Tema: Oil and gas has a very important role and is in charge of significant part in world energy supplies; coal, oil and gas, nuclear, renewable energies. Unfortunately consuming the fossil fuels such as coal, oil and gas results in the global warming and eventually the climate change which threats the future of our life and earth. However, the world energy demand will keep increasing due to the continuous economic development. More than 80% of energy is supplied from fossil fuels and the importance and role of fossil fuels will not be changed dramatically in the short term due to the limitation of nuclear and renewable energy supply considering economic, safety, environment.
There are two ways to increase petroleum reserves. One is the EOR technology, enhanced oil recovery from existing production filed and the other is finding a new field. There are three main resources such as unconventional, deep sea and arctic resources which are strongly technology dependent. The deep sea and arctic area resources have a high finding risk and a longer lead time from finding to development. However, the unconventional resources such as shale gas and oil sands have an enormous volume and no finding risk and requires lots of drilling, huge facility and infra ready like in USA. The environment-friendly production methods are required for unlocking the future unconventional resources development.
Expositor: Professor Hyundon Shin is an Associate Professor at Inha University, South Korea. Before joining the current position, he worked for ConocoPhillips in USA, Suncor Energy and Husky Energy in Canada as a reservoir engineer, and Shell in Canada as a research engineer. He also worked for Korea National Oil Corporation as a reservoir engineer. His industrial work experiences are mainly related to the oil sands resources development including production optimization as well as in-situ recovery process. He completed his Ph.D. degree in petroleum engineering at the University of Alberta, Canada. He received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. from Seoul National University, South Korea. He has more than ten years research and working experience for international oil and gas industries. His current research interests are mainly the in-situ recovery processes and reservoir characteristics for unconventional resources development including heavy oil, oil sands, and shale gas. Especially, he is very interested in the data integration of reservoir parameters and production data and developing the economic evaluation tools for the unconventional resources potential assessment based on the reservoir properties.
