Lecture: Well Dynamic Simulation – Challenging the “Just Do This” Approach

Lecturer: Ryosuke YOKOTE (Rio) (Senior Petroleum Engineer, Eni Australia)

Time: 10:00-11:00, March 10^th

Venue: A403, National Key Lab

Bio.:

Ryosuke YOKOTE (Rio) is a Senior Petroleum Engineer with Eni Australia. He has over 30 years of industry experience in Australia, Timor-Leste, Indonesia, and Japan. His experiences include operations engineering support, planning and supervising various well operations, flow assurance engineering as well as hands-on drilling crew during the early days of his career. He has authored and co-authored multiple technical papers on intelligent completions, advanced perforation technique and application of well dynamic simulation to support operations. Rio graduated from Tohoku University in 1993 with a BSc and in 1995 with an MSc, both in Resource Engineering.

Abstract:

Over the last decade, dynamic simulation has increasingly been integrated into day-to-day well and production operations, and decision-making processes. This presentation will showcase well dynamic simulations supporting the full life cycle of well operations, including well clean- up, field start-up, production operations, well intervention and field abandonment. These case studies highlight the importance of a cross-disciplinary approach to foster strong collaborations between the field-based supervisor and the office-based engineer carrying out the simulations. When operational parameters are properly incorporated into simulations, the results can provide great insights, enabling field supervisors to carry out operations in a safe and efficient manner. Field supervision becomes more relaxed and assured as emergent situations have already been anticipated through simulations that include multiple what-if scenarios. A successful application of well dynamic simulation provides an informed challenge to experience-based bias that is common in operations organizations, which often results in a "just do this, because it worked well in the past”approach. So, let's simulate operations to anticipate the expected and unexpected before going out to the field. Your operations will be safer, more predictable, and more enjoyable!

Organizer and Sponsor：

State Key Laboratory of Oil and Gas Reservoir Geology and Exploitation

SPE Chengdu Section

Petroleum Engineering School, SWPU

SPE Study Group, SWPU

Institute of Science and Technology Development, SWPU