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The Society for Neuroscience Announces First Cohort of Leadership Development Program
CHICAGO, Illinois, Oct. 19 -- The Society for Neuroscience issued the following news release:
The Society for Neuroscience announced the 15 neuroscience trainees in the inaugural class of the Leadership Development Program (LDP). This two-year pilot program, supported in part by the Dana Foundation, will offer professional development training for exceptional trainees and future leaders in the field of brain science. Awardees were selected from an outstanding group of high-performing graduate and postdoctoral recipients of SfN's longrunning Trainee Professional Development Award (TPDA).
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CHICAGO, Illinois, Oct. 19 -- The Society for Neuroscience issued the following news release:
The Society for Neuroscience announced the 15 neuroscience trainees in the inaugural class of the Leadership Development Program (LDP). This two-year pilot program, supported in part by the Dana Foundation, will offer professional development training for exceptional trainees and future leaders in the field of brain science. Awardees were selected from an outstanding group of high-performing graduate and postdoctoral recipients of SfN's longrunning Trainee Professional Development Award (TPDA).
"Withsupport from the Dana Foundation, we are thrilled to have the opportunity to expand SfN's professional development opportunities with high-quality leadership training for these incredibly talented early-career neuroscientists," said SfN President Diane Lipscombe. "This program meets crucial areas of need in professional development for the next generation of leaders in neuroscience."
The following graduate students and postdoctoral fellows have been selected for the LDP's first cohort:
* Douglas Arneson, University of California Los Angeles
* Shana Augustin, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
* Silmara De Lima, Harvard Medical School - Boston Children's Hospital
* Aliza De Nobrega, Florida State University
* James Hentig, University of Notre Dame
* Jennifer Honeycutt, Northeastern University
* Arjen Mol, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
* Elana Molotsky, Rush University Medical Center
* Dhruv Patel, Duke University
* Madelyn Ray, Thomas Jefferson University
* Lace Riggs, University of Maryland School of Medicine
* Maria Calvo Rodriguez, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School
* Melanie Sweeney, University of Southern California
* Melissa Tapia, Boston College
* Man Yi Yim, the University of Texas at Austin
In addition to the travel funding and online resources provided through the TPDA, the LDP will include an invitation to an in-person conference held in Washington, D.C. in early 2020, monthly distance learning, and funding to cover costs of supplemental training opportunities. Training will focus on topics typically not covered comprehensively in traditional academic or other training settings, such as adaptive leadership, strategic thinking, effective teamwork, and cultural competencies and inclusion.
The LDP represents another facet of the strong, long-term relationship between SfN and the Dana Foundation. The Dana Foundation supports SfN's annual Science Educator Award and also coordinates Brain Awareness Week, of which SfN is a partner.
[Category: Medical]
Society for Neuroscience: Lauren Mackenzie Reynolds Receives Nemko Prize in Cellular or Molecular Neuroscience
CHICAGO, Illinois, Oct. 19 -- The Society for Neuroscience issued the following news release:
The Society for Neuroscience (SfN) will award the Nemko Prize in Cellular or Molecular Neuroscience to Lauren Mackenzie Reynolds, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow at Sorbonne Universite in Paris. The Nemko Prize recognizes a young neuroscientist for his or her PhD thesis that advances the understanding of molecular, genetic or cellular mechanisms underlying higher brain function and cognition. The $2,500 prize will be presented in Chicago at Neuroscience 2019, SfN's annual meeting and the world's largest source
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CHICAGO, Illinois, Oct. 19 -- The Society for Neuroscience issued the following news release:
The Society for Neuroscience (SfN) will award the Nemko Prize in Cellular or Molecular Neuroscience to Lauren Mackenzie Reynolds, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow at Sorbonne Universite in Paris. The Nemko Prize recognizes a young neuroscientist for his or her PhD thesis that advances the understanding of molecular, genetic or cellular mechanisms underlying higher brain function and cognition. The $2,500 prize will be presented in Chicago at Neuroscience 2019, SfN's annual meeting and the world's largest sourceof emerging news about brain science and health.
"The Society is pleased to recognize Dr. Reynolds for her impressive doctoral research on molecular mechanisms of adolescent brain development and long-term effects of drug use," said SfN President Diane Lipscombe. "Her findings advance of understanding of brain development and importantly uncover some of the brain changes induced by drug abuse in adolescence."
