon Canada Corporation
A Pioneering Study on the Selective Water
Oxidation of Asphaltenes
(WHOC14-143)
Maryam Ashtari, University of Calgary
Assessing the Accuracy of Heavy Oil Flow
Measurement
(WHOC14-276)
Chris Mills, NEL
Chemicals Aided Enhanced Oil Recovery
from Conventional Heavy Oil Reservoirs
of Canada
(WHOC14-144)
Dr. Ashok Kumar Singhal & Martin Mader,
Premier Reservoir Engineering Services Ltd
A Field Case Study Of Interference Testing
Using Multiple Horizontal Wells
(WHOC14-243)
Tirtharenu Sanyal, Kuwait Oil Company
Connectivity Between Very Closely
Spaced Wells in McMurray Fm Oil Sands
(WHOC14-121)
Russell Stancliffe, Suncor Energy
Metals Recovery Scheme from Refinery
Residues and Extra-Heavy Oil Upgrading
Technology
(WHOC14-316)
Juan Guillermo Ramirez Garcia, PDVSA
Intervep
Treatment Reconstitution of the Matrix in
the Vicinity of the Well, to Remedy the
Channeling Between Production and
Injection Wells in Unconsolidated
Reservoirs
(WHOC14-100)
Gustavo Federico Kruse, Halliburton
Innovative Solution for Optimization of Oil Preliminary Investigation into the
Production, and Diluent Injection in Heavy Application of IPC Technology for Oil
Oil Conditions
Recovery Using Chemical-Assisted
(WHOC14-230)
Waterflooding Process
Bruno Pinguet, Schlumberger
(WHOC14-103)
Omidreza Mohammadzadeh, DBR
Technology Centre - Schlumberger
Experimental Investigations of Reservoir
Thermal Properties for Heavy Oil Field in
Oman With New Methods and Equipment
(WHOC14-258)
Eugene Popov, Schlumberger
Study of Emulsion Dynamics in SAGD
Process Using Microfluidics
(WHOC14-164)
Pushan Lele, University of Toronto
Bitumen Upgrading and Refining Residue
Conversion to Incremental Synthetic Fuel
Products
(WHOC14-110)
Steve Kresynak & Jan Wagner, Expander
Energy Inc.
Core Extraction Process for Saturated Oil
A Multidisciplinary Approach for
Collision Enhanced Upgrading Results
Optimization of Steam Chamber Pressure (WHOC14-274)
for SAGD in Reservoirs with Bottom Water Charles Parker, FluidOil
(WHOC14-107)
Shahbaz Masih, Statoil Canada
Horizontal Well Length Analysis in Heavy
Oil Reservoirs Using Risked Based IPR
Model
(WHOC14-289)
Dr. Suat Bagci, Baker Hughes
Study of Water and N2 Foam Slug Drive
Technology in Deep Common Heavy Oil
Reservoir
(WHOC14-180)
Changfeng Xi, RIPED PetroChina
Lower McMurray Formation (Aptian)
Braidplain Syndeposition and Origin of
Compartmentalized Bitumen Deposits by
Salt Dissolution Collapse-Subsidence
Structuring of the Northern Athabasca Oil
Sands, Northeastern Alberta
(WHOC14-131)
Paul Broughton, Chevron Canada
Application of SAGD in Reservoirs with
Overlaying Lean Bitumen
(WHOC14-147)
Dr. Hussein Sheikha, Suncor Energy
Experience with Insert PCP Technology in
Cuban Heavy Oil Fields
(WHOC14-333)
James Bartlette, KUDU Industries
Improved Heavy Oil Recovery and In Situ
Upgrading by Liquid CO2 Injection
(WHOC14-273)
Seyed Amir Farzaneh, Herriott-Watt
University
Optimization of Subcool in SAGD Bitumen
Processes
(WHOC14-271)
Terry Stone, Schlumberger
Experimental Study of Static Downhole
Gas Separators Used in the Orinoco Oil
Belt – Venezuela
(WHOC14-306)
Javier Ibarra, PDVSA-Intervep
Effect of the Surfactant Mixture of Fatty
Acids and their Salts on the Enhanced
