Summary: Philippe Enkababian sat down with Energy Connects at ADIPEC 2023 to discuss SLB's effort to mitigate the carbon footprint of reservoir stimulation operations. New technologies are reducing emissions in various ways, such as shutting down idle pump engines, using wet sand, pulsing proppant instead of pumping continuously, creating longer wormholes, and reducing acid, water, and proppant requirements. Additionally, technologies that measure and predict the emissions of stimulation operations are helping operators and service companies work together to find the optimal balance between economics, production, and sustainability.

Philippe addresses the ADIPEC 2023 theme “Decarbonising. Faster. Together.” He points out that the key to successfully lowering carbon emissions is continuing conversations that “cross the street” and collaborations within joint industry programs. In the same way that the industry has managed HSE risk, we can tackle the challenge of lowering its carbon footprint together by developing standards and policies that will positively impact the planet.

Biography

Philippe Enkababian is a stimulation and conformance control advisor for SLB. He is currently the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) stimulation domain advisor based in Abu Dhabi, UAE. He is responsible for the deployment of stimulation technologies to address the completion and production challenges of MENA operators.

Philippe’s expertise was developed over a 29-year career with SLB, holding multiple technical and managerial roles in Continental Europe, the North Sea, North America, Southeast Asia, Russia, and the Middle East. He joined the company in 1994 in Algeria, performing well intervention and stimulation treatments.

Philippe has been an SPE member since 1999 and has written more than 25 papers on various stimulation and conformance topics. He has a Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering from Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Arts et Métiers de Paris in France.