Reynolds completed her thesis at McGill University in Montreal, where she used a circuitmapping technique in developing mice to follow how neurons involved in reward and addiction behaviors change across adolescence. She found that dopamine axons are still growing from the midbrain toward the prefrontal cortex during adolescence, the first identification of long-distance axon growth in late postnatal life. She subsequently identified the guidance cue receptor DCC as a protein responsible for guiding the neurons to their prefrontal destination and found that disrupting DCC in adolescence leads to cognitive deficits in adulthood. Finally, she showed that exposure to amphetamine in adolescence had age- and sex-specific effects on DCC expression and dopamine axon targeting, and identified early adolescence as a critical period in male mice when amphetamine exposure increases susceptibility to addictive behaviors in adulthood.
Together, Reynolds' findings shed light on a key mechanism of adolescent brain development and show how disrupting this mechanism with amphetamine exposure in mice leads to adult behaviors that resemble human susceptibility to addiction. Her findings lay the groundwork for potential biomarkers of susceptibility to addiction and interventions of adolescent drug use. Reynolds is continuing her work on dopamine neuron function during adolescence in the Neurophysiology and Behavior Team, part of the Institut de Biologie Paris Seine, at Sorbonne Universite.
[Category: Medical]
EVENT Oct. 29-30, 2019: Society of Petroleum Engineers Schedules SPE Workshop - Drilling Systems Automation, A Systems Perspective
WASHINGTON, Oct. 19 -- The Society of Petroleum Engineers will host the SPE Workshop - Drilling Systems Automation, A Systems Perspective at the Hyatt Regency Hill Country Resort and Spa, San Antonio, Oct. 29-30:
Agenda and Speakers:
Are Dumb Sensors an Obstacle to the Adoption of Drilling Systems Automation?
Session Chairpersons: John Macpherson, Baker Hughes, a GE company; Eric Cayeux, NORCE
In an interconnected world, where topside drilling equipment and downhole sensors and actuators work in concert, the automation of the drilling process should be one-step closer to reality. It is important
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 19 -- The Society of Petroleum Engineers will host the SPE Workshop - Drilling Systems Automation, A Systems Perspective at the Hyatt Regency Hill Country Resort and Spa, San Antonio, Oct. 29-30:
Agenda and Speakers:
Are Dumb Sensors an Obstacle to the Adoption of Drilling Systems Automation?
Session Chairpersons: John Macpherson, Baker Hughes, a GE company; Eric Cayeux, NORCE
In an interconnected world, where topside drilling equipment and downhole sensors and actuators work in concert, the automation of the drilling process should be one-step closer to reality. It is importantto understand that sensor technology is evolving and that sensors for automation are different in terms of quality, reliability, and capability from sensors for manual drilling. A sensor in automation is not simply a transducer - it can be a smart digital sensor with an embedded server; it can be a virtual sensor derived from a physics-based model; it can be a redundant component in a sensor network. This session explores facets of sensors in drilling automation systems: in fusing data from different sensors, in coupled sensor-actuator systems, in transforming conventional sensors, to function in automation capable systems.
- Leveraging Sensor Data Fusion in Drilling Automation
Speaker: Pradeep Ashok, University of Texas at Austin
- Sensors and Actuators in Automatic Trajectory Drilling Systems
Speaker: Christian Hansen, Baker Hughes, a GE company
- Making the Dumb Sensor Smart
Speaker: Soren Oydna, MHWirth
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Digital Twins: How to go Beyond the Hype?
Session Chairpersons: Eric Van Oort, University of Texas at Austin; Geir Skaugen, National Oilwell Varco
The topic of digital twins has gained prominence in business literature recently, and the term "digital twin" is currently at the top of the Gartner hype cycle. However, is there something fundamentally new under the hood, or is this simply an accelerated evolution of software modeling? Low cost sensors, high fidelity physics models, machine learning, and high performance computing can now be integrated at ever-larger scales and run in real time. This reduces the need to make performance and functionality trade-offs, providing engineers with powerful diagnostic and prognostic tools. However, this comes with increasing complexity and a multi-domain systems integration challenge. How is the industry responding to this opportunity? What is hype, what can realistically be done with digital twins, and what is the outlook?
- Extracting Value from Data Using an Industrial Data Platform to Provide a Foundational Digital Twin
Speaker: Per Arild Andresen, Cognite
- Digital Twin Enables Testing, Training and Validation of Drilling Operations in a Virtual Environment - Allows for Measuring the Unmeasurable
Speaker: Karl Erik Thoresen, National Oilwell Varco
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Going Beyond the Hype: Data Analytics and AI in Action
Chairpersons: Eric Van Oort, University of Texas at Austin; Mojtaba Shahri, Apache Corporation
Data Analytics and AI are now a major theme in most of the business optimization discussions these days. However, are they mainly limited to abstract vision statements rather than practical applications? In this session, experts will discuss some practical examples of data analytics and AI that resulted in demonstrated business value, and discuss the very real hurdles that need to be overcome to capitalize on data analytics and AI.
