Leveraging Complex Geologies

Tyson Bridger

GEO ExPro Magazine

... ever more complex geologies into the models. Including the building of intrusion objects in structural modelling helps better model salt. Emerson...

Risk assessment of carbon storage at potential Midwest Regional Carbon Initiative (MRCI) sites using NRAP Open-IAM component models

Stuart Skopec, Sanjay Mawalkar, Veronika Vasylkivska, Priya Ravi Ganesh, Autumn Haagsma, Mark Kelley

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... Assessment Model NRAP-Open-IAM, we assessed the risk of brine and CO2 leakage along nearby, hypothetical cemented wellbores and through the caprock layer...

3D Printing: A Dip Into an Evolving Technology

Lawrence Pidsley

GEO ExPro Magazine

... with a 3D-printed model of her heart. 30 GEOExPro November 2017 This vision of the effects of additive manufacturing – or 3D printing – was espoused...

Reservoir Characterization Using Three-Dimensional Fault Restoration

Karen S. Hoffman, Derek R. Taylor, John W. Neave

Indonesian Petroleum Association

.... The resulting property model correctly shows the distribution of properties developed pre-faulting. Reservoir management decisions may be made with greater...

Oil Spill Modeling Study for Banyu Urip Oil Field Development Project in Cepu Block, East Java Province, Indonesia

Elviera Putri, Miana Mediana, Yuli Suharnoto

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... a hydrodynamic model at the coastal area using SMS version 8.0. The second step was to develop an interface program to connect the output of step one as input...

A Novel Probabilistic Approach for GOR Forecast in UnconventionalOil Reservoirs

Yuewei Pan, Guoxin Li, Jianhua Qin, Jing Zhang, Lichi Deng, Ran Bi

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... present a novel probabilistic approach Markov-Chain Monte Carlo coupled with Logistic Growth Model (MCMC-LGM) to forecast the GOR and simultaneously...

Abstract: Improving the Statics Solution through De-migration: A Canadian Foothills A-PSDM Case History; #90172 (2014)

Jiwu Lin, Sylvestre Charles, Josef Heim

Search and Discovery.com

... process. The error was only discovered in the middle of the depth imaging phase as the tomography velocity model building iterations were no longer...

Abstract: Application of Target-oriented VVAZ on Relatively thin Fracture Reservoir; #90174 (2014)

Stephen K. Chiu, Jack Howell, Jason A Stein, Samik Sil, and Jeff Malloy

Search and Discovery.com

... velocity changes to fractures in rocks. The simplest anisotropic model to describe azimuthal variation of velocity, azimuthal anisotropy, is transverse...

Improving Net-to-Gross Reservoir Estimation with Small-Scale Geological Modeling, by Peter Phillips, and Renjun Wen, #40252 (2007).

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Geobody Modelling and Reservoir Characterization of Siliciclastic Wara Formation in Khashman Field, Kuwait, #41005 (2012)

Bhaskar Chakrabarti, Meshal Al-Wadi, Lin Ye, Jalal Dashti

Search and Discovery.com

... modeled to incorporate inside 3D structural model. Modeled geobodies show geometry and orientation of channel sand inside the Wara Formation across...

Reservoir Characterization of Bassein Formation in Mukta Field, Western Offshore Basin, India; #50740 (2012)

Vinay Jain, Mohit Khanna, Iti Agrawal, Rajeev Lakhera, Anurag Grover, and Ajay Kumar

Search and Discovery.com

... Geocellular model has been attempted for proper characterization of heterogeneities (vertical and horizontal) of Bassein Pay. Reservoir...

Prediction of Multi-Scale Fluvio-Deltaic Stratigraphy by Forward and Inverse Modeling of Integrated Source-to-Sink Sediment Flux; #120112 (2013)

Joep Storms, Dirk-Jan Walstra, Nathanaël Geleynse, Gerben de Jager, Andrea Forzoni, Karl Charvin, Kerry Gallagher, Liang Li, Gary Hampson, and Bert Jagers

Search and Discovery.com

... a new catchment model to predict the sediment flux from the hinterland, and a coupled floodplain-delta-shoreface forward stratigraphic model...

