Technical Meetings

A Special Technical Business Meeting was held in honor of Chief Dr. Tunde Afolabi, FNAPE @70. The talk wasdelivered by Austin Avuru, FNAPE – Executive Chairman AA Holdings on Friday 6th November 2020. The topic was: THE UNPLANNED TRANSITION OF THE NIGERIA OIL&GAS INDUSTRY.

The Lagos October Technical meeting presentation was held on Wednesday October 28, 2020. The Speaker was Ifekelunma Umeogu, an Exploration Geoscientist at Shell Petroleum Development Company. The topic of her presentation wass “De-risking Exploration Prospects in the Niger Delta with Biodegradation”. For details, Click Here.

The Benin Chapter virtual Technical Meeting was held September 30, 2020. The Speaker was Haruna Onuh, the Technical Manager at Halliburton Integrated Well Intervention Services and the Topic of the presentation was “Advances in Well Intervention Technologies for Production Optimization in Mature Fields”.

The Abuja Chapter September Technical Virtual Meeting Presentation was held on Friday 25th September, 2020. The topic of the presentation was “Development of a pre-rift to post-rift tectonic evolution model for the Bornu basin, from basement to surface perspective” and the Speaker was Dr. Aminu Abdullahi Isyaku.

The Lagos September  virtual Technical meeting presentation was held on Wednesday September 16, 2020. The Speaker was Francis Ezeh, a Geoscientist at Mobil Producing Nigeria, Unlimited. The topic of the presentation was “In Search of Deepwater Stratigraphic Traps Formed by Sand Rich Distributory Channels and Lobe Complexes in Miocene Sequences Offshore Niger Delta”.

The Port Harcourt Chapter August Virtual Technical Meeting was held Wednesday August 26, 2020. The Speaker was Dr. Obinna Chuddi, a Petrophysicist/Reservoir Geophysicist at Shell.

The August Webinar Series was held Thursday 20th August 2020. The topic of discussion was “Fiscal Regime Design, Government Revenue & Investors’ Interest in Nigeria Oil & Gas Sector” and the Speaker was Chief Timipre Sylva (Minister of State for Petroleum Resources).‬ For details, Click Here. ‪#NAPEWebinar‬

Since two decades, the number of facies modelling techniques and algorithms have increased. The reason is twofold: first, increasing computing power allowed to run calculus-intensive algorithms and second, facies modelling has always been one of the cornerstones of integrated reservoir modelling workflows. In parallel, data quality and quantity was increasing, whether seismic or well-related, and

The NAPE BENIN CHAPTER TECHNICAL MEETING was held via the Zoom platform on August 12, 2020. The speaker was Tunde Farotimi, Production Geologist, WRFM Consultant, Cypher Crescent Limited, Port Harcourt. Topic of his presentation was: Leveraging Advanced WRFM Technologies To Optimize Asset Performance, Through Improved Collaboration Between Geoscience and Petroleum Engineering Space.

The NAPE Warri Chapter Technical Meeting was held 23rd July 2020 with CHIDOZIE PRINCETON DIM (PHD), as the speaker. Topic was: Towards a Play-Based Hydrocarbon Exploration  in the Cretaceous Basins of SouthEastern Nigeria