UPM Forum UPSTREAM PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT  

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22 – THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2017 WEATHERFORD, 2000 ST. JAMES PLACE, HOUSTON, TX

SCHEDULE: WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22TIME TOPIC/TITLE SPEAKER/AUTHOR

7:00 AM Registration

8:00 AM Welcome Eric Toskey, Letton Hall Group

8:15 AM Keynote Address: Can We Measure Changes in

Safety Culture? And Why?

Kenneth E. Arnold, K Arnold Consulting, Inc.

SESSION 1: SURVEILLANCE CHAIR: CARLOS AVILA, CHEVRON

9:00 AM Lecture: Well Production Surveillance Robert Webb, Letton Hall Group

10:00 AM Break

10:30 AM UPM 17060: Coriolis Measurement - Employing

Asset Health and Performance Monitoring for

Conventional and Unconventional Production Measurement

Jerry Stevens, Erwin Doorenspleet & Kyle Kergen, Endress+Hauser

11:00 AM UPM 17050: SONAR-Based Wellhead Surveillance for Gas Condensate Fields

Gabriel Dragnea & Siddesh Sridhar, Expro Meters

11:30 AM UPM 17030: Metrology Data Management Marc Talamantez, Summit Midstream

12:00 PM Lunch

SESSION 2: SAMPLING CHAIR: AMIN AMIN, LETTON HALL GROUP

1:00 PM Lecture: Wet Gas Sampling Robbie Lansangan, Consultant

2:00 PM Presentation: Subsea Sampling in Multiphase Conditions

Shailesh Rathod, Schlumberger

2:30 PM UPM 17110: Online Analyzers for Gas Quality Measurement in Gas Production Areas

Murray Fraser, Envent Engineering

3:00 PM Break

SESSION 3: DISCUSSION CHAIR: ERIC TOSKEY, LETTON HALL GROUP

3:30 PM Panel Discussion: The Next Game Change in

Upstream Production, and the Implications for Measurement

Shah Kabir, University of Houston; Hossam Elbadawy, O&G Technologies; Don Coonrod, Additive Solutions; Randahl Roadifer, Memorial Production

Partners

5:00 PM Networking Reception Until 6:30 PM

Note: Where indicated, the underlined author is the presenting author.

SCHEDULE: THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23TIME TOPIC/TITLE SPEAKER/AUTHOR

7:00 AM Registration

SESSION 4: MULTIPHASE CHAIR: TIM ONG, CHEVRON

8:00 AM Lecture: Multiphase Flow Metering Dan Cutting, Pioneer Natural Resources

9:00 AM Presentation: An Update to the API Chapter 20 Standards

David Courtney, ConocoPhillips; Matt Zimmerman, BP; Pamela Chacon, Chevron; Dan Cutting, Pioneer Natural Resources

9:30 AM UPM 17020: Operating Experience with Multiphase Meters at Who Dat and Delta House Fields

Xinglai Gong, LLOG Exploration; Richard Streeton & Rene Ferrer, FMC Technologies

10:00 AM Break

10:30 AM UPM 17080: Multiyear Field Qualification of a Multiphase Meter in Eagle Ford Shale Operation

Ben Shani, Agar

11:00 AM Presentation: Wet Gas Flow Facility Inter-Comparison Dennis van Putten, DNV; Richard Steven & Josh Kinney, CEESI

11:30 AM UPM 17010: Highly Accurate Pressure/Differential Pressure Sensors for HPHT Environments

Nick Tiliakos; Innoveering; James E. Hall & Ron Foster, Letton Hall Group; Tim Worst, Measurement LtdJoe Brown, Letton Hall Group;

12:00 PM Lunch

SESSION 5: CHEMICALS CHAIR: MATT ZIMMERMAN, BP

1:00 PM Lecture: Quantitative In-Field Monitoring of a Paraffin Control Program

David Fouchard, Nalco Champion

2:00 PM Presentation: Increasing Chemical Dosage Accuracy with Ultrasonic Flowmeter Technology

Andrew Czovek, Cameron

2:30 PM UPM 17090: Advances in Cost Effective Low Dosage Chemical Injection Measurement and Delivery

Jason Mallory & Mark Kirchner, SkoFlo

3:00 PM Break

SESSION 6: FORUM CHAIR: JOHN LIEVOIS, WEATHERFORD

3:30 PM Open Forum Discussion

4:55 PM Award: Best Paper of 2016 UPM Forum

5:00 PM Networking Reception Until 6:30 PM

Note: Where indicated, the underlined author is the presenting author.

