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First Break - Volume 23, Issue 1, 2005
Volume 23, Issue 1, 2005
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Cautious optimism for UK's offshore oil and gas development in 2005
The UK begins 2005 with some optimism about revived oil company interest in development of the country's mature oil and gas assets. But in Succeeding in a Challenging Environment, the UK Offshore Oil Association (UKOOA) warns that the recovery, although discernible as a result of industry and government initiatives, is fragile.
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E&P industry states responsibilities regarding potential impact of seismic surveys on marine mammals
The International Association of Oil and Gas Producers (OGP) and the International Association of Geophysical Contractors (IAGC) have published a position paper 'Seismic Surveys and Marine Mammals'. As the uncertainty continues, we publish here a slighty abbreviated version of the full text.
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Standards-based knowledge environments for the oil and gas industry
By T. CurtisTrudy Curtis, CEO and CIO, Public Petroleum Data Model (PPDM) Association, explains the background to the association and its work.
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Seabed marks continuing evolution of the E&P database
Authors P. Webb and D. QuigleyPeter Webb and Dean Quigley, Schlumberger Information Solutions, explain the issues involved in the development of a new database for the E&P industry citing their company's Seabed logical data model as an example.
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Why MTEM sounded a good idea at the time
By A. McBarnetProof if it was needed that electromagnetics (EM) may be a key emerging technology for the E&P industry has surfaced from the University of Edinburgh. Andrew McBarnet has been talking to Professor Anton Ziolkowski about a new spin-out company launched to develop multi-channel transient electromagnetic surveying as a tool for hydrocarbons detection on land and offshore.
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Constable's story of how the marine EM business was built
By A. McBarnetMarine EM pioneer Professor Steven Constable of Scripps Institution has been surprised as anyone at the rapid take-off of marine EM sounding for the E&P industry. He tells Andrew McBarnet about his involvement since the technology was first mooted in the early 1980s.
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Imaging shallow subsurface inhomogeneities by 3D multipath diffraction summation
Authors V. Shtivelman and S. KeydarThe article presents a new method for imaging shallow localized subsurface inhomogeneities. The method is based on stacking diffractions in 3D space using a multipath summation approach, where for every point to be imaged, the wavefield is stacked together along all possible diffraction trajectories. One of the main advantages of the method is that it does not require information on the subsurface velocity distribution. Application of the method to seismic data shows that it produces clear images of subsurface objects close to their true spatial locations. The proposed imaging technique can be modified for various applications based on stacking of seismic data in the time domain, such as CMP stack, pre- and post stack time migration, and others.
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Closed-loop reservoir management
Authors J.-D. Jansen, D.R. Brouwer, G. Naevdal and C. P. J. W. van KruijsdijkThe article discusses concepts and computational tools to enable 'closed-loop' model-based reservoir management. Also known as 'real-time' reservoir management, this involves the use of (uncertain) reservoir and production system models in combination with production measurements and other data, such as time-lapse seismics, to continuously update the models. The key sources of inspiration for our work are measurement and control theory as used in the process industry and data assimilation techniques and, in particular, their integrated application in a reservoir management workflow. As an example the authors present early results that illustrate the scope for model-based optimal control of waterflooding using real-time production data under uncertain reservoir conditions.
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