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 TABLE OF CONTENTS

Volume 1

SPE 119607: Holistic Approach for Regional Depletion Plan Supporting Gas Supply in the Nile Delta
of Egypt .................................................................................................................................................................................. 1
Mohamed Samy M. Hussien
SPE 124230: Asset Life-Cycle OPEX Modelling With Montecarlo Simulation to Reduce Uncertainties
and to Improve Field Exploitation ....................................................................................................................................... 9
F. Verre, A. Giubileo, C. Cadegiani
SPE 125390: Integrated Logging While Drilling and Wireline Borehole Imaging Applications in
Offshore Nile Delta Reservoirs ........................................................................................................................................... 15
S. Hassan, Mario Biagi, Mohamed Mohie, Alessandro Fastoi, Dedi Juandi, Ahmed Abuelfotoh, Mai A. Elfouly,
Mahmud Emam
SPE/IADC 125788: Openhole ICD Completion With Fracture Isolation in a Horizontal Slimhole
Well: Case Study.................................................................................................................................................................. 23
Dustin Young, Mohammed Al-Muraidhef, Peter E. Smith, Mohammad Zaki Awang
SPE 125916: Optimizing Waterflooding Considering Dip in The Wafra Field.............................................................. 30
Ming-Ming Chang, R. Cullen, B. Utomo, O. El-Gendt
SPE 126011: Challenge in Managing and Optimizing Well Intervention Activity in Matured Oilfield:
Approach Taken By Petronas Carigali Sdn Bhd in Accelerating the Capability and Efficiency.................................. 40
M. Shahrizal Hashim
SPE 126029: Application of Chemical Tracers in IOR: A Case History......................................................................... 49
Mahmoud Asadi, G. Michael Shook
SPE 126104: New Incubated Pseudomonas Aeruginosa Bacteria for Increasing Oil Recovery under
Reservoir Conditions ........................................................................................................................................................... 60
M. Samir, M. Abu El Ela, S. El Marsafy, S. El Tayeb, A. Abdel Waly, M. H. Sayyouh
SPE 126135: Reservoir Pathway Identification in a Fractured Carbonate Heavy Oil Reservoir................................. 68
M. Samir, W. Hassan, M. Omara, E. Thabet, Y. Abugreen, S. Joshi
SPE 126181: Overview of Tight Gas Field Development in the Middle East and North Africa Region....................... 95
Ahmed Shehata, Ahmed Aly, Lee Ramsey
SPE 126191: Difficulties in Using Geostatistical Models in Reservoir Simulation ....................................................... 103
V. Rasouli, B. Tokhmechi
SPE 126320: Record Propped-Fracture Stimulation Performed from a Jackup Rig in the North Sea...................... 115
Bruce Robertson, Elizabeth Ridley, Bryan Atchison
SPE 126331: Precise Method Using Resistivity Imaging Tool for Estimation of High Resolution
Reservoir Parameters Calibrated to Reservoir Description Tool and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
Data for Better Reservoir Characterization .................................................................................................................... 129
Ahmed Reda, Abdel Hakim Hashem
SPE 126344: Waterflooding Performance in Inclined Communicating Stratified Reservoirs.................................... 164
Noaman A. F. El-Khatib
SPE 126578: Integrating Production Analysis as a Plan of Pattern Selection for Chemical Flood Pilot
Project in Limau Block, Pertamina EP............................................................................................................................ 179
Susanto Budi Nugroho, Reza Nur Ardianto, Dedy Kristanto
SPE 126641: Optimization of Upstream Facilities: “Water Disposal System Case Study”......................................... 189
Mohammed H Alkhalifa, Hani H. Alkhalifa
SPE 126649: Prediction of Porosity and Permeability of Oil and Gas Reservoirs Using Hybrid
Computational Intelligence Models.................................................................................................................................. 194
Fatai Anifowose, Abdulazeez Abdulraheem
SPE 126677: Natural Gas Economic Challenges in North African Countries.............................................................. 206
J. S Ellafi
SPE 126682: Enhanced Field Surveillance through Real-Time Data Visualization in Dubai Offshore
Fields................................................................................................................................................................................... 216
Fathi Shnaib, Manickam S. Nadar, Joel Chacon-Fonseca
