HGS Applied Geoscience Mudrocks Conference Provides a Low Cost, High Quality Training and Networking Opportunity
Mike Effler & Frank Walles
Please consider registering and attending the upcoming Houston Geological Society 2017 Applied Geoscience Conference titled: “Integrated Approaches to Unconventional Reservoir Assessment and Optimization” which is scheduled to be held on March 7th and 8th, 2017 at the Anadarko Petroleum Conference Center in The Woodlands, Texas. As a service to advance your personal knowledge in this very important field, this two day local event will feature the latest on reservoir characterization and optimization of recovery for unconventional reservoirs. A special addition will be a featured speaker, Jeremy Boak, Director Oklahoma Geological Survey, who will give a keynote luncheon presentation regarding the Quake Hazards in Oklahoma and their origin. An evening social event will provide opportunities for networking as well as provide time for follow-up discussions with speakers and fellow participants.
Oral speakers are recognized experts from industry, government, and university who have been specifically selected by our 45 plus industry HGS conference organizing committee. The committee-invited technical program will include 20 top expert oral presenters organized within 8 sessions, 15 university research poster presentations, and cores on display from the Wolfcamp and Utica formations (both with presenters).
This is an annual HGS event that was first developed in 2006, at the advent of the combined industry, government and university early mudrock reservoir characterization research. This conference has established itself as the premier Houston Mudrocks Technical Reservoir Characterization Conference that includes research and applied geology spectrum from the outcrop to the nanoscale. Invited presenters have included the top researchers and applied experts from the early applied research in the 50s through the present.
This year’s technical oral program event includes 16 session Co-Chairs that have developed invited presenter sessions on:
- Diagenetic Components of Mudrocks and Their Impact on Production
- Nanoscale Intra-Kerogen Porosity and Hydrocarbon Phase Producibility / Wettability
- Predicting Petrophysical Flow Properties Using Digital Rock Physics
- Geophysical Methods for Producibility, Fracability and GeoHazards
- Hybrid Unconventional Opportunities
- Tight / Complex Reservoirs Opportunities
- Geo-Engineered Completions / Geomechanics
- Operator Cases of Integrated Applied Geoscience for Fun and Profit.
Please see the technical program flyer within this HGS Bulletin.
As a local Houston Geological Society event, it has proven to be highly cost-effective training for both geoscientists and engineers. The multi-member HGS organizing committee has contributed in making this conference happen for the past eleven years, in part because it would be cost and competitor prohibitive for one single company to organize such a diverse (integrated industry, government and university) event.
Conference attendees will receive the committee and author developed expanded abstract / paper technical brochure of the oral and poster presentations to assist in the communication and sharing of the learnings. The HGS provides this industry developed event to fulfill a need for a focused sharing of advancing applied geoscience technologies within mudrock reservoir characterization.
This annual applied geoscience conference (AGC) event is a combined education and scientific advancement service for the HGS member community and continues to be generously supported by many industry sponsors. The event location (within conference facilities of Anadarko Petroleum) is a very special tribute from our sponsors and we are especially grateful for the generosity of Anadarko to host this event. Houston Geological Society AGC technical program committee member, Wayne Camp, was especially important in arranging this venue opportunity.
This AGC on mudrock reservoir characterization and optimization has been highly popular since inception with demand frequently exceeding venue capacity. Attendee disciplines include the full range of management through geological, geophysical, petrophysical, production, reservoir and completion engineering. This year, in response to the continued industry downturn, and with the help of our venue sponsor, HGS is again offering this conference at a substantially reduced cost to make it as affordable as possible. If you are interested in attending, but are encountering financial hardships such as unemployment, please contact the HGS office for further reduced pricing consideration. See www.hgs.org or contact Andrea Peoples at (713) 463-9476.
REGISTER NOW: https://www.hgs.org/civicrm/event/info?id=1738