DEPARTMENTAL SEMINAR

DePARTMENT OF CHEMICAL AND BIOMOLECULAR ENGINEERING

Faculty of Engineering

National University of Singapore

4 Engineering Drive 4  Singapore 117576
Tel: (65) 6516  2186    Fax: (65) 6779 1936

TOPIC

Oil and Gas Development - A Subsurface Prospective

SPEAKER

Mr. David Baxendale

HOST 

Prof Karimi

DATE

9 October 2009 (Friday)

TIME

3.30 p.m.

VENUE

E5-02-32 

SYNOPSIS

The talk will outline the various types of hydrocarbon reservoirs in terms of fluid properties and the dispositional environment. Depletion options will be outlined in terms of subsurface objectives covering conventional and enhanced recovery methods. The development of each of these reservoir types will then be presented ranging from the conventional hydrocarbon resource (oil, gas, gas condensate; etc.) to the unconventional (Heavy Oil, Tar Sands, Coal Bed Methane etc.).  Various development options will be presented in terms of the subsurface requirements for the number and type of production and injection wells, as well as the reasoning behind key development decisions.

The talk will be of interest to undergraduates and graduates wishing to expand their general knowledge about oil and gas development.

BIOGRAPHY

 David Baxendale, C.Math, MIMA, C.Sci., MEI is a Senior Petroleum Engineering Advisor with over 30 years' reservoir engineering experience in the industry, From 1975-1977 he worked as  Industrial Mathematician for British Oxygen Company Ltd., after which he joined, BritOil Ltd as a Senior Petroleum Engineer from 1977-1981. David then joined Petro-Canada Resources from1981-1987, and started consulting with Norsk Hydro, Norway from 1987-1991. This was followed by consulting positions at Sabah Shell Petroleum Company Ltd., Malaysia (1991-1996), Santa Fe Energy Resources, Indonesia (1996-2000), ExxonMobil Oil Indonesia Inc., (2000-2003), Unocal Indonesia Company, (2003-2005), and Gaffney, Cline & Associates, Singapore 2005-2007. After which he joined RPS Energy, Singapore, as a Senior Petroleum Engineering Advisor from 2007. David has extensive experience in “Reservoir Simulation” and “Field Development Planning”, as well as operating producing the fields. David has worked on some of worlds leading oil and gas fields in the UK, Canada, Norway, Malaysia, Indonesia, China and Vietnam. His experience includes carbonates and sandstones, as well as heavy oil, gas, gas condensate, oil, and volatile oil reservoirs. David holds a Higher National Diploma in Mathematics, Statistics and Computing from Liverpool Polytechnic (1973), a Diploma in Mathematics (equivalent to B.Sc.(Hons.)) from Leicester Polytechnic (1974), with post graduate work conducted at the University of Strathclyde on a M.Sc. in Operational Research (1975).  David is Chartered Mathematician, (C. Math MIMA), a Chartered Scientist (CSci.), a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society, a Member of the Energy Institute (MEI), and was an Adjunct Professor at the Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Department of Petroleum Geosciences from 1996 to 2008 teaching the Petroleum Engineering module for the M.Sc. Geoscience course.

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