- Building an Applied Drilling Data Analytics Platform - Why do we Fail More Than we Succeed?
Speaker: Nathan Zenero, Teradata
- Leveraging Real-Time Data and Intelligent Analytics to Improve Drilling Performance
Speaker: Reza Rastegar & Ali Karimi, Occidental Oil & Gas
- Enhancing Real-Time Drilling Analytics System with Digital Transformation Strategy and Machine Learning Methodology
Speaker: Kate Ruddy, Anadarko Petroleum
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How can Streaming Analytics Drive Future Opportunity?
Session Chairpersons: Robert Darbe, Halliburton; Crispin Chatar, Schlumberger
Advancements in real-time streaming analytics are being leveraged to improve the drilling industry. These tools are being used to drive efficiency, consistency, and accuracy as well as enable better remote support. This session explores how streaming analytics are being used inside and outside of our industry with the goal to identify future opportunities. Key questions that will be discussed include: how to enhance analytics when the available sensor information is not enough, what real-time decisions can be enabled through analytics, and what emerging technologies will create additional value.
- Automatic Prediction and Mitigation of Dysfunctions of Drilling Data Using Streaming Analytics
Speaker: Philippe Herve, Sparkcognition
- Distributed Analytics Leverages Sensor Location to Optimize Remote Decision Making
Speaker: Julien Marck, Halliburton
- Improving Drilling Parameter Selection Through Data Mining and Machine Learning
Speaker: Russell Whitney, Corva
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Does Systems Engineering/Systems Architecture Offer Benefit to the Development of Drilling Systems Automation?
Session Chairpersons: John de Wardt, De Wardt & Company; Mark Anderson, Anderson & Spilman
Drilling is a complex collection of sensors, technologies, processes, and human interactions that collectively deliver a completed oil/gas well. Advanced industries have adopted a systems engineering approach that defines the architecture of the interrelated systems and designs the life cycle of these systems of interest. Systems architecture maps the relationship of the systems of interest while recognized standards are applied to map the hierarchy of data from sensor to enterprise. Experts will share applications, what is possible, and discuss what is next in the application of systems engineering in the complex systems of systems drilling environment.
- Right Sizing Systems Engineering in Drilling - An Aerospace Perspective
Speaker: Douglas Zimpfer, Shell
- Systems Engineering and Systems Modeling for Effective Well Construction Systems
Speaker: Jason Baker, Transocean
- Where is My System? - A Matter of Perspective
Speaker: Hans-Uwe Brackel, Baker Hughes, a GE company
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What are the Benefits/Risks Associated With Cloud Systems and Edge Systems for Analytics and Automation at the Rig Site?
Session Chairpersons: David Millwee, Helmerich & Payne; Michael Behounek, Apache Corporation
The need to calculate either large sets of data or high-speed data is becoming more critical on rig sites for advanced automation and data analytics. Unfortunately rig sites are not located in the best urban areas for high speed data communication. Most of the time, satellite bandwidth is the primary means of data communication. Experts will discuss the benefits and risks associated with deploying both cloud-systems and edge-systems at rig sites.
- Operator's View: Whatever Works Best on My Rigs
Speaker: John Willis, Occidental Oil & Gas
- Platform as a Business, Providing a Digital Solution Suitable for the Oil Industry
Speaker: Tony Pink, National Oilwell Varco
- Cloud, Edge, or Both?
Speaker: Sean Halloran, Ensign Energy Services
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Where do Humans Fit in Successful Automation Loops?
Session Chairpersons: John de Wardt, De Wardt & Company; Robert Wylie, XnDrilling
Drilling systems automation is neither an all (autonomous) nor a nothing (manual) proposition. Automated industries, e.g. aviation, have taken and applied the work of T Sheridan & R Parasuraman through the four cognitive functions of acquire, analyze, decide and act, developing a matrix showing levels of automation taxonomy (LOAT) at each functional stage. This matrix, adopted by the Drilling Systems Automation Roadmap industry initiative, enables a transition mapping from current state to future state, and clarifies where humans should be included in an automated world. Experts will present examples and the outlook for human participation in new automated drilling loops.
- Evolution of the Land Driller's Role: From a Doer to an Automated System Supervisor
Speaker: Ariel Torre, Precision Drilling
- Experiences Transitioning Human Roles While Advancing Drilling Automation Applications
Speaker: Matt Isbell, Hess Corporation
- Managing Change for Drilling Automation
Speaker: David Rowatt, Schlumberger Land Rigs
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Future of Oilfield Logistics to include Commercial Models
Session Chairpersons: Ed Tovar, InTechSys; Carissa Smith, Airswift
The advent of disruptive technologies and capabilities in our daily lives and in business by companies such as UBER, SpaceX, and Tesla allow us to witness a change in the way we deliver data and things never-before-seen in our human history.
