May 29 - June 1, 2012 International

Acid Gas Injection Symposium Banff , Alberta, Canada

AGIS III Information

Contact: Alice Wu // Max Chen Phone: 1 403 619 6215 / 1 403 456 6050 Fax: 1 888 894 4941 Email: agis@spheretechconnect.com information@spheretechconnect.com Website: www.spheretechconnect.com

AGIS Introduction The world’s thirst for energy continues to increase especially now the world population went up to 7 bil-

lions. Producers of petroleum and natural gas must begin to look for poorer quality reservoirs, those con-taining high carbon dioxide and hydrogen sulfide or poor complex geology reservoirs, to fill the high en-ergy demand. Producing these resources is dangerous and unfriendly to our environment because of the presence of toxic hydrogen sulfide and carbon dioxide. All these products need special process to become useful energy. The big question arises as to what can be done with the by-products of these processes, hy-drogen sulfide, carbon dioxide and other more. If it contains sufficient quantities of hydrogen sulfide, it can be converted to something more benefit such as elemental sulfur. However, as the production of sulfur in-creases, certainly the demand and the price will fall. Is there another option? Carbon dioxide has the same problems as hydrogen sulfite to our human and environment. What do we do with CO2? Continue to release to the air? Therefore, all needs to fill those demands for energy have also put a strain on the earth’s environ-ment. Whether or not you believe that man is changing the earth’s climate, it is very clear that the earth’s environment is changing.

Three technologies have emerged (or are emerging) that increase the energy supply and reduce the effect on the environment. These technologies are: 1. Acid gas injection (AGI), 2. Enhanced oil recovery by CO2 injection (CO2 EOR), and 3. Carbon capture and storage (CCS). These are the basic of waste gas injection. Each of these involves the injection of a stream rich in hydrogen sulfide, carbon dioxide, or both. These mixtures are called acid gases; a name that arises because CO2 and H2S form weak acids when dissolved in water. This is called Acid Gas Injection.

A symposium for acid gas injection was the brainchild of Sphere Technology Connection, a Calgary company specializing in transfer technology related to the petroleum industry throughout the world. AGIS will discuss all processes related to the injection of acid gases – AGI, CO2 EOR, rich gas injection EOR and CCS. All of these processes share common aspects and there are synergies that can be exploited from the more mature processes (EOR) to the emerging processes (CCS).

The first two International Acid Gas Injection Symposium (AGIS) were held in Calgary in October 2009 and September 2010. In attendance were more than 100 delegates from Canada, the USA, Europe, Australia and Asia presenting expertise and experience related to all aspects AGI, CCS, and topics related to EOR. In total 60 papers were presented including keynote address by Dr. Mehran Pooladi-Davish, Vice President Engineering of Fekete Associate in Calgary and Dr. John Carroll, Director of Geostorage Process Engineer-ing at Gas Liquids Engineering also in Calgary in 2009 and Dr. Stefan Bachu in 2010. Dr. Bachu is a Dis-tinguished Scientist, CO2 Storage at Alberta Innovates – Technology Futures (formerly the Alberta Re-

search Council) in Edmonton. In 2012, AGIS III it will be held in Banff Park Lodge

Resort and Conference Center, Alberta Canada during May 29th to June 1, 2012 hosted by Sphere Technology Connection Ltd, Canada and supported by Gas Liquids Engineering Ltd. Canada. We believe AGIS III will be more successful then previous two AGIS.

We hope to see you in Banff, Alberta, Canada sharing your advanced technology and experiences.

AGIS Technical Topic • Phase Equilibrium

• Hydrates & Water Content

• Sulphur Precipitation

• Dehydration Processing

• Equations of State

• Physical Properties

• Corrosion Studies

• Sour Gas Sweetening

• Carbon Capture

• Acid Gas Compression

• Acid Gas Injection

• Carbon Sequestration

• CO2 EOR

• Production Well Flow

• Materials Selection

• Chemical Inhibitors

• Emergency Planning

• Pipelines & Gathering

• Acid Gas Transfer Design

• Reservoir Modeling

• Drilling and Completion

• Mechanical Engineering

• Geology

• Geochemistry & Geophysics

• Health, Safety

• Environment Protection

AGIS III Keynote Speaker

Firoozabadi is among the few who have received the AIME An-thony Lucas Gold Medal, the SPE Honorary Membership Award, the SPE John Franklin Carll Award, in recognition of setting the stage and new directions for petroleum production and environ-mental stewardship of hydrocarbon energy production.

