SPWLA – Qatar Chapter News – 15 December 2019
We are based in Doha and welcome all professionals and students interested in well logging and formation evaluation. The SPWLA Qatar Chapter promotes technical talks in close partnership with our sister and well-established Qatar SPE Section (QSPE). The committee is happy to announce that Ashok Srivastava volunteered to step in as Vice-President, and we count on Ashok’s vast experience to enhance our ability to disseminate our petrophysics knowledge. A major milestone was also achieved on the IT domain, with our website going live. The entire committee is very thankful to our IT Coordinator, Faisal Abdulrahman Al-Mutawa, for all his hard work. Website can be accessed at https://www.spwla-qatar.com
Picture#1: Part of the SPWLA Qatar Chapter Committee in our last meeting on 2nd-December-2019. From left to right: Mohamed Fadlemula (TAMUQ); Sharon Finlay (NOC); Hussein Jichi (Baker Hughes); Enrique Diaz (Baker Hughes); Ali Zwali (Halliburton); Faisal Al-Mutawa (Qatargas); Ashok Srivastava (QP) – our new Vice-President and Jose Oliveira Neto (Qatar Shell).
Recent Events
28th October 2019: An interesting talk by Stefano Pruno – Stratum Reservoir Regional Technical Advisor, focused on core analysis (Picture#2). The talk entitled SPECIAL CORE ANALYSIS in the Digital Age: Challenges, New Insights and Recent Developments was one of most well-attended talk of 2019. It showed a great overview of the entire process and importance of basic things like core cleaning and drying all the way to advanced flooding experiments on Whole Core Samples.
02nd December 2019: Technical talk by Mr. Nacer Guergueb – Halliburton Formation & Reservoir Sr. Manager, titled Electromagnetic Logging Technology for Multi-Pipe Corrosion Evaluation; Applications, Challenges and Advancements. The talk is very applicable to the overall operations in Qatar, that has a mix of new wells but a considerable number of aging wells, especially onshore. The talk covered principles e different methods of EM technology, the time & frequency domain tools and the challenges and limitations in evaluating multiple barriers.
The SPWLA Qatar Chapter want to say thank you for the kind support from our sponsors (Stratum Reservoir and Halliburton) on the last two technical talks.
Picture#2 – Stefano taking questions after the technical
Picture#3 – Audience listening to Mr. Nacer Guergueb’s technical talk last December 2019 in Doha, Qatar.
Upcoming Event
January 2019: The 1st talk of the year we are planning to be focused on capillary pressure. Most probably it will be from TAMUQ University. More details to come out soon!!
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