- It's Time for Digital to Scale
Speaker: Tommy Inglesby, Accenture
- Satellite Monitoring of the Permian
Speaker: Deven Desai, Planet
- NASA is Sending a Drone to Mars in 2020
Speaker: Stayne Hoff, Aerovironment
- Unmanned Cargo Delivery
Speaker: Steven Athanas, Swanson Group Aviation
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For more information: https://www.spe.org/events/en/2019/workshop/19asa4/schedule-overview.html
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EVENT Oct. 24-26, 2019: National Science Teaching Association Schedules Area Conference on Science Education
WASHINGTON, Oct. 19 -- The National Science Teaching Association will host the 2019 Area Conference on Science Education at the Salt Palace Convention Center, Salt Lake City, Utah, Oct. 24-26:
Keynote Speaker: Mireya Mayor, Primatologist and National Geographic Explorer
Agenda and Speakers include:
Culturally Relevant Pedagogy in the Indigenous Secondary Science Classroom: Enhancing Learning by Getting to Know Your Students Better
The effects of Western science subculture on indigenous students implore us to get to know our students better by exploring culture in the science classroom. Participants
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 19 -- The National Science Teaching Association will host the 2019 Area Conference on Science Education at the Salt Palace Convention Center, Salt Lake City, Utah, Oct. 24-26:
Keynote Speaker: Mireya Mayor, Primatologist and National Geographic Explorer
Agenda and Speakers include:
Culturally Relevant Pedagogy in the Indigenous Secondary Science Classroom: Enhancing Learning by Getting to Know Your Students Better
The effects of Western science subculture on indigenous students implore us to get to know our students better by exploring culture in the science classroom. Participantswill engage in conversation, reflection, and examination surrounding culture in the classroom as well as create a culturally responsive practice action plan.
Speaker: Molly A. Wolk, Doctoral Student, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
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Where Have All The Bees Gone? Supporting All Students Through Problem-Based Enhanced Language Learning (PBELL)
Students will research bees, their roles as pollinators, and learn how their dinner plate would change if we don't solve the declining bee population through problem-based learning.
Speaker: Brittney Oden, Special Ed Teacher, Rhodes Junior High School
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Integrating Science for Young Children with an Outdoor Focus
Experience engaging activities that allow you to take young children outside and easily integrate, art, music, science, math, and social studies while using NGSS science practices. Handouts.
Speaker: Jim McDonald, Professor, Central Michigan University
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Literacy for Science in GRC Science Instruction
Literacy for science within science investigations is an important way to engage students in doing science. Gathering data and information is important for meaningful science reasoning and important for student writing and speaking. Gain strategies and resources to engage students in Gather, Reason and Communicate Reasoning lessons that actively engage students in investigations with meaningful writing components.
Speakers: Brett Moulding, Director, Partnership for Effective Science Teaching and Learning; Michele Snyder, Science Curriculum Advisor, Arkansas Department of Education and Candace Penrod, Science Supervisor, Salt Lake City School District
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I Didn't Know What Real Science Was? Citizen Science, STEM Education, and Career Interest
We will discuss the positive self-efficacy arising in STEM courses for youth who participated in an informal citizen science project and share websites with participants interested in doing this with their own students.
Speaker: Mary Hedenstrom, Graduate Assistant, University of Minnesota
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For more information: https://s6.goeshow.com/nsta/area/2019saltlake/conference_program_sessions.cfm
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EVENT Nov. 7-8, 2019: Society of Petroleum Engineers Schedules SPE Liquids-Rich Basins Conference - North America
WASHINGTON, Oct. 19 -- The Society of Petroleum Engineers will host SPE Liquids-Rich Basins Conference - North America at the Odessa Marriott Hotel & Conference Center, Odessa, Nov. 7-8:
Keynote:
Perspectives on Activities, Challenges, Opportunities, and the Future of the Permian Basin
Speaker: Chuck Meloy, Endeavor Energy Resources
Meloy will provide an overview of Endeavor's activities and opportunities for development in the exploitation of unconventional, liquids-rich reservoirs. He will also provide his perspective on the future of the Permian Basin.
About the Speaker:
Chuck Meloy joined
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 19 -- The Society of Petroleum Engineers will host SPE Liquids-Rich Basins Conference - North America at the Odessa Marriott Hotel & Conference Center, Odessa, Nov. 7-8:
Keynote:
Perspectives on Activities, Challenges, Opportunities, and the Future of the Permian Basin
Speaker: Chuck Meloy, Endeavor Energy Resources
Meloy will provide an overview of Endeavor's activities and opportunities for development in the exploitation of unconventional, liquids-rich reservoirs. He will also provide his perspective on the future of the Permian Basin.
