September 18th & 19th Seminar

 

Day 1

 

08:30 - 09:00               Registration/Coffee  

09:00 - 09:05               Welcome & Safety   

                                                

 Session I:  Geological Control on Physical properties of Shales

 

                                    Chairman: Christian Hermanrud (Statoil)

 

09:05 - 09:35               Keynote - Andy Aplin: Depositional and diagenetic controls on shale texture and structure (University of Newcastle)

 

09:35 - 10:00               From Shale to Clays, A.P. Bathija, M. Batzle (Colorado School of Mines) and M. Prasad (Indian Institute of Technology)

          

10:00 - 10:25               From geological processes and petrophysical properties to workflow and toolkits: Are we consistent?  C. Hermanrud, G.M.G. Teige and H.M. Nordgård Bolås (Statoil)

 

10:25 - 10:50               Velocity, density and porosity versus depth in mudstones offshore Norway, Øyvind Marcussen, Christer B. Peltonen, Nazmul H. Mondol, Knut Bjørlykke & Jens Jahren, (Department of Geoscience, University of Oslo).

 

10:50 – 11:15              Coffee Break            

 

Session II:  Acoustic and Electrical Properties of Shales

                                   

                                    Chairman: Erling Fjær (Sintef)

 

11:15 - 11:45               Keynote - Brian Hornby(bp) : Elastic and electrical properties of a compacting shale: physical measurements and theoretical framework.

                                   

11:45 - 12:10             Resistivity-Velocity Transforms Revisited, Pinar Hacikoylu (Rock Solid Images), Jack Dvorkin, and Gary Mavko (Stanford   University)

 

12:10 - 12:35              Permeability of clays during burial and its relationships with stress,          porosity and acoustic velocity - An experimental study

                                    Nazmul Haque Mondol, Knut Bjørlykke, Jens Jahren, Christer Bertel Peltonen and Øyvind Marcussen (Department of Geoscience, University of Oslo)

 

12:35 - 13:00               Discussion - Moderators: David Dewhurst (CSIRO) / Nader Dutta (WesternGeco)

 

 

 

13:00 - 13:50               Lunch           

 

 

 

Session III – Pressure & Stress impact on acoustic properties

 

 Chairman:  Tron Kristiansen (bp)

 

 

13:50 - 14:20               Keynote by Dan Ebrom: Effective signatures of stress, Dan Ebrom, Martin Albertin (BP)

 

 

14:20 - 14:45             Longterm monitoring of porewater pressure around the Mont Terri Rock laboratory in the Opalinus clay formation, Paul Marschall and Peter Blümling (Nagra – National Cooperative for the Disposal of Radioactive Waste)

 

14:45 - 15:10               Stress determination and pore pressure measurements performed at the Meuse/haute-Marne Underground Laboratory,

                                    Y. Wileveau and J. Delay, (ANDRA – National Radioactive Waste management Agency, France).

                                   

15:10 - 15:35               Coffee Break

 

15:35 - 16:00               Impact of Heterogeneity and Stress on Petrophysical and Ultrasonic Response in Shales, David N. Dewhurst, Anthony F. Siggins, M. Ben Clennell, (CSIRO), Hege M. Nordgård Bolås (Statoil).

 

16:00 – 16:25              The effect of stress path on the sonic response of Pierre Shale

                                    Najwa Yassir, Christian Lehr, Arjan van der Linden, Frans Korndorffer and John Dudley - Shell International Exploration and Production

 

16:25 – 16:50              Discussion - Moderator:  Frans Kets (Shell) / Erling Fjær (Sintef)

 

19:30                          Dinner at De Røde Sjøhus sponsored by BG Norway and Statoil

 

 

 

 

 

 

Day 2

                                   

Session IV – Time-lapse effects in Shales

Chairman: Olav Barkved

 

09:00 - 09:05               Welcome & Safety   

 

09:05 – 09:45              Keynote - Luca Duranti: "Constitutive relationship for elastic anisotropy of shales: High frequency model" by Luca Duranti and Russ Ewy. (Chevron)

 

09:45 - 10:10               Acoustic Wave Velocities in Shales: Experimental studies and modeling,  Erling Fjær, Audun Bakk, Jørn F Stenebråten, Rafig Manafov, Rune M Holt, SINTEF Petroleum Research/NTNU

 

10:10 - 10:35               4D seismic observations of velocity changes in shales during unloading, R. S. H. Pettersen, O. I. Barkved, bp

                                   

10:35 - 11:00               Coffee Break           

                                   

11:00 - 11:25               Using 4D seismic data and geomechanical modelling to understand pressure depletion in HPHT fields of the Central North Sea, Rob Staples, Joel Ita, Rebecca Nash, Paul Hague & Rhian Burrell - Shell International Exploration and Production

 

11:25 – 11:50              Gullfaks: 4D in heterogeneous reservoir zones, Kjetil Andreas Festervoll and Youness El Ouair (Statoil)

 

11:50 – 12:15              4D sensitivity versus net-to-gross for finely layered sand-shale reservoir units by Alexey Stovas and Martin Landrø, NTNU.   

 

 

12:15 - 1300                Discussion – Moderators: Martin Landrø (NTNU), Olav Barkved (BP)

 

13:00 - 13:50               Lunch           

 

Session V  – Shales and impact on imaging

Chairman: Gerd Kleemeyer (Shell)

 

13:50 - 14:20              Keynote - Rodney G Johnston (bp) :

 “Imaging in the Caspian despite the Maykop shale”.

 

14:20 - 14:45               Imaging overburden properties using passive seismic methods, Michael Kendal (University of Bristol)          

 

14:45 - 15:10              Depth consistent P- and S-wave seismic angle tomography

S.-K. Foss (Statoil Research), B*. Ursin (NTNU) , M.V. de Hoop (Purdue University, USA), A. Sollid (Hydro ASA)

 

15:10 -15:30                Summary and Reflections - Knut Bjørlykke (University of Oslo) /

                                    Bjørn Ursin (NTNU)

 

15:30                           Joint Transport to Sola Airport