Natural Catastrophe Risk Modelling for Northwest Australia Offshore Installations

Tomohiko Inamura, Francis Lobo, Rie Hirose, Hajime Sano

Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association (APPEA) Journal

... be provided for damages, costs and liabilities resulting from severe storm systems, such as hurricanes and cyclones. Insurers monitor, with a view...

Queenslands coal seam gas (CSG) projects … hard won lessons relevant to regional development

Katherine Witt, David Close

Australian Energy Producers Journal

...’t have to be perfect but make it clear where there are uncertainties. • Be honest and upfront about project benefits and risks equally. Do not focus...

Finding a Home for Australian LNG in Developing Power Markets

Craig Henderson, David Miller

Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association (APPEA) Journal

... ongoing operating costs Speculative investment, without significant supply and off-take agreements, and perhaps incomplete regulatory approvals...

A Regulators Perspective: Well Integrity Considerations in Decommissioning

Claire Hick, Derrick O’Keeffe, Mark Bourne

Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association (APPEA) Journal

... estimated that deferral can increase the costs by one to two orders of magnitude (King 2009). Challenges associated with decommissioning of old wells...

Advanced VSP modeling for efficient data acquisition in deepwater subsalt well

Manish Lal Khaitan, Rafael Guerra, Francesco Miranda, Emmanuel Spadavecchia

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... positions that could be realistically recorded in about 24 h, beyond which the survey would likely be cancelled due to the high costs involved. We show how...

SUBSURFACE STORAGE

Edison Sirodj, GEO ExPro Staff

GEO ExPro Magazine

... have not been extensively drilled, geological uncertainties around the reservoir and seal do expose more of a risk. possible. However, no matter...

Optimising Technology Adoption for E&P Strategies

Jess B. Kozman

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... in what is described as "an environment of deliberate uncertainty". * First, data acquisition costs are hugely expensive compared to the cost of acquiring...

Did You Know That Rocks Have Memory?

Åsmund Drottning, Per Avseth, Tore Nordtømme Hansen, DIG Science

GEO ExPro Magazine

...-resolution seismic data Rapid access to interpretation ready data Reduced costs & less land disruption • • • • • Same Channel/Valley Same Stratigraphic...

A study on how simultaneous sweeping rate affects high productivity seismic acquisition

Bai Jie, Wang Changhui, Zhai Lixin, Zhou Heng, Deli Peng, Zhou Datong

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... 25,000 VPs per day (Zhang and Zhu, 2021). As always oil price uncertainties and fluctuations have a major impact on the geophysical industry and ways...

Introduction

Parker D. Trask, H. Whitman Patnode

AAPG Special Volumes

... countries, where drilling costs are apt to be high, the question of whether or not adequate source beds underlie the areas that are being prospected...

Seismic-Based Pore Fluid Characterization for Improved Landslide Geohazard Assessment in Gas Pipelines: Utilizing VP/VS and Poisson Ratio Analysis

Muhammad Aldi Firdaus, Sufi Hamdan Mazida, Ari Kurniawan, Sri Rahayu, Fajar Rahman

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... leakage is dangerous because it will decrease gas distribution and increase maintenance costs, and financial loss is inevitable. The worst-case scenario...

What if you need seismic to understand your geological model? Exploration in the UK Southern North Sea Rotliegend Transition Zone; #90017 (2003)

Hubert J. M. Dejong, Richard Knight, Ray McClenaghan, Franek Mrozek

Search and Discovery.com

... and the Rotliegend reservoir is capped by a thick sequence of Zechstein evaporitic seals, the major risks and uncertainties are "structure" and the occurrence...

Abstract: 4D Seismic & Petroleum Geomechanics for Hydrocarbon Reservoirs; #90171 (2013)

Sunjay Sunjay

Search and Discovery.com

... operating costs and maximized recovery. Differences between actual and predicted performance are typically used to update the reservoir's geological...

Abstract: Optimization of Stimulation Strategies Using Real-time Microseimic Monitoring in the Horn River Basin; #90174 (2014)

Yuri Rodionov, Richard Parker, Mike Jones, Zuolin Chen, Shawn Maxwell, Tim Leslie, and Larry Matthews

Search and Discovery.com

... immediate changes to the stimulation strategy. Horn River Basin exploitation is still in its early stages for many operators. Uncertainties existed relating...

