W-10: The Best of IQ Earth: 21st Century Interpretation

SEG 2012 Annual Meeting Technical Program


Date: Friday, 9 November 2012
Time: 8:30 am – 4:00 pm
Location: Mandalay Bay Convention Center, Room: Mandalay Bay Ballroom B 
Organizer: Ron Masters
Through the support of the SEG IQ Earth Committee

Description
 

Interpreters, please join us for highlights of the First Annual IQ Earth Forum! At the Forum, we heard from those who accept challenge of 21st-century interpretation: to create, visualize, and analyze quantitative 3D earth models, informed by multiple disciplines. Together, we interpret subsurface structure and rock and fluid properties, accounting for all the data. We learn to speak the languages of other disciplines. We use the most advanced methods because we're adapting to new challenges, wherever and however opportunities arise — new plays; new processing methods; new technology for integrating seismic, logs, cores, potential fields, basin studies; maybe even data that some on our team did not realize were important until we put them together. We haven't solved all the problems — there's never enough time to learn new tools and still get the work out, and the applications aren't yet integrated enough — but we're moving through the cycle from exploration to appraisal to development faster than anyone would have thought possible a decade ago.

We discussed many aspects of interpretation:

  • Interpretation case studies
  • Interdisciplinary prospecting
  • Reservoir characterization
  • Geoinformatics
  • Quantitative risk reduction
  • Evaluating candidate technologies
  • Multidisciplinary visualization
  • Integrated G&G modeling

We will feature keynote addresses from Anadarko, Apache, ConocoPhillips, and ExxonMobil; as well as technology updates from leading innovators.

Schedule

8:30 am: Welcome: Ron Masters, IQ Earth Chair

8:40 am: Geological Heterogeneities Characterization through 4D Seismic Interpretation and their Integration into Reservoir Model—Henri Houllevigue, Total

9:10 am: Real-time Updating of Integrated Earth Models to Mitigate Drilling Risk—Andy Hawthorn, Schlumberger/WesternGeco Earth Model Building CoE

9:40 am: Integration of Seismic and Production Data at the Shenzi Field, Deepwater Gulf of Mexico—David Tett, BHP Billiton Petroleum

10:10 am: Break

10:20 am: Panel and Open Microphone: Cross-disciplinary Collaboration in our Competitive Industry

10:50 am: Reducing Risks and Understanding Uncertainty in Shale Plays: A South Texas Eagle Ford Case Study—Robin Pearson and David Work, Anadarko Petroleum Corp.

11:20 am: Marcellus Insights Delivered Using an Integrated Analysis of Multiple Geo-datasets—Craig Beasley, NEOS GeoSolutions

11:50 pm: Panel and Open Microphone: Adapting to New Plays

12:20 pm: Lunch Break

1:20 pm: Why IQ Earth Matters—Bob Hardage, SEG President

1:50 pm: Beyond the Horizon: A Vision for Integrated Quantitative Earth Model Analysis—Randal Kissling, ExxonMobil Development Company

2:20 pm: Panel and Open Microphone: Interpretation—The Road Ahead and the New Interpretation Journal

4:00 pm: Workshop concludes