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LOS ANGELES BASIN SPE SECTION NEWSLETTER November 2007

In this issue: - A message from the Chair

- Volunteers Needs for

ATCE High School

Outreach Program

- ACTE Announcement

- ATCE Technical Session

Schedule

- Future Forum Calendar

- The December Petroleum

Technology Forum

- Positions Available

- Services Offered

- SPE & AAPG WRM Call

for Papers Deadline

EXTENDED to Oct 31

(see flyer on page 10)

- SPE Membership

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More ATCE Info at:

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A Message from the Chair Dear fellow SPE members, The 2007 SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition is just around the corner. The ATCE will take place in Anaheim from the 11th through the 13th of November 2007. I hope that all of you will attend the conference. It’s a great opportunity to learn new ways to tackle old problems and knowledge share with individuals from all over the world. Local outreach and education of the oil industry, engineering, and sciences is one of our goals here at the Los Angeles section. We achieve these goals in part by participating in science fairs and funding and developing experiments for the Future Scientists and Engineers of America. The ATCE provides us with a unique opportunity to expand that outreach to high school students by guiding them through the exhibition hall. Here they can learn how engineering and science come together to provide oil and gas to the world. We still need engineers and geologists willing to volunteer for the tours Wednesday morning, November 14th. If you are interested, please contact Scott Hara at 562-495-9351. Since the ATCE will take place in November, there will be no monthly forum meeting in November. The next forum meeting will take place in December. Our speaker will be Phiroze Patel from Aera Energy presenting, “Innovation in the Oil Field – You can do it!” On another note, I am happy to announce Mike Utt and Eric Withjack will serve as Directors on the Board through 2010. I look forward to working with Mike and Eric this year. Candra Janova is organizing a paintball event for the young professionals. If you are a young professional and interested in participating, please email to Candra at [email protected] so that he can notify you when the plans are final. Finally, the Call for Papers for the SPE Western Regional Meeting & AAPG Pacific Section Joint Meeting is extended to October 31. See the detailed flyer on page ten. I hope to see you at the ATCE in Anaheim! Sincerely, Brandy Fellers LASPE Chairperson 2007-2008 [email protected]

Volunteers Needed for High School Outreach Program - November 14

Volunteers Needed for SPE ATCE High School Outreach Program

Dear LASPE Members, We are seeking volunteers to help with our High School Outreach Program on Wednesday November 14. SPE is inviting 250 high school students and teachers to attend the convention from 8:30am to 2:00pm. The participants will be treated to a tour of the Exhibition area to see the wide array of technologies we utilize, presentations about energy and the environment, and an introduction about university engineering programs. The purpose of the program is to encourage students to consider college and career opportunities in science and engineering. We need engineers and geo-scientists who are willing to do one or more of the following: 1) Conduct a 2-hour tour of the Exhibition area from 9-11am for ten students and 1-2 teachers, showing them the wide variety of technologies we apply in our industry, asking exhibitors to explain their products, and making sure they go home with a lot of exhibitor give-aways. 2) Eat lunch with the students and teachers, share your work and college experiences, and answer questions they may have. 3) If you can stay after the tour, help us run the remainder of the program. For example, we are planning hands-on Student Exercises that require tallying scores because we plan to give out prizes. 4) Students, young professionals and professors who can stay for lunch are asked to represent their universities at designated tables to discuss engineering and science programs offered, admissions requirements, and university living. My contact information is shown below. If you have committed to volunteering in another capacity and would like to change to this program, please let me know so we can replace your other position. Please respond ASAP because I must register all volunteers to SPE by the end of the month. Scott Hara Chief Reservoir Engineer Tidelands Oil Production Company 562-495-9351 Work [email protected] 626-482-6757 Cell

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ATCE Technical Session Listing November 12-14

