Education Week 2008
An Integrated Approach to the Analysis of Fractured Reservoirs (SC0814) 
REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN
Instructor: Paul MacKay (Geoconsultants) and Malcolm Lamb (Schlumberger)
Date: October 28 - 29, 2008
Time: 8:00am to 4:30pm
Duration: 2 days
Max.
Attendance: 20
CSPG Member Earlybird Registration Deadline: September 15, 2008
CSPG Member Registration Deadline: October 15, 2008
Course
Fee: CSPG Member Earlybird: $750 +GST | CSPG Member: $825 +GST
Location: TBA
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Course Description:
This course will take an integrated, multi-discipline approach to recognizing, analyzing and designing development strategies for fractured reservoirs. The course is intended to be a practical approach to the understanding of fractured reservoirs.
Fractures in rock are well known natural phenomena that have been studied for millennium. Most early fracture analysis were geared to quarry techniques and how to excavated large slabs of building stone. It is only a recent phenomenon that the importance of fractures as a means of conducting fluids in the subsurface has been realized. Petroleum geoscientists are particularly interested in how fluids are transmitted in the stratigraphic section. This interest may be at the large scale of fluid migration through sedimentary basins to the more intimate scale of moving petroleum from the reservoir to the well bore. In either scenario, fractures are a dominant factor in determining the permeability of the rock and the transmission of fluids. This course will be a practical approach to understanding fractured reservoirs and their detection. Lecture time will be spent on how to recognize fractures from logs, seismic techniques and production data. Discussions will also focus around case studies in carbonate and clastic reservoirs as well as discussion into how to design reservoir models that will account for fracture distribution and density.
The course is intended as an introduction to the practitioner on the recognition and importance of fractures. In previous courses geologists, geophysicists, petrophysicists and reservoir engineers have found the course to be useful.
Instructor Bio(s):
Paul MacKay
Paul has worked in the petroleum industry for over 25 years. In his career he has opportunity to work at large integrated oil companies, intermediate domestic producers, international explorers and small start-up private corporations. His expertise is in structural geology with particular emphasis on mountain building processes. He is currently an independent consultant working on shallow gas, Oilsands, and foothills projects. He has a B.Sc.(honours, geological sciences) from Queen’s University and a Ph.D. from the University of Calgary.
Malcolm Lamb
Malcolm has worked in the petroleum industry for over 15 years experience in the petroleum industry. He has developed an expertise in the modeling of fractured reservoirs and has a particular interest in the detection and description of fractures from well bore data. Malcolm is currently a senior technical advisor and manager of Business Development with Schlumberger Canada. He works on a wide range of domestic and international projects. Malcolm earned his B.Sc. in geology from the University of Alberta and is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Calgary.
