FORCE SEMINARS/WORKSHOPS:                                                                                                                                         Guidelines for seminars

Title

Committee Time
Tentative Plans for  Seminars/Workshops 2008    
Field trip: La Popa Basin, Mexico (Salt tectonic and sedimentation), 28th - 31st October 2008

Information - La Popa Basin

Registration ends at October 10th.

Number of participants

Sedimentology/Stratigraphy 28th - 31st of October 2008

Finished Seminars 2008:
   
Sedimentology of the Barents Sea shown from Spitsbergen - Field-excursion to Spitsbergen to examine both clastic and carbonate sediments linked to the Barents Sea sedimentology with lectures

Organizing committee: Atle Folkestad/StatoilHydro and John Gjelberg/StatoilHydro
 

Sedimentology/Stratigraphy 25th of August - 1st of September 2008
Prospectivity in the Volcanic Province of the NW Atlantic - Seminar and field trip in Oslo
Sedimentology/Stratigraphy 4th - 6th of June 2008
Low salinity flooding - workshop at NPD

Program and presentations

 
Recovery Processes 15th of May 2008
Integration of Seismic Information in Geo-Modelling - workshop at NPD

This seminar was a collaborative effort betweeen the Reservoir Characterisation and the Seismic committees in FORCE

Geophysics 15th of April 2008
Where is the Sand in the Cretaceous and Tertiary of the Norwegian Sea? - Workshop at NPD

Final program

Organizing committe: David Milas (Noreco), John Berry (BP), Christian Magnus (NPD), Sverre Henriksen (StatoilHydro),  Tina R Olsen (Gaz de France), Kristin Nyberg (Noreco)

Sedimentology/Stratigraphy 26th - 27th of February 2008
What can change the game? Exploration and Reservoir Characterization (Program and presentations)

The seminar is arranged in cooperation between OG21 (www.og21.org) and FORCE (www.force.org).


Organizing Committee:
Arild Haugen (NPD), Tor Bjørnstad (IFE), Ane Lothe (Sintef), Odd Tjelta (EMGS), Per Gunnar Folstad (ConocoPhillips)

Fresco 13th of February
2008

Finished Seminars 2007:
 
   
The importance of stratigraphy in source rock prediction and hydrocarbon migration - workshop at the NPD. Final program

Abstracts and presentations      

Committee Members: Lorna Richmond (chair, ConocoPhillips),
Daniel Stoddart (RWE), Jon Halvard Pedersen (Statoil),
Marie Østensen (Statoil) & Richard Olstad (Chevron)


Sedimentology/Stratigraphy

 

4th - 5th of December 2007
CO2 for EOR - CO2 seen from the underground - workshop at NPD

Abstracts and presentations

Organizing committee: FORCE Recovery Processes Group

Recovery processes 30th of October 2007
Strat Trap Field Trip to La Popa Basin, Mexico, 24th - 28th October  2007      

Pictures
Sedimentology/Stratigraphy 24th - 28th October  2007
Mature Field Life Extension - Realising value from existing data, data acquisition planning and modelling - Workshop at NPD

Abstracts and presentations

Organizing committee: FORCE Reservoir Characterization Group

Reservoir Characterization 2nd of October 2007
Stratigraphic Traps and Salt Related Trapping - seminar on stratigraphic traps and their structural control at the NPD

Organizing committee:  Ståle Monstad/DNO, David Milas/Altinex, Donatella Mellere/Shell, Lorna Richmond/ConocoPhillips and Erling Bergfjord/ConocoPhillips
 
Sedimentology/Stratigraphy 20th of August 2007
Fieldtrip to Gulf of Corinth - follow up to the April Syn-Rift Seminar

Organizing committee: Edith Fugelli/BP, Mette H. Eliassen/ConocoPhillips, Dag Helland-Hansen/Chevron, Tina R. Olsen/Gax de France, Odd tangen/ExxonMobil
Sedimentology/Stratigraphy 3rd - 9th of June 2007

