Transforming Sub-Surface Interpretation

NOK 200 (or free without lunch)

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FEATURED SPEAKERS

John Moses
» Sales and Marketing Director (EAME)
» Seabed Geosolutions

Christian Gramm
» geophysicist
» Equinor

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Wednesday, June 10, 2015
Stavanger
Norwegian Petroleum Museum

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Introduction from conference chairman David Bamford

This is a conference for people who believe we can improve NOCS exploration, appraisal, development and reservoir management performance through better understanding of the subsurface - which can be achieved through better use of available technologies for data acquisition, multi-measurement integration, analytics, interpretation and visualisation.

With the recent plunge in oil prices, mature producing provinces are even more challenged by poor economic returns. And exploration anywhere is seen as offering poor value for money…….

In part this is due to exponentiating costs – as some would assert, the expropriation of cash flow by oil field service companies. This is a topic for “another day”!

In part it is due to the failure of oil & gas companies to grow reserves, whether by:
· Exploration for new fields
· Exploitation of existing discoveries
· Reservoir Management of recently developed fields
· Deployment of IOR/EOR technologies.

And yet we have a multitude, a “wall”, of data that in principle allows us to better describe basins, plays, prospects and discoveries, and to better describe and monitor producing fields, and the individual reservoirs therein.

In addition to massive amounts of public data, we can transform our (subsurface) capabilities by using new data acquisition technologies - some would call them 'disruptive' technologies. Looking back at our Finding Petroleum events in 2014, the key 'disruptions' now on our radars are:

• Seismic with Nodes - definitely offshore, potentially onshore, condemning cables to history.
• Non-Seismic methods - finally demonstrating that they can deliver improved petroleum prediction.
• Fibre Optics - whether down-hole or ploughed into the seabed.

Integrating, analysing, visualising and correctly interpreting all this data, these multi-measurements, goes way beyond the 'lowest common denominator' un-networked desktop applications available today where the world of innovation has been replaced by ‘one size fits all’.

I have always believed that the best insights are found when everybody – for example, geologists, geophysicists, petrophysicists, reservoir engineers, commercial folk – are looking at the same thing, and working on the problem at hand as a team.

David Bamford

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