IADC World Drilling 2010 Conference & Exhibition

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Wednesday, 16 June from 07:00-08:00 hrs.
Thursday, 17 June from 07:00-08:15

"Sustaining Margins in an Unconventional World"

The global economy re-trenched significantly during 2009, and the onset of the eagerly awaited recovery is an open question. What strategies should the drilling and completion industry adopt to sustain itself in this unconventional world? In prosperous times, "more of the same" or "straight ahead" can be a sound strategy for success. But in rocky economies, courses of action for success may be more akin to maneuvering along a series of hairpin curves than driving a straight road.

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07.00-08.00 Conference Registration, Coffee Service & Open Exhibition - Sponsored by GE Oil & Gas

08.00-09.15 Conference Opening by Mike Killalea, Group Vice President/Publisher, IADC

"IADC 70th Anniversary" by Dr. Lee Hunt, President, IADC

Welcoming Remarks by Louis Raspino, IADC Chairman 2010; President & CEO, Pride International

"Industry Response to GOM Incident and Status" by Dr. Lee Hunt, President, IADC

Keynote Presentation: What Unconventional Challenge brings to Our Industry?
by Bojan Milković, CEO, E&P Executive Director, INA Naftaplin

Bojan Milković is CEO and E&P Executive Director for INA Naftaplin, a strategic partner for the MOL Group, Hungary's largest enterprise. Mr Milković will address the challenge of unconventional natural gas, which analyses indicate shall become the energy of the future. However, this cannot come true if important technological improvements and breakthroughs do not happen. The improvements are to be done in all expert fields in the oil and gas industry. The “unconventional challenge” of today is becoming a golden opportunity of tomorrow for technology providers, service industry and upstream companies.

09.15-09.45 Deepwater Drilling
Session Chairman: Lou Elliott, VAM Drilling

Optimising Performance in a High Cost Deepwater Drilling Environment
Ian Garrett, Alan Dowokpor, Brian Teggart, Tullow Oil
In the course of the drilling programme a significant learning curve has been realised and an extremely high level of performance achieved placing the Tullow Deepwater Ghana operations at the top of the Rushmore data sets compared with other operators in a similar West Africa environment (based on days/10K metric). This can be attributed to the development of a high calibre team focused on HSE and drilling operations performance. Specifically this includes optimisation of well design, use of latest LWD technology, focus on bit / BHA design, challenging existing practices & driving rig performance. This presentation discusses how this has been achieved and highlights the importance of focussing on every aspect of performance given the high cost environment under which we are operating.

10.15-11.45 Panel: Sustaining Margins in an Unconventional World: The Tight Gas Challenge
Session Chairman: Steven Sparks, VP Eastern Hemisphere Operations, Helmerich & Payne IDC

Today’s well construction industry has shifted dramatically toward unconventional plays, all fraught with their particular
difficulties and promise – deepwater, Arctic operations, tight gas. The challenge is to sustain and improve margins in these areas. This panel will examine one particular segment of our unconventional world tight shale gas. Tight shale gas is coming of age in North America and now emerging in Eastern Europe. Today, this represents 10% of the gas in the United States, and some projections indicate it could grow to 50%, an enormous share of the energy spectrum that could result in the construction of thousands of wells. This panel of experts will review the promise and challenges of tight shale gas, with emphasis on Eastern Europe, emphasizing not only drilling, but completion and reservoir aspects.

Panelists:
Reinhart Samhaber, Senior VP Engineering Production & Projects, OMV Exploration & Production GmbH
Bojan Milković, CEO, E&P Executive Director, INA Naftaplin
James Bement, Vice President, Halliburton Sperry Sun

11.45-12.00                   Presentation of IADC Exemplary Service Award: Dr. Lee Hunt, President IADC
                                    - Marin Koceic, Technical Manager, ED-INA

13.30-15.00 Innovative Drilling Rigs
Session Chairmen: Pierre Gie, TOTAL & Sigve Hovda, Statoil

Modern Hydraulic Rig Technology Made in Germany
Jűrgen Binder, Sebastian Berblinger, Herrenknecht Vertical GmbH
Automation and work safety have been the main focus for Herrenknecht Vertical’s new generation of 350-metric ton hydraulic rigs. Fewer truck loads, easy rig up and down and fewer personnel due to a high degree of automation distinguish the rigs that are moreover capable to run drill pipe Range 2 in doubles. The innovative pipe handling system ensures an easy and safe casing running. On top, the paper gives an overview of the field experience with the rigs in Germany and Brazil.

