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Karl Jeffery - editor - Finding Petroleum
Welcome & Introduction
Karl Jeffery is editor and co-founder of Digital Energy Journal, and conference producer of Finding Petroleum. He is also publisher of Carbon Capture Journal and Tanker Operator, and co-founder of Digital Ship, a publishing and events company covering digital technology for the deep sea maritime industry. He has a BEng in chemical engineering from Nottingham University
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 and with an online social network of nearly 10,000 members.
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13:10
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Patrick Connolly - Founder/CEO - Patrick Connolly Associates
Amplitude vs Offset talk by Patrick Connolly
Talk Description.
Amplitude analysis can add an extra dimension to seismic interpretation in reducing uncertainty on
prospect risk and reservoir characterisation. AVO (amplitude variation with offset) allows the
construction of images that can highlight different aspects of the subsurface. Subsequent amplitude
inversion can directly estimate reservoir properties. As data quality and algorithms improve and
with better cross-discipline integration, quantitative interpretation has an increasing role to play.
Amplitude interpretation is inherently uncertain, and results are always ambiguous to some extent.
To deal with the integration of disparate data with varying levels of uncertainty, Bayesian methods
are increasingly employed within the workflow. Processes to directly estimate facies probabilities
from seismic data now commonly make use of a Bayesian framework. This allows geological
understanding of the reservoir, no matter how uncertain, to be integrated as prior information.
Seismic interpretation, however, remains a contact sport; there are too many unknowns always to
allow optimum parameters to be calculated and results will be ambiguous to some extent.
Interpreters must use their judgement throughout the process. This requires examination of the
data in the form of an image that can provide geological context. The seismic image remains
paramount.
Patrick Connolly is former senior advisor, geophysical analysis, with BP. He invented elastic impedance, the seismic net pay method, and inversion by matching to pseudo wells, and is co-inventor of extended elastic impedance.
Patrick Connolly Associates
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13:50
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David Bamford - Director - Future Energy Partners Ltd
Q&A followed by Close no later than 14:15
David Bamford is well known around the oil & gas industry both as an explorer and a geophysicist. He holds a Physics degree from the University of Bristol and a Ph.D in Geological Sciences from the University of Birmingham.
Since 2004, he has been a non-executive director at Tullow Oil plc, being recruited for this position especially for his exploration knowledge. He serves on the Nominations and Remuneration Committees, and was chairman of the latter, and Senior Independent Director, for 3 years prior to his retire from the board at the end of April 2014.
He joined the board of Premier Oil in May 2014.
He retired from BP plc in 2003, his last four positions being Chief Geophysicist (1990-1995), Business Unit Leader (General Manager) for first West Africa and then Norway (1995-1999), and finally Head of Exploration until 2003.
He has served on the boards of Paras Ltd, a small exploration and IS/IT consulting company in which he held 22% equity, until its sale to RPS Energy in 2008 and Welltec a/s, a Danish well engineering company, as the nominee of the private equity investor Riverside.
From 2012 to 201 he was on the board of ASX-quoted Australia Oriental Energy as a non-executive director.
He was a founder of Richmond Energy Partners, a small oil & gas research house, and several media companies that focus on the oil & gas sector, and has served as an advisor to Alliance Bernstein, Opus Executive, the Parkmead Group plc, and Kimmeridge Energy LLP. Since retiring from BP, he has undertaken asset and company valuation projects for investment banks, hedge funds and small oil companies.
Future Energy Partners Ltd
Future Energy Partners (FEP) is a unique oil and gas advisory service which prides itself on technical excellence in selected fields and supplementing business management and leadership; in the face of uncertainty.
We offer truthful, professional opinion and advice; no playback of what you already know, and no spin.
FEP was founded by 4 senior industry practitioners who consider the challenges faced by today's oil and gas environment are going to require herculean acts of leadership and technical skill in a transforming, transitioning, industry, in order to maintain an energy supply that is sustainable and even recognisable compared to recent history.
Similarly nations developing an oil and gas industry face related challenges as they seek to maximise the benefits of this new wealth-creating opportunity - in a responsible manner.
Global reach
FEP actively participates in the facilitation and conduct of seminars and webinars worldwide, for example in conjunction with its associate partner Finding Petroleum.