Abbas Firoozabadi, Yale University, USA. Abbas Firoozabadi has published some 150 Journal papers in pe-troleum interface, thermodynamics of hydrocarbon reservoirs and pro-duction, and multiphase multi-species flow in permeable me-dia. Firoozabadi has published mainly in the Society of Petroleum En-gineers (SPE) Journals, AIChE Journal, Journal of Chemical Physics, Journal of Physical Chemistry B, Langmuir, Water Resources Research, Advances in Water Resources, and Journal of Computational Physics.

He has authored a graduate text, “Thermodynamics of Hydrocarbon Reservoirs,” published by McGraw Hill in 1999. The second edition of the book with major expansion will become available in mid 2011. Firoozabadi is the most prolific author of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) Journals with over 70 SPE Journal papers. He is also the most published author in petroleum engineering in comparison to faculty members and scientists in petro-leum engineering in the US. He has two patents, one related to wettability alteration to inter-mediate gas wetting, and another patent for use of alcohols as co-surfactants for dispersion of the solid phase in flowlines.

Firoozabadi's major contributions include theoretical, experimental and advanced com-putational methods in thermodynamics and kinetics of flow assurance in hydrocarbon en-ergy production. His current research focus includes higher-order numerical models to allow evaluation of CO2 subsurface injection. In the last several years Firoozabadi has focused on nano-technology concepts in oil and gas flowlines. Firoozabadi directs research efforts and provides insight in three of the potentially world largest scale CO2 injection projects, one in Mexico for Pemex, one in the North Sea for ConocoPhilips and one for the sub-salt group of giant fields for Petrobras in Brazil. His idea on increased gas well production rate is being implemented in Austria by OMV. His ideas on prevention of asphaltene precipitation through formation of nano-particles are being pursued in Abu Dhabi.

AGIS Technical Committee Chairman

John J. Carroll Director, Gas Liquids Engineering Ltd., Canada

Committee

Alan E. Mather Professor, University of Alberta, Canada

Peter J. Griffin Vice President, Gas Liquids Engineering Ltd., Canada

Marco A. Satyro Chief Executive Officer, Virtual Materials Group, Canada

Mehran Pooladi-Darvish

Vice President, Fekete Associate Inc., Canada

Bruce Roberts Chief Reservoir Engineer, Athabasca Oil Sand Corp., Canada

John Foster Process Specialist, Foster Wheeler, UK

Johnny Johnson Vice President, URS International, USA

Rob Marriott Assistant Professor, University of Calgary.

Liang Baosheng Lead Research Scientist, Chevron, USA

Saeid Mokhtab International Advisor, Emertec R&D Ltd, Canada

Zhong Dakang Professor, Ph.D Supervisor, China University of Petroleum, Bei-jing, China

Zhu Weiyao Professor, Ph.D Supervisor, University of Science & Technology Beijing, China

Guo Ping Professor, Dean of School of Sciences, Southwest Petroleum University

Shi Taihe Professor, Ph.D Supervisor, Southwest Petroleum University, China

Alice Wu President, Sphere Technology Connection Ltd., Canada

AGIS III Conference Venue Banff Park Lodge Resort and Conference Center Banff Canada

May 29 to June 1, 2012

The 3rd International Acid Gas Injection Symposium will be held in the world famous Ca-nadian park, Banff National Park. The conference venue is the Banff Park Lodge Resort and Conference Center, and is located in the center of Banff Town, Alberta, Canada.

The Banff Park Lodge Resort and Conference is a four star hotel and one of the oldest resorts in Banff national park. It is perfect place for an international conference.

Banff National Park - Canada's first national park - 1 1/2 hrs drive west of Calgary, Al-berta, Canada. From Banff's humble beginnings as a 26 square kilometers hot springs re-serve, Banff National Park now consists of 6,641 square kilometers of unparalleled moun-tain scenery nestled in the heart of the magnificent Canadian Rockies.

