Joint Industry Research Consortium on Formation Evaluation

Center for Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering
Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering
The University of Texas at Austin

Eighth Annual Meeting

August 13-15 (Wednesday, Thursday and Friday), 2008

ACES Building
201 East 24th Street | Austin, Texas 78712 | 512.232.9090
Avaya Auditorium (ACES 2.302) and ACES Room 6.304
The University of Texas at Austin

PRELIMINARY AGENDA

This year's annual technical meeting will be held on Thursday and Friday. Wednesday is optional and is intended for software demonstrations. We are scheduling a dinner event on Thursday evening consisting of a relaxing boat ride in the upper section of Lady Bird Johnson Lake.

Wednesday, August 13

SOFTWARE DEMONSTRATIONS

Room 6.304, ACES Building (201 East 24th Street | Austin, Texas 78712 | 512.232.9090)

Live Software Demonstrations

• 8:30 AM Continental breakfast
  
  
• 9:00 AM Welcome. Logistics and time table for software demonstrations. General description of software modules, status of codes and user-friendly interfaces: Carlos Torres-Verdín
  
  
• 9:45 AM Break
  
  
• 10:00 AM Integrated Petrophysics and Well-Log Modeling Platform (UTPetroWeLM): Ben Voss, Matthew Hawthorne, and Malek Lemkecher
  
  
• 11:30 AM Update on the Borehole Resistivity Module of the UTPetroWeLM: Ben Voss and Gong Li Wang
  
  
• 12:00 PM Lunch
  
  
• 1:00 PM Borehole Nuclear Module of the UTPetroWeLM: Malek Lemkecher, Alberto Mendoza, and Ben Voss
  
  
• 2:00 PM Update on the Borehole Sonic Module of the UTPetroWeLM: Ben Voss and Jun Ma
  
  
• 2:30 PM Update on the Formation Evaluation Module of the UTPetroWeLM: Matthew Hawthorne
  
  
• 3:00 PM Break
  
  
• 3:15 PM Update on the Formation Testing Module of the UTPetroWeLM: Matthew Hawthorne
  
  
• 3:45 PM Update on the Pore-Scale Petrophysics Toolbox (PSPT): Guodong Jin and Tatyana Torskaya
  
  
• 4:15 PM Software update on finite-element simulation of DC/AC borehole resistivity measurements: David Pardo
  
  
• 4:30 PM Software update on finite-element simulation of borehole sonic measurements: Leszek Demkowicz
  
  
• 4:45 PM Software update on multi-physics simulation and inversion of borehole measurements: David Pardo
  
  
• 5:00 PM Adjourn
  
  
• No dinner event planned for this evening

Thursday, August 14

AVAYA Auditorium, ACES Building (ACES 2.302, 201 East 24th Street | Austin, Texas 78712 )

INTRODUCTION

• 7:45 AM Continental breakfast. 8:15 AM Project update: consortium status, summary of projects, accomplishments, and deliverables: Carlos Torres-Verdín.
  
  
• 9:00 AM Software status and future developments: Carlos Torres-Verdín.
  
  
• 9:30 AM Break

TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS (Part I)

Nuclear Logging

• 10:00 AM Linear iterative refinement technique for the rapid simulation of borehole nuclear measurements, Part I, vertical wells: Alberto Mendoza, Carlos Torres-Verdín, and Bill Preeg.
  
  
• 10:30 AM Linear iterative refinement technique for the rapid simulation of borehole nuclear measurements, Part II, high-angle and horizontal wells: Alberto Mendoza, Carlos Torres-Verdín, and Bill Preeg.
  
  
• 11:00 AM Interactive interpretation of nuclear logs with fast modeling procedures: Malek Lemkecher, Ben Voss, Alberto Mendoza, Carlos Torres-Verdín, and Bill Preeg.

Petrophysical Interpretation of Well Logs (Part I)

• 11:30 AM Quantitative comparison of the processes of oil- and water-base mud-filtrate invasion and their corresponding effects on borehole resistivity measurements: Jesús Salazar and Carlos Torres-Verdín.
  
  
• 12:00 PM Lunch recess: catering service

Petrophysical Interpretation of Well Logs (Part II)

• 1:00 PM A comprehensive 1D radial algorithm to simulate invasion and fluid withdrawal in the presence of oil- and water-base muds: Roohollah Abdollahpour, Kamy Sepehrnoori, and Carlos Torres-Verdín.
  
  
• 1:30 PM Modeling mud-filtrate invasion effects on resistivity logs to estimate permeability of vuggy and fractured carbonate formations: Luis J. Miranda and Carlos Torres-Verdín.
  
  
• 2:00 PM Numerical simulation of oil- and water-base mud-filtrate invasion in vertical and high-angle wells and corresponding impact on multi-component array-induction resistivity measurements: Ali Moinfar, Robert Mallan, and Carlos Torres-Verdín.
  
