Schedule Keynote Speakers

_{The development of pre-salt reservoirs from ultra-deep water Santos and Campos basin is one of the most important E&P activities today in Brazil. Geoscientists can play a very important role to face this challenge, particularly by building sophisticated workflows for 3D geological modelling, which incorporate information from high-resolution seismic data, outcropping or subsurface analogs, conceptual geological models built with high-resolution stratigraphy,  stratigraphic and diagenetic forward models, and models of fractured and karstfied reservoirs. The large Petrobras expertise on reservoir characterization, modeling, and management of pre-salt reservoirs have allowed it to drill highly productive wells (typically 20,000 - 40,000 boepd each), which contribute to a daily production of 1.8 million boepd, and were responsible for a cumulative production of 2.9 billion boe.}

Joachim Amthor (PhD City University of New York Graduate School) joined Shell in 1992 as a Research Geologist. In 1996 he was seconded to Petroleum Development Oman (PDO), where he worked until 2005 as a Senior Exploration and Production Geologist. From 2005 to 2008 he held the EP Carbonate Team Lead position at the Qatar Shell Research and Technology Centre in Doha. Joachim returned to PDO in 2008 as a Principal Carbonate Reservoir Consultant and Project Lead for Hydrocarbon Maturation Studies in Development and Exploration. In 2014, Joachim started an assignment with Shell Brazil in the Libra E&A team, and in 2017 he took on his current position as a Principal Research Carbonate Geoscientist, responsible for delivering research and technology development activities in carbonate geology and related geosciences as part of the Geoscience Technology Program.Joachim is a Shell Carbonate Subject Matter Expert and a Certified Petroleum Geologist CPG #6234.

Carbonate reservoirs are not ‘more difficult’ than siliciclastic reservoirs.  They are, however, very different and require an alternative knowledge base to effectively find, describe and interpret them. This is particularly true for non-marine Pre-salt carbonates, which challenge many long-held concepts.

Using a ‘back-to-the rocks’ approach, building up our understanding from the core and thin-section scale to develop sedimentological and facies models which could then be tested at the seismic scale, we can make useful predictions of reservoir presence and quality of pre-salt carbonates.

Enrique Estrada  

Senior Advisor Geology Latin America

Halliburton

''Challenges, improvements and optimizations in drilling and evaluation in pre-salt Brazil''

Enrique has 28 years of geological experience and has worked in the oil and gas industry in the last 10 years in different positions including Geoscience (Argentina), Geology Coordinator in Latin American (Region), Reservoir Consulting (Mexico), Geoscience Manager (Mexico), Team Leader Formation Evaluation (Middle East), and now Carbonate Advisor Latin America (Halliburton Brazil). He is Geologist from Patagonia´s University, Argentine-1991 and PhD from Oviedo´s University, Spain-1998. Also, post doc from Poitiers´s University, France-2006 and was awarded to trajectory in “Formation Evaluation Excellence” SPE Brazil-2017. 

He has significant experience in the integrated projects from exploration (mineralogy, diagenesis, sedimentology, and geochemistry), reservoir characterization (magnetic resonance, mineralogical, acoustic, and image), and production to mature field (interaction rock fluid, formation damage, and fracture stimulation). In the last 10 years working with more focus in Carbonate and pre-salt carbonate since 2015.  Actually working in different integrated projects in pre salt Brazil and research projects of the Multiscale Digital Rock Analysis applied to Petrophysical and Diagenesis Modeling in Pre–salt Carbonate.

Prof. Paulo Couto is graduated in Production Systems Engineering at the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC - 1996) with M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at the same university (1999 and 2003, respectively) with an exchange period at Clemson University (SC, USA) funded by CAPES. 

He is currently, professor at the Industrial Engineering Department at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) developing academic activities at the Petroleum Engineering Program. He is also a professor at the Civil Engineering Program at COPPE/UFRJ. At present, Prof. Couto coordinates the Enhanced oil Recovery Laboratory (LRAP) at COPPE/UFRJ, developing RD&I projects in close collaboration with the oil industry. These projects are directly supporting scholarships for over 20 undergraduate students, 10 MSc students, 8 DSc students and 6 post-docs. Also, he supervises a team of over 50 researchers including 5 professors and renowned members of the O&G industry.He is a member of SPE (Society of Petroleum Engineers); ABCM (Brazilian Association of Mechanical Sciences) and Brazilian Society for Science Advancement (SBPC).

Paulo Couto

Director of the EOR Lab at UFRJ, which is specialized in Carbonate IOR

"Multiscale Carbonate Core Analysis: from Laboratory to Field"