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SPE Course
27-28 November Sofitel Brisbane
- 8.30 Registration and coffee
- 9.00 Course commences
- 4.30 Close of each day
Lunch, morning and afternoon tea is included each day
Producing natural gas from coal seam deposits is a process that continues to gain attention and significance around the world. Often referred to as Coal Seam Gas or Coal Bed Methane (CSG or CBM) development, the process is significantly different from conventional gas development but it still behaves in accordance to the basic laws of physics. As such, CSG production characteristics can be understood and even predicted when specific critical data is collected. There are five critical elements to successful CSG development: resource, permeability, water management, completion effectiveness, and gas treatment/transport/sales. This 2-day course analyzes the resource, permeability, and reservoir management issues.
Evaluating the performance or potential performance of CSG wells requires an understanding of the coal properties, coal distribution, and coal productivity characteristics for the specific development area. It is valuable for engineers, geologists, and technicians looking for evaluation ideas that will lead to improved development results and to engineers, managers, and investors involved in determining the financial value of CSG properties. This is a thorough discussion of CSG reservoir analysis from resource to simulation. The course presents the essential aspects of CSG including differences from conventional gas, CSG history, and insight into its future. The seminar covers the following topics:
- Unconventional Nature
- Geologic Aspects
- Coring & Logging
- Gas Contents & Isotherm
- Permeability
- Water Management, Reservoir Issues
- Simulation
- Well Completion Selection
- Production Forecasting
- North American and Australian Basins
Course leaders
Steve Hennings, M.S. is a Senior Engineer and Project Manager at Norwest Questa Engineering. Steve holds a bachelors degree in Petroleum Engineering and a masters in Finance. His 25 years of experience in the energy industry are split between reservoir engineering assignments and operations engineering assignments ranging from rig foreman to computer simulation engineer to operations superintendent. Steve has field and reservoir experience in a large number of basins, covering every phase of development. His focus for the past eight years has been on CSG and Coal Mine Methane (CMM) development around the world and in 2008 he was awarded the Stefanko Award from the Society of Mining Engineers for his CMM technical contributions.
Joe McHenry, M.S. is a Senior Engineer at Norwest Questa Engineering and is President of Rocky Mountain CBM LLC. He earned Petroleum Engineering degrees from Pennsylvania State University and the University of Southern California. His 25 years of diverse oil and gas experience focuses on project management, completions, economic evaluations and reserve calculations in unconventional projects. Joe has 13 years of CBM experience starting in the San Juan Basin in 1996. During his tenure, Texacos CBM production increased from 30 MMCFD to over 200 MMCFD. Joe has evaluated more than 100 CBM projects in 16 states and 9 countries.
