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Tuesday, January 25, 2011
London
The Geological Society

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Seismic technology is the main, some would say the only, means of interrogating the sub-surface in sufficient detail to allow insightful geological prediction and the precise location of wells.

The technology progresses via much incrementalism, interspersed with a few real breakthroughs. Now we are looking for more, especially innovative, ideas - most likely from imaginative, entrepreneurial smaller companies - that offer transformational reductions in risk, cost or cycle-time.

Offshore, conventional, multi-azimuth and wide-angle towed streamer 3D yields depth images of compelling quality whatever complexities of overburden and target geology we are confronted with.

Onshore it is a different story, with comparable quality awaiting the development of super lightweight, low power consumption, high channel, wireless land seismic surveys. Our presenters from Shell and Wireless Seismic have compelling stories to tell - 2011 may indeed be the start of a new era, not simply a new decade!



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Agenda

 
9:00 Arrivals and Registration
9:30 David Bamford - Director
Finding Petroleum
Welcome & Introduction


David Bamford is 63. He is a non-executive director at Tullow Oil plc and has various roles with Parkmead Group plc, PARAS Ltd and New Eyes Exploration Ltd, and runs his own consultancy. He writes regular articles for OilVoice and ROGTEC and is a co-founder of Finding Petroleum.

He retired from BP in 2003, after a 23 year career spent initially in research & technology, then the geophysics function, business unit leadership, and finally BP's global exploration programme.

Finding Petroleum
Finding Petroleum was established to help the oil and gas industry network, and stay up to date on the latest technological developments. It does this via hosting regular events, distributing their colour magazine - Digital Energy Journal, and with an online social network of nearly 700 members.
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9:40 Chris Page -
PGS
Offset and Azimuth Diversity – A Recipe for Complex Imaging


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Petroleum Geo-Services (PGS) offers a broad range of products including; seismic and electromagnetic services, data acquisition, processing, reservoir analysis/interpretation and multi-client library data. They help oil companies to find oil and gas reserves worldwide, offshore and onshore.
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10:15 speaker from -
Vialogy
New Markers for Direct Fluid Discrimination Using Seismic Interferometry


ViaLogy was founded in 1999 as a spin-off of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Jet Propulsion Laboratories operated by the California Institute of Technology. The lynchpin of its activities was the furtherance of a unique technology, Quantum Resonance Interferometry (QRI™), originally developed to detect, enhance and characterize weak signals in high background noise and interference environments.

Today, ViaLogy is focused on bringing to clients in the upstream oil and natural gas sector its analytical service offering, QuantumRD®. Another key company technology, Sensor Policy Manager™ integrates sensors in large-scale military base-security and force protection applications within the emerging Physical Security Information Management (PSIM) market.
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10:50 Coffee & Tea
11:15 David Bamford -
New Eyes Exploration
Improving onshore exploration - faster, cheaper 3D please!


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David Bamford is a geophysicist by background and an explorer by recent history, and is well known as both around the oil & gas industry. In addition to acting as a director or advisor to several small companies, including his own consultancy, he writes regularly for journals such as OilVoice, ROGTEC etc, and has recently co-founded OilVoice Forums as a vehicle for on-line communication in the oil & gas industry.
He is a non executive Director of Tullow Oil (since 2004, and is a member of the Audit, Nominations and Remuneration Committees).
With a PhD in Geological Sciences from the University of Birmingham, he has had over 23 years exploration experience with BP where he was Chief Geophysicist from 1990 to 1995, General Manager for West Africa from 1995 to 1998, and acted as Vice President, Exploration, directing BP's global exploration programme, from 2001 to 2003.

New Eyes Exploration
New Eyes Exploration, founded by David Bamford, explores new ways to discover Oil and Gas.
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11:50 Wim Walk - manager geophysics measurement technologies
Shell
Shell's ambitions for onshore seismic


Royal Dutch Shell plc, commonly known as Shell, is a global oil and gas company headquartered in The Hague, Netherlands and with its registered office in London, United Kingdom. It is the fifth-largest company in the world (and the second-largest energy company) according to a composite measure by Forbes magazine and one of the six oil and gas "supermajors". It is vertically integrated and is active in every area of the oil and gas industry, including exploration and production, refining, distribution and marketing, petrochemicals, power generation and trading. It also has major renewable energy activities, including in biofuels, hydrogen, solar and wind power.
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12:25 Gary Jones - Chairman
Wireless Seismic
Wireless Seismic Acquisition: Real Time Data Matters


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Gary Jones joined Wireless Seismic's Board of Directors in 2010 after serving as President of WesternGeco, a division of Schlumberger, one of the world's largest geophysical contractors. He has also held a variety of other executive positions with Western Geophysical and Baker Hughes. Mr. Jones currently serves on the Board of Directors at Ingrain and has recently served as non-executive Chairman of Ingrain, Novadrill and ARKeX. He has a B.Sc., Geological engineering and a M.Sc., Geophysics, from the University of Arizona.

Wireless Seismic
Wireless Seismic, Inc. was founded in 2006 with a single purpose: to design and develop a wireless recording system that collects and transmits seismic data in real time. Today, Wireless seismic's second generation system - the RT System 2 - is a reality. In the seismic data acquisition system marketplace of conventional cable systems and new nodal cable-less systems, it is the only wireless system capable of scaling to 10,000 + channels that can make that claim.
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13:00 Lunch + more coffee & tea

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