Sediment Dispersal Patterns in Syn-Rift Settings - Syn Rift Seminar at NPD

List of participants

Organizing committee: Edith Fugelli/BP, Mette H. Eliassen/ConocoPhillips, Dag Helland-Hansen/Chevron, Tina R. Olsen/Gac de France, Odd Tangen/ExxonMobil
 

Sedimentology/Stratigraphy 24 - 25th of April 2007
Workshop on "Enhanced Recovery by water additives" arranged by OG21 TTA3 in cooperation with FORCE at NPD

    Summary

Organizing committee: Tore Blaker/Hydro and Anna Inger Eide/NPD

Recovery Processes 8 February 2007

Finished Seminars 2006
:
 
   
Coupled Modelling: A Full Physics Approach to Reservoir Modelling
at NPD Offices in Stavanger, Norway

Agenda          Invitation         CMG Presentation         Presentation

 
List of participants (68)

Organizing committee: Trond G. Kristiansen/BP

Geomechanics 21 - 22 November 2006

Workshop  "Small-scale modelling and upscaling: Current status and tools" at NPD

Agenda     Participants (21)

Organizing committee: Chris Townsend and Mike Young/Hydro, Carsten Elfenbein/Statoil
 
Reservoir Characterization
16th October 2006

Workshop on structural core logging at NPD

Agenda

From Core to Production...

List of participants (68)

Organizing committe: Erling Bergfjord/ConocoPhillips, Alastair Welbon/Statoil, Chris Dart/EON Ruhrgas, Cecilie Laugen/NPD and Claudia Guargena/Shell

Structural Geology 4 October 2006

Workshop on Foam at NPD

Agenda        Invitation 37 participants

 
Organizing committee: Dag Wessel-Berg/Sintef and Benedicte Kvalheim/Hydro
Recovery 29th September 2006

Agenda

Physical Properties of Shale: The impact on imaging at NPD

Call for papers and invitation

74 Participants per 17.9.

Organizing committee:Olav Inge Barkved/BP, Craig Hartline/ConocoPhillips, Gerd Kleemeyer/Shell
Seismic Methods 18th - 19th September 2006
Svalbard field trip  (sed strat)
 

Sedimentology/Stratigraphy

 

4 - 11 September 2006
Barents Sea Reservoirs  
  

Invitation   Agenda    Participants: 70
  
Organizing committee:John Gjelberg/Norsk Hydro, Sidsel Kirkemo/Total, Pamela Kaiser/Gaz de France, Bjørn Lundschien/NPD

 
Sedimentology/Stratigraphy 23 - 24 May
2006
Sub-Basalt Exploration and Imaging

A two days seminar on sub-basalt exploration was arranged by the FORCE sub-basalt working group 29. - 30. March 2006, at the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate.
The aim of the seminar was to give an up-to-date status on Atlantic Margins basalts and geophysical challenges. Speakers were invited from the industry, academia and service companies."

Agenda and Presentations                  Participants:96
Research Committee 29 - 30 March 2006
Geological Evolution of Eastern Greenland: Implications for Hydrocarbon Prospectivity Norwegian and UK Continental Shelf

Agenda       Abstracts               Participants: 116

Organizing committee: Paul Milner/BP (leader), Gregers Dam/Dong, Edith Fugelli/BP, Dag Helland Hansen/Chevron Texaco, Torben Olsen/Statoil
 

Sedimentology/Stratigraphy

 

14 - 15 March 2006

 

Past Seminars/Workshops 2004   2003    2002   2001    2000   1999    1998   1997   1996    1995

2005

Title

Committee Time
Statfjord & Triassic Formations Workshop

Programme  Participants: 82

Organizing committee: Odd H Tangen, ExxonMobil (leader) Anna Strømback/Statoil, Ingrid Magnus/DONG, Alex Cullum/Statoil, Nowell Briedis/ExxonMobil
Sedimentology/Stratigraphy 5 - 6 December  2005
     