Our presence reaches parts of the globe, such as: the UK, the USA, Sub-Saharan Africa, with partners wherever we work.
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Ron Daniel
Staff Geologist
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Suriname
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Geoff Marsden
Processing Geophysicist
GM Geophysical
United Kingdom
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Miles Leggett
Chief Geophysicist
Quantum Xploration International Ltd.
United Kingdom
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Martin Cox
Director
ABerdeen Drilling Management Ltd
United Kingdom
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Ian Gath
Product Owner
Halliburton
Spain
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Roger Doery
Retired
Retired
United Kingdom
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Tony Paul
MD
ACES
Trinidad and Tobago
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James Howe
Howe Geology, LLC
United States
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Richard Walker
Geophysical Consultant
Richard Walker Geoscience Ltd
United Kingdom
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Gabriel Perez
Solution Consultant
AspenTech
United States
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Jim Hendry
Director / Consultant Geologist
Iapetus Geoscience Limited
Ireland
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Karyna Rodriguez
VP Global New Ventures
Searcher
United Kingdom
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Bill Beck
BLM
United States
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Mark Robinson
Consultant
Independent
United Kingdom
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Mike Rego
Managing Director
Septima Energy Pte. Ltd.
United Kingdom
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OLIVER WHITFIELD
Buried Hill
United Kingdom
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Abimbola Durogbitan
GM Geosciences
Independent Consultant/Nigerian Association of Petroleum Exolorationists UK/EUROPE COORDINATOR
United Kingdom
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Denis MOUGENOT
Chief Geophysicist - retired as consultant
Sercel-retired
France
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Jess Kozman
Managing Director
CLTech Consulting
Australia
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John Griffith
Upstream Advisor
JJG Consulting International Ltd
United Kingdom
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David Owen
Shell
United Kingdom
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John PRICE
Exploration Advisor
Clymenia Consulting
United Kingdom
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Matt Luheshi
leptis E & P Ltd
United Kingdom
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Tom Martin
Director
Shikra Consulting
United Kingdom
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Diwin Amarasinghe
Geophysical Specialist
Consultant
United Kingdom
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Winston O'Young
Senior Policy & International Relations Officer
Ministry of Energy & Energy Industries/Senior Policy & International Relations Officer
Trinidad and Tobago
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Julia Kotulova
Senior Researcher
Slovak Academy of Sciences
Slovakia
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Colin Clarke
Geophysicist
Consulting Geoscience
United Kingdom
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Robin Sutherland
Consultant
Monitor Exploration Limited
South Africa
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El Hadi Boumghar
Director of Assets in partnership
Sonatrach
Algeria
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David Boote
DBConsulting Ltd
United Kingdom
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Keith Nunn
Managing Director
Nunngeo Consulting Ltd
United Kingdom
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iin fransisca
Technical Advisor/ BD
SP Global commodity insights
Australia
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Raffaele Di Cuia
Technical Director
Delta Energy Limited Ltd
Italy
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Peter Botevyle
Geophysicist
Occidental of Algeria
United Kingdom
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Shariva Darmaoen
Exploration Geologist
Staatsolie
Suriname
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Dirk Bodnar
Manager
El Pilar Petrotechnical Consulting
United States
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harald granser
Exploration Manager
Omv
Austria
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Ali Karagul
Senior Operations Geophysicist
TotalEnergies E&P
United Kingdom
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Andrew Allison
Geoscientist
ERCE
United Kingdom
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Laurence Ormerod
Chairman
Ormerod Consulting Ltd
United Kingdom
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Fred Watchorn
Geophysicist
Tullow Oil
Colombia
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Karl Jeffery
Editor
Finding Petroleum / Digital Energy Journal
United Kingdom
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David Cleverly
Geophysicist
Perenco
United Kingdom
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Mughal Andleeb
Exploration Geophysicist II
United Energy Pakistan
Pakistan
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Robert FE Jones
Director
Geoko Ltd
United Kingdom
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Joshua May
Business Development - Africa
PGS
United Kingdom
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Muhammad Taimur Javed
Team Lead
United Energy Pakistan
Pakistan
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Jim House
Director
GeoSeis Ltd
United Kingdom
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Matthew Plummer
Principal Geoscientist
PGS
United Kingdom
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Marco van der Meulen
Senior Geologist
Wintershall
Netherlands
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