Each year, millions of visitors come to Banff to marvel at the emerald waters of Lake Louise, walk amongst the flower-filled heavens at Sunshine Meadows, and drive beneath the towering jagged peaks lining the Icefields Parkway. Snow-capped peaks, glistening gla-ciers and sweeping vistas are just one part of the allure of Banff National Park.

You can enjoy all the comforts of home in the town of Banff and the village of Lake Louise, or step out into the wilderness and the home of some of North America's wildest creatures, including grizzly bears, caribou and wolves.

AGIS Organization Sphere Technology Connection Ltd.

Sphere Technology Connection Ltd (STC) was set up in 2008 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. STC spe-cializes in technical training and technology connection for oil and gas industry throughout the world. Since its establishment in 2008, STC has successfully hosted several training courses on Natural Gas Hydrates, Acid Gas Injection, Project Cost Control, Project Management, etc. STC also proudly and successfully hosted the International Acid Gas Injection Symposium annually which included a tradeshow. We are now in the process organizing the Third International Acid Gas Injection Symposium (AGIS2012) that will in-clude a conference and workshops. It is great business networking opportunities. We are hard at work to actively involve all kinds of petroleum events and to make sure we can offer the best technology connection.

STC Technical Training In the current phase of petroleum development, training and the advanced technical resources are very important. The goal of STC is to connect a group of experts, professors, engi-neers with companies to offer a series of the advanced technical training programs for the oil and gas indus-try.

The STC training programs cover almost every aspect of the oil and gas business from the surface to the reservoir to management. These training courses include natural gas treatment for gas with high H2S and CO2 content, SAGD production, natural gas hydrates, acid gas injection, sour gas incineration, project management, project cost control, oil sand production technology, etc.

STC combines a group of highly skilled experts, scholars, engineers who have special knowledge of certain aspects of the petroleum industry. They include John Carroll, Peter Mulholland, David McClement, Peter Griffin, Bruce Roberts, Ray Tomcej and others.

STC offers technology training programs with long duration or short, local or overseas. We can spe-cially design your training course to suit your particular requirements.

General Contact Information

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Mail To: P. O. Box 98071 Falconridge RPC

Calgary, Alberta, Canada T3J 0K6

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AGIS III Program Banff Park Lodge Resort and Conference Center Banff Canada

May 29 to June 1, 2012

AGIS III Program

1. May 29th, 2012, Registration

2. May 29th, 2012, AGISIII Reception

3. May 30th, 2012, AGISIII Day 1

4. May 31st, 2012, AGISIII Day 2

5. June 1st, 2012, AGIS Workshop 6. June 1st, 2012, Departure

AGIS III Spouse’s Program (by registration only)

1. May 29th, 2012, Registration

2. May 29th, 2012, AGISIII Reception

3. May 30th, 2012, Lake Louise and Johnston Canyon Hiking Tour

4. May 31st, 2012, Two Jack Lake and Lake Minnewanka Tour

5. June 1st, 2012, Hot Springs and Shopping Tour

6. June 1st, 2012, Departure

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AGIS III Registration Information Banff Park Lodge Resort and Conference Center Banff Canada

May 29 to June 1, 2012

AGIS III Symposium Fee is $1288 (Cdn) +5%GST per person 1.Administration fee for AGIS III, Banff, Canada;

2. AGIS III Proceeding;

3. AGIS III workshop and materials;

4. AGIS III Breakfast;

5. AGIS III Luncheons from May 29 to June 1, 2012;

6. AGIS III Material Packages;

7. One free cruise tour of Lake Minnewanka.

AGIS III Spouse’s Program Fee is $188 (Cdn) +5%GST per person 1. Two days guided tour in Banff National Park;

2. Tour routine is Two Jack Lake, Lake Minnewanka, Lake Louise and cruise, Moraine Lake, Sulphur Mountain, Cave and Basin, Hot Springing, Johnston Canyon Hiking, etc.

3. Ground Transportation fee in Banff National Park;

4. Lunch;

5. English Private Tour Guider’s Fee;

6. Sightseeing Admissions.

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