6th annual conference
Advances in Reservoir Technology
Edinburgh International Conference Centre
20/21 February 1997

CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

DAY ONE

9:00 Registration

9:20 Chairman's Opening address Dr Chris Wright
President New Business Development, Middle East, Asia Pacific Mobil Oil Corporation

FAULT PREDICTION & ANALYSIS

9:30 State of the Art in Fault Predictions

• Fault seal prediction in hydrocarbon reservoirs
• Examples of successful fault seal evaluation
• Risk reduction for seal prediction

Professor Rob Knipe
Department of Rock Deformation Research
Dept. of Earth Sciences, University of Leeds

10:10 Faulted Reservoir Analysis Project FaMOUS II: Case Study - Development of New Technology

• Automatic deconstruction of complex fault polygons
• Construction of fault surfaces from fault polygons
• Local refinement of gridded horizon (surface) data
• Ability to import and display log response data in 3-D
• 3-D visualisation of wells, polygons, faults, surfaces, sections and contours

Dr Andy Heath Research Fellow
The FaMOUS Development Group
Department of Earth Sciences, Liverpool University

10:50 Coffee

11:20 Seismic 'Imaging' of Natural Fractures

Colin MacBeth
Research Manager
British Geological Survey

12:00 The Successful Application of Seismic and Sequence Stratigraphy in Predicting the Distribution of Subtle Reservoirs

Dr John Underhill
Senior Lecturer, Geology & Geophysics University of Edinburgh

12:40 Lunch

14:00 Reservoir Heterogeneity Due to Fault-Related Diagenesis

• Observation of fault-related reservoir heterogeneity in HC fields

• Methodology in analysing reservoir quality heterogeneity
• Reconstruction of fault-related diagenetic processes
• Application in exploration, exploitation and producing activities

Dr Mingchou Lee Research Geologist
Geosciences Technology Department
Mobil Exploration & Producing Technical Centre

14:40 Aspects of Well Test Design / Interpretationto Locate Faults

• How long should tests be conducted to locate faults
• Drawdown / buildup interpretation techniques
• Reliability and usefulness in detecting faults

Laurence Dake, OBE Adviser to Bank of Scotland

15:20 Coffee

ADVANCES IN 4-D SEISMIC

15:50 4D Mapping Remaining Reserves at Gullfaks

• Collecting 4 D seismic data
• Monitoring data in the well
• Developing a methodology for integrating data types

Lars Pedersen Project Manager Statoil

16:30 Review of 4D Case Histories - Comparison of Ocean Bottom

Results and Time Lapse Surface Seismic

• Effect on field development planning
• Cost effectiveness of 4D
• Future trends and directions

Dr David Davies
Production Seismic Adviser
Co-author Joost Soethout
Head of Seismic Acquisition
Shell (UK) Exploration & Production

17:10 PSTI Cocktail Reception

DAY TWO

9:00 Chairman's Opening Address
Robert Johnson
Director PSTI

INTEGRATING DATA FOR IMPROVED RESERVOIR CHARACTERISATION / REDUCED UNCERTAINTY

9:10 The Snorre Field - full title on advice

Jan Helgersen
Saga Petroleum AS

9:50 Integration of Analogue and Seismic Data for Modelling Channel Distribution

Alister MacDonald
Jon Inge Berg
Arve Naess
Reservoir Technology Research Centre
Statoil

10:30 Coffee break

11:00 Reducing Uncertainty in the Detection of Subsurface Structures through Data Fusion

• Data fusion improves accuracy
• The application of data fusion techniques to the detection of buried, man-made structures from gravity and magnetic survey data
• Blending statistical and logical methods with direct interpretation and forward modelling
• The use of gravity to strengthen the interpretation of the magnetic anomalies

Dr Virginia M. Johnson
Research Scientist: Geoscience Applications of Soft Computing Methods
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

RESERVOIR MANAGEMENT: NEW TECHNOLOGIES

11:40 Advances in Reservoir Fluid Property Measurement and Prediction Techniques

Dr Bahman Tohidi
Senior Research Associate
Heriot-Watt University

12:20 Lunch

13:30 Integrating Leading Edge Technologies in Field Operations

• Developments of new technologies in seismic, reservoir description, well operations and facilities design
• Integration and applications of leading edge technologies in field operations. Development of previously uneconomic reserves, cost reductions and improvement in recovery factor / production rates
• Examples of demonstrating the value and benefits of the integration of seismic, well operations and design, reservoir modelling and topsides design technologies

Alan Mathieson
Technical Services Manager
Mobil North Sea Ltd

14:10 Practical Uses of Reservoir Stress-State Management

• Rock mechanical controls on fluid flow
• Adding meaningful rock properties to reservoir description
• Stress - sensitive reservoir simulation, the tool enabling reservoir stress - state management
• Case studies - near wellbore and reservoir scales

Professor Brian Smart
Head of Department Department of Petroleum Engineering, Heriot-Watt University

14:50 Coffee

15:20 TNO's Reservoir Uncertainty Management Project
Dr Martin Peersmann

TNO Institute of Applied Geoscience

16:00 The MIND Project - How 'Soft Skills' Research and Cross Industry Technology Transfer Can Improve 3D and 4D Seismic Interpretation
Martyn Millwood Hargrave
Principal Geoscientist IKODA

16:40 Chairman's Summary

16:50 Close of Conference

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