SPE 126703: Accurate and Fast Method for Predicting Actual Top-of-Cement Depths in Eccentric
Wellbores............................................................................................................................................................................ 232
Sairam PKS, Mark Savery, Ronnie Morgan
SPE 126754: Multi-stage Hydraulically Fractured Shale Gas Rate Transient Analysis.............................................. 245
Rasheed O. Bello, Robert A. Wattenbarger
SPE 126845: Risk Analysis and Decision Making in Relative Permeability Modifier Water Shut-off
Treatment........................................................................................................................................................................... 263
Quosay Awad, Abdelhalim Ibrahim, Ramzi Salah, Ahmed Bakheet
SPE 126863: Case Histories: Real-Time Downhole Data Increase Drilling Efficiency ................................................ 277
Nitin Sharma, Ananth Srinivasan, James Hood
SPE 127236: New Integrated Approach for Diagenesis Characterization and Simulation ......................................... 289
M. Pontiggia, A. Ortenzi, L. Ruvo
SPE 127269: Enhance Digital Oil Fields by Plugging the Technological Capability Gap ........................................... 311
Keith R. Holdaway
SPE 127288: Health Risk Management ........................................................................................................................... 325
El Sayed Saad Shehata
SPE 127312: Propped Fracturing with a Novel Surface Cross-linked Acid in High Temperature Deep
Carbonate Formation........................................................................................................................................................ 328
Yunhong Ding, Yongping Li, Yun Xu, Xingsheng Cheng, Yonghui Wang, Fuxiang Zhang, Jianxin Peng
SPE 127314: Improving HSE Contractors Performance ............................................................................................... 334
El Sayed Saad Shehata
SPE 127412: The Key Drivers Determination for Offshore Plants Decommissioning and
Abandonment Cost Estimate ............................................................................................................................................ 337
V. Michetti, G. Nicotra, F. Dresda, A. Tignanelli, W. Moore
SPE 127421: Evaluation and Field Optimisation of Kinetic Hydrate Inhibitors for Application Within
MEG Recovery Units, Gas Condensate Field, Mediterranean Sea................................................................................ 362
S. J. Allenson, A. Scott
SPE 127477: Manufacturing Light Oil From Heavy Crude Ratqa Field, North Kuwait ............................................ 373
Luis C. Luzardo M.
SPE 127497: Determination of the Aquifer Activity Level and the Recovery of Water Drive Gas
Reservoirs........................................................................................................................................................................... 391
M. Li, W. J. Yang, Q. Y. Xiao, S. C. Liu, J. Zhang, G. M. Peng
SPE 127552: Improved Lithology Determination from Nuclear Logs in Complex Carbonate
Environments ..................................................................................................................................................................... 411
Robin Macdonald, Charles Bradford, David G. Kersey, Tianhua Zhang, Assim Alsuhaibani, Steve Crary
SPE 127621: Barge Mounted Coil Tubing - An Operational Safety Case Study in South China Sea ........................ 418
M. Hairi A. Razak, Afendy Yusoff, Rahmat Wibisono
SPE 127672: Water Management and Production Enhancement: Case Studies of Greater Munga
Field, Sudan........................................................................................................................................................................ 430
Ajay Bahuguna, Mohd. Elbadri, Maria Leticia Vazquez Alvarez, Tarek Shaheen, R. Ahmed
SPE 127707: Lessons Learned from Drilling Horizontal Wells on Didon Field; Offshore Tunisia ............................ 445
P. Jardine, M. Chaaouri, A. Guyard, M. Di Pasquale
SPE 127731: Developing and Helming Competent Engineers in Production Operations, Peninsular
Malaysia Operations, PETRONAS Carigali Sdn Bhd.................................................................................................... 462
Sriyanta Hadi, Azmee Osman
SPE 127741: Brownfield Facilities Upgrading for ESPs ................................................................................................ 471
Muzahidin M Salim, Dan Saenz, Patrick Pattay, Ryan Symic, Nazaruddin Anang
SPE 127742: Advanced Horizontal Well Model.............................................................................................................. 491
D. S. Kuznetsov, A. N. Cheremisin, A. A. Chesnokov, S. V. Golovin