Development of an Advanced Workover Package for Drilling Applications
Paul Ray, Tim Reggione, Gavin Bell, Eric Sredensek, Halliburton
Traditional hydraulic workover (HWO) equipment, although readily broken down into small pieces for transport, was designed for live well workover, and the existing equipment is not designed for efficient pipe-handling. The development is outlined of a new workover and drilling unit that combines a novel pipe-hoisting mechanism with a separate purpose-built hydraulic jack to create a mobile, modular unit aimed at the offshore light workover and drilling market in the North Sea and other similar types of operations.

Ton-Miles Calculations in Today’s Operations – How Far Out are we?
Jaap van der Sijp, KCA DEUTAG Drilling GmbH
The shortcomings of the API-recommended ton-mile calculation methods used on most rigs in the world, due to the progress made since these were established in rig equipment and drilling methods, are highlighted. New calculation methods are presented which are not only far more accurate, but also far easier to use. In addition some current issues with determining the correct slip & cut rate are addressed.

Assessing Candidate Wells for MPD: Guidance from the IADC UBO/MPD Committee
Kristin Falk, Ocean Riser Systems AS, George Medley, Signa Engineering Corp.
IADC's UBO & MPD Committee is developing an online "candidate selection tool" that is designed to help well planners evaluate various managed pressure drilling techniques for application in their drilling campaigns. By inputting certain basic well characteristics, the user can 'short-list' those techniques which might help reduce or eliminate downhole problems and non-productive time. A representative of the committee will present the new tool and will describe its features and functionality.

16.00-17.00 Performance Management
Session Chairman: Dominique Dupuis, Pride International

How to Stop the Flood of Superfluous Alarms and Achieve Alarm Management Compliance
Don Shafer, Athens Group
Many automated drilling subsystems come together at the driller's chair, each with its own alarms. In the worst cases, tens of thousands of alarms can be generated per day, far more than the maximum recommended by industry standards. Overwhelmed by this flood, drillers reflexively dismiss alarms, increasing the likelihood that a critical alarm will be missed and result in an incident. Come hear alarm management failure case studies, see the results of an industry survey on Alarm Management procedure adoption, and learn about the practices proven to help you achieve compliance and reduce equipment failures related to inadequate alarm management.

Putting Lagging Indicators in the Rear View Mirror with Broadly Applicable QHSE Process-based KPIs
Joe Stough, Syntex Management Systems
Historically, the primary QHSE metrics that drive leadership behavior have been lagging incident-rate measurements. As these lagging metrics roll-up through leadership ranks, top leaders lack insight into the efforts taken by field operations to improve QHSE performance outcomes. By balancing with carefully chosen “actionable” leading metrics, business leaders gain insight into organizational capability to improve QHSE performance and may use these measurements to hold line managers accountable. This session will review how some Energy companies are shifting their focus away from the standard incident-based metrics toward a set of math-grounded, actionable leading KPI’s to enable such a proactive management approach.

07.00-08.15 Conference Registration, Coffee Service & Open Exhibition - Sponsored by OMV E&P GmbH

08.15 Welcome & Introductions by Mike Killalea, Group Vice President/Publisher, IADC

08.25 Keynote Presentation: Running an Oilfield at Minus 40 Degrees Challenges, Learning's and Issues without Answer
Christopher Hyde, Field Manager, Salym Petroleum

Mr. Christopher Hyde is a field manager for Salym Petroleum in the Salym field. Salym, which represents the largest investment in Russia made by an international operator, is extremely remote. Located between Surgut and Tyumen, Salym lies some 3,000 km east of Moscow and at approximately the same latitude as Oslo. The extreme weather environment can produce temperatures as minus 50˚ C in winter and up to plus 30˚ C in summer. Mr Hyde’s duties include production operations, infrastructure and production facility maintenance. He also has a coordinating function for all other field activity, including drilling, well services, construction and HSE. Mr Hyde’s presentation will cover the challenges of logistics, HSE and operations in extreme cold weather.

08.45-09.45 Advances in Drill Pipe Technology
Session Chairmen: Brett Chandler, NOV Grant Prideco & Hermann Spörker, OMV E&P GmbH

High Breakout Torque: Hypothesis, Investigation, and Evaluation
James N. Brock, NOV Grant Prideco
The continuing development of high-torque rotary-shouldered connections (RSC) has represented an enabling technology for the industry and permitted the continued advancement of drilling deeper, further and more cost-effective wells. Occurrences of high-breakout torque have been reported with API RSC’s and with proprietary high-torque RSC’s from different manufacturers. An analysis and evaluation of the causes of high breakout torque with rotary-shouldered drill stem connections are outlined. Results of torque analysis, ambient stress measurements, finite element analysis, and visual evaluation of connections are presented. The impact of rig running procedures and handling equipment is considered and evaluated.