ATCE Session Grid Go To www.spe.org/atce for complete details Time Discipline Session Tue 1400 DC: Drilling Drilling Fluids Wed 1400 DC: Drilling Emerging Drilling Technology and Tubulars Wed 0900 DC: Drilling Drilling Automation Wed 0900 DC: Drilling Drilling Case Studies Mon 0830 DC: Drilling Cementing and Wellbore Isolation Tue 0900 DC: Drilling Geomechanics and Wellbore Stability Mon 1400 DC: Drilling Directional Drilling and Special Applications Wed 1400 DC: Well Completions Completions in Unconventional Reservoirs Wed 0900 DC: Well Completions Completion Lessons Learned Tue 0900 DC: Well Completions Completion Concepts and Well Operations Mon 1400 DC: Well Completions Sand Control Tue 1400 DC: Well Completions Well Design and Case Histories Mon 1400 HSE Part I: Risk/Integrity Management

Part II: Wellsite Fluids Management Mon 0830 HSE Carbon Management Wed 1400 MI Managing Profitable Growth Mon 1400 MI Relationships: Reserves, Price, Supply and Demand Mon 0830 MI Change in Professional Generation: Myth or Reality? Mon 1400 MI New Trends in Education, Training and Professionalism Mon 0830 MI Management Practice at Home and Abroad Tue 1400 MI: Digital Energy The Case for Standards, Company

specific and Industry-wide Tue 0900 MI: Digital Energy Operations Centers and Remote

Monitoring Wed 1400 PFC Flow Assurance and Modeling Wed 0900 PFC Fluids and Processing Tue 1400 PFC Projects and Facilities Design Wed 1400 PO: Production Monitoring and Control Wellbore Flow and

Control Tue 1400 PO: Production Monitoring and Control Well Performance and

Optimization Tue 0900 PO: Production Monitoring and Control Field Management and

Optimization Mon 0830 PO: Production Monitoring and Control Production

Measurement and Diagnosis

ATCE Technical Session Listing November 12-14, Continued

ATCE Session Grid Go To www.spe.org/atce for complete details Time Discipline Session Tue 0900 PO: Well Operations Well Operations: Maintaining Well

Integrity to Ensure Production Mon 0830 PO: Well Operations Heavy Oil Production and SAGD Wed 1400 PO: Well Operations Artificial Lift: Striving for Optimum

Production Wed 0900 PO: Well Operations Enhancing Production by Understanding

Multiphase Flow Wed 1400 PO: Well Stimulation Acid Stimulation, New Methods Wed 0900 PO: Well Stimulation Hydraulic Fracturing Diagnostics and

Evaluation of Unconventional and Tight Gas Formation Tue 1400 PO: Well Stimulation Fracturing Applications and Design Mon 1400 PO: Well Stimulation Well Stimulation Case Histories Mon 0830 PO: Well Stimulation Microseismic, Fracture Diagnostics and

CBM Tue 1400 RDD: Formation Evaluation LWD and Wellbore Positioning Tue 0900 RDD: Formation Evaluation Formation Sampling and Testing Mon 1400 RDD: Formation Evaluation Electromagnetics and NMR Wed 0900 RDD: Formation Evaluation Reservoir Characterization Mon 0830 RDD: Formation Evaluation Acoustics Wed 1400 RDD: Recovery Mechanisms and Flow in Porous Media

Heavy Oil/Thermal Recovery Wed 0900 RDD: Recovery Mechanisms and Flow in Porous Media

Wettability/ Relative Permeability Tue 0900 RDD: Recovery Mechanisms and Flow in Porous Media

EOR Fundamentals Mon 1400 RDD: Recovery Mechanisms and Flow in Porous Media

CO2 Injection Mon 0830 RDD: Recovery Mechanisms and Flow in Porous Media

Flow Through Porous Media Wed 1400 RDD: Reservoir Engineering Fluid Properties and Modeling Wed 0900 RDD: Reservoir Engineering

Conventional and Unconventional Gas Tue 1400 RDD: Reservoir Engineering Fluid Flow Tue 0900 RDD: Reservoir Engineering Conventional Reservoir Engineering

