Welcome to the CREWES Sponsors Meeting Nov. 29 – Dec. 1, 2006 in Canmore, Alta

CREWES Sponsors Meeting Schedule

• Thursday 8:30-11:30am– Acquisition & Borehole

• Thursday 1pm-4:30pm– Processing & AVO

• Friday 8:30-11:30am– Imaging & Inversion

• Friday 1-4:30pm– Analysis, Interpretation, & Case Histories

Lawton/Bertram

CREWES Overview

Advanced research and education in geophysical exploration in partnership

with the resource industry

Specifically, to develop seismic and logging methods to image and monitor

the subsurface and its fluids

CREWES People & Funding• 5 faculty investigators, 12 research

geophysicists and support staff• 32 graduate students• Supporters

– 30 industrial sponsors– NSERC (Gov’t of Canada)– Alta. Govt.

• Graduated over 85 M.Sc. & Ph.D. students, 6 start-up companies, numerous 3/4C seismic surveys, 3 SEG products

CREWES deliverables:Reports, software, data, course

Research Industrial Applications

Undergraduate (B.Sc) andGraduate (M.Sc., Ph.D.)

Programs

International Training

Geophysical Professional Development Centre

Energy Research, Education, and Application

Hydrocarbon Discovery & RecoveryReservoir Geoscience, Engineering and Technology

APEGGA Accreditation(Canadian and foreign trained)

Education and Training

Time-Lapse Imaging

Sponsored-Research Transfer

Joint Projects/Group Surveys

Spin-Off and Associated Companies

Near-Surface Methods

Signal Processing/Seismic Imaging

Multi-Component Seismic Methods

Instrumentation, Physical Modeling,Field Surveys

Discovery

Recovery Process Resource AssessmentTa

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Ground WaterOil Sands

Unconventional Gas

Gas Storage

Heavy OilConventional Oil/Gas(CBM, Tight Gas, Methane Hydrates)

Conventional

ProductionFlooding/Injection

In Situ Upgrade

Petro

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ReservoirDescription

Exploration needs and seismic methods

1) Subsurface structure

2) Lithology & fluids

3) Monitor changes

PP imagingPS imaging

PS InversionVp/Vs, geostats

PP Inversion, AVO, geostats

Multicomponent:Surface & downhole

A nice 3C example of channel sand explorationAnderson and Larson (2006) – Nov. 27, 2006

PP time structure (2nd

processing attempt) to Rex coal overlying the sand channel

PS window amplitude (1st

processing attempt) below Rex coal

PS anomaly outline

Colony sand amplitude on horizon, but lithology & saturant?

The South Kadi 3C seismic project

Sand indicator: Vp/Vs over the OCS-E sand interval

Interpreted sand fairway (yellow) from low Vp/Vs

Cantarell oilfield, Campeche Mexico(Chernikoff et al., 2006)

0 2.5 5

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Top Cretaceous

Top Jurassic

Sihil fault

Sub-Sihil fault

TopCretaceous

Top Jurassic

0 2.5 5

km

PP and PS sections in raw times

2.0s

PS

PP

1.0s 0.5s + 0.5s = 1.0s

0.5s + 1.5s↑= 2.0s

Top Cretaceous (Akal reservoir) –“classic” gas effects

PP PS

What are we trying to do, again?

• Provide better structural images of the subsurface

• Determine lithologic information (rock type)

• Describe rock properties (poro., fracs, perm.)

• Estimate fluid content

• Monitor reservoir changes

• Help find & recover underground stuff!

And now, presentations, papers, & posters on….

• Geophone/accelerometer theory & testing• Field and lab data acquisition• Wellbore (logs & VSP) geophysics• Wave propagation (mathematics & modeling)• Seismic data processing, imaging, & inversion• Interpretation & case histories