Maritime and Energy

published Mon, November 28, 2011

The Biennial Geophysical Seminar, March 2012

The Norwegian Petroleum Society is organising its traditional three day geophysical seminar in Kristiansand. The biennial seminar has, since its start in 1977, become popular and recognized throughout the petroleum industry.

The themes of these seminars highlight new developments in geophysical techniques, changes and recent achievements relevant to the petroleum industry.

The world is becoming increasingly dependent on oil produced from fields that are past their peak production and the oil industry has not succeeded in finding new reserves to balance the increased demand. One exception is the recent giant discovery of the Avaldsnes/Aldous field in the North Sea is an inspiration for all of us, and serves as an excellent reminder that one should never stop searching for new opportunities. This year, we have invited one of the pioneers involved in this major discovery, Hans Christen Rønnevik, to tell us about the background for the success and point out the new ideas that led to this major discovery in a mature area.

 The learning from the Avaldsnes/Aldous discovery is that in the future we will need to explore for both new play models, bot in mature and frontier areas. For the production fields we need to increase the recovery ratres and increase efficiency by new work processes. The main objective of the Geophysical Seminar 2012 is to highlight how development and applications of new geophysical acquisition, processing and interpretation techniques can help to meet these challenges, specifically for the Norwegian continental shelf. Improvements related to analysis and integration of different geophysical data and geological knowledge, are required in exploration, field development and production.

The Geophysical Seminar 2012 will focus on the following topics:

• Joint use of seismic and electromagnetic data for hydrocarbon exploration
• Ocean bottom seismic
• Acquisition techniques focused on enhanced seismic band width
• Multiple attenuation
• Full waveform inversion
• Seismic imaging methodology
• Characterization of source rock from seismic
• Use of 4D seismic in reservoir management
• Geophysical data in integrated work flows
• Using fibre optic sensors for permanent seismic monitoring

The three day conference program offers a variety of case studies and presentations of new technology addressing these topics.   To stimulate quality presentations a "Best Paper Award" will be presented at the end of the seminar.

Hans Christen Rønnevik (Lundin Petroleum) will open the conference by introducing a new mindset for exploration, with a special focus on the recent discovery of the major Avaldsnes/Aldous-discovery in the North Sea. This will be followed by a series of exploration cases, including methods and use of various types of data.

Helmut Jakubowicz  (Imperial College) will discuss new acquisition technologies. His key note talk will be followed by several presentations related to enhanced bandwidth of seismic data as a result of innovative and new acquisition techniques.

On the second day, Lasse Amundsen (Statoil) will discuss limitations and possibilities related to full waveform inversion, followed by several presentations showing examples and recent developments related to the use of this technique.

Henning Hoeber (CGGVeritas) will give an overview of recent developments within 4D seismic, from acquisition via processing to the end product which is increased hydrocarbon production. The preceding talks include improved processing methods to enhance the 4D signal and several case studies.

The last session will be kicked off by Eli Zachariassen (Statoil) who will present an integrated work flow for model update using various types of reservoir monitoring data. This session will conclude with several papers focusing on how to use various data types in cross disciplinary reservoir studies.  

At the seminar "The Norwegian Geophysical Award" will be presented by WesternGeco (please see below).

The social events are also important parts of the program, and this year we invite you to both wine tasting and a conference dinner. On behalf of the Organising Committee I welcome you to exciting days in Kristiansand!

Martin Landrø
Chairman of the Organising Committee.

The members of the Programme Committee are;
Martin Landrø, NTNU (chair)- mlan@ipt.ntnu.no
Olav Inge Barkved, BP Norge - olav.inge.barkved@no.bp.com
Cees Corsten, A/S Norske Shell - c.corsten@shell.com
Terje Dahl, Statoil ASA - teda@statoil.com
Svein Idar Førsund, NORECO - svein.idar.foersund@noreco.com
Jenny Morante-Gout, TOTAL E&P Norge AS - jenny.morante-gout@ep.total.no  
Ivar Andreas Sandø, Statoil ASA- ivar.andreas.sando@statoil.com
Lars Sønneland, Schlumberger Oilfield Research - lars.sonneland@slb.com
Niels Jørgen Ventzel, ConocoPhillips - niels.j.ventzel@conocophillps.com
Vetle Vinje, CGGVeritas- vetle.vinje@cggveritas.com
 Atle Aamodt, PGS Geophysical As - atle.aamodt@pgs.com
Karin B. Haugnæss, Norwegian Petroleum Society (secretary) - karin.haugness@npf.no

For information please contact:
Norwegian Petroleum Society (NPF)
Lilleakerveien 2A, N-0283 OSLO, Norway
Phone no.:  0047-22 13 18 15
Telefax no.: 0047-22 13 18 11
E-mail:  karin.haugness@npf.no