SPE 127743: Hydraulic Fracturing Makes the Difference: New Life for Old Fields ................................................... 509
A. N. Martin, M. Rylance
SPE 127747: North Africa Case Histories of a New Wireline Logging Method for Determination of
Free Point to Assist Pipe Recovery Operations ............................................................................................................... 526
Calvin Kessler, Jerry Weiser, Jim Hill
SPE 127757: Detailed Compositional Modeling of Gas Injection Pilot in Giant Carbonate Reservoir in
the Middle East .................................................................................................................................................................. 533
Tawfi Q. Obeida, Adrian Gibson, Hussain Al-Hashemi, Bikram Baruah
SPE 127766: Embedded Knowledge-Management Systems Increase Cost Efficiency of an
Organization: A Case Study ............................................................................................................................................. 539
O. Jaripatke, Monty McElroy
SPE 127783: Dynamic Behavior of a Fissured Dual-Carbonate Reservoir Modeled with DFN ................................. 546
A. H. Akram, Y. S. Gherryo, S. M. Ali, M. S. Thabt, A. Serban
SPE 127789: Gravity Data Analysis and Interpretation of Sirt Basin, Libya............................................................... 567
Ahmed Saheel, Abdul Rahim Bin Samsudin, Umar Bin Hamzah
SPE 127792: Open-Hole Solid Expandables Eliminate Slim-Hole Configuration in Integrated Solution
Workover Well................................................................................................................................................................... 574
Ali Farhat, Rabah Zeghouani, Tom Sanders, Marc Antoine Saad, Marwan Roushdy
SPE 127806: Water-Control Management Technologies: A Review of Successful Chemical
Technologies in the Last Two Decades............................................................................................................................. 581
O. Jaripatke, D. Dalrymple
SPE 127811: Reservoir Simulation Explains Production Problems in Nile Delta Gas Field....................................... 595
Hossam El Sheriff, Mohamed Reda, Christine Gonzalez, Almoataz Bellah Hassouba, Ahmed Abd El Hady,
Mahmoud Sidky
SPE 127815: The Key Challenges for Pliocene Reservoirs Exploration in West El Manzala and West
El Qantara Concessions, East Nile Delta Onshore, Egypt.............................................................................................. 614
Samir Raslan, Mohamed Fathy, Leonardo Salvadori
SPE 127816: Innovative and Cost Effective Completion Technique for Saturation Surveillance
Wellbore in Ratawi Reservoir of Wafra Field PNZ-Kuwait .......................................................................................... 644
B. Utomo, R. Cullen, S. Elbalasy, O. El-Gendi, S. Razzak, M. Al-Hamdan, A. Pasicznyk, A. Fadda, M. Glaser, L.
Erdmann
SPE 127819: High-Rate Gas Well Completions in Egypt’s Mediterranean Sea: Tao Field Development
Strategy and Case Histories .............................................................................................................................................. 653
Ashraf Mekawy, Vincent F. Rodet, Reza Mered, Ricardo A. Gomez, Mehmet Parlar
SPE 127826: New Engineered Approach to Replace Oil-Based Fluids with High Performance Water-
Based Fluids in Mediterranean Sea.................................................................................................................................. 667
Mohamad Attia, Wael Elsorafy, Stefano D’Angelo
SPE 127838: Reservoir Saturation Monitoring United with Production Flow Profile for Efficient
Reservoir Management -Success Story of Workover Program on S.E. Gemsa Field by Combined
Services “Production Logging and Pulsed Neutron Logging Tools”............................................................................. 678
Yosra Y. Abugren, Ahmed Hassan, S. Joshi
SPE 127847: Rejuvenation Issaran Field – Case Study .................................................................................................. 687
M. Samir
SPE 127848: Role of Steam Injection Pressure to Achieve Successful Cyclic Steam Project Issaran
Field - Egypt....................................................................................................................................................................... 701
M. Samir
SPE 127850: Transient Well Performance Modeling for Reservoir Pressure Determination..................................... 715
Hon Vai Yee, Suzalina Zainal, Ismail Saaid
SPE 127853: Uncertainty Evaluation in Emerging Gas Projects in North Africa Using Geological
Modeling, Reservoir Simulation and Experimental Design ........................................................................................... 724