About the Speaker:
Chuck Meloy joinedEndeavor as President and Chief Executive Officer in February 2016. Prior to his employment with Endeavor, he was Executive Vice President of U.S. Onshore Exploration and Production with Anadarko Petroleum, until his retirement in 2015. Prior to Anadarko, he served as Vice President of Exploration and Production for Kerr-McGee. Chuck graduated from Texas A&M with a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering in 1982. Mr. Meloy has previously served as Board member for Western Gas Equity Partners, the Board of Directors of the Independent Producers of America Association, member of the API Upstream Committee and is an active Member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers and Texas Professional Engineers.
Agenda and Speakers include:
Prediction of the Fracture Closure Pressure from the Instantaneous Shut-In Pressure for Unconventional Formations: Case Studies
Speakers: S.M. Kholy, Advantek Waste Management Services LLC; J. Ma, Heriot-Watt University; I.M. Mohamed, O.A. Abou-Sayed, A.S. Abou-Sayed, Advantek Waste Management Services LLC
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Semi-Analytical Boundary Element Method to Modeling and Simulation of Fluid-Driven Single/Multi Fractures in Reservoirs
Speakers: F. Paknia, University of Oklahoma MPGE; A. Ghassemi, University of Oklahoma; M. Pournik, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
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Comprehensive Review of Formation Damage Caused by High-Viscosity Friction Reducers: Wolfcamp Case Study
Speakers: M. Ba Geri, Missouri University of Science and Technology; A. Ellafi, University of North Dakota; R.E. Flori, Missouri University of Science and Technology; J. Noles, Coil Chem LLC; S. Kim, CoilChem LLC
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Analytical Method for Optimizing Fracture Spacing in Shale Oil Reservoirs
Speaker: M. Mahmood, B. Guo, University of Louisiana At Lafayette
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Quantifying the Impact of Fracturing Chemicals on Production Performance Using Machine Learning
Speakers: A. Rastogi, Colorado School of Mines; A. Sharma, DrillingInfo
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Descriptive Data Analytics to Investigate Stimulation and Completion Trends in the United States: How Proppant and Water Utilization have Changed over Time?
Speakers: M.A. Al-Alwani, Missouri University of Science & Tech; L.K. Britt, NSI Fracturing LLC; S. Dunn-Norman, Missouri University of Science & Tech; H.H. Alkinani, A.T. Al-Hameedi, Missouri University of Science and Technology; A.M. Al-Attar, Enterprise Products, Houston, TX, USA; W.H. Al-Bazzaz, Kuwait Institute For Scientific Research
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Application of Multivariate Statistical Methods to Reservoir Fluid Characterization in Unconventional Liquid-Rich Basins
Speaker: D.A. Afekare, Louisiana State University
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New Experimental Methodology to Investigate Water Adsorption Into Shale Under Stress Anisotropy Conditions
Speakers: K. Liu, Texas Tech University; J.J. Sheng, Texas Tech University
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Fracture Hit Mitigation Through Surfactant-based Treatment Fluids in Parent Wells
Speaker: L. Xu, J.W. Ogle, T.A. Collier, Halliburton
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Sand Transport, Does Viscosity Matter?
Speaker: T. Galindo, GeoKimika Oil & Gas
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Inversion of Production Data Using an Ensemble Smoother to Determine the Geometry of Hydraulic Fractures
Speakers: J. Jiang, J.J. Sheng, S.B. Gorell, Texas Tech University
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Experimental Study of Surfactant-Assisted Oil Recovery in the Middle Bakken Cores
Speakers: S. Zhang, C. Li, H. Pu, K. Ling, R. Sun, J.X. Zhao, University of North Dakota
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Optimizing Hydraulic Fracturing
Session Chairpersons: Curtis Caile - Raisa Energy, Faraaz Adil - Halliburton
For the past few years, operators have had intense focus on investigating optimum stimulation design parameters for asset economics. Optimization efforts centered around the effects of the parent-child wells on the fracturing process in unconventional reservoirs, real-time decision-making, and cluster spacing are the key subjects to be discussed in this session.
