ROCK ANALYSIS WORKSHOP – MARCH 21st LOCATION: MACEWAN HALL, UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY
Speaker
Presentation Title
Theme
Welcome & Introductions
Stan Stancliffe
Enersoft
Optimising the collection of core and chips to obtain the maximum data from new scanning and imaging technologies
Oil Sands; Geochemistry/Petrophsyics /Geomechanics
Ron Spencer XRF Solutions
Tight Rocks; Geochemistry
Albert Cui
AGAT Laboratories
Permeability of the Montney Formation in the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin: Insights from different laboratory measurements
Oil sands; Geochemistry/Petrophysics
Omid Ardakani
Geological Survey of Canada
Hydrocarbon resources geochemical screening: Data quality control
David Robertson
Schlumberger
Is your geochemistry real? – geochemical best practices
Oil Sands: Geochemisty
Ken Glover
Trican Well Service
Geomechanical rock characterization and reservoir stimulation: Insights and potential pitfalls from Montney, Duvernay and 2nd White Specks experience
Tight Rocks: Geomechanics
Gonzalo Zambrano
University of Alberta
State of the art of geomechanical triaxial test at the millimetre core scale to exanimate scale influence of hydro-geomechanical and multiphase properties changes of Shales
Tight Rocks; Geomechanics
Marc Bustin & Scott Hazell
University of British Columbia
Mechanical characterization for tight rocks at micro/nano-scales using nanoindentation technique
Core Laboratories
Digital rock characterization of tight rocks
Tight Rocks; Petrophysics
Hanford Deglint & Chris DeBuhr
Alberta Innovates
Micro-scale characterzaition of wettability in tight rocks
Amin Ghanizadeh
University of Calgary
Advanced core/cutting analysis for evaluation of enhanced oil recovery in tight rocks : Examples from Montney and Duvernay formations (Canada)
Andreas Busch
Heriot-Watt University
Understanding pore structure, pore orientation and fluid saturation in mudrocks using small angle scattering
Alexandra Amann - Hildenbrand & Ebrahim Shabani
RWTH Aachen University
Gas storage and transport properties of tight rocks: Impact of fluid-dynamics, rock-mechanics and water saturation
Alberta Energy Regulator
Regulatory use and value of rock analysis in oil sands and unconventional plays
Governmental Regulations
ROCK ANALYSIS WORKSHOP – MARCH 22nd LOCATION: AER CORE RESEARCH CENTRE
Lithological controls on hydrocarbon storage and transport properties of the Montney Formation: An integrated core analysis approach
Tight Rocks; Petrophysics/Geomechanics
David Cronkwright
Integrating High Resolution Core Analysis with Sedimentological and Stratigraphic Attributes: Implications for Improved Oil Recovery in the Bakken Formation
Tight Rocks; Geochemistry/Geomechanics
Henry Portilla & Marco Venieri
High-Resolution Characterization of Reservoir Heterogeneity in the Duvernay Formation: An Integrated Core and Log Analysis Approach
Tight Rocks; Geochemistry/Petrophysics
Bruce James
Suncor Energy
Geochemistry
Carolyn Currie Core Laboratories
Tight Rocks ; Geochemistry
Marc Enter & Alireza Morshedian SGS
Mineralogy and texture on pseudo cuttings: The importance of rock fabric in the characterisation of the basal Doig Fm.
Rick Chalaturnyk University of Alberta
Mark Caplan
Cenovus Energy
Chemofacies and Provenance Analysis of the McMurray Formation, Telephone Lake, North-Eastern Alberta, Canada
Oil Sands
Grant Sanden
The Virtual Core Table : A New Way to Discuss Rock with Exploration and Production teams
POSTERS
XRF Solutions
Scott McKean
Geomechanical characterization of tight rocks using multistage triaxial testing and ultrasonic pulse transmission technique
Best practices for routine core analysis in the Montney Formation
Charles Song