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SPE Board Meeting in Tokyo and Dialogue with Japan’s Industrial Community

By Kohei Miura posted 15 days ago
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報告：東京におけるSPE理事会の開催と日本の産業界との対話について 山本晃司 SPE Asia Pacific Regional Director, JOGMEC 　去る1月30日から2月1日までの三日間、2026年President（会長）のJennifer Miskimins（コロラド鉱山大学教授）、Secretary, CEO（事務局長）のSimon Seaton他、Technical Director, Regional Directorの合計21名とSPE事務局職員が東京に勢ぞろいして、SPEの理事会（Board of Director Meeting）が開催されました。SPEの理事会は年３回開催されますが、日本で開催されるのははじめてのことです。 　私は一昨年の10月よりSPEのAsia Pacific Regional Directorを務めていますが、SPEの活動や会員のかかわり方は、北米、中東、アジア・太平洋地域など、それぞれの地域で大きく異なっていることに気付くようになってきました。現在、SPEの会員における北米の会員の割合は2割程度になっている一方、中東、アジア・太平洋地域、アフリカではメンバーの増加が続き、それらの位置づけが大きくなっています。しかしながら、特にアジア・太平洋地域は地理的にも文化的にも多様性が強く、単一の言語で活動できる北米などとは異なる取り組み方が必要であることを感じていました。そこで、SPEの理事会を日本で開催すれば、アジア、とりわけ日本でどのような活動がされているのか実態を知らせることができて、今後のSPEの活動の幅を広げ、世界の多様性により深く対応できるようになると考えて、日本で理事会を行うことを提案させてもらいました。会長のJenniferの賛同も得られて提案は受け入れられ、今回の開催の運びとなったものです。 ...
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2025-2026 1st Distinguished Lecturer Program: Mr. Diego A. Vazquez Anzola (February 9, 2026 at INPEX Tokyo)

By Kohei Miura posted 23 days ago
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Topic: Carbon Storage Risks and Costs: Busting Perceptions and Myths Lecturer: Mr. Diego A. Vazquez Anzola , APES With two decades of energy sector experience, Mr. Diego has worked on diverse projects, from hydrocarbon exploration to carbon capture and storage (CCS) and sustainable energy solutions. His portfolio includes significant involvement in prominent commercial CCS projects like Northern Lights (Norway), Aramis and Porthos (Netherlands), Endurance (UK), Gorgon (Australia), Prinos (Greece), Lang-Lebah (Malaysia), and Arthit (Thailand). In this lecture program, he highlighted a range of successful global CCS projects and the diverse business ...
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2024-2025 3rd Distinguished Lecturer Program: Dr Brian G Twomey (June 9, 2025 at JAPEX Tokyo)

By Kohei Miura posted 06-10-2025
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Topic: Liability is Forever: Risk Elements in the Implementation of Decommissioning and Well P&A Lecturer: Dr Brian G Twomey , Reverse Engineering Services Ltd Dr. Brian Twomey established Reverse Engineering Services Ltd (RESL) over 30 years ago; a specialist consultancy solely focused on the decommissioning, abandonment, and recycling of onshore and offshore facilities, pipelines, wells, subsea systems and ships. In this lecturer program, he shared optimal learnings and critical project reflections from projects globally about decommissioning and well P&A. Experience illustrates that effective decommissioning must be planned years in advance ...
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The 30th JFES Symposium (Oct 8-10, 2025 - JOGMEC TRC)

By Kohei Miura posted 04-30-2025
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Japan Formation Evaluation Society (JFES), a chapter of SPWLA, will have the 29th Formation Evaluation Symposium of Japan Meeting on 8th, 9th & 10th October 2025. SPE Japan Section is pleased to cooperate and share information of the symposium as attached. Please find the link below for more detail. [Deadline extended] Call For Abstracts! -The 30th Formation Evaluation Symposium of Japan│JFES Thank you.
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2024-2025 2nd Distinguished Lecturer Program: Mr. Ryosuke YOKOTE (Rio) (Mar. 7, 2025 at INPEX Tokyo)

