| 09.00 | Morning Coffee |
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| 09.15 | Chairman's Opening Address |
| Chairman: Henry Allen |
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| Manager, G&G, RES-Source Ltd |
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| 09.30 | 4D Seismic - Possibilities and Limitations |
- Targets
- Technical repeatability
- Databasing (and interpretation effort)
- Resolving power limitations - ambiguity in interpretation
- The role of modelling and inversion
- Relative costs of other forms of reservoir monitoring - SSC's and platforms special datasets, differences and scintillation's
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| Speaker: David Davies Production Seismic Adviser Shell Expro |
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| 10.15 | Integration of Geology, Sedimentology and Seismic Data - Where Research is Heading |
| Speaker: John Lewis Conoco Lecturer in Petroleum Geology, Department of Petroleum Engineering, Heriot-Watt University |
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| 11.00 | Coffee Break |
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| 11.30 | PSTI's Juniper Project: Joint Industry Action on the Management of Reservoir Uncertainty |
- Sharing of industry experience
- Identification of key uncertainties in the construction of, data provision for, and use of reservoir models in making strategic decisions
- New approaches to the handling of uncertainty in the decision making processes in reservoir management under operational time and budget constraints
- The value of acquiring additional data to reduce key uncertainties, together with the value of adopting 'options' and 'interventions' methodologies
- Development of consistent, non-subjective methods of handling parameter dependencies in reservoir management
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| Speakers: Dr A Fletcher, PSTI |
| Dr J Davies, University of Bristol |
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| 12. 15 | Lunch |
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| 13.45 | Visualization of Seismic and Reservoir Data |
| Speaker: John Clarke, Geoscience Consultant , Western Atlas Software |
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| 14.30 | What Are Oil Companies and Seismic Contractors Expecting from each other? |
- Oil Company Expectations:
- demonstrate better seismic imaging of the reservoir parameters and fluid movement through use of evolving technology - time to depth conversion, AVO, shear waves, 4D etcetera
- generally to obtain data quickly
- Contractor Expectations:
- sufficient technical information from oil companies to evaluate and justify their technical proposals even if there are potentially larger up front costs
- to persuade oil companies to adopt their technical proposals even if there are potentially larger up front costs
- Oil Company and Contractor Expectations
- - persuading the various technical disciplines involved in field development and production that evolving seismic technology, although potentially more expensive up front will add value during the life of the field
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| Speaker: Malcolm Hones, Manager, Geophysical Operations
Enterprise Oil plc |
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| 15.15 | Coffee Break |
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| 15.45 | Automatic Seismic Velocity Analysis Using a Genetic Algorithm |
- Migration velocity analysis technique for complex velocity-depth models
- Automatic - involves no picking of prestack gathers
- Global (solves for whole model simultaneously) versus layer-stripping technique
- Practical on today's computers
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| Speaker: Paul Docherty, BIRPS, University of Cambridge |
| Co-authors:Satish Sing and Shong-Min Song |
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| 16.30 | Now We Have All These Data - Do We Need Reservoir Engineers? |
| Speaker: Laurence Dake, OBE, Reservoir Engineering Consultant, Adviser to Bank of Scotland |
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| 17.15 | Chairman's Summary |
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| 17.30 | Close of Conference |