M. Vicente, F. J. Mustieles Moreno, A. Limeres, E. Izaguirre Ozamiz, R. Rieu

Volume 2

SPE 127854: Qualitative and Quantitative Interpretation: The State of the Art in Temperature
Loggings ............................................................................................................................................................................. 747
R. A. Valiullin, A. Sh. Ramazanov, V. P. Pimenov, R. F. Sharafutdinov, A. A. Sadretdinov
SPE 127857: 3D Exploration for Remaining Oil Using Historical Production Data.................................................... 770
Yun Ling, Xuri Huang, Xiangyu Guo, Desheng Sun, Jun Gao, Jixiang Lin
SPE 127965: Enhanced Formation Evaluation and High-Resolution Facies Determination Using
Spectroscopy Logs in the Nile Delta, Egypt ..................................................................................................................... 781
Marie Van Steene, Adel Farghaly, Ahmed Abu El Fotoh, Susan Herron
SPE 127974: Challenges Facing Marine CNG Transportation...................................................................................... 799
Yehya Mohamed Ismail Nassar
SPE 127976 A Study of Coupling Surface Network to Reservoir Simulation Model in a Large Middle
East Field............................................................................................................................................................................ 805
Saad Al-Mutairi, Ehtesham Hayder, Alberto Munoz, Ahmed Al-Shammari, Nayif Al-Jama
SPE 127981: Successful Water-Shutoff Case Histories in a Naturally Fractured Carbonate Reservoir
in Offshore Mexico Using an Organically Crosslinked Polymer System With a Modified Tail-In............................. 815
R. Hernandez, J. Vasquez, V. Cancino, E. Soriano
SPE 127995: Effective Use of Resistivity Behind Casing to Improve Oil Recovery From a Brown Oil
Field: A Case Study from the Western Desert, Egypt .................................................................................................... 824
Abdallah B. Badr, I. Mahgoub, D. J. Dutta, M. Van. Steen
SPE 127997: Application of a New Computer Aided History Matching Approach - A Successful Case
Study ................................................................................................................................................................................... 833
Y. S. Gherryo, Mohamed Ben Shatwan, Fathe A. S. Abrahem, Zoltán E. Heinemann, Georg M. Mittermeir
SPE 128003: From Operations to Desktop Analysis to Field Implementation: Well and ESP
Optimization for Production Enhancement in the Cliff Head Field.............................................................................. 844
Zulfi Qar Firoze Dholkawala, Simon Daniel, Bill Billingsley
SPE 128007: Sweet Success in Sour Coring..................................................................................................................... 865
Andreas Briner, Abdul-Hameed Azzouni, Rajendra Chitnis, Vishal Vyas
SPE 128009: Fast-track Maturation and Development of the Al Fadl & Al Qadr Fields, Two New
Discoveries, NEAG East, Western Desert, Egypt............................................................................................................ 881
Ahmed Bakr, Xavier Le Varlet, Willem Postuma, Hassan Karaaly
SPE 128015: Lower Safa Sedimentological Study, New Insights in the Reservoir Quality Distribution
of the Obaiyed field, Western Desert, Egypt ................................................................................................................... 892
Ahmed Saad, Michiel De Groot, Xavier Le Varlet
SPE 128016: Investigation of Effect of Fracturing Fluid on After-Closure Analysis in Gas Reservoirs.................... 902
M. Y. Soliman, Carlos Miranda, Hong (Max) Wang, Kim Thornton
SPE 128030: Detecting Thin Lens-Shape Features in Kharita Member in Aghar SW Field Using
Multi-Azimuthal Offset VSP, Western Desert, Egypt .................................................................................................... 915
Tarek Abdel-Hafez, Abo El-Makarem, Mohamed Hosny, Parvez Ahmad, Shady Hosny
SPE 128031: Special Core Analysis for Integrated Static & Dynamic Reservoir Modeling Bapetco
NEAG1 Field...................................................................................................................................................................... 923
Mohamed Elbelisy, Ahmed Bakr, Ismail Ahmed, Elena Albaaj, Maamoun Wahdan
SPE 128056: Rheological and Core Flood Studies of Gelled and In-Situ Gelled Acids ............................................... 935
A. M. Gomaa, H. A. Nasr-El-Din
SPE 128077: Research of Gas Separator with Disperser Influence of ESP Work and Increase of Well
Operation Efficiency by the Use of ESP........................................................................................................................... 952
Mikhail Mokhov, Andrey Tsunevskiy
