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Sustainable heavy oil exploitation, innovation and geomechanical contributions.

13th – 16th march 2017

Street 65 # 78-28 Building M1-414 / Facultad de Minas / Universidad Nacional de Colombia Tel: (574) 425 5217 / (574) 425 5146

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Director: Guillermo Alzate Espinosa

Research group that provides modern, simulation, production and stimulation tools for

conventional and non-conventional oil reservoirs.

Working lines : geomechanical of heavy oil reservoirs, in-situ stress determination and

mechanical earth model (MEM) construction, Sand production: prediction, quantification,

management and phenomena associated modeling, geomechanical in thermal

recovery, hydraulic fracturing in heavy oil reservoirs, numerical analysis of production

processes coupled with geomechanics, subsidence and compaction analysis, stress-

strain constitutive models in heavy oil reservoirs, caprock integrity, wellbore stability,

conventional reservoir geomechanics, etc.

Interdisciplinary workteam, formed by a bachelor, master, doctorate students and

proffesors in petroleum engineering.

RESEARCH GROUP IN APPLIED GEOMECHANICS–GIGA

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GEOMECHANICAL SYMPOSIUM

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1° Simposio de Geomecanica, UN – 2004.

2° Simposio de Geomecanica, UIS – 2007.

•Dr. Mark Zoback – Dr. Maurice Dusseault

3° Simposio de Geomecanica, UN – 2009.

4° Simposio de Geomecanica, “Facing up the challenges of a movingindustry” UIS – 2011.

•Dr. Sergio da Fontoura – Dale Walters

5° Simposio de Geomecánica, “Geomechanics of non conventional reservoirs, a challenge of this time” UN – 2013.

6° Simposio de Geomecanica, “Decreasing costs in rising complexities” UIS –2015.

•Dr. Rick Chalaturnyk – Dr. Gonzalo Zambrano – Dr. Sergio da Fontoura

7° Simposio Internacional de Geomecanica, Sustainable heavy oil exploitation, innovation and geomechanical contributions, UN – 2017.

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7th INTERNATIONAL GEOMECHANICS SYMPOSIUM

Objective:

To promote an academic venue about actual geomechanic challenges in hydrocarbonexploitation and production, gathering a group of national and internationalspecialists and representatives of main oil Colombian companies, who will analyzegeomechanical application in exploration, characterization and exploitation of heavyoil reservoirs and the most pressing academic and technological issues that must beresolved about this topic.

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• Geomechanical issues of heavy oil reservoirs.• In-situ stress determination and mechanical earth model (MEM) construction.• Sand production: prediction, quantification, management and phenomena associated

modeling.• Geomechanical issues in thermal recovery.• Hydraulic fracturing in heavy oil reservoirs.• Numerical analysis of production processes coupled with geomechanics.• Subsidence and compaction analysis.• Stress-strain constitutive models in heavy oil reservoirs.• Caprock integrity.• Wellbore stability.• Conventional reservoir geomechanics.

SYMPOSIUM TOPICS

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ACADEMIC PROGRAMATION

• Pre-symposium course (2 days) – 13th – 14th march 2017.• Symposium (2 days) – Technical conferences and poster – 15th – 16th march 2017.

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SYMPOSIUM AND COURSE COSTS

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INTERNATIONAL ALLIES

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Sustainable heavy oil exploitation, innovation and geomechanicalcontributions.

13th – 16th march 2017

Contacto: giga_med@unal.edu.coPágina del evento: minas.medellin.unal.edu.co/gruposdeinvestigacion/giga/