Chinese American Petroleum Association announces new corporate sponsor CAPA, founded in 1983, is a nonprofit and nonpolitical Chinese professional organization in the petroleum industry that promotes the continuing education, technical exchange, and career development of its members. It attracts Chinese professionals, worldwide, from major oil companies, independents, service companies, research institutes and universities and currently has over 600 members in exploration, production, refining, petrochemical and other business fields. CAPA actively promotes technical exchanges among professionals in mainland China, Taiwan, and the United States, and in the past decade, has organized numerous petroleum and petrochemical symposia in each of those countries.
COMSOL releases geomechanics module—Advances into soil and rock mechanics simulations 18 August 2011—COMSOL introduced the geomechanics module enabling users to harness its simulation environment for geotechnical and civil-engineering applications such as slope stability evaluation and failure prediction of tunnels, retaining structures, and excavations. The geomechanics module provides tailored interfaces for studying plasticity, deformation, and failure of soils and rocks, as well as their interaction with concrete and human-made structures. The module, which comes with a variety of material models for soils, builds off of the structural mechanics module add-on for the company's flagship simulation software, COMSOL multiphysics, and offers the ability to combine analyses with all other COMSOL modules seamlessly.
CGGVeritas confirms commitment to Trilobit deepwater node market 18 August 2011—CGGVeritas is confirming its commitment to the emerging deepwater node market with an order to manufacture an additional 800 Trilobit four-component (4C) ocean bottom nodes (OBN) to make a total of 1,000 units in its equipment pool. The new nodes are expected to be commercially available by early 2012. Trilobit is a proprietary seabed seismic acquisition system developed by CGGVeritas and used on programs in the North Sea, Gulf of Mexico, and Asia-Pacific. The acquisition system is a flexible, containerized design that can be rapidly mobilized on most ROV vessels. As a four-component node with a compact integrated architecture, Trilobit provides high vector fidelity for accurate and repeatable seismic records. These are a necessity for reservoir monitoring applications and for full-azimuth multicomponent imaging and inversion including imaging through salt, basalt, and gas. The Trilobit solution leverages a CGGVeritas multidisciplinary, turnkey approach to OBN acquisition. This approach includes feasibility studies, survey design, equipment and acquisition program management, in-field processing, market-leading CGGVeritas multicomponent processing, and interpretation by the company's Hampson-Russell reservoir services group.
WesternGeco commences 3D Survey in Barents Sea 18 August 2011—WesternGeco has begun acquisition of the Bjørnøya Phase I "Ice Bear" 3D multiclient survey in the highly prospective West Loppa area of the Barents Sea. Following previous surveys in the area, the Ice Bear survey will extend the existing WesternGeco West Loppa datasets to the north and west. Building on previous 2D data sets, the Ice Bear survey will consist of approximately 2500 km2 of 3D seismic data, acquired using 10' 7-km streamers. Advanced acquisition techniques coupled with demultiple processing using the WesternGeco 3D GSMP general surface multiple prediction technology will provide high-quality 3D data. Acquisition commenced on 10 July 2011, and the fast-track data will be available in November 2011 in time for nominations for the 22nd Norwegian Licensing Round. The final processed data will be available for licensing in March 2012 in advance of the applications for the 22nd Norwegian Offshore Licensing Round. |
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