SPE 128100: Planning the Subsurface Modeling Tool for the Full Field Life Cycle and Influences of
Multi-Disciplinary Integration on Static Modeling: Examples from the Sitra field, Egyptian Western
Desert.................................................................................................................................................................................. 958
Hassan Abd El Rahman, Maamoun Wahdan, Xavier Le Varlet, Ahmed Toukhy
SPE 128110: Developing National Talent to Meet Future Production Opportunities in Egypt.................................. 970
Ahmed Alaa Youssef, Hashem El-Refai, Sherin El-Tobgy, David Beare, Ton Van Den Broek
SPE 128112: Using Wellbore Stability Analysis to Improve Drilling Performance: Case Study from
the Western Desert, Egypt ................................................................................................................................................ 979
Marie Van Steene, Madgalena Povstyanova, Haitham Al-Attar, Diaa Abu El Gheit, Moamen Abutaleb, Jim Lantz,
Salah Abdel Kareem
SPE 128115: Combining Selective Stimulation with Tailored Perforating Improves Injection Profile
in a Carbonate Reservoir: A Case Study ......................................................................................................................... 994
Jamal M. A Al-Gub, Tsuneo Horikoshi, Kazutoshi Ichikawa, Alan Salsman, Fardin Ali Neyaei, Fidias Vasquez
SPE 128123: Case Histories of a New Family of Setting Tools for Ultra-Deep and High-Temperature
Well Conditions................................................................................................................................................................ 1008
Calvin Kessler, Jim Hill, Richard Housden
SPE 128150: Application of Specific Designed Bits and Eccentric Reamer for Deep Gas Wells in the
Nile Delta Enables Operator to Achieve Significant Cost Savings on Drilling Wells................................................. 1019
Ahmed El Seginy, Ricky Bohannon, Mohammed Fayez, Darren Ekstrom, Sameh Hussain
SPE 128164: High Resistivity High Water Saturation Addressing the Problem to Avoid Water
Production ........................................................................................................................................................................ 1027
A. Salah, S. Hassan, M. Sabra
SPE 128165: Forecasting Reservoir Management Through Integrated Asset Modelling ......................................... 1034
F. Ursini, R. Rossi, F. Pagliari
SPE 128239: Improving Deep-Well Economics with Foamed-Cementing Solutions ................................................. 1041
Ahmed El- Seginy, Abdel Azim Atta, Omar Kashif, Akram Zanaty, Khaled El Sawah, Arshad Waheed
SPE 128261: Innovative Application of Foamed Cement for Zonal Isolation of a Tieback Casing
Across Highly Corroded Casing ..................................................................................................................................... 1053
Arie De Weerd, Salim Al Hanshi, Salim Al Aghbari, Abduallah Alfadhli
SPE 128263: Evaluating Steam Injection Profile with High Temperature Memory PLT......................................... 1065
M. Samir, W. Hassan, Salah Kamal, Amr Hassan, Mohamed Draz, Arshad Waheed
SPE 128272: Pore Pressure Prediction and Pressure Regime Evaluation, Role and Contribution in
Well Planning and Formation Evaluation Process, Gulf Of Suez Oil Fields – Egypt ................................................ 1080
Saber Moustafa Selim, Bassem El-Sayed Badawy, Khaled Mohamed Abdullah
SPE 128295: Deepwater Drilling in Both Hard and Abrasive Formations; The Challenges of Bit
Optimisation..................................................................................................................................................................... 1087
Dominic Murphy, Nick Tetley, Uyen Partin, Denise Livingston
SPE 128320: New Acid-Diversion Technique Helps Stimulation of Production and Injection Wells—
Case Histories from Egypt .............................................................................................................................................. 1107
Mostafa Hamdy, Islam Taha, Arshad Waheed, Yasser El Masry, Hesham El Eraky, Khairy Hanafy
SPE 128322: Relative Permeability Modifier Fracturing Technique Inhibits Post-Fracturing Water
Production: Case Histories from Egypt ......................................................................................................................... 1119
Ahmed Ali, Rami Yassine, Arshad Waheed, Ezz Abdel Aal, Mohamed Abdul Monsef
SPE 128376: A New Criteria to Predict Stuck Pipe Occurrence ................................................................................. 1129
M. R. Meschi, K. Shahbazi, M. Pordel Shahri
SPE 128403: Formation Damage Kinetics and its Effect on Oil Reservoir Productivity........................................... 1138
