Lunch & Learn - Facies-based Reservoir Characterization through the Asset Lifecycle

Drs. Michel Kemper, Ikon Science's Director of Research and Innovation, will be in Houston and we would like to invite you to our office for lunch, and to hear his "Facies-based Reservoir Characterization through the Asset Lifecycle" talk.

Reservoir characterization is essentially the process of getting as much valuable information as possible out of a variety of data sources so that geological modelling and subsequent flow simulation, and key economic and technical decisions are optimally underpinned by that information. In this talk Michel Kemper will introduce a new facies-based approach that overcomes the issue of seismic lacking low frequencies. In essence, for each facies expected (e.g. Shale, Water-Sand, Oil-Sand), a low frequency model (LFM) representing compaction behaviour is constructed, and all are input to the inversion (i.e. the low frequency information is over-specified). This allows the LFM that is ultimately used, to be inverted for, i.e. it is an output, not an input. Case studies through the asset life cycle ranging from exploration through appraisal/development to production, will be discussed which demonstrate the commercial and technical advantages gained by this new game changing technology.

**Please note that this event is being hosted in-house at Ikon Offices for our network, operators, geos between jobs, and those with an academic interest. We would kindly request that competitors do not attend these private events.