Leonidas
Kappos (trainer)
National Technical University of Athens, Greece
November 11,
2005
9:00 AM - 4:30 PM
USC - CiSoft Lab RTH 326
Light lunch will be served.
CiSoft
Workshop: Overview of "PIPESIM"and
"DECIDE "software
9:00 - 12:00
PIPESIM
Overview: Capabilities and Production Operations
Single Branch
Case Studies:
- Multiphase
Flow
- Nodal Analysis
- Parametric
Studies
- Flow Assurance
- Hydrates
- Liquid Holdup
- Reservoir Tables
- Equipment Sizing
(choke, slug catcher, pump etc)
Pipeline Networks:
- Production
Analysis
- De-bottlenecking
1:00 - 4:30
DECIDE! Overview: Capabilities and Operations
- Data Cleansing
- Plotting
- Multi-dimensional
Cross-plots
- Self-Organizing
Maps
- Neural Networks
- Mass Balance
with Interference
Bio
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Leonidas Kappos (trainer)
Mr. Kappos obtained
his Bachelor's in Chemical Engineering from the National Technical University
of Athens, Greece, in 1995. In his undergraduate thesis he studied the
effect of the urban pollution on the efficiency of photovoltaic arrays.
He then moved to the USA where he obtained a Master's from the University
of Rochester, New York, (1996) and a PhD from the University of Houston,
Texas, (2000), both in Chemical Engineering. His graduate research focused
on experimental investigation of recovery mechanisms from bypassed zones.
At the beginning of his career, Dr. Kappos built a steady-state pipeline
simulator for the needs of an industrial flare network. He also expanded
his experience as a process engineer identifying overpressure scenarios
and sizing relief valves for various chemical plants. He then made a
career shift towards production and reservoir engineering. He statistically
treated production data for various North Sea fields. He is currently
employed with Schlumberger, SIS, supporting PIPESIM (steady-state pipe
simulator) and DECIDE (a hybrid tool of production-reservoir engineering).
His area of expertise is multiphase flow in single pipes and pipeline
networks. He is an active SPE member and he regularly contributes technical
papers and presentations to various scientific conferences. He is currently
in the finishing stages of a Master's in Petroleum Engineering (University
of Houston). His research addresses the determination of effective porosity
cutoff values using reservoir simulation
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