Mar. 3 - Mar. 4, 2013


Description

Description

This 2-day course examines the successful application of Artificial Intelligence and Data Mining (AI&DM) in the E&P industry in the past several years. It will start with the fundamentals of AI&DM, covering artificial neural networks, evolutionary computing, and fuzzy logic. The course is devoted to field application of this technology with focus on production optimization and recovery enhancement.

Learning objectives:

  •  Provide engineers and geoscientists with an alternative (new and innovative) set of tools and techniques to solve E&P related problems
  • Identify remaining reserves and sweet spots in reservoirs as a function of time and different field development strategies
  • Optimize stimulation and workover design and effectiveness by coupling reservoir characteristics with stimulation practices and forecasting stimulation outcome
  • Tap into the hidden and usually unrealized potentials of numerical reservoir simulation models
  • Quantify uncertainties associated with geological models and other parameters used in modeling production optimization and recovery enhancement

Why You Should Attend

Artificial Intelligence is a collection of several analytical tools that attempts to mimic life. This technology is used extensively in other industries such as automation, manufacturing, the financial market, and homeland security. It has been predicted that the use of AI technology will introduce a step-change in how E&P industry does business in the future.


Featured Speakers

Speaker Shahab D. Mohaghegh

Shahab D. Mohaghegh is professor of petroleum and natural gas engineering at West Virginia University. He is founder and president of Intelligent Solutions, the leading company in providing the E&P industry with solutions based on artificial intelligence and data mining (AI&DM). With more than 18 years of experience, Mohaghegh has been …

Shahab D. Mohaghegh is professor of petroleum and natural gas engineering at West Virginia University. He is founder and president of Intelligent Solutions, the leading company in providing the E&P industry with solutions based on artificial intelligence and data mining (AI&DM). With more than 18 years of experience, Mohaghegh has been a pioneer in the application of AI&DM in petroleum engineering, applying hybrid forms of neural networks, genetic algorithms and fuzzy logic to smart wells, smart completions, and smart fields as well as to drilling, completion, well stimulation, surface facility optimization, formation evaluation, seismic inversion, reservoir characterization, reservoir simulation, and reservoir management.


He has published more than 100 technical papers during his career and has been a technical editor/reviewer for various SPE journals as well as other petroleum-related publications such as Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, Computers & Geosciences, Geophysics, and Energy & Fuels. His technical articles on the application of AI&DM in the E&P industry and their recent developments have appeared in the Distinguished Author Series of SPE’s Journal of Petroleum Technology during September, October, and November of 2000 as well as April 2005. He was an SPE Distinguished Lecturer for 2007–2008.


He is the technical review chair for SPE Reservoir Evaluation and Engineering 1997–1999 and 2007 to present. He has also served as chair, discussion leader, and technical presenter in SPE forums and as a steering committee member in SPE workshops. He has been a panelist in several international conference discussing topics related to AI&DM and smart fields.


Mohaghegh holds BS and MS degrees in natural gas engineering from Texas A&I University and a PhD in petroleum and natural gas engineering from Pennsylvania State University.

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Organizer

Diane Frasier Hallmark

Email: dhallmark@spe.org
URL: 
http://www.spe.org/career/educ_training/sc_schedule/
Phone: 
(713) 457-6847
Fax: (713) 779-4216


Date and Time

Sun, Mar. 3

-

Mon, Mar. 4, 2013

6 a.m. - 5 p.m.
(GMT-0500) America/Chicago

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Location

The Woodlands Waterway Marriott Hotel

1601 Lake Robbins Drive
The Woodlands, Texas 77380
USA



Group(s): SPE-GCS