Recovery Process of a Venezuelan Heavy
Crude Oil
(WHOC14-319)
Alsis J. Espina B., PDVSA
Non-Thermal Heavy Oil Production: A
Pore-to-Core Approach to Investigate the
Impact of Wettability During Cold Water
Injection into Heavy Oils
(WHOC14-272)
Mohamed Regaieg, Heriot Watt University
Direct Evaluation of Hydrocarbon
Saturation Using Pulsed-Neutron
Spectroscopy and NMR Measurements
(WHOC14-244)
Faisal Shanat, Kuwait Oil Company
Productivity Improvement in Horizontal
Wells in Petrocedeño Field, Through
Surfactant Injection Programs
(WHOC14-304)
Omar Toledo Hernandez, Petrocedeño
NETWORKING BREAK
10:00 AM
10:45 AM
11:15 AM
11:45 AM
Recovery (CESPSat ™)
(WHOC14-269)
Mathilde Rousselle, ALS Petrophysics
A New Warm Mix Asphalt Technology and
its Application
(WHOC14-202)
Mona Xu, CNOOC
Heavy Oil Processing in Refinery, Impacts
and Consideration for a Suitable
Processing
(WHOC14-347)
Juan Carlos Latasa Lopez, Idom Engineering
& Consultancy
Using High Temperature Swellable
Study on Pyrolysis Characteristics and
Packers to Direct Steam Injection in SAGD Gasification Kinetics of Deoiled Asphalt
Wells
(WHOC14-217)
(WHOC14-282)
Dr. Linxian Zhang & Chunyu Li, Institute of
Tim Davis, Tam International Inc
Coal Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science
LUNCH, NETWORKING & VISIT EXHIBITION
12:15 PM
Drilling and Completion
Session Chairs: Amnon Vadasz, C.A. Tecnología
Aplicada Venezolana
STRAND 10
2:00 PM
2:30 PM
3:00 PM
Achieving Full Returns with Lighter-thanWater Cement When Drilling with Total
Losses in the Grosmont Formation
(WHOC14-148)
Sarah Whitton, Cenovus Energy
Facilities
Session Chairs: Isam Al Zubaidi, American
University of Sharjah
4:45 PM
5:15 PM
SAGD Technologies II
Session Chairs: Joe Kuhach, Ivanhoe Energy
Transportation and Upgrading
Session Chairs: Louis Nordrum, Chevron and Eloy
Flores III, Southwest Research Institute
STRAND 11
STRAND 12
STRAND 13
Mitigating Vapour Induced Water Hammer
in Production Headers Using Custom
Designed Mixers
(WHOC14-123)
Ashutosh Nischal, Worley Parsons Canada
Behavior of Silica in Aqueous Systems
Generated During Heavy Oil Production
Process at High Temperature and High pH
(WHOC14-229)
Pierre Pedenaud, Total
Field Qualifications of Multiphase Flow
Meter in SAGD Gas Lift and ESP
Operations
(WHOC14-292)
Hernan Beltran, Agar Corporation Inc & Chris
Caso-Rohland, Mica Controls
An Analytical Model to Predict Chamber
Pressure Changes in the SAGD Process
(WHOC14-117)
Robert Glover, Suncor Energy
Flow Assurance For Ayatsil-Tekel Heavy
Oil Development
(WHOC-357)
Erika Patricia Mulato Enriquez & Rafael
Corona Tapia, Pemex
Improving Operational Awareness and
Efficiency Through an Automated
Advisory System
(WHOC14-151)
Brendon Mah & Andreas Al-Kinani, Suncor
Energy
Getting Extra Heavy Oil to Market: Tight
Oil and Gas Synergy and Impact on
Blending, Transportation and Upgrading
Alternatives
(WHOC14-294)
Stephen Pavel, Full Spectrum Consulting LLC
Analytical Modeling of Cement Behavior in
Thermal Wells
(WHOC14-104)
Dr. Jueren Xie, C-FER Technologies
STRAND 1
Reducing the CO2 Footprint of Thermal
Heavy Oil Recovery Projects by
Maximising Energy Efficiency
(WHOC14-267)
Mike Welch, Siemens Industrial
Turbomachinery Ltd.