By Kohei Miura posted 03-09-2025
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Topic: Well Dynamic Simulation – Challenging the “Just Do This” Approach Lecturer: Mr. Ryosuke YOKOTE (Rio) , ENI Australia Ryosuke YOKOTE (Rio) is a Senior Petroleum Engineer with Eni Australia. He has over 29 years of industry experience in Australia, Timor-Leste, Indonesia, and Japan. In this lecturer program, he showcased well dynamic simulations supporting the full life cycle of well operations, including well clean-up, field start-up, production operations, well intervention and field abandonment. These case studies highlighted the importance of a cross-disciplinary approach to foster strong collaborations between the field-based supervisor and ...
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2024-2025 1st Distinguished Lecturer Program: Mr. Tan Chee Phuat (Jan. 10, 2025 at ENEOS Xplora Tokyo)

By Kohei Miura posted 01-16-2025
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Topic: Geomechanical Risks Mitigation – A Must for Safe Long-Term CO2 Geological Storage Lecturer: Mr. Tan Chee Phuat , PETRONAS Tan Chee Phuat, PhD has 37 years of petroleum geomechanics experience in R&D, technical service, operation and academic, and is Chief Scientist Geomechanics with PETRONAS Group Technology & Commercialisation. In this lecturer program, he presented the key geomechanical mechanisms associated with CO2 leakage risks and study workflow, and follow by coupled geomechanics-dynamic-thermal modelling assessment of risks associated with CO2-rock interaction, fault re-activation, caprock failure, injected CO2 cooling on caprock ...
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2023-2024 3rd Distinguished Lecturer Program: Mr. Rawdon Seaer (May. 27, 2024 at INPEX Tokyo)

By Kohei Miura posted 05-27-2024
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Topic: Carbon Capture and Storage and the CO2 Storage Resources Management System (SRMS) Lecturer: Mr. Rawdon Seager, Gaffney, Cline & Associates Rawdon Seager is a reservoir engineer with over 50 years’ experience in the international oil and gas area with Shell, Huffco and, since 1985, Gaffney, Cline & Associates, where he is Chief Reservoir Engineer and Global Director of Quality Assurance. He presented some of the ways in which carbon dioxide can be stored and provided a review of the CO2 Storage Resources Management System (SRMS) framework prepared by the Society of Petroleum Engineers to classify and categorize the storable quantities. ...
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The 29th JFES Symposium (Sep 12 & 13, 2024 - JOGMEC TRC )

By Kohei Miura posted 02-20-2024
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Japan Formation Evaluation Society (JFES), a chapter of SPWLA, will have the 29th Formation Evaluation Symposium of Japan Meeting on 12th & 13th September 2024. SPE Japan Section is pleased to cooperate and share information of the symposium as attached. Please find the link below for more detail. The 29th Formation Evaluation Symposium of Japan│JFES (spwla-jfes.org) Registration: Here Thank you.
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2023-2024 2nd Distinguished Lecturer Program: Mr. Francois-Xavier Dubost (Oct. 11, 2023 at JX Tokyo)

By Kohei Miura posted 10-17-2023
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Date: October 11, 2023 Topic: Transforming How to Evaluate Wells and Unlock Reserves: Deep Transient Testing Lecturer: Mr. Francois-Xavier Dubost , SLB Francois-Xavier Dubost focused for 27 years on reservoir performance evaluation and recently joined the SLB HQ team as Reservoir Technical Director. In this lecturer program, he presented a Deep Transient Testing (DTT) technique that was developed in response to an industry and customer need in 2015. The technique has been used since then by many oil companies to help reduce development risks. He also explained that DTT aligns with global sustainable development goals, by enabling reductions in CO2 emissions ...
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2023-2024 1st Distinguished Lecturer Program: Prof. Rick Chalaturnyk (Sep. 29, 2023 at JAPEX Tokyo)