- The Impact of Cluster Spacing on Multi-fractured Well Performance
Speakers: R. Chen, X. Xue, A. Datta-gupta, Texas A&M University; H. Yu, N. Kalyanaraman, Sanchez Oil & Gas Corporation
- Leveraging Cloud-Based Analytics to Enhance Near-Real Time Stage Management
Speakers: P.A. Bommer, Abraxas Petroleum Corporation; J.G. Iriarte, Well Data Labs
- Understanding and Mitigating Depletion Effects in Infill Wells for Optimized Production
Speakers: F.O. Ajisafe, Schlumberger; M.O. Reid, H. Porter, D.J. Fox, Lime Rock Resources; E. Wigger, M. Drouillard, C.W. Defeu, A. Marquez, K. Vidma, P. Abivin, D.O. Ogunlana, K. Srinivasan, Schlumberger
- Fracture Hit Mitigation Through Surfactant-based Treatment Fluids in Parent Wells
Speakers: L. Xu, J.W. Ogle, T.A. Collier, Halliburton
- Sand Transport, Does Viscosity Matter?
Speaker: T. Galindo, GeoKimika Oil & Gas
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Improving Unconventional Well Forecasting
Session Chairpersons: Robert Reyes - Harmonia Petroleum, Kyle Scott - Pioneer Natural Resources
In relatively young development of horizontal wells in liquids rich unconventionals, operators are challenged to predict long-term well performance for production growth forecasting and individual well economics for project justification. Production decline behavior and infill well performance impacts are key subjects that will be investigated in this session.
- New Way to Forecast Gas-Oil Ratios (GOR) and Solution Gas Production from Unconventional Oil Reservoirs
Speaker: I. Makinde, CSE Icon Inc
- Modeling Terminal Decline Rate in Flow Regime Transition Using Alternating Conditional Expectation Non-Linear Regression Methods
Speakers: A. Sharma, B. Guttery, Drilling Info, Inc.
- Gas-Cycling Enhanced Oil Recovery in Liquids-Rich Production
Speakers: F.B. Thomas, Resopstrategies; M. Piwowar, H. Zhang, W. Gibb, Stratum Reservoir
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EOR in Unconventional Reservoirs: From Proof-of-Concept to the Field
Moderator: Kyle Scott - Pioneer Natural Resources
Speakers: Reza Barati - University of Kansas; David Schechter - Texas A&M University; James Sheng - Texas Tech University
This distinguished panel will feature three preeminent academics discussing their current efforts for improving oil recovery in unconventional reservoirs. Topics such as conceptual models, fundamental research, laboratory experiments, reservoir and process simulation, and field applications will be addressed.
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For more information: https://www.spe.org/events/en/2019/conference/19lrbc/schedule-overview.html
[Category: EnergyEvents]
EVENT Nov. 15, 2019: New Jersey Association for Biomedical Research Schedules 26th Annual IACUC Conference
WASHINGTON, Oct. 19 -- The New Jersey Association for Biomedical Research will host the 26th Annual IACUC Conference at the Palace at Somerset Park, Nov. 15:
Keynote Speaker:
Speaker: Nancy Halpern, Partner, Fox Rothschild LLP
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Agenda and Speakers:
Hot Topics in Regulatory Compliance
Speaker: Brent Morse, Director, Div. of Compliance Oversight, Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare
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Regulatory Insights with the USDA
Speaker: Tonya Hadjis, Supervisory Animal Care Specialist, USDA, APHIS, Animal Care
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One Health - Connecting Human, Animal, and Environmental Health
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 19 -- The New Jersey Association for Biomedical Research will host the 26th Annual IACUC Conference at the Palace at Somerset Park, Nov. 15:
Keynote Speaker:
Speaker: Nancy Halpern, Partner, Fox Rothschild LLP
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Agenda and Speakers:
Hot Topics in Regulatory Compliance
Speaker: Brent Morse, Director, Div. of Compliance Oversight, Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare
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Regulatory Insights with the USDA
Speaker: Tonya Hadjis, Supervisory Animal Care Specialist, USDA, APHIS, Animal Care
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One Health - Connecting Human, Animal, and Environmental Health
Panel ledby: Damir Hamamdzi, Compliance Administrator, Rutgers University
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AAALAC International - What's on the Horizon
Speaker: Helen E. Diggs, DACLAM, Senior Director, AAALAC International
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Ask the Regulators - USDA and OLAW
Tonya Hadjis, USDA, APHIS, Animal Care; Brent Morse, OLAW
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Endowment Care: An Innovative Approach to NHP Retirement
Speakers: Laura Conour, DVM, DACLAM, Executive Director, Laboratory Animal Resources and University Attending Veterinarian, Princeton University; Scott Kubisch, Director/Founder, Peaceable Primates Sanctuary
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Using Technology to Enhance Data Management for Enrichment, Animal Welfare, and Regulatory Compliance
Speakers: Katrina Taylor, Program of Veterinary Care Lead & Attending Veterinarian, Bristol-Myers Squibb; Brian Bell, Project Manager Lead A-Tune Software, Inc.
