Gas-Lift Workshop EvaluationFeb. 4 - 5, 2003Page 1

Spring 2003 Gas-Lift Workshop

Workshop Evaluations

Feb. 4 - 5, 2003

No. / Name (Optional) / What did you like about the workshop? / What could have been improved? / Possible future discussion or break-out topics? / Other comments.
1 / Brian Dupuis / Nice overall forum. Excellent setting. Stayed pretty close to schedule. Food and hotel accommodations were excellent. / Mail or e-mail more about what each presenter is to cover. Abstract perhaps. (Editor: Abstracts were all posted in advance on the web site.) / Continue to offer pre-workshop courses for new personnel in gas-lift. Allow for two days to help to go through more examples and calculations.
2 / Keith Fangmeier / Many excellent papers. Facility and location. / Everything was well done and well organized. Copies of the papers help with note taking because some slides cannot be read. Perhaps suggest guidelines on slides - font? No way people in rear can read slides. / Subsea, stability with gas-lift and stability with long flowlines. SCADA topics great. / Meal Monday great. Tuesday lunch average. Breaks: coffee, drinks, snacks excellent!
3 / Tim Griffin / The Subsea and Deepwater gas-lift was very interesting. I found the land gas well gas-lifting paper by Boots Rouen to be most beneficial to me in that I am in natural gas storage/production industry, but found oil well gas-lifting to be interesting as well. / I think that the session yesterday (Feb. 4) should be trimmed down (maybe move some to Feb. 5th session). The Tuesday seminar seemed to run a bit long and the papers at the end of the day seemed to lose some of the participation and attention. / Land gas wells: Breakout topic on gas-lifting gas wells (brine). Possibly touch on intermittent flow gas-lifting of gas wells during this session. / This is my first professional seminar of this type (being a new engineer of four months). The session was very well run and very professional. The hotel was very adequate, meals were excellent, transportation very convenient.
4 / Jim Hall / The location was good and worthy of return. The keynote speaker was good content and quality. The pre-workshop schools are a great addition and will stimulate attendance by a new group of participants. /
  1. I thought that the Tuesday afternoon presentation by Janvier Lissanon was unnecessarily commercial.
  2. It took a while to regulate the temperature.
  3. I ran short on time to visit the exhibits - My fault? Or not enough time built into the program? Perhaps an afternoon rotation through the exhibits?
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  1. Gas-lift system and component reliability: mandrels, valves, seal materials.
  2. Gas-lift in high angle wellbores: well intervention and valve work, benefit or detriment of high-angle gas-lift studies, high angle field case examples.
  3. Regulatory issues surrounding gas-lift - MMS, Coast Guard, State, BLM, etc.
/ A very nice venue for this workshop. I think we could stand to come here again.
5 / This workshop has grown dramatically. It's good to see high level of participation from Operators and Service Companies. There was a lot of good sharing of success in applying gas-lift. / Location of the meeting (easier access), time of the meeting (long days). /
  1. More in-depth on gas-lift monitoring, surveillance, automation, and control.
  2. Breakout sessions: Can we incorporate these sessions into the regular daily meetings rather than in the evening?

