Combining 4D Seismic and Reservoir Simulation – Key to Effective Reservoir Management

B-31 COMBINING 4D SEISMIC AND RESERVOIR SIMULATION – KEY TO EFFECTIVE RESERVOIR MANAGEMENT Introduction 1 ANDREY BAKULIN¹ NICK DRINKWATER¹ CLAUDE SIGNER¹ SARAH RYAN² and ANDY O’DONOVAN³ ¹Schlumberger Cambridge Research High Cross Madingly Road Cambridge CB3 0EL UK ²Schlumberger-Doll Research ³BP The recent advances in the field of reservoir management in terms of improved visualization increased computing power and increases in the quality and quantity of data collected can often be offset by the key problems of integration and communication among the varied members of an asset team. For example reservoir engineers work with rock and petrophysical properties such as porosity