Surfactant  and polymer flooding - revisited one day seminar at NPD

Programme     Participants: 35

Organizing committee Benedicte Kvalheim/Hydro
Recovery 9 November 2005
Geophysical Monitoring - 4D, a key enabler for future integrated reservoir management
Agenda      
Participants 110
Seismic Methods 26-27 September  2005
Field trip to Corinth   Information 1 (3,9MB) and information 2 (4,7Mb)                 Invitation     Information      
Participants: 12                    

Structural Geology

5-10 June 2005

OG21 Strategy Workshop on Exploration and Reservoir Characterization at Flor & Fjære
Information   Agenda  List of Participants                                                   Participants:  29

Board

31 May 2005
Workshop: MIOR/MEOR     Invitation and agenda                                       Participants:  33 Recovery processes 24 May 2005
Biostratigraphy : Applications, New concepts and techniques                  Participants:  27
Invitation and agenda  Abstracts

Organizing committee: Craig Harvey, Shell  (leader) and Iain Prince, Statoil
Sedimentology/Stratigraphy 26 May 2005
2004

Title

Committee Time
Deep marine setting (including field trip to Karoo, South Africa)
Workshop & Field trip: Flyer      Invitation/cost       Agenda
Pictures from Fieldtrip                                             Participants: 27
seminar and 15 field trip

Sedimentology/Stratigraphy

November 10-19 2004

Fluid and  Lithology Prediction from Seismic Data - the Current Status
Result of Questionaire    Abstract/Presentations   Summary                                      Participants: 149
Seismic Methods September 27-28 2004
Barrier/Bar workshop                                              Participants: 32 seminar/13 field trip
Workshop & Field trip: Flyer     Invitation/cost      Agenda incl abstract
Sedimentology/Stratigraphy Aug 31-Sep 3 2004
New Strategies in Petroleum Research                                                  Participants:  58
Invitation       Agenda   
      Presentations
FResCo May 13-14 2004
Advanced Wells - Lessons Learned (application experience) and Future Directions/Opportunities                                                                     Participants:  80
Call for papers  Invitation    Agenda    
Presentations
Advanced Wells April 21-22 2004
Sandstone Injection workshop                                                             Participants:  41
Invitation              Agenda        
   Abstracts
Sedimentology/Stratigraphy April 15-16 2004
Workshop : Upscaling                                                                           Participants:  61
Invitation          Agenda           Presentations
Reservoir Characterisation March 30-31 2004
2003

Title

Committee Time
Modelling, Stratigraphy and sedimentology of turbidites - Seminar in the Ainsa Basin     
Preliminary programme                                                 Participants: 32 seminar/13 field trip
Organising Commitee:: Morten Bergan, RWEDea, Simon Knight, DONG  Bjørn Kåre Bryn, Statoil  
Sedimentology/Stratigraphy Sep 29-Oct 4 2003
Deepwater Seismic Challenges                                                                           Participants:  68
Contact person: Gerd Kleemeyer   Invitation     Agenda/presentations            Summary
Seismic Methods September 18 2003
Structural Geomodelling workflow Workshop                                          Participants:  97
Contact person: Grim Gjeldvik, BP    Background  Invitation   Agenda    Presentations  
Structural Geology May 26-27 2003
Future Directions in Cooperative Petroleum Research                            Participants:  77
Contact person: Claus Clausen      Purpose           Agenda          Presentations
FResCo

 

May 20-21 2003
Non-reservoir mudstones,  opportunities and challenges for improved exploration and development success        Invitation     Agenda          Summary                            Participants:  26
Contact person Robert.Trice Shell.
Reservoir Modelling

 

April  9 2003
Lysing & Lange Formation workshop                                                                Participants:  87
This workshop provides a unique opportunity to both geologists and geophysicists to examine
variability on the development of the Lysing and Lange Formation along the Norwegian Shelf.
Cores will be displayed from the Dønna Terrace, Halten Terrace, Helland Hansen, Møre Basin,
Møre Margin and the northern North Sea.
Final program
Contact persons: Paul Van Veen (ConocoPhillips) and Tina R Olsen (BP)
Sedimentology/Stratigraphy March 24-26 2003