Development and Field Applications of a
Evaluation of Multiphase Flow Models to
Novel Surfactant System as AntiPredict Pressure Gradient and Holdup in
Accretion and Friction Reducer Additive
Vertical Pipes with Gas and Highly
for Well Drilling Operations at the Orinoco Viscous Liquids
Oil Belt
(WHOC14-386)
(WHOC14-310)
Adriana Brito, PDVSA Intevep
Jesús Arellano, PDVSA Intevep
Experimental Simulation of a Hot Fluid
Injection Process for In-Reservoir
Upgrading
(WHOC14-130)
Luis Alejandro Coy, University of Calgary
Challenges of Formation Pressure
Measurement While Drilling in Heavy Oil
Reservoirs, Peregrino Field, Brazil
(WHOC14-101)
Carmen Vieitez, Baker Hughes
How to Separate Sand in Heavy and Extra
Heavy Oil Fields Surface Facilities
(WHOC14-385)
José Márquez, PDVSA Intevep
Optimization of the THAI-CAPRI Process;
Effect of Hydrogen Donor Solvents on the
Catalytic Bed
(WHOC14-277)
Joe Wood, University of Birmigham
Bottom Water Pressure Rise in SAGD
With Disposal and Retention and its
Implications
(WHOC14-112)
Shahbaz Masih, Statoil Canada
Oil-in-Water Emulsions for Heavy Oil
Transport
(WHOC14-254)
Sebastiano Giardinella & Alberto Baumeister,
Ecotek Investments Inc
A Successful Gravel Packing Technique in
Vertical and Deviated Wells with Enlarged
Open Hole in Cased Completions: A Case
Study - Rubiales and Quifa Fields
(WHOC14-220)
Maria Angélica Osorio T., Pacific Rubiales
Energy
Management Options of Sour Gas With
High Concentrations of H2S and CO2
Associated to Offshore Heavy Oil
(WHOC14-360)
Erika Patricia Mulato Enriquez & Rafael
Corona Tapia, Pemex
Aquathermolytic Treatment Proposal with
Additives for Downhole Upgrading of
Heavy Oils Under Low Severity Condition:
Laboratory Tests
(WHOC14-314)
Carla Birbal, PDVSA Intevep
Physical Experimental Study on
Dual-well SAGD in Heterogeneous
Reservoir
(WHOC14-178)
Xiuluan Li, PetroChina
Economic and Operational Drivers of PostProduction Heavy Oil Upgrading
(WHOC14-300)
Taher Lokhandwala, Halliburton
New Completion Design for Existing Cold
Production Wells in Order to Apply Cyclic
Steam Stimulation (CSS) in an Extra
Heavy Oil Field, Steam Injection Pilot
Project, Petrocedeño, Venezuela
(WHOC14-400)
Ana Pastran & Andreina Ojeda, Petrocedeño
Meeting the Challenges of Power
Generation on Offshore Heavy Oilfields
(WHOC14-266)
Mike Welch, Siemens Industrial
Turbomachinery Ltd.
In Situ Bitumen Recovery Without Heat
(WHOC14-114),
Laureen Little, Vantage Energy Consultants
Numerical Simulation and Optimization of
Steam-Assisted Gravity Drainage in Long
Lake Field, Alberta, Canada
(WHOC14-161)
Jinze Xu, University of Calgary
An Investigation of the Applicability of
Kinetic Models for In Situ Combustion
Processes with Different Types of Oils
(WHOC14-150)
Na Jenna Jia, Schlumberger
Optimizing the Transportation of Heavy
Crudes Using Drag Reducing Agent (DRA)
Technology
(WHOC-285)
Dr.Yung Lee, Phillips Speciality Product
NETWORKING BREAK
3:30 PM
4:15 PM
In Situ Combustion & New Technologies
Session Chairs: Craig Boodoo, Petroleum Engineer
at Ministry of Energy & Energy Industries, Trinidad
& Tobago and Denis Pinto, Caledonian Flow
Systems Limited
TECHNICAL PROGRAM
FRIDAY MARCH 7
Carbonates and Cold Production
Session Chairs: Tom Boone, ExxonMobil Upstream Research
and Catherine Laureshen, Statoil
STRAND 10
8:00 AM
8:30 AM
9:00 AM
9:30 AM
11:15 AM
11:45 AM
12:15 PM
Offshore Heavy Oil Technologies
Session Chairs: Dr. Pedro Silva-Lopez, Pemex and Félix
Alvarado Arellano, Pemex
STRAND 11
STRAND 12
Mapping Initiatives for Wormholes in Canadian
Heavy Oil Reservoirs
(WHOC14-128)
Erik Nickel, Petroleum Technology Research Centre
CCEMC ESEIEH Mineface Test Results Comparing
Predicted RF Heating Performance with Measured
Data
(WHOC14-301)
Mark Trautman, Harris Corporation
Multi-Thermal Fluids Stimulation Production
Characteristics: A Case Study of the First Thermal
