Emerging Trends in Geoscience Computing

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Emerging Trends inGeoscience Computing

• Eldad Weiss, Group Executive Officer, Paradigm

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The Changing EP Business Environment

• Trends
• Geological areas of increasing complexity
• Shift from exploration to production
• Business Constraints
• Focus on improving efficiency to extract higher
  returns from existing strategic assets
• Fewer in-house staff with geoscience knowledge in
  operations and research

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Adapting to Change

• Use of advanced science to obtain more
  information from reservoir data
• High-quality visualization to turn information
  into decisions
• Outsourcing to geoscience knowledge companies
• Adoption of agile data management systems
• Consolidation of geoscience technologies
• Emergence of the Petroleum Geoscientist

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Emergence of the Petroleum Geoscientist
Petroleum Geoscientist
Data Management Interoperability
Geophysics
Petrophysics
Well Log Petrophysics Analysis
Reservoir Characterization
Seismic Data Processing
Visualization Interpretation
Reservoir Imaging
Mapping Model Building
Geology
Well Planning Drilling Design
Reservoir Engineering
Drilling Engineering
Oilfield Economists
Production Engineering
Facility Engineering
Petroleum Engineering
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The Petroleum Geoscientists Tasks

• Qualify Exploration Targets
• Optimize Drilling Design
• Enhance Reservoir Production

Value- Added Knowledge for Reservoir Exploration
Value- Added Knowledge for Drilling Engineering
Geoscience knowledge solutions
Value- Added Knowledge for Reservoir Development
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The Contribution of Geoscience Knowledge
Geoscience knowledge solutions provide enhanced
information about the reservoir, enabling the
industry to make more productive and profitable
exploration production decisions
Geoscience Solutions
Enhanced Reservoir Knowledge
Informed EP Decisions
Solutions Products Services
Results Risk Reduction Cost Reduction Cycle Time
Reduction
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Three-Level Integration as an Enabler of Workflow
Efficiencies

• Middleware for data integration
• 3D Canvas for visualintegration
• New integrated applications

Data Storage
Information Extraction
Knowledge Creation
Data ? Information ? Knowledge ? Decisions
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A (past) linear view of things
Interpretation
Data Roaming
Visualization
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Put Visualization at the center
Mapping
Interpretation
Data Roaming
Visualization
Solid Modeling
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and benefit from collaboration
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The Importance of visual integration

• Concurrent display of
• Maps
• Reservoir models
• Drilling engineering data
• On the same 3D canvas with
• Seismic
• Well data
• Interpretation data
• Complete visual integration for informed
  decision-making

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3D Logs with Seismic
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Structural Validation
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Reservoir Model Viewing
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Borehole Planning
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The Importance of Data Integration
Applications
Middleware
Middleware
Multiple Vendors Data Stores
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The Importance of Integration
Applications
Global, simultaneous access to multi-vendor data
stores
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The Importance of POSC WITSMLTMGeosteering
Solution
General Workflow
WITSMLTM
Service Company LWD data Real-time log data
Horizons curtain Faults MD
Continuous / Static surveys
3D Earth Model
MWD
Well Data Server
Borehole uncertainties
Control Points _at_ Horizons
Inter-horizons Faults
Geosteering Module
Real-time log display Interactive Horizons and
Faults editing TST Forward modeling
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Logs and Horizontal SectionCore Permeability
Modeling
Permeability cross-section
Modeled Core Permeability
Modeled GR LWD GR
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Geosteering Module
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