February 2007 Newsletter
A successful start for 2007 in January:
- The LPS Open Day at Royal Holloway University on the 24th was well attended with interesting presentations by professors and newly hired (petrophysicists of course). More details from our VP external relations to follow.
- The New Technology Seminar on the 26th at the Geological Society had a very good agenda but the attendance was meagre, hopefully not in the worrying trend we observed on some occasions last year.
Are you a LPS member?
If not, please contact:
Assia Belhaouas, VP Membership.
Tel: 01895 209488
We have three evening talks and one seminar within the next three months:
On the 8th of March we have the long awaited seminar on Reservoir Modelling Seminar (Details by our VP newsletter).
On the 22nd of March Dr. David Potter Anadarko Senior Lecturer in Petrophysics and Formation Evaluation at Heriot-Watt University will enlighten us
Finally on the 19th of April Christian Bucker of RWE-DEA will reveal some hot topics on Geothermal Petrophysics (Feasibility of Geothermal Power Generation in the German Upper Rhine Graben. An Analysis of the Geological and Petrophysical Conditions)
Patrick Crossouard LPS President
The next evening meeting will be on 20th February. Please see the abstract for the presentation for the meeting below;
Depth Measurement - The Most Important Measurement of them All
This presentation describes depth measurement related issues. It highlights the various sources of error in measuring depth accurately and consistently. Very often inaccurate depth can have dramatic consequences and it can be very costly to rectify. Discrepancies in MWD\LWD measurements tend to lead to reconciliatory runs between W\line and MWD\LWD. Field formation evaluation measurements are referenced either to depth and or time. The importance of accurate depth measurements can not be over emphasized as it can be key to subsequent operations, including reservoir calculations, modeling and economics.
Understanding and evaluating the sources of inconsistencies in depth measurement can form the bases of a more accurate and consistent depth measurement. This presentation aims at describing these and proposing solutions for more accurate and consistent depth related measurements.
Adrian Adeniran - Business Development Manager Inteq
Iain Hillier - Business Development Manager Baker Atlas
From VP Newsletter
As many members will no doubt be aware, we have suffered many problems with our existing LPS/Dialog website over the last few months. As such we recently approved the commission of a new website. The new website design and hosting company, Design Inc, began work on our new website yesterday. It is planned to have a live site by early March. It is envisaged that this website will contain the latest Newsletter, committee lists, next meeting details, next seminar details and anything else of interest to the London Petrophysical community.
Next Seminar - LPS Reservoir Modelling Seminar, 8th March
The scope of this seminar will revolve around the petrophysical inputs to 3D Geocellular reservoir modelling, i.e. the determination, upscaling and distribution away from the wellbore of facies, porosity, saturation, permeability and the use of core and seismic data in conditioning these models. The seminar stems from an observation by many LPS members in conversations with board members that ;"ownership" of petrophysical data is often a cloudy issue in the multi-disciplinary environment that 3-D reservoir modelling engenders, and it is often a concern that there are many opportunities change the distribution of reservoir properties between the step up from wellbore to reservoir scale if one does not understand the mathematics of the (many) geo-statistical approaches available to the reservoir modeller.
We have presentations from software vendors such as Roxar and Schlumberger, consultancies such as Fugro-Jason and oil companies such as Shell and Statoil. For full details of the agenda please see the table below.