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"This year's Annual Meeting will give attendees...a high- quality Technical Program with more posters." -Annual Meeting General Chairman, Ken Helm |
W-7 Geophysics and Engineering: Convergence of Disciplines Date: Thursday, 22 September Description: In recent years E&P companies have entered unconventional resource plays. To successfully develop these tight reservoirs it is necessary to drill long horizontal wells and enhance the permeability of the reservoirs using hydrofracking. This situation has brought together engineers that develop these reservoirs and geoscientists that image and characterize these reservoirs. Each discipline had to learn the language and techniques of the others to extract maximum value from data. In fact they had to establish common goals and develop tools that would answer questions not previously asked, with a good example being the characterization of a stimulated volume giving rise to the microseismic industry. This situation is in fact not unique to resource plays. Other engineering disciplines have started to co-exist and interact with geophysics. Examples are in the field of geomechanics, numerical rock physics, sensor design, and nano-science. This workshop will highlight a few of these topics through invited speakers and a panel discussion and hopefully open up communications between different disciplines by stimulating exchange of information between different branches of geophysics and engineering. Schedule:
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