Earth and Reservoir Modelling Committee

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Earth and Reservoir Modelling Committee

• Past, Present And Future

Jens-Ole Koch, Committee Leader
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Presentation Outline

• An overview of what the committee and work groups
  do and how it it is all organised
• Past
• Present
• Future

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Presentation Outline

• An overview of what the committee and work groups
  do and they are organised
• Past
• Present
• Future
• Talks from the Network Groups tomorrow on
• Activity in the Sedimentology Stratigraphy
  Group Kjell Sigve Lervik, Statoil
• Key activities in the Seismic Methods Group
  Brackin Smith, Phillips
• Critical Issues within Seismic Methods Past,
  present and Future Olav Barkved, BP
• Visualisation Integrated Work Processes,
  Activities Future Rolf Helland, Norsk Hydro

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Scope and Idea of FORCE

• MEANS
• Stimulate industry cooperation, exchange of key
  learnings and knowledge
• Facilitate initiation of Joint Industry Projects
• initiate and organise workshops and seminars

• GOALS
• Improvement of exploration efficiency
• Improvement of quality of resource estimates
• Further development of IOR-methods and
  contribution to IOR on the Norwegian Continental
  Shelf.

FORCE Forum for reservoir characterisation,
reservoir engineering and exploration technology
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• Past

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A Bit of History

• Reservoir Modelling Committee (Phase I)
• Main effort has been on "Problem-Defining
  Workshops" and initiated a total of 10 research
  projects
• Earth and Reservoir Modelling Committee (Phase
  II)
• New name and broader scope after merge of FORCE
  and FIND projects.
• RD projects distributed through FORCE network,
  but signed on by individual companies and not run
  by the ERMC
• Focus shifted more towards seminars and workshops
  
• Formed 5 new Special Interest Network Groups
  (SINGs)

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Idea behind the Special Interest Network Groups
Idea behind the SINGS
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• Present
• Status of ERMC and SINGS

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Organisation and Responsibilities
SING leaders to participate in ERMC meetings for
information sharing and coordination of activities
FORCE secretary update membership lists and
information from the SINGS on the FORCE internet
homepage
SINGs are formally groups under the ERMC
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Technical Subjects of the Sings and the ERMC
Earth and Reservoir Modelling Committee
Other TCMs
Advanced Wells
Exploration Technology
Reservoir Engineering
Reservoir Characterisation
Finding Uncertainty
Reservoir Characterisation
Seismic Methods
Sedimentology/ Stratigraphy
MULTI
Recovery
Visualisation
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Role of the Earth and Reservoir Modeling
Committee and the SINGs

• SINGs will
• Share information on new technology, advanced
  technology application and key learnings within
  the professional field of the SING
• Work through network meetings, workshop/seminars
  and facilitation of JIPs with their own agenda
  and timing
• ERMC will
• Co-ordinate and share information on activities
  in the individual SINGS and support the start up
  of new groups
• Work through network meetings, workshop/seminars
  and facilitation of JIPs with more general ERM
  themes

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Earth and Reservoir Modelling Committee

• ERMC
• Jens-Ole Koch, Conoco
• Edward Prestholm, Statoil
• Kjell Sigve Lervik, Statoil
• Jens Martin Hvid, TotalFinaElf
• Gunnar Søiland, NPD,
• Niels Jørgen Ventzel Phillips,
• Bjørn Wandås Fortum
• Kristian Kolbjørnsen, DNO
• Tim Lane, BP
• Morten Bergan, RWE-D
• Clas Kristensen, Agip,
• Simon Knight, Pelican
• Cato Berge, Norske Shell
• Additional SING Leaders
• Brackin Smith, Phillips
• Rolf Helland, Hydro
• Anne-Lise.Lysholm, TotalFinaElf

• Leader Jens-Ole Koch, Conoco
• 13 committie members and 3 additional
  SING leaders
• Worked with the start up of the 5 new SINGs
• Workshops/Seminars
• Future Research Directions - Interaction between
  oil companies and research institutions. April,
   2002

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Seismic Methods

• Leader Brackin Smith, Phillips
• 16 Members
• 3 seminar/workshops
• Long Offset Seismic Seminar, 28/2-01
• Key uncertainties from Seismic to Geomodelling,
  June 5 th, 2001
• New tools and best practices to improve the use
  of prestack data (Jan Feb 2002)
• 2 Overview talks tomorrow

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Finding Uncertainty

• Leader Anne-Lise Lysholm, TFE
• 10 Members.
• Planning a Workshop on
• Basics of statistics and uncertainty, and
  application in resource evaluation and risking,
  November 20th, 2001

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Visualisation

• Leader Rolf Helland, Hydro
• Members 13
• Visits to visualisation centres and meetings
  at
• Norsk Hydro in Bergen, April 4th
• BP/Agip (Kidra) Stavanger, June 21st
• Statoil/NTNU in Trondheim and
• Chevron/Norsk Hydro in Oslo.
• Planning a Seminar on Visualisation in May/June
  2002
• 1 Presentation tomorrow

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Sedimentology/Stratigraphy SING

• Leader Kjell Sigve Lervik, Statoil
• Members 14
• 3 workshops on
• Chlorite coating in sandstone reservoirs, April
  4th, 2001
• Deep marine core workshop (Mid Norway), 15-16
  May.
• Tidal sandstones core workshop 3-5 December
• The group is further working on specifications
  for a project for a sedimentological
  analogue data base project.
• Overview talk tomorrow

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Reservoir Characterisation Group

• Leader Nils Jørgen Ventzel, Phillips
• Members 11
• The group has held one meeting, but has not
  really started yet

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Multi

• Leader, Fridtjof Riis, NPD
• Members 9
• The Multi project is aiming at building a common
  3D subsurface model with input data from the
  participating companies
• The group has held one meeting, but has not
  really started yet
• Problems to get interpreted data from the
  companies to share within the project.

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SING Members
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• Future

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What will the future bring ?
Other SINGs may die!!
Better Understanding and quantification of top-
and fault-seal capacity!!
Better Understanding and quantification of
hydrocarbon migration!!
More SINGs Structural Geology to start soon

• Further development in subsurface evaluation
  tools
• Intelligent seismic attributes, that can find the
  hydrocarbons??
• Increased integration from Interpretation to
  geo-modelling and reservoir performance.
• Increased cooperation and increased use of the
  Interne and joint databases
• Visualisation of everything

Virtual Field Trips
From Nature Møre Vøring Basins will either
prosper or fade away