SPE – PGK Annual BBQ 2024

On the 17th of June 2024, the annual SPE-PGK barbeque event will take place again at Beachclub Oscars, The Hauge. This year, it will follow the “Netherlands Energy Day” event and will cover Geothermal E&P and CCS with the following topics:

1) ‘Geothermal 10 years back, 5 years forward’ by Andrea Vondrak & Henk van Oeveren – Ennatuurlijk Aardwarmte.

Abstract
In 2023 Ennatuurlijk Aardwarmte took over the geothermal assets from ECW. The Middenmeer asset started with the first 2 doublets (4 wells) drilled in 2013/2014 and has been in production since. Operations expanded near field with additional wells were Middenmeer, a high-temperature aquifer thermal storeage, and greenfield in Andijk. This presentation will give an insight in the last 10 years of production, challenges and growth, it will also give a look forward on how Ennatuurlijk Aardwarmte is planning to grow.

About the presenter
(1) Henk van Oeveren is senior project leader and reservoir engineer at Ennatuurlijk Aardwarmte. He has worked on gas, oil, gas storage, and geothermal project development and operations.

(2) Andrea Vondrak is senior geologist at Ennatuurlijk Aardwarmte. She has worked on oil & gas projects as well as geothermal projects, with highlights of joining projects drilling an offshore well and in 2023 the geothermal doublets on the TU Delft campus.

 

2) ‘Machine-Learning for Efficient CO2 Storage Modeling’ by Ashkan Jahanbani – Norwegian University of Science and Technology.

Abstract
Machine learning (ML) is being applied in reservoir simulation with significant potential for transforming the traditional practices in decision-making and field development strategies. By leveraging data-driven techniques and perceiving the relationship among data, ML can develop accurate and fast tools to model complex and uncertain physics. This presentation discusses some recent studies of developing ML-based proxy models for fast simulation and optimization of geological CO2 storage, highlighting the benefits of this approach in capturing nonlinearity. Application examples include studies of Smeaheia CO2 storage (saline aquifer hosted by the Horda Platform, east of the Troll Field in the North Sea), Svelvik CO2 Field Lab (a small-scale field laboratory located about 50 km southwest of Oslo), and water alternating CO2 gas injection in two selected reservoir models.

About the presenter
Ashkan Jahanbani is associate professor of reservoir engineering at NTNU (Department of Geoscience and Petroleum), leader of the Gemini center CEORS (CO2 Enhanced Oil Recovery and Storage) and deputy leader of the BRU21 program area- reservoir management and production optimization. He is the recipient of 2024-2025 Fulbright Visiting Scholar Grant for conducting research on “Reuse Of the SubSurface (ROSS)” at the University of Southern California. In 2022, Ashkan was selected as one of NTNU’s young talents in Outstanding Academic Fellows Programme 4.0 (2022-2026) with a research focus on CO2 storage challenges. With a background in reservoir engineering (BSc & MSc from PUT/Iran, MEng from UofC/Canada and PhD from NTNU/Norway), Ashkan is specialized in reservoir simulation, enhanced oil recovery, geological CO2 storage, well test analysis, PVT, fluid flow in porous media and proxy modeling.

 

 

The BBQ starts at 18:00. For Registrations, click here.