Well Construction/Operation and Subsurface Modeling
April 16-17, 2013 - Research Triangle Park, NC
 

Opening Comments

• An Industry Perspective on the Workshop Topic & Goals (PDF) - Kris J. Nygaard, ExxonMobil Production Company

Session 1: Well Design and Construction to Protect Drinking Water

• Proposed Analysis from the EPA Well File Review – Jeanne Briskin and Nathan Wiser, US EPA
• Geophysical Logging for Characterization of Fresh- and Saline Water Flow Zones – John Williams, USGS
• An Overview of Well Construction and Well Integrity Related to Hydraulically Fractured Wells – Talib Syed, TSA, Inc.
• Oil and Gas Well Cementing – D. Steven Tipton, Newfield Exploration Company
• Zonal Isolation Methods Available to Operators for Groundwater Aquifer Protection – Anthony Badalamenti, Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.

Session 2: Well Operation and Monitoring to Protect Drinking Water

• Wellbore Integrity: Failure Mechanisms, Historical Record and Rate Analysis – Anthony Ingraffea, Cornell University
• Shell's Implementation of Process Safety & eWCAT (electronic Well Control Assurance Tool) – Marco op de Weegh, Shell Exploration & Production Company
• Well Integrity and Long-Term Well Performance Assessment – Bill Carey, Los Alamos National Laboratory
• Open Questions Regarding Well Construction and Hydraulic Fracturing – Courtney Hemenway, Hemenway Groundwater Engineering, Inc.

Session 3: Subsurface Modeling of Fluid Migration to Identify  and Understand Potential Impact on Aquifers

• Evaluating Scenarios of Potential Subsurface Impact Using Computation Modeling – Stephen Kraemer, US EPA
• Analysis of Feasibility of Extensive Fracture Development and Fault Activation Induced by Hydraulic Fracturing – George Moridis, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
• Modeling of Leakage in Potential Failure Scenarios in Shale Gas Systems – Matt Freeman, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
• Emergence of Delamination Fractures around the Casing During Wellbore Stimulation – Arash Dahi-Taleghani, Louisiana State University
• Abandoned Wells as Potential Leakage Pathways:  Lessons Learned from CO2 Geological Sequestration – Michael Celia, Princeton University

Poster Session

• Well Design and Construction in Texas – Travis Baer, Railroad Commission of Texas
• Colorado’s Regulations on Wellbore Integrity and Hydraulic Fracturing – Stuart Ellsworth, CO Oil and Gas Conservation Commission
• Simple Groundwater Modeling of Transport Pathways in Unconventional Natural Gas Plays – Tom Myers, Great Basin Hydrology
• Long Term Risk of Potable Aquifer Contamination via Fracking Fluids – George Pinder, University of Vermont
• A Fully-Coupled, Fully-Implicit Parallel Solution Approach for Nonisothermal Multiphase Multicomponent Reactive Transport in a Deforming Fractured Porous Media – Robert Podgorney, Idaho National Laboratory
• Modeling Near Wellbore Leakage Pathways in Shale Gas Wells: Investigating Short and Long Term Wellbore Integrity – Saeed Salehi, University of Louisiana at Lafayette