 

2002

Title

Committee Time
Workshop:  Tidal architecture and signature in regressive vs transgressive shorelines Invitation        Agenda      Organising commitee:   Rodmar Ravnås (Norske Shell), Sidsel Haug (Fortum Petroleum) and Allard Martinius (Statoil). Sedimentology/Stratigraphy  
Seminar:  New opportunities for monitoring the dynamic processes in the reservoir
 
Invitation                            Presentations
                                                            Participants:   53
Organising commitee:
Øystein Tesaker (Statoil), Rolf van Kleef (Shell), Sigurd M Erlandsen (Norsk Hydro), Phillip Keül (TFE), Tom Tinholt (DNO), Arild Haugen (FORCE), Karen Olson (BP), Odd Arve Solheim (Statoil), Jon Hognestad (Norske Shell)
Advanced Wells October 23-24 2002
Workshop:  Polygonal Faulting and Sand Remobilization                            Participants:  58
Invitation                          Program 
(PDF)  Organising committee: Grim Gjeldvik (BP), Claudia Guargena (Norske Shell), Peter Keller (Amerada Hess)
Structural Geology October 22  2002
Workshop:  Ainsa -Turbidite Reservoir Modelling - Improved reservoir models by use of field analogues!     Invitation        Final program  (PDF)         Presentations 
Organising commitee: Morten Bergan (RWE Dea), Simon Knight (DONG), Tina Rasmussen Olsen (BP) and Kjell Buer (BP)                                             Participants seminar: 41 Field trip: 25
Sedimentology/Stratigraphy September 23-28 2002
Workshop:  Ainsa - Use of outcrop analogue for increased understanding of sand distribution in deep marine setting.                              Participants seminar 28  Field trip: 21
Invitation    Program
(PDF-format)   Detailed program/information
Technical program for Field Trip (PDF-format)
Sedimentology/Stratigraphy June 10-16 2002
Seminar:  4C/OBS Data Processing and Interpretation - Old Myths, New Insights
 
Invitation    Program/Presentations                                                   Participants: 107
Seismic Methods April 22 2002
Seminar:  Future Petroleum Research Directions - Interaction between oil companies and research institutions.        Program/Presentations                                          Participants:   67 FResCo April 8-9 2002
Workshop:  Prestack Data - The key to modern interpretation    (Assessing the Unborn)           Program/Presentations           List of participants                                    Participants:   88 Seismic Methods February 6-7 2002

 

2001

Title

Committee Time
Workshop:  Offshore Norway Tidal Environments Core Workshop                                         
 
Program/Registration            Participants                                              Particapants:  104
Sedimentology/Stratigraphy December 3-5 2001
Seminar: Basics of statistics and uncertainty and application in resource evaluation and risking  Program/Presentations      Participants                                       Participants:   47 Uncertainty November 20 2001
FORCE - Past and Future   Invitation
Day  1 - Executive Session    Day 2 - Technical seminar   (Agenda and Presentations)
Day 3 - Quantitative Reservoir Characterisation   (Agenda and Presentations)

                                                                                     Participants  (Days 2 & 3)  102
Board October 29-31
Workshop: Multiphase Upscaling  Invitation    Agenda                           Participants    26
Program committee: Arne Skauge (Norsk Hydro), Stein Rune Jacobsen (Statoil)
Recovery Processes June 20 2001
Seminar:  Key uncertainties from Seismic to Geomodelling.
 