SPEAKERSKENNETH E. ARNOLD is the head of K Arnold Consulting, Inc., and a senior advisor for Occidental Petroleum and Worley Parsons. In 1980, after 15 years at Shell, Ken co-founded the facilities design firm, Paragon Engineering Services, which AMEC acquired in 2005. Former SPE Specialty Director of Facilities and Construction, and U.S. Gulf Coast Section director, Ken has been an SPE Distinguished Lecturer and DeGolyer Distinguished Service Award recipient. Ken also has taught oil and gas facilities engineering at the University of Houston. He holds BS and MS degrees in Civil Engineering from Tulane and Cornell Universities, respectively.

DON COONROD is Managing Member of Additive Solutions, LLC, where he lends his expertise across a multitude of technical and commercial fields derived from over 30 years’ experience in operations, engineering, manufacturing, applied research and product development. Don previously worked as a Principal Research Engineer at Cameron, a Senior Systems Engineer at Sedco/Sedco-Forex, and was on the start-up staff for the Ocean Drilling Program at Texas A&M University. Don holds a BSc in Ocean Engineering and an MS in Computer Science from TAMU.

DAVID COURTNEY has worked for Conoco/ConocoPhillips for 37 years in various roles, with most of them in the flow measurement discipline. David is currently a Measurement Advisor for the CoP Lower 48 assets. He has been a voting member for the API COGFM committee and the GPA Technical Section H committee for over ten years. David has been the chair for the API CPMA Sub-Committee for two years and has been a member of the ASGMT committee for over six years.

DAN CUTTING graduated from the Colorado School of Mines with a Chemical Engineering and Petroleum Refining degree. He’s held several roles as an engineering contractor for producers on- and offshore. Pioneer was the first Independent to produce in Alaska while Dan was the Operations Engineer and then Engineering Manager. Now at Pioneer’s corporate headquarters in Dallas, Dan is the technical authority for measurement and manages the Allocations department. He also serves in various industry associations.

ANDREW CZOVEK is a Critical Service Technical Sales & Support Engineer for the Valves and Measurement division at Cameron/Schlumberger. Prior to his eight years at Cameron, Andrew worked ten years on/offshore for a subsidiary of Honeywell (DCS Process Control Systems Division). Andrew has a BS from the University of Houston.

GABRIEL DRAGNEA has over twenty years of experience in the design, testing and calibration of various flow measurement technologies. He has an extensive background in oil and gas flow measurement, both upstream and downstream. Gabriel also holds a M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering, from the Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest, Romania. His current position is Principal Engineer with Expro Meters, Inc.

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HOSSAM ELBADAWY is President and CEO of O&G Technologies, a company that accelerates innovation through entrepreneurship. Previously a Senior Operating Partner in Lime Rock, Hossam also led several small oilfield product and service companies. He started his career as a field engineer, and became VP of Manufacturing at Schlumberger. Hossam holds a BSc in Mechanical Engineering from Ain Shams University,as well as a Masters in Engineering Management and an MBA from Northwestern University.

DAVID FOUCHARD is a Senior Technical Lead at Nalco Champion, where he has been staff scientist and research chemist since 2007. David completed a Masters degree in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at École Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Lille, a PhD in Organic Chemistry at the University of Toledo and Post Doctoral studies at Montana State University–Bozeman.

MURRAY FRASER began his career in Western Canada’s natural gas industry in the early ‘80s primarily working on H2S analyzers and H20 analyzers. Murray specializes in Analytical Instrumentation and Process Chromatographs and focuses on practical uses for Process Analyzer technology in the North American upstream, midstream and downstream sectors. Murray is currently a Product Manager for Envent Technologies in Houston.

XINGLAI GONG joined LLOG Exploration as a reservoir engineer in 2013. Xinglai’s main responsibility is to perform integrated reservoir study of all major reservoirs operated by LLOG. He is also in charge of the PVT modeling, surveillance, calibration, meter selection and optimization of the 18 existing MPMs and future MPMs. Xinglai graduated from Texas A&M University with a PhD degree in Petroleum Engineering in 2013.