Polarization Filter by Eigenimages and Adaptive Subtraction to Attenuate Surface-Wave Noise; #41565 (2015)

Stephen Chiu, Norman Whitmore, Michael Gurch

Search and Discovery.com

... to construct a surface wave noise model and then applies an adaptive subtraction to remove the noise. Statics and signal-to-noise ratio are two of the key...

Time-Depth Modeling in High Pore-Pressure Environment, Offshore East Coast of India; #30463 (2016)

Nidhi Jindal, Ajoy Kumar Biswal, Kumar Hemant Singh

Search and Discovery.com

... tested on four models: a) the linear interval velocity model in depth, b) the linear interval velocity model in time (TWT), c) the average velocity model...

Reservoir Modeling … An Insider's History of a Key Enabling Technology, #70356 (2018).

W. Scott Meddaugh

Search and Discovery.com

.... The ability to generate very large and very detailed reservoir models gave rise to the still unresolved issue of how much model complexity is actually useful...

Predicting Reservoir Properties from 3-D Seismic Attributes with Little Well Control - Jurassic Smackover Formation, Bruce S. Hart, Search and Discovery Article #40046 (2002)

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Numerical Modeling of Falling-Stage Topset Aggradation: Implications for Distinguishing Between Forced and Unforced Regressions In the Geological Record

Guy D. Prince, Peter M. Burgess

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... topset aggradation might develop during relative sea-level fall using 1264 runs from a simple diffusional stratigraphic forward model. Topset aggradation...

A Vaca Muerta Geomechanical Modelling Workflow for Optimizing Well Spacing, Completion Intensity and Well Profitability while Mitigating Casing Deformation Risks

J. Will, S. Eckardt

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... and reservoir modeling incorporates a range of multi-disciplinary inputs such as the layered geologic model, well drilling and landing zone, completion design...

Prediction Project Task Completion Using Supervised Machine Learning Method: A Conceptual Approach

Muhammad Riandhy Anindika Yudhy, Andrey Putra Wijayanto

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... and their associated lessons learned and used them to construct the solution. Kaushik[1] attempted to use a linear multi-regression model using the completion...

Chapter 10: Reservoir Modeling and Fluid-Flow Simulation, Ivie Creek Case-Study Area - Geological and Petrophysical Characterization of the Ferron Sandstone for 3-D Simulation of a Fluvial-Deltaic Reservoir (MP-02-6)

C.B. Forster, S.H. Snelgrove, J.V. Koebbe

Utah Geological Survey

... of the primary porosity has been modified by diagenesis. A gridded, two-dimensional (2-D) digital model of the stratal architecture was generated...

Identifying geologic facies through seismic dataset-to-dataset transfer learning using convolutional neural networks

Joseph Stitt, Adam Shugar, Rachael Wang

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... cost and accuracy of predicting geological facies. A U-Net architecture is used to train a baseline model with an offshore New Zealand dataset...

ADMM-based full-waveform inversion of ground-penetrating radar data

A. Jalali, H. S. Aghamiry, A. Gholami

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... Obtaining a reasonable subsurface model both qualitatively and quantitatively from recorded GPR data has always been a challenge. Traditional methods...

Subsurface Surveillance in Low Permeability Oil Reservoir at Tanjung Field Barito Basin … South Kalimantan

Trisakti Kurniawan, Bambang Prasetiyo, Darwin Tangkalalo

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... with a seismic inversion may help to solve the problem. In term of dynamic model, stochastic geological modeling guided with seismic can give more...

A strategy for acoustic impedance direct inversion in depth domain

Ruiqian Cai, Chengyu Sun, Shizhong Li

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... of the depth-domain seismic data, the traditional convolutional model cannot be used to calculate the synthetic seismogram in depth domain. Therefore...

3-D Reservoir Characterization and Integrated Completion Optimization for Understanding Horizontal Well Spacing and Frac Staging of the Niobrara Formation, DJ Basin

Meagan Stephens, Jack Wiener, Muthukumarappan Ramurthy, Pat Kundert, John-Bosco Tran

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... (and all of their respective uncertainties) into a comprehensive reservoir model to determine resource-in-place, understand well recovery factors...