  
• 2:30 PM Numerical simulation of oil- and water-base mud-filtrate invasion in vertical and high-angle wells and corresponding impact on monopole and dipole sonic waveforms: Amir Reza-Rahmani, Robert Mallan, and Carlos Torres-Verdín.
  
  
• 3:00 PM Break
  
  
• 3:15 PM Numerical simulation of oil- and water-base mud-filtrate invasion in vertical and high-angle wells and corresponding impact on nuclear and resistivity logs: Zoya Heidari, Alberto Mendoza, Robert Mallan, and, Carlos Torres-Verdín
  
  
• 3:45 PM Joint 1D radial inversion of resistivity and sonic logs to estimate petrophysical and elastic properties of invaded formations: Robert Mallan, Gong Li Wang, and Carlos Torres-Verdín.
  
  
• 4:15 PM Joint, deterministic petrophysical inversion of gamma-ray, density, and resistivity logs acquired in thinly-bedded clastic rock formations: Jorge Sánchez, Gong Li Wang, Alberto Mendoza, and Carlos Torres-Verdín.
  
  
• 4:45 PM Separate and joint stochastic petrophysical inversion of density and resistivity logs acquired in thinly-bedded clastic rock formations: David Wolf, Gong Li Wang, Alberto Mendoza, and Carlos Torres-Verdín.
  
  
• 5:15 PM Adjourn
  
  
• 6:30 PM Boat ride and dinner: upper section of Lady Bird Johnson Lake (ending approximately at 9:30 PM).

Friday, August 15

AVAYA Auditorium, ACES Building (ACES 2.302, 201 East 24th Street | Austin, Texas 78712 )

• 7:45 AM Continental Breakfast

TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS (Part II)

Pore-Scale Petrophysics

• 8:15 AM Pore-level simulation of magnetic resonance measurements with arbitrary pulsing sequences in the presence of gradient diffusion: Guodong Jin, Emmanuel Toumelin, and Carlos Torres-Verdín.
  
  
• 8:45 AM Pore-level simulation of petrophysical properties of compacted and cemented grain packs constructed with spherical and ellipsoidal grains: Tatyana Torskaya, Guodong Jin, and Carlos Torres-Verdín.

Formation Testing

• 9:15 AM Comparison of wireline formation-tester sampling with focused and conventional probes in the presence of oil-base mud-filtrate invasion: Mayank Malik, Carlos Torres-Verdín, Kamy Sepehrnoori, Richard Jackson, Peter Weinheber, Oliver Mullins, Birol Dindoruk, Hani Elshahawi, and Mohamed Hashem.
  
  
• 9:45 AM Prediction of formation-tester fluid-sample quality in highly-deviated wells: Renzo Ángeles, Mayank Malik, Carlos Torres-Verdín, and Kamy Sepehrnoori
  
  
• 10:15 AM Break
  
  
• 10:30 AM Field examples of the estimation of capillary-pressure and relative-permeability from formation-tester measurements of pressure and fractional flow rate: Hamid Hadibeik, Renzo Ángeles, Carlos Torres-Verdín, and Kamy Sepehrnoori

Resistivity Logging (Part I)

• 11:00 AM 2.5-D numerical simulation of multi-component induction measurements with the mode-matching method: Gong Li Wang and Carlos Torres-Verdín.
  
  
• 11:30 AM Self-adaptive hp finite-element simulation of multi-component induction measurements acquired in dipping, invaded, and anisotropic formations: M.J. Nam, David Pardo, and Carlos Torres-Verdín.
  
  
• 12:00 PM Lunch recess: catering service.

Resistivity Logging (Part II)

• 1:15 AM Self-adaptive hp finite-element simulation of AC dual-laterolog measurements in dipping, invaded, and anisotropic formations: M. J. Nam, David Pardo, and Carlos Torres-Verdín.
  
  
• 1:45 PM Multi-physics inversion of borehole resistivity measurements: David Pardo, Carlos Torres-Verdín, M.J. Nam, and Victor Calo.

Sonic Logging

• 2:15 PM Numerical simulation of borehole sonic measurements in the frequency and time domains with a self-adaptive hp finite-element formulation enhanced with PML domain truncation: Christian Michler, Leszek Demkowicz, and Carlos Torres-Verdín.
  
  
• 2:45 PM Effects of petrophysical, environmental, and geometrical parameters on sonic measurements acquired in high-angle wells: Robert Mallan, Jun Ma, and Carlos Torres-Verdín,
  
  
• 3:15 PM Radial 1D simulation of monopole and dipole sonic waveforms in the presence of a centered tool and transversely isotropic elastic formations: Jun Ma and Carlos Torres-Verdín.
  
  
• 3:45 PM Break

SUMMARY SESSION

• 4:00 PM Portfolio of project proposals and development plans for 2007-2008: Carlos Torres-Verdín.
  
  
• 4:30 PM Summary and final round-up discussions. Action items and conclusions.
  
  
• 5:00 PM Adjourn
  
  
• No dinner event planned for this evening