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One Health In-depth Workshop
Facilitator: Damir Hamamdzi, Compliance Administrator, Rutgers University
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IACUCs and Compliance
Speaker: Greg Reinhard, Director, Office of Animal Welfare, University of Pennsylvania
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Establishing and Implementing Endpoints
Speaker: Elizabeth Dodemaide, Associate Director, Comparative Medicine Resources, Rutgers University
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For more information: http://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/event?llr=nujebhdab&oeidk=a07egjpreut01de6e46
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EVENT Nov. 11-12, 2019: Society of Petroleum Engineers Schedules SPE Workshop - Enhancing HSE Performance for Well Completions
WASHINGTON, Oct. 19 -- The Society of Petroleum Engineers will host the SPE Workshop - Enhancing HSE Performance for Well Completions at the Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado, Nov. 11-12:
Agenda and Speakers:
Integrated Completions Planning: Considering HSE Through the Life-Cycle of Operations
Session Chairpersons: Karin Witton, Consultant; Jill Cooper, Geosyntec Consultants
Speakers: Mike Rynearson, Caerus Oil & Gas; Hein Ellis, Baker Hughes, a GE company; Sara Loflin, Colorado Logic; Larry Wilger, Halliburton
An engaging discussion on challenges and opportunities on how to consider
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 19 -- The Society of Petroleum Engineers will host the SPE Workshop - Enhancing HSE Performance for Well Completions at the Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado, Nov. 11-12:
Agenda and Speakers:
Integrated Completions Planning: Considering HSE Through the Life-Cycle of Operations
Session Chairpersons: Karin Witton, Consultant; Jill Cooper, Geosyntec Consultants
Speakers: Mike Rynearson, Caerus Oil & Gas; Hein Ellis, Baker Hughes, a GE company; Sara Loflin, Colorado Logic; Larry Wilger, Halliburton
An engaging discussion on challenges and opportunities on how to considercompletions planning to reduce risk, cost, and liability throughout the life-cycle of the upstream operations. There are so many moving pieces - companies, people, equipment - involved in completions. How do we better recognize the matrixed nature of the process and have our teams engage in a more integrated fashion? This panel will consider elements such as: environmental footprint, community, safety, resource use and management, operational efficiency, transition between operation teams, integration of service providers, and HSE requirements and expectations. Our goal is to increase our understanding: around the challenges and opportunities for the entire industry to do this aspect better; that this is the most socially sensitive aspect of upstream operations; and that the common denominators through all phases of upstream oil and gas are HSE and construction.
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How do we Integrate HSE-SR Risks into Completions Activities to Minimize Time, Cost and Reputational Damage?
Session Chairpersons: Karin Witton, Consultant; Trey Shaffer, Environmental Resources Management
This interactive breakout session will discuss the top HSE-SR risks to completions activities, establish future state, and how to get there. Participants will have the opportunity to work together in groups and have an open discussion on key identified risks and ultimately create a roadmap for the industry to minimize such risks.
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Managing the Completions Water Lifecycle
Session Chairpersons: Gretchen Kohler, Antero Resources; James Rosenblum, Colorado School of Mines
Water management in completions operations has always been a critical component in planning, scheduling, and budgeting. This panel will discuss the challenges of water sourcing, transport and storage, beneficial reuse versus disposal, formation damage/well productivity, and water treatment/feasibility. The panel will provide insight from a basin-specific perspective, an operator's perspective, a contractor perspective, and an overview of regulatory challenges.
- Summary of the Most Comprehensive Produced Water Report Ever
Speaker: Michael Dunkel, Advisian, a Worley Company
- Frac Water Quality: Clean vs. Dirty
Speaker: Robert Huizenga, Cimarex Energy
- To Truck or Not to Truck: A Fundamental Transition
Speaker: James Newman, Basic Energy Services
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Knowledge Sharing Student Posters
Session Chairpersons: James Rosenblum, Colorado School of Mines, and Jennifer Miskimins, Colorado School of Mines
The poster session will center on enhancing HSE performance for well completions. Topics will include vehicle movement; challenges and opportunities for handling, treating, and reusing flowback water; management of NORM; management of chemicals onsite; the difference between HSE management on and off shore; risk integration; and more.
