Professional Development

Early registration is encouraged. If minimum enrollment is not met by 25 September, courses with low enrollment likely will be cancelled.  Only on-site registration will be available after 14 October on a first-come, first-serve basis. On-site registration the day of the course is not guaranteed!

Distinguished Instructor Short Course (DISC)
Friday, 23 October
Hilton Americas Hotel
2009 SEG/EAGE Distinguished Instructor Short Course
Petroleum Geoengineering:
SEG logoEAGE logoIntegration of Static and Dynamic Models
by Patrick Corbett, Heriot-Watt University

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Patrick Corbett


Overview:
This one-day course is designed for a broad range of geoscientists and engineers working in the petroleum industry. The course provides improved linkage between techniques used at various scales to describe and model petroleum reservoirs. The ultimate objectives are to enable technical staff to maximize the recovery of hydrocarbons. The impact of petrophysical heterogeneity at various scales on the recovery of oil and gas provides the focus for this course.

Summary:

  1. The course introduction shows how Petroleum Geoengineering concepts have developed along with the requirement for more integrated and synergistic technical teams addressing reservoir development projects.
  2. The course emphasizes the links between stratigraphic controls on geobody architecture (and properties), the connectivity, and the ultimate recovery factors.
  3. Petrophysical and rock physics properties are measured at a variety of scales. An exercise will explore how averages can be used to determine effective properties at larger scales.
  4. Reservoir models are built by industry using a range of geostatistical techniques, and these require calibration by dynamic measurements at various scales. The role of seismic in modeling is considered at the appropriate stage.
  5. Sweep efficiency and recovery factors are determined by scales of lateral and vertical heterogeneity. The use of the Lorenz and Modified Lorenz plots is demonstrated in an exercise to illustrate the importance of internal reservoir architecture in controlling recovery factors.
  6. The course challenges subsurface teams to consider strategies for improving oil recovery, and with the high demand and price to target ever higher recovery factors.

Who should attend:
The integrated nature of this course means that it is suitable for individuals from all subsurface disciplines (geology, geophysics, petrophysicists, geomodelers, reservoir and petroleum engineers). Additionally, the course is very suitable for teams of subsurface staff. Managers are encouraged to attend in order to consider technical and organizational aspects of integrated subsurface teams.

For more information about the 2009 SEG/EAGE DISC, contact:
Cecilia Martin at the SEG Business Office • Phone: +1.918.497.5526 • Fax: +1.918.497.5557 • E-mail

Continuing Education

All courses will be held at the George R. Brown Convention Center, Saturday–Sunday, 24-25 October.

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Contintuing educationContintuing educationSeismic data acquisition
Planning and Operating a Land 3D Seismic Survey – by Andreas Cordsen & Peter Eick

Seismic data processing
–Understanding Seismic Anisotropy in Exploration and Exploitation: Hands On–by Leon Thomsen
–Mathematics of Modeling, Migration, and Inversion with Gaussian Beams–by Norman Bleistein (Saturday only)
–Concepts and Applications in 3D Seismic Imaging–by Biondo Biondi (Sunday only)

Seismic data interpretation
–AVO: Seismic Lithology–by Mike Graul & Fred Hilterman
–Petroleum Geology for Geophysicists–by Ken Wolgemuth - CANCELLED
–Seismic Stratigraphy and Seismic Geomorphology–by Henry Posamentier

Potential fields/Non-seismic
–Marine Electromagnetic Methods for Hydrocarbon Exploration–by Steve Constable & Kerry Key

Exploration and production
–3D Seismic Attributes for Prospect Identification and Reservoir Characterization–by Kurt Marfurt
–Application and Interpretation of Converted Waves–by Rob Stewart & Jim Gaiser
–Seismic Fluid Detection, Reservoir Delineation, and Recovery Monitoring: The Rock Physics Basis–by Gary Mavko