“MUDSTONE SEMINAR”

 9TH April 2003 at NPDs offices

Agenda 

08.30

Registration
 

09.00  
Introduction
 

09.15

Mudstones in the Petroleum System: Present Status and Future Challenges, Andrew Aplin, NRG, Scool of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, University of Newcastle

 

10.40

Coffee Break
 

11.00

“Petrophysics and Wellbore Stability in Shales”, Tron G. Kristiansen, Subsurface Rock Mechanics Advisor, BP
 

11.30

“Petrophysical challenges in evaluating mudstone successions”, Bjorn Nystrand, Robert Trice and
Siv Torgersen, Norske Shell
 

12.00  

Core viewing
“Mudstone core examples from the Balder area”
Nowell A. Briedis, Esso
 

 

Core examples from Well 2/4-C-11, Phillips
 

13.00

Lunch
 

13.45

"Sealing efficiency of shaly cap-rocks in deep offshore clastic", Dominique Grauls, TotalFinaElf
 

14.15

“The Evidence for Thermogenic Hydrocarbons in Immature Mudstones”, Niall McCormack and Ingrid E.I. Øxnevad
 

14.45

Core viewing
Core examples from Well 7533/3-U-1, Robert Williams, NPD

Core examples from Well 30/9-10,
Anke Wolff, NPD

 

 

15.30

Wrap up discussion. The way forward for mudstones

 



 

 

 

 

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