By Kohei Miura posted 10-17-2023
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Date: September 29, 2023 Topic: CO2 Geological Storage from 8 Years of Dynamic Injection at the Aquistore CO2 Storage Site Lecturer: Prof. Rick Chalaturnyk , University of Alverta and GeoVer Inc. Rick Chalaturnyk is a Professor of Geotechnical Engineering at the University of Alberta and holds an NSERC/Energi Simulation Industrial Research Chair in Reservoir Geomechanics. In this lecturer program, he presented dynamic responses that have been recorded since the completion of the CO2 injection well and the start of CO2 injection began on April 16, 2015 at the Aquistore CO2 Storege Project. He discussed various issues ranging from well integrity to reservoir ...
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The 28th JFES Symposium (Sep 13 & 14, 2023, Hybrid Meeting - JOGMEC TRC & Online)

By Kohei Miura posted 07-12-2023
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Japan Formation Evaluation Society (JFES), a chapter of SPWLA, will have the 28th Formation Evaluation Symposium of Japan Virtual Meeting on 13th & 14th September 2023. SPE Japan Section is pleased to cooperate and share information of the symposium as attached. Please find the link below for more detail. JFES | Japan Formation Evaluation Society (spwla-jfes.org) Thank you. 28th JFES Symposium Poster
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2022-2023 Additional Distinguished Lecturer Program: Mr. Tom Emelander (Feb 10, 2023 at INPEX Tokyo)

By Kyogo Amikawa posted 02-12-2023
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SPE Japan welcomed Mr. Tom Emelander, the additional distinguished lecturer for 2022-2023, at INPEX Tokyo on February 10, 2023. Date: February 10, 2023 Topic: Sidetracking with Whipstocks: An Efficient Method for Increasing Your Operational and Asset Value Lecturer: Mr. Tom Emelander, Weatherford Intl. Tom Emelander is the Product Line Manager for Weatherford's Whipstock Systems and has authored multiple technical papers and industory articles. Whipstock sidetracking has evolved as a viable solution to add operational value in both new and mature wells. In this lecturer program, he presented applications and methods to increase operational efficiency ...
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The 27th JFES Symposium (Sep 14 & 15, 2022, Hybrid Meeting - JOGMEC TRC & Online)

By Kyogo Amikawa posted 07-07-2022
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Japan Formation Evaluation Society (JFES), a chapter of SPWLA, will have the 27th Formation Evaluation Symposium of Japan Virtual Meeting on 14th & 15th September 2022. SPE Japan Section is pleased to cooperate and share information of the symposium as attached. Please find the link below for more detail. JFES | Japan Formation Evaluation Society (spwla-jfes.org) Thank you. 27th JFES Symposium_Poster ver0511_rev
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2021-2022 3rd Distinguished Lecturer Program: Mr. Michael F. Rainbolt (May 19, 2022, Zoom Meeting)

By Kyogo Amikawa posted 05-19-2022
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SPE Japan Section was pleased to invite Mr. Michael F. Rainbolt for the 3rd distinguished lecturer program for 2021-2022 on May 19, 2022 (Zoom Meeting). Date: 10:00-11:30 JST, May 19, 2022 Topic: What You Need to Know About Fracture Driven Interactions Lecturer: Michael F. Rainbolt, Petroleum Training Institute Nigeria Michael F. Rainbolt is a registered professional engineer and recently, senior technical advisor with Abra Controls Corporation in Houston, Tx. He has co-authored multiple SPE papers and was featured in an SPE Podcast on fracture driven interactions in February 2020. In this lecturer program, he introduced ...
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2021-2022 2nd Distinguished Lecturer Program: Dr. Ridvan Akkurt (Jan 12, 2022, Zoom Meeting)

