Abstract:
Once in a while, SPE International would organize workshops for top professionals to gather and take a close look at the state of our industry. They would identify the current and upcoming grand challenges, then discuss ideas and propose possible solutions for the industry to meet and overcome those challenges.
The grand challenges identified in the latest SPE workshop are: geothermal energy, net-zero operations, improving recovery from tight/shale resources, digital transformation, carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS), and education and advocacy. These challenges have varying levels of relevance and urgency for different geographical regions and countries, particularly Vietnam. As a result, there are no umbrella solutions or approaches that work for everyone.
In this talk, I will present these grand challenges, their relevance, and the impact they have on our industry, as well as how operators, service companies, and academia around the world, including in Vietnam, have responded. I will then discuss the efforts we at Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology have been taking to improve our petroleum engineering program and to prepare our students, and hopefully demonstrate how critical it is for all of us to implement tighter, more coordinated collaborations in the years ahead.
Speaker's Bio:
Dung Trung Tran applied to become a lecturer at the Faculty of Geology and Petroleum Engineering at Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology (HCMUT) in 2020. Prior to that, he was a research associate at Energy Geoscience Institute (EGI) at the University of Utah, and then worked as a reservoir engineer for PVEP and PhuQuocPOC. He obtained his BSc, MS, and PhD degrees in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Oklahoma. His research interests include the application of rock physics and rock mechanics to optimize drilling and production, particularly mechanisms for stabilizing and/or destabilizing boreholes.