6 / Eduardo Colina /
  1. The different points of view and experiences with "actual" field cases and methods utilized in different parts of the world.
  2. How the Operators manage their resources and what do Service Companies have to offer to contribute.
  3. Excellent pre-workshop sessions.
/ Not much. Excellent location. Good schedule/logistics, and "great presentations." / Pros and cons of gas-lift over other artificial lift methods (i.e. intermittent gas-lift). / Excellent.
7 / Michael Stein /
  1. Range of topics.
  2. Size of group made it easy to get good questions afterwards.
  3. Just enough exhibitors to see everything.
/ The location was very far away from the part of Houston I live and work in.
8 / Able to mix and talk gas-lift with gas-lift people. Seems gas-lift at most companies is a specialized discipline and therefore not many that appreciate or understand gas-lift or its contributions. / Good mix of Operators/Service Companies. Would like to see more Operators. (Editor: There was almost an equal number of Operators and Service Company personal - about 42 each.) / Hotel average and adequate.
9 / Benny Troelsen / Good presentations, breakout sessions, etc. / Day one was very long while day two was short. / Reverse flow valve safety issues. / It is very much a US event. I was particular missing Norway and the Middle East. One problem may be that ASME is not very well known outside the US. (Editor: Ten countries were represented. And, there will be an overseas gas-lift workshop this fall in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to reach more international staff.)
10 / Mark Johnson /
  1. Excellent papers with real examples.
  2. Conversations with Operators, Service Companies, and Consultants, who are gas-lift industry experts.
  3. Web site with API documents and presentations.
  4. Continuing education - in future believe our company can better utilize this as a training tool.
/ More handouts (web site helps). / I would like to see more papers / breakouts with actual examples of gas-lift remote monitoring and automation. / Good facility. Thanks to Cleon and John for all your efforts.
11 / Field studies were good, especially some of the less exotic applications (e.g. Cotton Valley, Indonesia). / Run a little shorter first day, longer second day. / Quantified success of gas-lift automation. / Facilities were good. Food was good.
12 / Good range of topics covered. / Could cut back a little on presentations and spend a little more time on roundtable discussions and breakout sessions. / Intermittent gas-lift. / Hotel and meals ere very good.
13 / Good exchange of information. /
  1. Providing presentations beforehand to organizing committee so electronic copies could be make available to attendees in a more convenient, timely fashion.
  2. Multiple microphones at front and back, so people can hear better.
/ Good selection. Please continue good valuable discussions. / Fine.
14 / The papers/presentations were better than last year. Overall, a better workshop than last year. Good networking opportunity. / The workshop day was a little long. Most participants have other responsibilities that need to be fulfilled during the day. Breakout sessions could have been more productive if done during the day (maybe during lunch). / Plunger lift should be included as part of this workshop. Might increase participation and it is quite similar to what was presented on several papers. / Food, coffer, etc. was excellent.
15 / Great variety of papers. Really liked the Operator papers with actual field data. / Two and one half hour session AM (between break and lunch) too long. Lunch at 12:30 too late. Should be at 11:30. / Good location. Like hotel facilities. Need Starbucks!
16 / Dean Gordon /
  1. 50% of presentations.
  2. Gathering of experienced gas-lift people.
  3. Discussion (keynote lunch and John Martinez) on where the industry needs to go.
  4. Proactive solutions to problems.
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  1. Technical quality of some presentations.
  2. Need to entice more speakers. Enough were sitting in the audience! (Lots of experience.)
  3. Limit two presentations per topic (i.e. duals) etc.
  4. First morning had four in a row - blah, blah, blah.
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  1. Unloading - high rate, low rate, surface, downhole.
  2. Troubleshooting - there is a lot to learn from a lot of people that sit quietly in the room.
  3. Compression issues.
  4. Evaluation - flow correlation update, studies, experiences.
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  1. Hotel fine - average.
  2. Meals were above average for mass feedings.

17 / David Lee /
  1. The venue was extremely good - layout and facilities best so far.
  2. Time keeping was very good.
  3. Displays and networking opportunities well laid out.
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  1. Bit more of an exchange on best practices from participants.
  2. Less commercial content in some presentations.
/ Look to including some other forms of artificial lift papers. /
  1. Hotel was more than acceptable, meals were good, timing was.
  2. On the whole, the workshop is getting better and better each time I attend.
  3. For future workshops in other parts of the world, and with "new" gas-lift people coming in, presenters should remember that some nomenclature and terms may not be "familiar" to people coming into the gas-lift field.

18 / Alasdair Brown /
  1. Increased focus on system optimization.
  2. Networking with gas-lift community - cross fertilization.
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  1. Removal/ban on blatantly commercial sales pitches such as by Schlumberger on PIPESIM.
  2. More case studies, less technology sales pitches.
/ Improved venue over 2002 - better space for exhibits - as workshop grows is size this is imperative.
19 / Organization, punctuality, and quality of the presentations. / Compared with the 2002 gas-lift workshop, I think this 2003 workshop has not improved. /
  1. More topics involving gas-lift simulations.
  2. A focus to ultra-deep waters scenario.
  3. New technologies involving gas-lift application.
/ Hotel and meals were good.
20 / Good presentations, brochures. Glad to see all the gas-lift experts. / Various gas-lift applications world-wide an help sharing ideas. / EOR / Good place / meals.
21 / The practical (field) works. All the subjects were close to the field engineer routine. / I'd like to see works with a more sophisticated, scientific background. /
  1. Gas-lift automation.
  2. Gas-lift for high viscosity oils.
  3. New equipment.
/ The hotel and meals are fine. The organization was good.
22 / Sam Wildman / Range of subjects, and grouping of subjects. / Have in different locations each year. Helps to draw international customers. /
  1. Deepwater gas-lift applications.
  2. New or revised valves.
  3. Gas-lift as back-up for ESP.

23 / Paul Burtis / Meeting other gas-lift practitioners. Good presentations. / Should have a more technical forum with at least three papers (maybe?) /
  1. Gas choke calculations (throughput).
  2. Survey analysis, technical session paper on analysis.
  3. Would like to see a session on gas-lift failures vs. success.

24 / Bill Hering /
  1. Short - one and one half days.
  2. In Houston - close to work.
  3. Concentrated on gas-lift.
  4. Variety of speakers (vendors and operators).
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  1. Fewer "black box" computer software talks - not relevant unless you know all the assumptions/limitations, or unless you own the software.
  2. More presentations (keep same number of days, but have two presenting rooms).
  3. My internet registration didn't take.
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  1. Slick line operations and advances.
  2. Production logging.
  3. Coiled tubing gas-lift.
  4. Eliminating tubing/casing leak communication.
/ Room was cold first day. Good food. Good accommodations. I liked the breakfast setup.