Distinguished Speaker Program

This program provides local Chapters a contact list of persons in high industry regard who are able and willing to speak on certain topic(s) of interest at local chapter meetings. The persons immediately below have been designated and have agreed to serve as SPWLA Distinguished Speakers for the year 2022-2023. The talks proposed here are all among the top papers presented at the 2022 International 63rd Annual Logging Symposiuin in Stavanger, Norway.

2022-2023 Distinguished Speaker Series

SPWLA-2022-0011   COMPARISON OF RAMAN, BRILLOUIN, AND RAYLEIGH DISTRIBUTED TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENTS IN HIGH-RATE WELLS; Brian C. Seabrook, ExxonMobil Upstream Research Co.; Andreas Ellmauthaler, Michel LeBlanc, Mikko Jaaskelainen, John L. Maida, and Glenn A. Wilson, Halliburton

SPWLA-2022-0012    FULL-WAVE FORM INVERSION OF FIBER-OPTIC VSP DATA FROM DEVIATED WELLS; Olga Podgornova, Pierre Bettinelli, Lin Liang, and Joel Le Calvez, Schlumberger; Scott Leaney, SLRDC (formerly Schlumberger); Marco Perez, Parex (formerly Velvet); Ahmed Soliman, ENI

SPWLA-2022-0045    PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE APPLICATIONS OF ULTRA-DEEP DIRECTIONAL RESISTIVITY MEASUREMENTS: A CASE HISTORY FROM THE NORWEGIAN CONTINENTAL SHELF; Supriya Sinha, Arthur Walmsley, Nigel Clegg, and Brigido Vicuña, Halliburton; Andrew McGill, Téo Paiva dos Reis, Marianne Therese Nygård, Gunn Åshild Ulfsnes, Monica Vik Constable, Frank Antonsen, and Berit Ensted Danielsen, Equinor

SPWLA-2022-0046    UDAR: PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE. AN OPERATOR’S EXPERIENCE AND PERSPECTIVE ON THE CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES IN APPLICATIONS WITH ULTRA-DEEP RESISTIVITY TOOLS; John Bergeron, Michael Rabinovich, Murad Murtuzaliyev, Andy Ronald, and Elnur Binyatov, BP

SPWLA-2022-0047    WHAT NEXT AFTER A DECADE WITH SIGNIFICANT ADVANCES IN THE APPLICATION OF DEEP DIRECTIONAL MEASUREMENTS?; Frank Antonsen, Berit Ensted Danielsen, Kåre Røsvik Jensen, Marta Prymak-Moyle, Jon Kåre Lotsberg, Maria Emilia Teixeira De Oliveira, and Monica Vik Constable, Equinor ASA

SPWLA-2022-0070    DEEP LEARNING FOR MULTIWELL AUTOMATIC LOG CORRECTION ; Vanessa Simoes, Hiren Maniar, Aria Abubakar and Tao Zhao, Schlumberger

SPWLA-2022-0071   UNCERTAINTY IN AUTOMATED WELL LOG CORRELATION USING STOCHASTIC DYNAMIC TIME WARPING; Mustafa A. Al Ibrahim, Saudi Aramco

SPWLA-2022-0072    QUANTIFYING INTERFACIAL INTERACTIONS BETWEEN MINERALS AND RESERVOIR/FRACTURING FLUIDS ; Isa Silveira de Araujo and Zoya Heidari, The University of Texas at Austin

SPWLA-2022-0090    CCUSIN MATURE FIELDS: HOW CORE-TO-LOG DATA-DRIVEN ANALYTICS ENHANCES MECHANISTIC MODELS FOR THE PURPOSE OF RESERVOIR AND CAPROCK MINERALOGICAL CHARACTERIZATION ; Marco Pirrone, Federica Di Maggio, Dario Reolon, Massimiliano Borghi, and Maurizio Mele, Eni S.p.A.

SPWLA-2022-0099    FRACTURECHARACTERIZATION COMBINING BOREHOLE ACOUSTIC REFLECTION IMAGING ANDGEOMECHANICAL ANALYSES ; Xiao-Ming Tang, China University of Petroleum (East); Pei-Chun Wang, CNOOC; Shengqing Li, China University of Petroleum (East); Lei Xiong, CNOOC; Hanlin Zhang, China University of Petroleum (East)

SPWLA-2022-0109    NATURALLY FRACTURED CARBONATE RESERVOIR CHARACTERIZATION: A CASE STUDY OF A MATURE HIGH POUR POINT OIL FIELD IN HUNGARY ; Muhammad Nur Ali Akbar, István Nemes, Zsolt Bihari, Helga Soltész, Ágnes Bárány, László Tóth, Szabolcs Borka and György Ferincz, MOL Hungary

SPWLA-2022-0129    UNSUPERVISED FACIES PATTERN RECOGNITION OF BRAZILIAN PRE-SALT CARBONATES BOREHOLE IMAGES ; Laura Lima Angelo dos Santos, Nadege Bize-Forest, Giovanna de Fraga Carneiro, Adna Grazielly Paz de Vasconcelos, and Patrick Pereira Machado, Schlumberger

2022-2023 Global Distinguished Speaker Series 

Integrated Approach to Leak Detection using High Definition Electromagnetic Technology, Production Logging, and Ultrasonic Logs - A Case Study, Adesoji Adedamola, Halliburton (Norway)

Carbonate Brownfield Development, the role of Pulsed Neutron Logging, Amr Serry, ADNOC Offshore

Integrated Fracture Analysis with Borehole Geology, Acoustic and Geomechanics for Flow Zone Identification; Case Study from Volcanic Geothermal Well in Japan, Chiaki Morelli, Schlumberger

Improving the Calculation of Petrophysical Properties in Vugular Carbonates using Logs and Rock Samples: A Case Study in Brazilian Pre-Salt Well Mahmoud Eid, Halliburton, Characterization of rock surface roughness and its impact on formation evaluation, Lucas Abreu Blanes de Oliveira, Petrobras

Characterization of rock surface roughness and its impact on formation evaluation, Mahmoud Eid, Halliburton

Deep-Learning-Based Automated Sedimentary Geometry Characterization From Borehole Images, Marie Lefranc, Schlumberger

Subsurface Evaluation for Nuclear Waste Storage, Rodney Garrard, NAGRA (Switzerland)

Integrated Mineral Quantification Technique for Volcanic Reservoirs, Takeaki Otani, JAPEX

Advanced Formation Evaluation of Organic-Rich Mudrocks, Honoring Rock Fabric and Geochemistry, Zoya Heidari, University of Texas at Austin

Please contact the speakers directly, and copy your Regional Director with this correspondence. Speakers are not limited to their region, SPWLA educational budget funds are available to cover/offset speaker travel expenses. For assistance in travel reimbursement, please contact VP-Education Kelly Skuce at [email protected] In order to reduce the burdens on persons serving as Distinguished Speaker, please attempt to coordinate travel so that multiple chapters may be visited on a single trip.  The speakers are also asked to contact local chapters to volunteer talks when it fits into their normal travel schedule.

Chapter officers are urged to make an extra effort for local university students to attend the Distinguished Speaker presentations by informing students of the presentation through contacts with key professors.

If you have any questions or issues regarding the Distinguished Speaker program, please contact VP-Education or the SPWLA office.

Building our Program: Global Distinguished Speaker list is an evolving body where we will continuously welcome and encourage your feedback. We will also accept Global Speaker nominations on a constant basis; feel free to email any nominations to [email protected]