N. Mikhailov, M. Chirkov
SPE 128417: Characterization and Simulation of a Complex Fractured Carbonate Field Offshore
Tunisia .............................................................................................................................................................................. 1144
Riadh Bejaoui, Ryadh Ben Salem, Hamed Ayat, Imen Kooli, Dave Balogh, Gary Robinson, Theodore Royer, Taoufi
K Boufares, Ahmed Ouenes
SPE 128429: The First Successful ImpulseTest on Coiled Tubing Results in Reliable Reservoir
Evaluation for Non-naturally Flowing Wells ................................................................................................................ 1156
A. Guichard, Lang Zhan, L. Dilling, Alejandro Giaquinta, Ezz Eldin Mohamed, Ahmed Hamdy Awaad
SPE 128433: Production Improvement of Formation Damaged Wells by Proper Acid Treatment ......................... 1171
Ismail Mohamed El-Halib
SPE 128436: Integration of Pressure Buildup Deconvolution with the Rate-Normalized Pressure ......................... 1180
Rubiel Ortiz, Ehsan Davani, Tan Tran, Pahala Sinurat, Christine A. Ehlig-Economides
SPE 128440: Horizontal Underbalanced Drilling Technology Successfully Applied In Sarir C- Main
Field - Libya: Case Study................................................................................................................................................ 1189
Mohamed Ben Shatwan, Hani Qutob, Paco Vieira
SPE 128448: Optimizing Simulation Studies for Gas Condensate Field Development and Management ............... 1200
Ahmed El-Banbi
SPE 128467: Phase Behavior Aspects of Carbon Dioxide (CO2) Miscible Flooding in Tight Cores: A
Case Study........................................................................................................................................................................ 1207
Saifur Rahman, Wasef Nofel, Abdulaziz Al-Majed, Aziz Arshad, Habib Menouar
SPE 128471: Optimizing Development Well Placements within Geological Uncertainty Utilizing
Sector Model .................................................................................................................................................................... 1220
Rabah Mesdour, Lee Ramsey, Ahmed Aly
SPE 128480: One Dimensional Modelling and Experimental Validation of Gelled Waxy Oils Restart................... 1228
Michele Margarone, Gianpaolo Borghi, Sebastiano Correra
SPE 128485: Technology and Innovation: Do We Do Enough in Our Industry? ...................................................... 1238
Ahmed El-Banbi
SPE 128493: Control of Pressure Dissolution and Quartz Cementation on the Reservoir Quality of
Glacial Ordovician Sandstones from the Sbaa Basin, Algeria ..................................................................................... 1244
F. Tournier, E. Portier, M. Pagel
SPE 128494: Shelf-to-Basin Floor Seismic Expression of the Rosetta System (Western Nile Delta,
Egypt): A Modern Analogue of Deep-Water Reservoirs.............................................................................................. 1254
P. Rouillard, E. Du Fornel, S. Migeon, L. Dauphin, J. Mascle
SPE 128495: CCS Project in a Gas Field of the Sbaa Basin, SW Algeria - What is at Stake? .................................. 1265
Y. Mossé, E. Portier, T. Schaaf
SPE 128510: An Improved Grey Relation Analysis Method and Its Application in Dynamic
Description for a Polymer Flooding Pilot of Xingshugang Field, Daqing ................................................................... 1276
Y. Feng, B. Ji, P. Gao, Ye Li
SPE 128517: Application of Group Method of Data Handling for Geological Modeling of Vankor
Field .................................................................................................................................................................................. 1286
A. A. Semenov, R. A. Oshmarin, A. V. Driller, A. V. Butakova
SPE 128522: Overcoming Uncertainties Through Advanced Real-Time Wellbore Positioning in
Kuwait: A Success Story ................................................................................................................................................. 1294
Saud Jumah, Khaled Saleh, Haithem Al-Mayyan, Don Hawkins, Hakim Al-Abri, Pavel Martinez
SPE 128526: Real-Time Well Tool Face Information Reduces Directional Uncertainty and Risks in
Difficult Sidetracks in Gulf of Suez ................................................................................................................................ 1304
Thomas B. Howes, Mohamed Farouk, Mohamed Darwish, Wilhelm Koroletz, Ahmed Ismail, Amin Moustafa,
Gerald Heisig
SPE 128530: Intelligent ESP System Enabled Effective Stimulation and Post Treatment Well Test: A
Case Study of Restoring Production from a Horizontal Well in Belayim Marine Field............................................ 1314