Realizing the Early-Payback Benefits of Real-Time Evaluation with Wired Drill Pipe
Grant Affleck, Weatherford International
Wired drill pipe and logging while drilling (LWD) are among real-time evaluation technology advancements that can hasten return on investment and project payback by elevating drilling to new levels of accuracy and efficiency. The audience will be familiarized with basic technological features and advantages of LWD and wired drill pipe. It will also explain the crucial relationship that exists between real-time data integrity and management, speed, and successful real-time operations. Finally, a case study from UK Southern North Sea is used to illustrate the positive outcomes that Weatherford and its clients have realized by properly applying these advanced drilling technologies.

10.15-12.00                   Panel Session: Performance Drilling: Holy Grail or Oxymoron?
                                    Session Chairman: Toni Marszalek, President, Schlumberger Italiana SpA

Today we stand on the edge of the most challenging wells ever drilled, constrained economically, yet testing the limits of technology and expertise. Operators budget NPT as high as 35% for deepwater operations. Do processes such as real-time monitoring, visualization centers, drilling wells on paper, collaborative environments really make an impact on our drilling performance? Can “factory drilling” buoy the economics of new endeavors, such as shale gas drilling? The members of the panel will look at these challenges and attempt to answer the question – “Performance Drilling – Oxymoron or Holy Grail?”

Panelists:
Leo Maekiaho, Head of Drilling, Petrom
Khalid A. Al-Abdulqader, Manager Northern Area Oil Drilling Department, Saudi Aramco
Stephen Remmert, Senior Advisor, Integrated Technology Department, ExxonMobil Development Company
Peter Vilhelm Balslev, Head of Drilling Engineering, Maersk Oil Qatar AS
Dr. Carlos Perez Tellez, Manager of Engineering and Design in the South region of Mexico, PEMEX

12.00-13.15                   Luncheon & Open Exhibition - Sponsored by CROSCO Integrated Drilling & Well Services Co., Ltd.

13.15-13.45 Performance Management
Session Chairmen: Egidio Palliotto, Saipem & Toni Marszalek, Schlumberger Italiana Spa

Importance of Well Cleaning and Integration of Chemical and Mechanical Cleaning Solutions for Well Productivity and Project Economics
Pavel Marinescu, M-I SWACO, Ferenc Udvari, József Dormán, MOL
The theoretical and practical aspects of well cleaning are discussed, with examples of actual jobs and results from Hungary. The case histories presented will illustrate the importance of well cleaning and its impact on well productivity, time savings and project economics, as well as exemplifying the planning stage and the specialized engineering software used for optimum design in the planning stage. The integration of the whole completion process is also shown, including benchmarking key success factors until performance measurement and lessons learned.

13.45-14.15 High Temperature & High Pressure Technology & Operations
Session Chairmen: Egidio Palliotto, Saipem & Toni Marszalek, Schlumberger Italiana Spa

Workover and Testing of HPHT Deep Gas Wells: Case History of North West Raudhatain 2 and 3
Ali Hussein Saffar, Nayef Al-Anzi, Akshaya Kumar Dhabria, Kuwait Oil Company
A case history is presented about workover wells NWRA#2 & NWRA#3, including initial planning, operational difficulties due to HPHT limitations, milling and fishing equipment details for retrieving 15 K permanent packer, problems associated with cement squeezing, use of latex based gas blocking slurry, operation details including retrieving the collapsed tubing, running two permanent packers and stimulation and test results. The lessons learned and the conclusions will be explained to provide a basis for the planning and realization of future work over operations in these types of wells without any harm to personnel and damage to the environment.

14.30-15.30 Slimhole & Monobore Operations
Session Chairmen: Bill Sanstrom, Halliburton & Rustom Mody, Baker Hughes Incorporated

Enhancing Drilling Economics with Slim Wellbore Design
Tony Furniss, Enventure Global Technology
Utilizing expandable technology to create a slim well design has been proven to add significant value. By definition, slim well design utilizing expendables reduces the architecture above the expandable liner while maintaining (or enlarging) the ID at TD. An overview of the requirements for slim well design, evaluation of candidate wells, and the future application of single-diameter technology to increase the benefits of slim well design is given. Specific case histories, including the above example, will be presented to demonstrate the value-added by incorporating a slim well design.

