| 08.45 | Registration and Coffee |
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| Chairman: Robert Johnson |
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| PSTI |
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| 09.00 | Chairman's Opening Address |
| 09.15 | New Technology for Reservoir Optimization |
- What do we mean by optimization?
- Fusing physical snapshots with process control
in the reservoir
- Opportunities for time-based reservoir measurements
- The role of permanent sensors - and the challenges
- The economic balance
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| Speaker: Dr Reid Smith |
| Vice President and Director, Schlumberger Cambridge Research Ltd |
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| 10.00 | Strategies for Predicting Lithology from Seismic Attributes |
- Developments in the application of seismic attributes
- trend analysis
- clustering
- classification
- Techniques and examples
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| Speaker: Don Scott |
| Technical Director, Scott Pickford Group |
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| 10.45 | Coffee Break |
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| 11.15 | How To Make a Success of 4D (time-lapse) Seismic |
- State-of-the-art methods for 4D Seismic modelling
- Typical production and injection reservoir engineering scenarios
- modelling through seismic synthetic sections
- analysis for changes induced by changing reservoir saturations
- The economics of 4D Seismic reservoir monitoring
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| Speaker: Richard Uden, Consultant Geophysicist |
| Co-author: A.J.H. Little, Reservoir Engineer , Scientific Software-Intercomp (UK) Ltd |
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| 12.00 | West of Shetlands 4D Seismic Programme - A Case Study of The FARM Project (Foinaven Active Reservoir Monitoring) |
| Speaker: Ian Jack |
| R&D Project Manager, BP Exploration Operating Co Ltd |
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| 12.45 | Lunch |
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| 14.00 | Instrumented Reservoirs Cost and Benefits |
- The case for performing 4D seismic monitoring its benefits to reservoir development
- The technical merits of various 4D seismic acqu techniques; including streamers, seabottom cable (permanent and temporary) and vertical cables.
- A cost/benefit comparison of the various methods presently available
- A future view of this developing technology
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| Speaker: Don Munn, PGSI/ERC Tigress Ltd |
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| 14.45 | Coffee Break |
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| 15.15 | From 3D to 4D Seismics: Critical Acquisition and Processing Considerations |
- Stratigraphy and well ties for 3D seismics
- Differencing data and the importance of absolute amplitudes
- Illustration with laboratory data
- Measurement of the source wave field
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Speaker: Prof Anton Ziolkowski, PSTI Professor of Petroleum Geoscience
University of Edinburgh
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| 16.00 | Chairman's Summary |
| 16.15 | Close of Day One |