(Program                                                                                    Participants    74
Program committeee: Olav Inge Barkved (BP), Michael Barrett (Norsk Chevron),  Arild Haugen (FORCE Secretariat),Åge Kristensen (Statoil), Ingrid Magnus (Norsk Hydro), Henning Omre, (NTNU) and Johannes Rehling (Norske Shell)
Seismic Methods June 5 2001
Seminar:  Deep marine core workshop 
Program  Draft program       Bill McCaffrey's summary                         Participants    48
Sedimentology/Stratigraphy May 15-16 2001
Chlorite coatings in Siliciclastic Reservoir.
Agenda    Recommendation from the seminar  Program committee: Kjell Sigve Lervik (Statoil), Rodmar Ravnås (Norske Conoco), Paul van Veen (Phillips)                           Participants    50
Sedimentology/Stratigraphy April 4 2004
Value of Smart Wells.        Agenda (incl. abstracts and presentations)
 
Program committee: Sigurd Erlandsen (Norsk Hydro), Øyvind Tesaker (Statoil), Phillip Keùl (TotalFinaElf) and Hans Kristian Andersen (NPD)                                       Participants     95
Advanced Wells March 28-29 2001
Workshop: Imaging of sub-basalt areas using long offset seismic data
Agenda                                                                                            Participants      77
Seismic Methods February 28 2001

 

2000

Title

Committee Time
Workshop:  Downhole hydrate formation in combined water - gas injection     Agenda Recovery Processes November 7 2000

3D Volume Interpretation & Visualization :      Agenda with abstracts and presentations
Program committee: Steven Tarran (Norsk Agip) (leader), Phillip Keül (TotalFinaElf), Bill Shea(Statoil), Erik Finnstrøm (Norsk Hydro),Arild Haugen,Gro M Galta (Force)        Participants: 180

Seismic Methods Oct 31-Nov 1 2000
Executive Workshop   Agenda   Minutes  Groupsession   Pictures                Participants     25 Board June 20 2000

 

1999

Title

Committee Time

Faults, fractures and reservoir flow:  Introduction       Agenda (abstracts/presentations)
Program committee: Terkel Svava Olsen  (Statoil (leader)), Chris Thompson (Chevron), Erwin Kroemer (Mobil), Dag Bering ( NPD), Nils Jørgen Ventzel  (Phillips), John Clark (RWE-Dea), Einar Sverdrup (Saga)                                                                                 Participants   143

Reservoir Modelling October 4-5 1999
Seminar on Ocean Bottom Seismic: Agenda  (abstracts/presentations)     Participants   109 Seismic Methods September 28-29 1999

WAG Injection, Field Experience.
Invitation
          Agenda                                                                     Participants     58
Program committee: Arne Skauge (Norsk Hydro), Jan Bygdevoll (NPD), Terje Aurdal (Saga), Alf Svindland (Fina), Bjørn Reinholdtsen (Shell), Jan Åge Stensen (Statoil), Gerard Gaquerel (Elf)

Recovery Processes June 2 1999

Advanced Reservoir Monitoring.
Invitation            Agenda (and presentations)                                        Participants     71
Program committee: Arne Skauge (Norsk Hydro), Jan Bygdevoll (NPD), Terje Aurdal (Saga), Alf Svindland (Fina), Bjørn Reinholdtsen (Shell), Jan Åge Stensen (Statoil), Gerard Gaquerel (Elf)

Recovery Processes June 1 1999
Rock Mechanics. Implications for Reservoir Characterisation and Hydrocarbon Production
Agenda (and presentations)
         Invitation                                           Participants     37

Program committee: E. Fjær, IKU,T. Høy,NPD, A.Svindland,Fina, J.M. Hvid, Fina Exploration Norway
Reservoir Modelling March 23-24 1999

Downhole/Subsea Processing .  Agenda & Presentations                       Participants     97
Program committee: Per Almdahl (Norsk Hydro), John Shaw (Statoil), Ole-Jacob Velle (Saga), Aly Hamouda (Phillips) and Eivind Torheim (Enterprise)

Advanced Wells March 16-17 1999

 

1998

Title

Committee Time
How to make the reservoir flow models also consistent with seismic data
Agenda
     Questionnaire     Presentations    Minutes             
Reservoir Modelling November 1998

Intelligent Wells.    Invitation      Agenda
Program Committee: Per Almdahl, Norsk Hydro, John Stewart, Shell, Thormod Johansen, Saga