Recovery Pilot Test for Offshore Heavy Oil in China
(WHOC14-186)
Dong Liu, CNOOC
The Mississippian Battle Creek Field in Southwest
Saskatchewan: A Model for Carbonate-Hosted Heavy
Oil Exploration in the Western Canada Sedimentary
Basin
(WHOC14-138)
Erik Nickel, Petroleum Technology Research Centre
Measurement of Sand, Oil, and Gas Flow Rates with
a Multiphase Meter in CHOPS
(WHOC14-286)
Tyndall Ellis, Schlumberger
An Approach to Frequency Selection for the
Operation of In Situ Hydrocarbon RF Heating
Systems
(WHOC14-298)
Ronald E Jackson Jr., Harris Corporation
The Practice of Chemical Treatments for Heavy Oil
Reservoirs of China Offshore Oil Field
(WHOC14-196)
Yanlai Li, CNOOC
Monobore Architecture of an In Situ Hydrocarbon RF
Heating System
(WHOC14-299)
Keith Nugent & Mark Blue, Harris Corporation
Cold Production Pilot of Heavy Oil from NonConventional Wells in Kuwait
(WHOC14-245)
Hisham Al-Reshied, Kuwait Oil Company
Modeling In-Situ Upgrading of Heavy Oils by
Subsurface Pyrolysis
(WHOC14-232)
Marelys Mujica, CHLOE
Laboratory Study and Filed Practice of the
Displacement Effect of the Associative Polymer on
Heavy Oil in Bohai Bay
(WHOC14-185)
Dr. Yongjun Guo, Southwest Petroleum
University/Sichuan Guangya Polymer Chemical Limited
Company
Study on Efficient Injection Allocation Technology
for Polymer Flooding on Offshore Platform
(WHOC14-198)
Jian Zhang, CNOOC Research Institute
Geochemistry Interaction of Fluids in Carbonate
Reservoirs at High Temperatures: Simulation Study
(WHOC14-259)
Ahmed Shehata, Texas A&M University
A New Microwave-Stimulated Water Flooding Method
for Heavy Oil Recovery
(WHOC14-251)
Pacelli Zitha, Delft University of Technology
Reservoir Development
& Monitoring
Session Chairs: Swapan Das, Marathon Oil and Richard Tøndel,
Statoil
STRAND 13
New Methodology for History Matching Integrating
Fluid Flow-Subsidence in Heavy Oil Simulation
Modeling. Case Study Bachaquero Field, Bolivar
Coast of Venezuela
(WHOC14-322)
Isabel Prieto, PDVSA
Ground Motion Monitoring Using Radar Satellite
Technology (InSAR Technology): Case Studies of
SAGD Operations in Alberta, Canada
(WHOC14-261)
Alain Arnaud, Altamira Information
Reservoir Monitoring with a Cosmic Ray Density
Tomography Technique
(WHOC14-296)
Dr. Tancredi Botto, Schlumberger
The Quest for Innovative Solutions For In-Situ
Development of Challenging Oil Sands Reservoirs in
Alberta
(WHOC14-139)
David Garner, Statoil Canada
NETWORKING BREAK
10:00 AM
10:45 AM
Electric Heating
& Emerging Technologies
Session Chairs: Barry Blacklock, HotRoxx Energy Corp. and
David Law, Schlumberger
An Integrated Approach to Achieving High Oil Rate
for Extra-Heavy Oil Cold Production
(WHOC14-184)
Dr. Shangqi Liu, Research Institute of Petroleum,
Petrochina
Appraisal of Electrical Resistive Heating Results by
Different Modeling Tools
(WHOC14-231)
Igor Bogdanov, CHLOE
Extended Well Tests for Heavy and Extra-heavy Oil
Naturally Fractured Offshore Reservoirs
(WHOC14-358)
Carlos Alberto Hernández Niño, Pemex
Integrated Delivery of Shell’s In-Situ Development in
Peace River Oil Sands Asset
(WHOC14-127)
Benjamin Howell, Shell
Research on Development Technology of Offshore
Thick Massive Extra-Heavy Oil Reservoir
(WHOC14-191)
Wan-kun Xu, CNOOC
Tilted Oil Water Contact: Definition and Numerical
Modeling in a Heavy Oil Field
(WHOC14-225)
Jaime Piedrahita Rodriguez, Ecopetrol
Research and Practice on the Mechanism of
Enhanced Oil Recovery of Multiple-Thermal Fluid
(WHOC14-192)
Yanchun Su, CNOOC
Advantages of Temperature Logging (Survey)
(WHOC14-134)
Tommy Kirk & Jay Bradshaw, Petrospec Engineering
LUNCH, NETWORKING & VISIT EXHIBITION
Mining, Extraction & Tailings
Session Chairs: Randy Mikula, Kalium Research
STRAND 10
1:45 PM
2:15 PM
2:45 PM
4:15 PM
4:45 PM
Steam, Solvent & Additives
Session Chairs: Hong Zhu, Suncor Energy Inc.