R. E. Soegiyono, A. Guichard, A. El Sonbaty, L. Dilling, G. Crema, S. Pierfelici, A. Mahmood, A Fawzy, M. E.
Abuzeid, M. M. El-Farahaty Osman
SPE 128533: Gulf of Suez Continuous Gas Lift Real-Time Optimization Strategy................................................... 1322
Yasser A. Abdallah, Nabil S. Gaber, Emadeldin A. Saad, Elsayed A. Bedair, R. E. Soegiyono
SPE 128539: Introducing the Vibrating Wire Viscometer for Wireline Formation Testing: In-Situ
Viscosity............................................................................................................................................................................ 1333
Sophie Godefroy, Christopher Harrison, William Bryant, Mohammad Raffi Madar Sahib, Michael O’Keefe, Ihsan
Gok, Andreas Hausot, Boon Cheng Cheong, Yoko Morikami, Go Fujisawa, Anthony Smits, Kai Hsu, Anthony H. R.
Goodwin
SPE 128562: Latest PDC Technology and Optimization Process Enable Replacement of Multiple
Impregnated and Roller Cone Bits with One PDC Bit Run ......................................................................................... 1350
Hubert Foucault, Raul Malagon, Enis Aliko, Reina Teelken, Ross Hitchman
SPE 128563: Fractured Reservoir Characterisation: A Fully Integrated Study, From Borehole
Imagery, Cores and Seismic Data to Production Logs - Example of an Algerian Gas Field (Sbaa
Basin, SW Algeria) .......................................................................................................................................................... 1361
M. Panien, E. Portier, F. Marcy, L. Ghilardini, T. Le Maux, T. Dehaeck
SPE 128572: SMART™ Technology Application, Preparation and Implementation Case History......................... 1372
Taher Abd El Rahim Ali, Sherif Aly Hassaballa, Gary Pyott
SPE 128589: Borehole Strengthening and Injector Plugging – The Common Geomechanics Thread..................... 1384
Mehdi Loloi, Karim S. Zaki, Zongyu Zhai, Ahmed Abou-Sayed
SPE 128823: Merging 3D Seismic Data for IR Field Development ............................................................................. 1397
Agus Widjiastono, Almhedwi Aljilani, Nasser Hamrbtan
SPE 128824: Structural Characterization, Development Optimization and Increase of OOIP in a
North African Oil Field (SW Libya) Through Enhanced Seismic Methodology........................................................ 1405
Cándido Gómez Nacarino, Walid Abusaq, Alvaro Ranero, Carlos Del Rio
SPE 128825: Rock Typing Approach for Reservoir Characterization of Ordovician Sandstones, Fields
Case Study, Concessions NC115/NC186, Murzuq Basin, Libya .................................................................................. 1419
K. Salaheddin, S. Laksana, M. Schöbel
SPE 128836: Temsah Field PLEMS Replacement - Challenges & Technology.......................................................... 1434
Alina Pomar, Ahmed Al Sayed, Nico D’Addario
SPE 129524: The Cabao Fm: A Transgressive Cretaceous Tidal Dunes Complex Along Djebel
Nafusah, North-Eastern Libya ....................................................................................................................................... 1451
Jean-Loup Rubino, Francois Lafont, Eddy Metais, Christian Blanpied, Ali Sbeta
SPE 129526: Messinian Salinity Crisis Expression Along North African Margin ..................................................... 1454
Jean-Loup Rubino, Nourredine Haddadi, Jacqueline Camy-Peyret, George Clauzon, Jean-Pierre Suc, Serge Ferry,
Christian Gorini
SPE 129612: Application of the Time Series Analysis to the Latest Cenomanian– Early Turonian
Sequence Using Foraminifera in the Southern Tethyan Margin ................................................................................. 1458
Mohamed Soua, Jalel Smaoui, Dalila Zaghbib-Turki
SPE 130281: North Bardawil Development Project ..................................................................................................... 1475
F. Picciani, N. El Din Ismail, R. Luce, M. Guarino
Author Index