Using Slimhole LWD to Overcome Horizontal Drilling Limitations in Short-Radius Re-Entry Wells
Eric Malcore, Hani Qutob, Weatherford International
Historically, logging-while-drilling (LWD) technology has been a limiting factor in producing profitably from short-radius re-entry wells because of the inability of the LWD tools to negotiate severe curvatures in the build section. This presentation will describe the development and application of a slim hole, triple-combo LWD system that has enabled Saudi Aramco to acquire and evaluate data in real time in short-radius wells with doglegs of up to 68º/100ft. The LWD data has been used to control the landing and more effectively geosteer the horizontal section, with significant implications for reducing drilling cost and improving production and safety.

15.30-15.45 Networking Break & Open Exhibition - Sponsored by OMV E&P GmbH

15.45-16.45 Economic Outlook
Session Chairmen: Bob Warren, Pride International & Marin Koceic, ED-INA

Climbing Out of the Great Recession: Implications for the Oil and Gas Industry
Susan Farrell, PFC Energy
Global demand for oil and gas dropped in 2009 at the same time massive new OPEC capacity came online and LNG plants began exporting to an oversupplied market. The service sector, buoyed by rising prices, ordered new equipment which is now pressuring dayrates and utilization. The uncertainties around the rate of global recovery and implications for spending in the oil and gas industry are addressed.

Can We Expect a Balanced Offshore Rig Market Soon?
Tom Kellock, ODS-Petrodata
Will wholesale retirements bring the size of the jackup fleet down to the level of demand – as some owners claim will happen? Will Brazil’s apparently insatiable demand for deepwater rigs absorb the considerable number of uncontracted rigs approaching completion as well as those that Petrobras is building? What’s the outlook for the 100-strong midwater floater fleet? ODS-Petrodata’s Tom Kellock will provide his views on these and other questions weighing on the minds of operators and drilling contractors trying to formulate their strategies for the years to come.

Unassigned Papers of Note:
The following paper proposals will be included in the conference if a scheduled paper becomes unavailable. In addition, these presentations will be made available in the IADC conference proceedings, should the author so desire.

Coiled Tubing Assisted Completions in Unconventional Gas Wells
Mark Van Domelen, Markus Sommerbauer, Halliburton
Unconventional gas reservoirs including shales, "tight" sandstones, and coal bed methane formations are often characterized by very low matrix permeability. Completing these wells, which often times border on marginal economics, requires special emphasis on total well cost reduction. The use of coiled tubing during horizontal well, multi-frac completions is growing in popularity because it can provide several advantages including time and cost savings to place the hydraulic fractures into the reservoir. The operational use of coiled tubing to assist with completions in unconventional gas wells will be described, with particular focus on cost reduction over alternative completion methods.

New Inflow Control Device Provides Solid-Liner Functionality throughout Installation and Fluid Loss Control during Completion
Martin P. Coronado, Brad Pickle, Baker Hughes
A new inflow control device (ICD) design has been developed and field-trialed that mitigates the need for an inner string during installation, allowing circulation through the liner while running in the hole as well as hydraulic setting of the openhole packers before pulling out of the hole with the workstring. This also provides for improved well control. A temporary valve system has been incorporated into the ICD design that provides pressure integrity in the liner until after the upper completion has been installed. Once the valves have been opened the ICD performs normally for the operational life of the well.

The integration of Biodiversity Conservation into Oil and Gas Exploration using Geographical Information Systems
Stephen James, Sultan Mohd Karrani, ADCO
Extractive industries have a duty to conduct their activities in a sustainable way as possible. ADCO’s policy to biodiversity conservation within oil and gas exploration is presented as is the strategy and tools used, in order to make sustainability a realistic goal. The future of the environment is indeed in our hands.

Joep Beijer, KCA DEUTAG Drilling
Kevin Bourassa, ConocoPhillips
Willem Brandt, Transocean
Sjoerd Brouwer, Shell E&P
Brett Chandler, NOV Grant Prideco
Adrian Connaire, MCS
Dominique Dupuis, Pride International
Lou Elliott, VAM Drilling
Pierre Gie, TOTAL
Saif Al Hinai, Petroleum Development Oman
Alan Hippman
Sigve Hovda, Statoil
Carel Hoyer, Weatherford International
Marin Koceic, ED-INA
Shane Marchand, Helmerich & Payne
Toni Marszalek, Schlumberger Italiana Spa
Rustom Mody, Baker Hughes Incorporated
George Morgan, Halliburton
Cesar Munoz, Repsol YPF
Joachim Oppelt, Baker Hughes Incorporated
Egidio Palliotto, Saipem
Hermann Spörker, OMV Exploration & Production GmbH
Frank Springett, National Oilwel Varco
Mark Waltz, Transocean
Bob Warren, Pride International
Mike Killalea, IADC

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