STRAND 12
Thermal Production Technologies
Session Chairs: Denis Pinto, Caledonian Flow Systems Limited
STRAND 13
Enhanced Flotation Recovery of Bitumen From Oil
Sands Tailings Streams by Cavitation
(WHOC14-118)
Abu Junaid, Total E&P Canada
Thermal Water Chemical Analysis – What to Measure
and When to Measure
(WHOC14-152)
Phil Heaton, Maxxam Analytics
Results from a Successful Multi-Year Solvent
Assisted SAGD Pilot at Cold Lake
(WHOC14-157)
Rahman Khaledi, Imperial Oil Limited
Cold Lake Optimization of Well Spacing and
Reservoir Depletion Strategy
(WHOC14-146)
Dustin Bespalko, Imperial Oil Limited
Novel Dual Polymer Flocculants Systems for the
Treatment of Oil Sands Tailings
(WHOC14-233)
Morgan Tizzotti, SNF SAS
Heavy Oil Separation by use of Electro Coalescence
(WHOC14-253)
Morad Amarzguioui, Wartsila Oil and Gas Systems
Case Study: Field Pilot Application of a Chemical
Additive to Enhance Bitumen Production in SAGD
Operations
(WHOC14-122)
Uriel Guerrero Aconcha, Suncor Energy
A Comparative Study of Wire Wrapped Screens vs.
Slotted Liners for Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage
Operations
(WHOC14-113)
Uliana Romanaova, Weatherford
Scaling Physical Simulation Research on Different
Types of Horizontal Well Pattern on Steam Flooding
of Heavy Oil
(WHOC14-219)
Haitao Wang, Sinopec
Improved Dehydration and Desalting of Heavy Crude Optimization of the SAGD & TM Technology
Oil and DilBit
(WHOC14-153)
(WHOC14-281)
Edmund Lau, Connacher Oil and Gas
Erik Sellman, Cameron Process and Compression
Systems
Surface Engineering for the Processing Equipment
Improvement in Heavy Oil Production
(WHOC14-132)
Sandy Cleland & Eugene Medvedovski, Endurance
Technologies Inc.
NETWORKING BREAK
3:15 PM
3:45 PM
Oil and Water
Treatment & Management
Session Chairs: Joe Kuhach, Ivanhoe Energy & Barry Lappin,
Aker Solutions
STRAND 11
Demulsification of Water-in-Naphtha Diluted Bitumen
Emulsion with a High Clay Content
(WHOC14-119)
Xianhua Feng, Baker Hughes
Optimization and Risk Assessment of Steam
Generation: Erosional Velocity Factor
(WHOC14-111)
Henry Hau, Statoil Canada Ltd.
Mechanistic Model Development for Transport and
Fate of Oil Sands Process-Affected Water
(WHOC14-160)
Dr. Mike Wang & Dr. Andrews Takyi, Total E&P Canada
Interfacial Films and Stability of SAGD Emulsions:
Effect of Reverse Emulsion Breakers
(WHOC14-297)
Duy Nguyen, Nalco Champion
Sewage Water in an EOR HO Field
(WHOC14-242)
Rachid Ghouti, Kuwait Oil Company
Optimization of Thermal Water Plant Operations Can
Be Improved by Forensic Analysis of Once Through
Steam Generator (OTSG) Deposits
(WHOC14-155)
Glenn Weagle, Nalco Champion
Recovery Improvement by Solvent Co-injection in a
Vertical Well Steam Drive
(WHOC14-106)
Ralf Hedden, Shell Canada
Increasing the Profitability of Extra-Heavy Oil Wells
with Cyclic Steam Injection in the Samaria Neogeno
Field by using Injection Profiles Logged Under
Extreme Temperature
(WHOC14-247)
Ezequiel Arturo Isidro Torres, Halliburton
Significant Superiorities of Superheated Steam
Stimulation in Recovery Marginal Heavy Oil
Reservoirs – A Case Study
(WHOC14-216)
Anzhu Xu, Petrochina Research Institute of Petroleum
Exploration
Completion Challenges and Practice in the First
Offshore Thermal Pilot Project in China
(WHOC14-195)
Hailong Zhang, China Oilfield Services, Ltd.