ATCE Technical Session Listing November 12-14, Continued

ATCE Session Grid Go To www.spe.org/atce for complete details Time Discipline Session Tue 0900 RDD: Reservoir Engineering Simulation Wed 1400 RDD: Reservoir Engineering Field Case Histories Mon 1400 RDD: Reservoir Engineering Uncertainty and History Matching Mon 0830 RDD: Reservoir Engineering Miscible Recovery Processes Tue 1400 RDD: Reservoir Geology and Geophysics

Fractured Reservoir Characterization Mon 1400 RDD: Reservoir Geology and Geophysics

Reservoir Characterization Through Seismic and Nonseismic Methods Tue 1400 RDD: Reservoir Monitoring

New Technology in Reservoir Monitoring Tue 0900 RDD: Reservoir Monitoring

Real-Time Monitoring and Case Studies Wed 0900 RDD: Reservoir Monitoring Advances in Well Testing

LA SPE Petroleum Forum Future Calendar

The November meeting is pre-empted by the ATCE. However, the 2007 – 2008 Forum Technology Forum Program Year is underway and is shaping up nicely with the following dates firmed up.

December 11, 2007: Innovation in the Oil Field -- YOU can do it! - Phiroze Patel, Aera Energy LLC

January 8, 2008: "New Owner, New Focus, New Oil - Linn Energy Brea Olinda Update." – Glenn Swanson, Linn Energy

February 12, 2008: Open March 11, 2008: Integrated Reservoir Modeling – Challenges and Solutions -

Dr. Mohan Kelkar, University of Tulsa April 8, 2008: Maximizing Oil Recovery Efficiency and Sequestration of CO2

with “Next Generation” CO2-EOR - Vello A. Kuuskraa, Advanced Resources International

May 13, 2008: Open June 10, 2008: Open

The Forum meets the second Tuesday of the month at the Long Beach Petroleum Club from September through June of the following year. Note the remaining open dates in February, May and June 2008. Before I start scheduling speakers, I am open to suggestions from the membership. I would very much like to bring in more local speakers discussing local issues and local solutions to problems we all encounter each day. Please contact me with your ideas and suggestions at: [email protected].

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The Next LA SPE Petroleum Technology Forum - December 11, 2007

- Innovation in the Oil Field – YOU can do it! - The next Monthly Petroleum Technology Forum will be held on Tuesday, December 11, 2007 at the Long Beach Petroleum Club. SPE Distinguished Lecturer Phiroze Patel will present “Innovation in the Oil Field -- YOU can do it!” This will be a very interesting discussion of building a process of innovation in our historically conservative oilfield operations. An abstract and bio is provided below.

Location: Long Beach Petroleum Club 3636 Linden Avenue Long Beach, CA 90807

Time: Registration: 11:30 AM Buffet Lunch: 12:00 noon Presentation: 12:20-1:00 PM

Cost: $20.00, students are our guests.

ABSTRACT: Huge capital costs, operating costs and environmental exposure make the upstream oil and gas business a naturally conservative system. Innovation is recognized as necessary but how does one fit these creative and "random" activities into the overarching conservative backdrop? Recognizing this incongruity is the first step and Systems Thinking is useful to provide the context for innovation in an upstream oil and gas company. Construction of an innovation process, database and measures is essential, not only to manage such activities but also to communicate progress to senior management and validate innovative efforts. A simple process and its execution will be discussed using an example project. A method to involve producing asset staff will be described. Examples that illustrate proper and improper fit of innovation projects in one medium-size oil company's portfolio are quite educational and lessons learned can be translated to foster innovation in your company, be it small or large.

Phiroze Patel, Aera

Energy LLC

BIOGRAPHY: Phiroze Patel is Innovation Director for Aera Energy LLC, a stand-alone company jointly owned by affiliates of Shell and ExxonMobil. He holds Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Aeronautics and Astronautics and a Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering. Phiroze started his 28-year upstream oil production career in Shell's research laboratory and has held many engineering and management positions in water, CO2 and steam flood operations. For the last six years he has participated in Aera's Innovation Team, including the design and implementation of Aera's Innovation Process. Phiroze has served on technical committees of SPE conferences and is a technical editor of a SPE journal.

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