Seismic in Understanding a Geological Model: Exploration in the UK Southern North Sea Rotliegend Transition Zone, by Hubert J. M. Dejong, Richard Knight, Ray McClenaghan, Franek Mrozek, #40114 (2004).

Search and Discovery.com

An Innovative Approach for Estimating the SW and Porosity Using Gas and Mud Logging Data in Real Time; #40824 (2011)

Giulia Beda and Devendra Tiwary

Search and Discovery.com

... to the uncertainties inherent in data acquisition. This paper describes a new methodology, developed by Repsol, of interpreting mud logging data...

Steam Piloting in the Aruma Reservoir, Awali Field, Bahrain, #20362 (2016).

Stanley W. Stearns, Aamer Al Balushi, Arief Hendroyono, Mark R. Lambert

Search and Discovery.com

... existing Mishrif (Rubble) steam flood facilities to minimize costs. core Tatweer’s thermal pilot Aruma Thermal Pilot Pilot well spud Nov 2014 Completed...

Geological Methods for Evaluation in a Brave New World … Unconventional Reservoir Monitoring

K. Christopher Dick, James Hnat, Deniz Cakici, Abhijit Mookerjee, Ben Stephenson

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... converge to discuss the key uncertainties and issues that affect unconventional reservoir development. However, in order to properly leverage the power...

Prediction of Buried-Hill Productive Carbonate Reservoirs Using Electrical and Acoustic Image Logs, Ordovician Formation, China (I)

Feng-Ming Zhou, Zhao-Wei Si, Fa-Wu Lin, De-Fang Liu, Da-Li Wang, Xian-Ran Zhao, Ping Yan

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... contributors to oil reserves and production are from the three types of buried-hill carbonate reservoirs, a fracture reservoir, a fracture-vug...

Estimation and Interpretation of Hydraulic Fracture Parameters from Microseismic Data in Shale Plays or Are Pairs of Horizontal Stimulated Wells Generating a More Complex Stimulation?

Robert Hull, Rob Meek, Mike Milliken, John Ndungu, Michael Thomas

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... of reserves. Acquisition Systems Our typical observational technique is to place twelve 3C phones over a 1,100’ vertical interval and monitor directly...

A Framework for Inclusion of Faults in Coal Seam Gas Risk Assessments

Titus A. Murray, William L. Power

Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association (APPEA) Journal

... geoscientists estimate fault-related groundwater flow around CSG projects. Because the uncertainties are considerable, both in the variations of aquifers...

New Methodology for the Generation of the Structural and Petrophysical Conceptual Model with Limited Information; #41472 (2014)

Giorgio De Paola, Ruben Rodriguez Torrado, Sonia Embid

Search and Discovery.com

... and propagation; it follows the application to a benchmark case and a summary of conclusions. Methodology The assessment of reserves, reservoir structure...

Application of static-dynamic modeling for tight gas reservoir: A case of H reservoir in Early Cretaceous, Indus Basin

Chen Yang, Junxian Chai, Jianlin Li, Qihai Nie, Jianfang Yang, Wenwen Yu, Bo Wang, Guibin Dong, Yingxiao Wang, Changsheng Zhao

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... procedures including fracture framework, geostress field, and fluid-solid interaction. The economic and human costs of the procedures are high because...

Monitoring of CO2 plume movement using time-lapse distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) data

Tuhin Bhakta, Bob Paap, Vincent Vandeweijer, Trond Mannseth

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... (∆Sg ). The DAS technology has recently emerged as a promising geophysical motoring tool due to its low deployment and maintenance costs and densely...

The Impact of Oil and Gas Infrastructure in Marine Ecosystems: A Global Vision for Informing Decommissioning Decisions

D. L. McLean, T. Bond, J. C. Partridge, S. Rouse, M. Love

Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association (APPEA) Journal

... with an immense decommissioning challenge. Uncertainties in regulation and costs, coupled with limited environmental data, stifle consideration...