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SPE Petroleum Economics Symposium: Economics of the
Future—Leading Transition and Driving Sustainable Growth

6–7 May 2025 | Al Khobar, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

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Panel Session 2: Reserves Estimation in a Dynamic Economic Environment

07 May 2025
Panel Sessions

The accurate assessment and reporting of petroleum reserves requires a comprehensive approach that integrates technical, economic, and commercial evaluations. This panel session will discuss how economic and commercial evaluations are integrated with engineering and geoscience (G&G) assessments to provide a robust, reliable, and defendable reserves estimate. As well as discuss the upcoming update to the SPE Petroleum Resource Managed System (PRMS) guidelines

Key Topics:

  • Integration of economics and commerciality into reserves assessment: Understand how economic and commercial evaluation are integrated with engineering and G&G assessment to provide a comprehensive reserves estimate.
  • Best practices in economic and commercial evaluation: Sharing industry best practices and case studies on economic and commercial evaluation
  • Defendable reserves estimate: Examining the importance of a defendable reserves estimates, and the role of economics evaluations in supporting reserves classifications and estimates.
  • Sensitivity of reserves to economic parameters: Analyzing how changes in economic parameters can impact reserves estimates and classifications, and best practices for managing these sensitivities.
  • Emerging trends and technologies: Examining the impact of emerging trends and technologies, such as AI and data analytics, on reserves assessment and reporting.
  • The upcoming update to the PRMS guidelines: Discuss the upcoming update to the PRMS and potential implications on reserves assessment and reporting.
Chairperson
Mohammed AlShaikh , Lead Petroleum Engineer - Aramco
Speakers
Herman G. Acuna, President - Ryder Scott
Reggie A. Boles, Executive Vice President - Chief Advisor for Worldwide Reserves and Resources - DeGolyer and MacNaughton
Syed Hasan, Lead Petroleum Engineer - Aramco