The positive benefits of beneficial reuse are well recognized. Examples of beneficial reuse in the oilfield include; energy recovery, rigs to reefs, crop irrigation with produced water, enhanced oil recovery with produced water, reuse of flow-back water in hydraulic fracturing operations, reuse of non-aqueous fluids, use of cuttings as construction aggregate and use of cuttings …

The safety and environmental protection aspects in the design, construction, operation and maintenance of drilling and producing systems is of paramount importance.  The industry has always been concerned with safety.  After all no one wants to be killed or be the cause of a fellow worker or employee losing his life or becoming seriously injured.  …

REGISTER NOW:  http://www.spe.org/training/courses/MCS.php During this course, participants work directly with spreadsheet-based risk simulation software (either Crystal Ball or @Risk) to examine and modify prepared models and to create simple models of their own. Participants will also analyze historical data using histograms, cross plots, correlation in Excel, and software to fit probability distributions to data. Several …

The task of identifying key production drivers in unconventional reservoirs remains challenging, even after decades of exploration and production in North America during which tens of thousands of horizontal unconventional wells have been drilled and completed. Tens to hundreds of variables, categorized as reservoir quality, well architecture, completion, stimulation, and production metrics, are involved and …