The group of BS reservoirs in the Gubkin oil and gas region is characterized by the fact that the water cut in the well production is ahead of the oil production by more than 12%. The increase in the dynamics of watering of BS10 strata in the zones of lack of underlying water is associated with its breakthrough from the injection wells. The reason for this is the insufficiently effective system of stimulation of the reservoir - the inability of injected water to displace oil from the reservoir. This problem is directly related to the geological factor, the variability of reservoir properties. The study of the material composition of reservoir rocks in order to assess the reservoir properties and their influence on the displacement coefficient has been carried out. Research objectives include statistical analysis of changes in clay content from porosity and permeability of rocks of the BS10 reservoir formation; establishing the effect of clay on the permeability of the reservoir. For the BS10 reservoir group of the Gubkin oil and gas region, it was found that in highly porous hydrophobic reservoirs with a low clay content, displacement is less intense compared to hydrophilic low permeability reservoirs.
Talent & Technology SPE has actively participated in the Emerging Leaders Alliance (ELA) since its inception. The alliance allows partnering societies to nominate delegates who come together to expand their leadership skills through a multiday event using direct teaching, group work, and self-study exercises. Attendees are primarily early career professional society leaders from the eight engineering partner societies who are currently interested in improving their management skills. More than 80 SPE young professional members have had the opportunity to attend the event so far. The 2016 ELA conference focused on a variety of topics, including performance management, emotional quotient, and technical-to-management transitions. The interviewees featured in this article span a range of experience levels: a young professional, an experienced professional in a technical position, and an experienced professional in a management position. Each illustrates the relevance and application of the event’s chosen leadership topics despite one’s career path. Performance Management The performance management discussions emphasized the importance of communication, active listening, and observation to optimize performance management. Industry professionals should actively participate in performance management to enhance employee productivity, placement, morale, and evaluations, whether they are providing evaluations or receiving them. When team members provide their inputs on whether the appraisal steps accurately reflect their periodic performance, both parties establish a necessary discourse that ultimately improves their organization. Evaluators should take into account the reviewee’s background and experience when conducting formal performance reviews. This can help customize appraisals to the reviewee’s needs. Susan Howes, vice president of SCA Consulting, who has been involved with recruiting petrotechnical talent and performance management of industry professionals throughout her career, said “Based on the principle that every individual is responsible for their own career management, a personalized view is best. However, it is important that your SMART [specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and time-limited] goals should be aligned with the annual goals of your department and your business unit. Applying a similar approach or stream-lined workflow will provide consistency for supervisors with multiple direct reports, but each individual contributor should set their own goals and measure their progress toward achieving them.”
The Society of Petroleum Engineers has actively participated in the Emerging Leaders Alliance (ELA) for 9 years since its inception in 2008. Through a stipend obtained from the SPE International Young Member Programs Budget, 86 young members have had the opportunity to attend the multiple day ELA. Attendees of the ELA are primarily early career leaders with management potential from the nine partner societies. Though topics stay relevant through a continuous improvement process, this paper will specifically address three topics from the 2016 ELA which were deemed most relevant to the authors: Performance Management, Emotional Quotient (EQ), and Technical to Managerial Transitions. The paper will discuss the significance, development and proposed protocol of performance management, whether if professionals are in the conducting or receiving end. The paper will also cover the roles of emotional quotient, or EQ, across technical and managerial positions for professionals of all levels of experience. Finally, the paper will cover when industry professionals should consider the transition from technical to management if they are interested. Interviewees included in the paper discuss how prioritizing these topics set themselves for successful careers. The interviewees will span a wide range of experience levels to display the relevance and application of the chosen topics despite one's career path. Young professionals should consider the three topics emphasized in the paper, as these are commonly overlooked or not prioritized. Proactiveness as early as possible on the topics discussed in this paper could increase professionals' chances of having a successful career. Professionals should also recognize that leaders and whom they supervise hold equal accountability to make the applications of performance management, emotional quotient and the technical to management transition conducive to the workplace.
Zones of increased fracture density related to the tectonic disturbances and connected to the protrusions and recesses of the consolidated basement were identified with the application of seismo-dynamic analysis of the seismic data. This is done for the first time on Povkhovskoe oil field located in Western Siberia. Daily and monthly rates of the producing wells in relation to their location within the geological structure were analyzed. The analysis showed a pattern of increased well productivity by more than 2 times when approaching the areas with high density of fractures. At a distance of more than 500 m from the tectonic disturbances the fluid inflow rates significantly decrease and the performance of hydraulic fracking provides only short-term effect. The deterioration of the reservoir properties is due to a decrease in the value of the reservoir rock permeability because of the decrease in the proportion of fractures and the predominance of the pore space. Reservoir type changes from fractured or fractured-porous reservoir type to porous-only type. The dependence of high oil saturation of the productive formation from the presence of the tectonic disturbances was recorded. Exploitation of producing wells confirms the assumption of oil moving along the sub-vertical zones of destruction and contributing to the primary target Upper Jurrasic-1 reservoir. Drilling of sidetracks from low oil rate and high water saturation wells in the areas with increased fracture network identified by seismo-dynamic analysis showed a high efficiency of the operations leading to a high-rate production including a substantially lower water-cut oil production (up to 5% of water) at the site where the surrounding production wells have water-cut of 99-100%. Meanwhile, reservoir characteristics of the Upper Jurrasic-1 formation are identical. Based on the results of research identified were prospective deposits for the drilling of production wells on the edges of the hydrocarbon accumulation in areas with high fracture density and suggested were the borehole sidetracks of wells that are plugged and abandoned. Thus, the detailed structural and tectonic structure of the basement surface and the Jurassic sediments allows to select complex, small-scale geological features, which will be very prospective for the detection of small oil deposits, to specify the location of exploration wells, to start the search for deposits in areas of sub-vertical degradation in the Middle and Lower Jurassic sediments, basement rocks in areas with overlying hydrocarbon deposits already in development. Identifying zones of high density fracturing, including those associated with horizontal shear zones, allows to adjust the contour outlines of the alleged existing deposits and to discover prospective areas with the increased permeability. Described zones and areas are likely to be located close to faults originating in the basement.
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