SHAW KABIR has more than 40 years of experience in the oil industry. His background includes transient testing, wellbore fluid-and heat-flow modeling and reservoir engineering. He has published over 140 papers and two books, and contributed to an SPE monograph. He has been recognized as an SPE Distinguished Member and a Distinguished Lecturer. Shah is now a consultant and adjunct professor of Petroleum Engineering at the University of Houston.

ROBBIE LANSANGAN received his PhD in Chemical Engineering in 1986 from the University of Tulsa. His career has spanned fundamental research in enhanced oil recovery, product development, entrepreneurship, business development and subsea technology deployment. His most recent role is measurement engineering technical authority in capital projects with a major operator. He has authored numerous papers and made presentations to multinational audiences. He is an active member of API standards development committees and chaired API 17S, which produced the first edition of the Recommended Practice on Subsea Multiphase Meter Design, Testing and Operation.

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JASON MALORY brings 24 years of experience in subsea production control system hardware, installation and commissioning. Prior roles include Umbilical Engineer, Installation Engineer and Hookup/Commissioning Engineer for Chevron’s JSM development and Subsea Controls Engineer overseeing hardware delivery and System Integration Testing for BP’s Nakika Phase 3 project. Jason was also Product Manager – Chemical Injection Systems and Global Sales Manager for National Coupling. Jason holds an MBA from Colorado Mesa University and a BS in Ocean Engineering from Florida Tech.

SHAILESH RATHOD is the MARS technology product champion at Schlumberger, where he held several field operations, technical and business development positions since 2002. He was the product champion for the subsea sampling system and was responsible for business development for subsea surveillance products. He holds a diploma in Mechanical Engineering from Veermata Jijabai Technical Institute and an MBA from Welingkar Institute of Management.

RANDAHL ROADIFER is Exploitation Manager at Memorial Production Partners, a small operator with assets in Texas, California and Wyoming. He has over 20 years experience in conventional and unconventional fields and Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR). He has held various Reservoir Engineering positions over 17 years with ConocoPhillips and five years with Amoco/BP. Randahl holds BS and MS degrees from the University of Alaska Fairbanks, and a PhD from the University of Tulsa, in Petroleum Engineering.

BEN SHANI is Managing Director at Agar Canada and President of Calgary Testing & Automation Services. He will present a paper on Multiyear Field Qualification of a Multiphase Meter in Eagle Ford Shale Operation.

JERRY STEVENS has worked for Endress+Hauser USA since 2003 as Team Lead, Product Management Flow, in Greenwood, Indiana. Throughout his career, Jerry taught and lectured at Texas A&M University, where he developed flow measurement competency courses and is now Lead Instructor for Flow Measurement Technologies. Across various industries Jerry gained a large portfolio of experience and application know-how, and wrote several papers on Coriolis as well as calibration and proving technologies for flow magazines. He studied Mechanical Engineering at the Indiana University – Purdue University of Indianapolis.

MARC TALAMANTEZ joined Summit Midstream in 2015 as the Director of Measurement, responsible for all things related to oil and gas measurement. Prior to joining Summit Midstream, he was the VP of Engineering Services for a Houston System Integrator, worked with an engineering firm as a Senior Principal Technical Professional and served as the Global Software Manager for 15 years with a Global Leader in Custody Measurement Systems. Marc brings 20+ years in measurement and engineering experience to the role currently held.

NICK TILIAKOS obtained his BS in Mechanical. Engineering from Cornell and his MS/PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Nick was a Senior R&D Engineer at Orbital-ATK, where he developed advanced propulsion/rocket engine and combustion systems as well as harsh environment sensor systems. Nick was an adjunct Mechanical Engineering professor at Columbia, and has 35+ technical publications and four U.S Patents. Nick is now a Principal at Innoveering, a technology startup providing innovative technologies in Aerospace, Power/Energy and Harsh Environment Sensor business lanes.

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2017 UPM Technical Committee Special thanks to this year’s Technical Committee, which reviewed abstracts, papers and presentations prior to the Forum, and helped establish the event's agenda. Without the following people, the Upstream Production Measurement Forum could not be possible:

• Carlos Avila, Chevron

• Pamela Chacon, Chevron

• David Courtney, ConocoPhillips

• Dan Cutting, Pioneer Natural Resources

• Chip Letton, Letton Hall Group

• Tim Ong, Chevron

• Bob Peebles, ConocoPhillips

• Eric Toskey, Letton Hall Group

• Bill Wise, ExxonMobil

• Suyu Ye, Statoil

• Matt Zimmerman, BP

SPONSORS AMBRIT is a leading provider of software solutions for the oil and gas industry, combining a wealth of expertise in the hydrocarbon industry with over 20 years of developing innovative software technologies. With offices in the UK and US and a network of partners worldwide, Ambrit is ideally positioned to serve the needs of the global hydrocarbon measurement industry.