By Kyogo Amikawa posted 01-11-2022
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SPE Japan Section was pleased to invite Dr. Ridvan Akkurt for the 2nd distinguished lecturer program for 2021-2022 on January 12, 2022 (Zoom Meeting). Date: 10:00-11:30 JST, January 12, 2022 Topic: Machine Learning: Is it Magic or Hard Work? Lecturer: Ridvan Akkurt, Schlumberger Ridvan Akkurt is a Petrophysics Advisor in the Schlumberger Artificial Intelligence and Analytics Group, based in Denver, USA. He has many publications and 24 US patents, has taught industrial courses, served as a Distinguished Lecturer for SPE and SPWLA. In this lecturer program, he focused on Machine Learning (ML) and the uncertainties in the ...
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2021-2022 1st Distinguished Lecturer Program: Dr. Subhash Ayirala (Dec 1, 2021, Zoom Meeting)

By Kyogo Amikawa posted 12-02-2021
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SPE Japan Section was pleased to invite Dr. Subhash Ayirala for the 1st distinguished lecturer program for 2021-2022 on December 1, 2021 (Zoom Meeting). Date: 16:00-17:30 JST, December 1, 2021 Topic: SmartWater Flooding Mechanisms and Water Chemistry Guidelines for Carbonates Lecturer: Subhash Ayirala, Saudi Aramco Subhash Ayirala is the Champion of SmartWater flooding at Saudi Aramco's Exploration and Petroleum Engineering Center—Advanced Research Center, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. He is SPE distinguished member and currently serves as co-executive editor of SPE Reservoir Evaluation & Engineering. In this lecturer program, he focused on the pore scale mechanisms ...
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Open for Registration (Early Bird Registration till Sep. 10): The 26th JFES Symposium

By Kyogo Amikawa posted 09-05-2021
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The 26th JFES Symposium is now open for registration (Early Bird Registration is till 10th September). For more detail of the simposium, please find the link below. https://jfes-spwla.org/ Thank you.
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The 26th JFES Symposium (Sep 30, Oct 1&7, 2021, Virtual Meeting)

By Kyogo Amikawa posted 08-04-2021
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Japan Formation Evaluation Society (JFES), a chapter of SPWLA, will have the 26th Formation Evaluation Symposium of Japan Virtual Meeting on 30th September, 1st & 7th October 2021. SPE Japan Section is pleased to cooperate and share information of the symposium as attached. Please find the link below for more detail. https://jfes-spwla.org/ Thank you. The_26th_JFES_Symposium.pdf
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2020-2021 1st Distinguished Lecturer Program: Mr. Kyle Haustveit (Nov 16, 2020, Zoom Meeting)

By Yusuke Fujita posted 11-16-2020
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​​SPE Japan Section was pleased to invite Mr. Kyle Haustveit for the 1st distinguished lecturer program for 2020-2021 on November 16, 2020 (Zoom Meeting). Date: 16:30-18:00 JST, November 16, 2020 Topic: Making Decisions Using Completions Diagnostic Tools in Unconventional Reservoirs Lecturer: Kyle Haustveit, Devon Energy Kyle Haustveit is a professional engineer registered in the state of Oklahoma. He is a completions engineer in a centralized subsurface group at Devon Energy. He focuses on completions design, fracture modeling and diagnostic program design and interpretation. In this lecturer program, he focused on the use of diagnostic tools to characterized ...
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2019-2020 2nd Distinguished Lecturer Program: Dr. Russell T. Johns (May 28, 2020, Zoom Meeting)

By Yusuke Fujita posted 11-16-2020
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​SPE Japan Section was pleased to invite Dr. Russell Johns for the 2nd distinguished lecturer program (Zoom Meeting) on May 28, 2020. Date: 10:30-12:00 JST, May 28, 2020 Topic: Compositional Simulation that is Truly Compositional Lecturer: Dr. Russell T. Johns, The Pennsylvania State University Russell T. Johns is the George E. Trimble Chair of Energy and Mineral Sciences at the Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University. He also holds the Energi Simulation Chair in Fluid Behavior and Rock Interactions. In this lecturer program, he provided new simulation technologies to correctly account for the compositional effects ...
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