- Lactic Acid Optimization in Acidizing Operations Using Gluconic Acid and Seawater Systems
Speaker: Luai Alhamad, Colorado School of Mines
- Fracturing Fluid Additive Identification and Degradation in Biological Treatment
Speaker: Kurban Sitterley, Colorado School of Mines
- Assessing the Groundwater Contamination Risk of Hydraulic Fracturing Chemicals - An Integrated Approach to Risk Analysis Using Large Scale Data Analytics
Speaker: John Stults, Colorado School of Mines
- UV and Advanced Oxidation Treatment of Organics and Microbes Present in Hydraulic Fracturing Wastewater
Speaker: Sydney Ulliman, University of Colorado Boulder
- Biological Pre-Treatment of Produced Water: Attached Growth BAF vs. Suspended Growth MBR
Speaker: Brett Van Houghton, Colorado School of Mines
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Closer Look at the Lifecycle of Water in Completions
Session Chairpersons: Gretchen Kohler, Antero Resources; James Rosenblum, Colorado School of Mines
This breakout session will continue the discussions around completions water management to identify common concerns around water sourcing, water storage and transport, water recycling and treatment, etc. Experts from the previous session will be leading discussions on the various topics and will help promote dialogue and conversation around these issues.
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What is Required for a Successful Post Completion of a Well in 2019 and in the Future?
Session Chairpersons: Stuart Wittenbach, Cimerex Energy; Aditya Singh, Occidental Petroleum
This session will focus on the current and future challenges operators and service companies experience during the post-completion phase of oil and gas operations. Flowback measurement and safety, water handling systems and integrity, green completions, and public relations will be discussed, along with the challenges, solutions, and unique/new technologies that are becoming available.
- Water Handling Systems/Integrity
Speaker: Steven Runyan, Cimarex Energy
- Green Completions
Speaker: Julio Trevino, Occidental Oil & Gas
- Public Relations During and After the Completions Phase
Speaker: Garrison Haning, Cimarex Energy
- Conducting Safest Flowback Operations
Speaker: Jordan Argamany, Occidental Oil & Gas
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Knowledge Sharing Student Posters
Session Chairpersons: James Rosenblum, Colorado School of Mines, and Jennifer Miskimins, Colorado School of Mines
The poster session will center on enhancing HSE performance for well completions. Topics will include vehicle movement; challenges and opportunities for handling, treating, and reusing flowback water; management of NORM; management of chemicals onsite; the difference between HSE management on and off shore; risk integration; and more.
- Lactic Acid Optimization in Acidizing Operations Using Gluconic Acid and Seawater Systems
Speaker: Luai Alhamad, Colorado School of Mines
- Fracturing Fluid Additive Identification and Degradation in Biological Treatment
Speaker: Kurban Sitterley, Colorado School of Mines
- Assessing the Groundwater Contamination Risk of Hydraulic Fracturing Chemicals - An Integrated Approach to Risk Analysis Using Large Scale Data Analytics
Speaker: John Stults, Colorado School of Mines
- UV and Advanced Oxidation Treatment of Organics and Microbes Present in Hydraulic Fracturing Wastewater
Speaker: Sydney Ulliman, University of Colorado Boulder
- Biological Pre-Treatment of Produced Water: Attached Growth BAF vs. Suspended Growth MBR
Speaker: Brett Van Houghton, Colorado School of Mines
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Managing HSE at the Wellsite: Completions Operations Risk Management
Session Chairpersons: Tom Knode, Kirby; Rory Johnston, Langan
Moderator: Norman Ritchie, vPSI Group; Speakers: John Snawder, NIOSH Taft Laboratory; Larry Wilger, Halliburton; Zach Welch, Shell
Once planned, how does the execution of all phases of completions proceed while managing the various risks? Well pad density must consider SimOps issues to make sure that contractors are aligned on their activities so as not to interfere with each other. How are suppliers coordinated to address both road safety and traffic planning to move on and off location? Pressure management and containment is a critical for well head control. Silica and noise are considerations during frac operations. Frac hits are also both an operational and safety consideration. The panel of industry experts will cover these and more issues facing our industry.
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Managing HSE Through Economic and Regulatory Cycles
Session Chairpersons: Habeib Al-Hashimi, Baker Hughes, a GE company; Jim Johnstone, Contek Solutions
This breakout session looks at HSE risks during market cycles. We aim to learn how we as an industry better manage morale, regulatory compliance, community expectations, workforce dynamics, and use technology in real time through the good and bad times.
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Town Hall Discussion
Session Chairpersons: Jessica Rogers, S.S. Papadopulos & Associates; Karin Witton, Weatherford
Speakers: Adam Peltz, Environmental Defense Fund; Stephen Flaherty, Cimarex; Julie Murphy, Colorado Oil & Gas Conservation Commission
The workshop will conclude with a town hall style discussion lead by a panel of distinguished practitioners, whose expertise span industry, regulatory, and academic perspectives on HSE performance. The discussion will center on major conclusions and common threads between the workshop sessions. Emphasis will be given to identifying major areas of concern and opportunities for best practices.
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For more information: https://www.spe.org/events/en/2019/workshop/19agol/schedule-overview.html
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