AGAR CORPORATION is a pioneer of non-nuclear, versatile, multiphase flow meters used to optimize well testing and production reporting. With its unique microwave water-cut monitors and interface detection line, it provides industry- leading innovative solutions for applications such as wellhead production monitoring, SAGD and heavy oil well testing, portable well testing, wa-ter-cut monitoring in multiphase condition, automatic tank dewater-ing, desalter & process vessel profiling and automatic control sys-tems and foaming detection & control.

DENNIS VAN PUTTEN works for DNV GL as an expert in multiphase and wet gas flow metering. He is also a visiting scientist at the University of Twente. Dennis mainly works on R&D and JIP projects, and holds a PhD in multiphase fluid dynamics. During his PhD, he worked for a Shell spinoff company in the upstream gas processing industry working on computational models for multiphase flow.

ROBERT WEBB received a BS degree in Engineering from the University of Illinois in 1979 and began his career in the pipeline division of Marathon Oil. Over an 18+ year tenure at Marathon and another 18+ years at Amoco/BP, Bob developed measurement expertise, ultimately becoming the upstream Segment Technical Authority (SETA) for hydrocarbon measurement at BP. He has chaired the API Committee on Petroleum Measurement, established the API Committee on Production Measurement and Allocation, and championed DeepStar and REPSEA subsea metering initiatives. Bob joined Letton Hall Group in 2016.

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SPONSORS (CONTINUED) ENDRESS+HAUSER is a global leader in measurement instrumentation, services and solutions for industrial process engineering. Endress+Hauser provides sensors, instruments, systems and services for level, flow, pres-sure and temperature measurement as well as analytics and data acquisition. The company supports customers with automation engineering, logistics and IT services and solutions. Our products set standards in quality and tech-nology. Endress+Hauser supports its customers in optimizing their processes in terms of reliability, safety, economic efficiency and environmental impact.

EXPRO METERS offers on-demand, cost-effective, non-intrusive flow mea-surement services for individual well, flowline and overall field production surveillance and monitoring. Our SONAR flow technology and straight for-ward approach enables our customers to realize increased value from their fields through augmented production monitoring, optimization of well performance, increased efficiencies and reduced instrumentation and downtime costs. Our well surveillance solu-tions aim to reduce the safety and environmental concerns associated with more traditional solutions.

HAIMO TECHNOLOGIES GROUP provides custom-built, cost-effective multi-phase metering solutions to the oil and gas industry. The company is a leader in flowmeter accuracy, and their multiphase and wet gas meters are field proven as the best in the industry at the BS&W measurement. Haimo is accredited to ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and ISO 18001 as per the IMS quality system for QA/QC/HSE.

LETTON HALL GROUP is an independent, deep knowledge team of ex-perts in oil and gas flow. In upstream, midstream, or downstream, our goal is to make measurements work for the business objectives of our clients. We engage in the advancement and application of technology, including single phase and multiphase flow measurement and modeling, data surveillance and validation, flow assurance, and allocation.

MULTIPHASE SYSTEMS provides low cost, high accuracy, auto-calibrating Differential Microwave Multiphase Meters for production optimization, separation and control. MPS’ team of engineers, scientists and staff have the unique experience of being both operators and developers of multiphase meters since 1985. MPS licenses its technolo-gies to established industry service providers. MPS licensed its Differential Dielectric Mul-tiphase Meter to Appsmiths, a leader in Gas Lift Optimization.

PIETRO FIORENTINI is an international leader in designing, manufacturing and selling components, systems and services for the treatment, regula-tion and metering of natural gas. The company's goal is to enable and in-crease safe usage of natural gas by distributors and consumers, with a scope of continuous improvement.

WEATHERFORD PRODUCTION is among the largest oil and gas service providers, with a global network of manufacturing, service, research and de-velopment, and training facilities in more than 90 countries. Our portfolio includes innovative solutions, technologies, and services for drilling and for-mation evaluation, well construction, completion and stimulation, and pro-duction.

10497 Town and Country Way, Suite 300, Houston, TX 77024

+1 (281) 493-1100 • info@lettonhall.com • www.lettonhall.com