Winter meeting information


Agenda (Strawman)

Thursday January 18th and Friday January 19th 2007

Host:           Ch. Krohn, ExxonMobil
 Chair:           K. Strack, KMS Technologies – KJT Enterprises Inc.
 Minutes:       Y. Martinez, KMS Technologies, and S. Gelinsky, Shell     
Net meeting, audio driver: W. Underhill (SEG)

Attendance list (.pdf)

Thursday January 18th

10:00  Welcome and introduction by the host

Krohn
10:05 Agenda review, introductions Strack
     o        Past Chair activities update 

Cheng
     o        Update TLE issue past workshops 

Esmesoy, Allegar
     o        SRWS with EAGE in Turkey  Krohn, Tura
     o        Process item: SRWS rules Krohn, Strack
  Sub- committees  
     o        Existing sub-committees  
     o      New sub-committees  
        o     Membership  Coperude
 
    • Summer Research Workshop Guidelines
    • SEG/EAEG 3D Modeling Committee
    • Electronic Communication
    • Value of Research
    • Research Committee Awards
    • Future Technology Trends
    • State-of-the-Art Reviews
  
     o        Inter society activities  
                  ·         Joint AAPG-SPE-SEG workshop  Gelinsky
                ·         AGU update  Strack
                ·         IODP, how can we contribute? Talwani

Opportunities for volunteers: list server, website, memberships

11:00  SEG-Online and what it means for RC 

Gelinsky
  Invitation for a special workshop along with IGY-2 2007. (movie?)  Strack
  Support for San Antonio TPC Strack (for Hardage)
11:20 How do we re-energize the RC? Strack
     - What are our goals?  
 

   - What does the SEG expect from us?

  
 

   -  How do we meet these?

  
Going for lunch until 13:00
13:00 - 14:00 continued discussion   Strack
14:00 Review of workshop selection process  
     - Definition of options/workshop types  
 

   - Brain storming rounds

  
     - send to list server  
     - select special workshops/ SRWS   Yoram Shoham
Approximately 17:00  break
Dinner hosted by ExxonMobil, details to be provided later
Attendance list

Friday January 19th

8:00 - 8:30 Arrival and coffee  
8:30 – 9:15 coordination with EAGE Research Committee meeting (Audio)  
to 11:30 Workshop selection  
     - Summary of voting  
     -Workshop Chair or point of contact  selection  

Adjourn either before or after lunch

Workshop topics received by email:

  • Shale and petrophysics (Sawyers & Dewhurst)
  • Hyper-dimensional (dim >5) seismic data analysis/visualization/feature delineation (W. Dong)
  • Nader’s collection

1.      Exploration for Unconventional Resources (Gas Hydrates, Heavy Oil, Coal bed Methane, Shale Gas, etc.). At $ 60:00 + barrel oil, these things are being explored actively, and a lot of progress have been made. However,  many Technical Challenges remain.

2.      Seismic Inversion for Fun and Profit
        The latest and Greatest can be discussed along with some advances in new generation of algorithms that take advantage of increased computer speed as well putting constraints (rock physics, e.g.) on the inversion engines to get convergence faster (and hopefully to better solutions).

3.      Reliability of Seismic Attributes after Depth Migration
        How reliable are our velocities and amplitudes after Depth Migration? What do we need to do so that after Migration, we can use these attributes for better depth conversion, pressure prediction and Lithology and Fluid Analysis? Current work flow is clearly unsuitable. For example, Sub-salt drilling has shown that our images are mostly OK but everything else (T/D, pressure, fluid, lithology, etc.) is usually questionable resulting in very costly designer wells in GOM ($  100+ Million). There have been some progress, but significant challenges remain

  • From Xianhuai Zhu

 Reservoir characterization: using low or high frequency?

 Pre-stack depth imaging from rugged topography

  • The D&P committee traditionally hosts a Best of D&P Forum.  The Forum this year (2007) will focus on the geophysical challenges of heavy oil development and production, so our Best of D&P Forum workshop will address that topic.  Ideally, there would not be a competing workshop on that topic.
     
  • Rock Physics proposal (.pdf)
  • Carbonate Rock proposal (.pdf)
     

Attendance list (.pdf)
 
 

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