Minutes, FORCE Reservoir Characterization meeting,

05 April 2006 at NPD

 

Referent: Janka Rom (NPD) 

Present: Chris Townsend (Shell), Jens Martin Hvid (Dong), Andor Hjelbakk (ConocoPhillips), Janka Rom (NPD) 

1.Upcoming workshop on SBED

Title: SBED – Uses & Abuses 

Organizing committee: Chris Townsend, Mike Young (Hydro) and Carsten Elfenbein (Statoil). They will be supported by the rest of the Reservoir Characterizing Group.

Date: The workshop will be held at NPD 3rd ( and 4th) October 2006. Janka Rom informed that Valhall (auditorium) at NPD has been booked for 3-4 October 2006. It was decided to also reserve one of the core viewing rooms at NPD.

Lectures: We have for the time being 6 speakers who have said yes to hold lectures at the workshop, and 1 optional speaker. We must have at least 10 lectures to fill one day including core viewing. An option is to have a software demo if we can not fill the program with enough lectures. We will ask for abstracts to be put on the FORCE Web-site in front of the workshop.

Preliminary information will be put on the FORCE Web-site as soon as possible.

Suggestions to additional content:

- We will add a subtitle to ”SBED – Uses & Abuses”  to embrace those who don’t use SBED, but could have interest in the topics presented at the workshop.

- Can Geomodelling, the company who develops SBED, give a presentation of the present status on SBED software development and the philosophy behind it?  

- Can Statoil show that SBED leads to more efficiency and better results?

- Should we try to spread the lectures on several different depositional environments?

- Have one lecture on what SBED can do that is not covered by other software?

- What can SBED be used to other than facies modelling?

Further work:

ACTION: The members of the Reservoir Characterization committee are urged to go to their companies and look for persons who can give lectures at the workshop. Not all the companies use SBED, but maybe someone is doing similar work on other software that they can present.

The organizing committee will continue their work on putting the workshop program together.

2. Next meeting        

The next meeting will be 23rd May, 9-12 at NPD. Then we will finalize the planning and program for the SBED workshop.

2. AOB          

The FORCE seminars and workshops are open for everyone, unless the committees are looking into something internal/secret.