Colleagues,
Following-on from advertisements in the scientific press, I want to quickly
remind/raise general awareness of our conference. This deals with
recognition, appraisal and production from structurally-stratigraphically
compartmentalised and/or fractured reservoirs. (“Structurally Complex
Reservoirs”, The Geological Society, Burlington House, London, 28 Feb - 2
March 2006: details below are copied from the advert, or else look at:
www.geolsoc.org.uk/petroleum).
If you wish to submit an abstract, please drop me and Rob Knipe a quick
email asap ([log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask])...
Regards,
Steve
Steve Jolley
Snr Consultant Geologist
Shell U.K. Limited
1 Altens Farm Road, Nigg, Aberdeen, AB12 3FY, United Kingdom
Email: [log in to unmask]
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CALL FOR PAPERS
Structurally Complex Reservoirs are an increasingly common feature of oil
and gas exploration and production. Their growing contribution to global
production is a function of the increasing geological complexity within
modern reserves portfolios. This reflects the growing technical challenges
for the discovery and extraction of remaining reserves from mature
provinces (e.g. the North Sea); and the advancement of technologies which
now permit economic development and production from structurally complex
discoveries, previously ‘parked‘ for this technology catch-up.
Our understanding, detection and ability to model and predict the
compartmentalising effects and storagetransmissivity characteristics of
fault and fracture networks, and the dynamic fluid flow and geomechanical
behaviour of related reservoirs, is key to locating connected reserves,
unswept blocks, and optimising field development, production rates and
recovery factors. Geoscientists and engineers are addressing these issues
within research institutions and operating asset environments around the
world, either singly or within organised research collaborations, such as
the recent ITF (Industry Technology Facilitator) programmes in the UK.
This integrated 3-day international conference was inspired by the ITF
programme of the same name. It will attract leading-edge contributions from
industry and academic researchers, specialist service providers, and
practitioners within oil/gas field asset teams. We believe this will
provide a well-balanced context and debate, representing a collective
benchmark of the modern geoscience and related technology applied to the
subsurface characterisation and production from structurally complex
reservoirs. We intend to capture the conference proceedings within a
Geological Society Special Publication.
Contributions are sought which address one or more of the following themes:
- Detection and prediction of faults, fracture systems.
- Structural influences/controls on reservoir performance.
- Fault sealing and fracture system properties.
- The combined flow effects of structure and stratigraphic architectures.
- Modelling techniques.
- Outcrop analogues.
- Case studies.
Abstracts to be submitted to Steve Jolley ([log in to unmask]) by: 1
October 2005
For further details please contact Lydia Dumont, Conference Office, The
Geological Society, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1J 0BG. Tel: +44
(0) 20 7434 9944. Email: [log in to unmask]
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