Advanced Wells September 8-9 1998

Conditioning of Reservoir Models to Dynamic Data.  Agenda
Program Committee: Eivind Damsleth, Norsk Hydro, Finn Erik Jansen, Saga, Kristian Brekke, Saga

Reservoir Modelling March 30-31 1998

Modelling and Evaluation of Horizontal and Multilateral Wells.               Agenda 

Advanced Wells January 29 1998

Seismic Reservoir Monitoring:  Agenda        Questions to contractors   Program Committee: FORCE Work group on Seismic Reservoir Monitoring led by Hardy H. Nielsen, Phillips Petroleum

Seismic Methods November 19-20 1998

 

1997

Title

Committee Time
Relative Permeability.   Introduction:   Agenda
Program Committee: Arne Skauge, Norsk Hydro, Pål Eric Øren, Statoil, Ronald Maritvold, Mobil
Recovery Processes November 11-12 1997
Proppant flowback control                  Agenda
Facilitators:Ibrahim Abou-Sayed, Mobil and Halvor Kjørholt, Statoil
Advanced Wells June 1997
Numerical well test interpretation toll – a new era.
Minutes              
Facilitator: Fred Wagner, Esso Norge
Advanced Wells June 1997

IOR Challenges.                   Agenda    Program Committee: Ole Svein Krakstad, Statoil, Arne Skauge, Norsk Hydro, Tore Blaker, Saga, Anna Inger Eide, NPD, Sigbjørn Kalvenes, Mobil

Recovery Processes January 29-30 1997

 

1996

Title

Committee Time
Chalk research                         Minutes     Agenda     Projects: Joint Chalk Research Phase V
Workshop facilitator: Neal Nagel, Phillips
Chalk December 1996
Workgroup: Geomechanics                 Minutes
Facilitators: Mark Andersen, Amoco and Finn Engstrøm, Mærsk
Chalk December 1996
Workgroup: Geodescription                Minutes
Facilitators: Per Erik Øverlie, Amerada Hess and Fritjof Øverland, Amoco
Chalk December 1996
Workgroup: EOR processes                Minutes  Facilitator: Trond Jensen, Phillips Chalk December 1996
Workgroup: Reservoir Description        Minutes   Facilitator: Bob Dixon, Enterprise Chalk December 1996
Gas Condensate.  Introduction: Agenda   Project Initiated Program Committee: Arne Skauge, Norsk Hydro, Jon Knut Ringen, Statoil, Sigbjørn Kalvenes, Mobil, Hans Petter Hjermestad   November 6-7 1996
Chlorite Coating. Agenda   Program Committee: David Zornes, Mobil, Per Arne Bjørkum, Statoil Reservoir Modelling June 26 1996
Sand control     Minutes                  Facilitator: Fred Santarelli, Agip Reservoir Modelling May 1996
Seismic reservoir monitoring  Minutes   Seminar: Seismic Reservoir Monitoring November 1997
Facilitator: Ingrid Magnus, Saga
Seismic Methods May 1996
Permanent downhole monitoring tools      Minutes      Facilitator: Mark Andersen, Amoco Advanced Wells May 1996
Prediction and quantification of residual oil saturation  Minutes  Facilitator: Carl Sisk, NPD Recovery Processes May 1996
Analogue Studies               Minutes                     Facilitator: Kari Ofstad, NPD Reservoir Modelling May 1996
WAG-seminar:       Introduction         Agenda          Minutes
Program Committee: David Wilkinson, BP, Carl Sisk, NPD
Recovery Processes May 22 1996

Geosteering.  Agenda      Project Proposal   Minutes

  January 24 1996

 

1995

Title

Committee  
Advanced wells         Minutes               Facilitators: Inge Nysetvold, Saga, Einar Hegre, Statoil Advanced Wells November 1995
Seismic attributes and images  Minutes               Facilitators: Ingrid Magnus, Saga Seismic Metods November 1995

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