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

Tenth Annual Meeting

August 18-20 (Wednesday, Thursday and Friday), 2010

Four Seasons Hotel-Austin

98 San Jacinto Blvd. , Austin , Texas , 78701

Tel: (512) 478-4500

Room Reservations: 512-685-8100

Room Reservation Discount Code: Formation Evaluation Consortium

---- 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 will be celebrating our TENTH anniversary with a new meeting location, exceptional food, and, as usual, excellent presentations!

Wednesday, August 18

SOFTWARE DEMONSTRATIONS

Four Seasons Hotel-Austin (Ballroom D), 98 San Jacinto Blvd., Austin , Texas , 78701

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   Status and Live Demonstration of the Integrated Petrophysics and Well-Log Modeling Platform ( Common Stratigraphic Framework (CSF) , or UTAPWeLS ), Part I: Ben Voss , Ankur Gandhi , and Rohollah A. Pour

12:00 PM Lunch

1:00 PM   Status and Live Demonstration of the Integrated Petrophysics and Well-Log Modeling Platform ( Common Stratigraphic Framework (CSF) , or UTAPWeLS ), Part II: Ben Voss , Ankur Gandhi , and Rohollah A. Pour

3:00 PM   Break

3:15 PM   Future Development Plans for the Integrated Petrophysics and Well-Log Modeling Platform ( Common Stratigraphic Framework (CSF) , or UTAPWeLS ): Ben Voss and Carlos Torres-Verdín.

4:30 PM   Software update on resistivity, sonic, and nuclear modeling, formation-tester, and invasion modeling: Carlos Torres-Verdín .

5:00 PM   Adjourn

Informal happy-hour and hors d'œuvre event planned for this evening: La Condessa

400-B W 2nd Street , Austin , TX 78701

Thursday, August 19

Four Seasons Hotel-Austin (Ballroom D), 98 San Jacinto Blvd., Austin , Texas , 78701

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)

Petrophysical Interpretation of Well Logs (Part I)

10:00 AM   Construction of reliable static and dynamic multi-layer petrophysical models in Camisea gas reservoirs, Peru : Ankur Gandhi , Carlos Torres-Verdín, Ben Voss, Johnny Gabulle (Pluspetrol Peru S.A.) an d Federico Seminario (Pluspetrol Peru S.A.)

10:30 AM    Improved estimation of mineral and fluid volumetric concentrations in thinly-bedded and invaded formations: Zoya Heidari , Carlos Torres-Verdín, and William Preeg.

11:00 AM    Static and dynamic modeling of a thinly-bedded turbidite sequence: Andy Popielski , Philippe Marouby, Carlos Torres-Verdín, and German Merletti (BP Americas ).

11:30 AM   Reservoir rock typing from log-derived Pc-Sw plots and invasion facies: Chicheng Xu and Carlos Torres-Verdín.

12:00 PM    Lunch recess: catering service

Petrophysical Interpretation of Well Logs (Part II)

1:30 PM    Experimental comparison of the processes of oil- and water-base mud-filtrate invasion through core filtration: Philippe Marouby , Andy Popielski, Carlos Torres-Verdín, and Luis A. Calçada (Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro ).

2:00 PM   Estimation of T2-D and T1-T2 maps from gradient-diffusion NMR measurements for accurate and reliable in-situ fluid typing: Kanay Jerath and Carlos Torres-Verdín.

2:30 PM   Bayesian inversion of tri-axial induction resistivity measurements for improved estimation of hydrocarbon saturation and net-to-gross: Qinshan Yan and Carlos Torres-Verdín.

3:00 PM     Development of a 3D fluid-flow simulator to model water- and oil-base mud-filtrate invasion, wettability alteration, and physical dispersion: Rohollah A. Pour , Carlos Torres-Verdín, and Kamy Sepehrnoori.

3:30 PM     Break

Production Logging

3:45 PM     Rapid numerical simulation of pulsed neutron capture logs: Jordan Mimoun , Carlos Torres-Verdín, and William Preeg.

4:15 PM     Quantitative interpretation of pulsed neutron capture logs in thinly-bedded formations: Jordan Mimoun , Carlos Torres-Verdín, and William Preeg.

4:45 PM     Numerical simulation of multi-phase production logging measurements using a coupled wellbore-reservoir model: Amir Frooqnia , Rohollah A. Pour, Carlos Torres-Verdín, and Kamy Sepehrnoori.

5:15 PM   Adjourn

6:30 PM   Catered Dinner ( Four Seasons )

Friday, August 20

Four Seasons Hotel-Austin (Ballroom D), 98 San Jacinto Blvd., Austin , Texas , 78701

7:45 AM   Continental Breakfast

TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS (Part II)

Nuclear Logging

8:15 AM   Rapid simulation of LWD nuclear measurements acquired in high-angle and horizontal wells for improved petrophysical and geometrical interpretation: Olabode Ijasan , Carlos Torres-Verdín, William Preeg, and Alberto Mendoza (ExxonMobil).

8:45 AM   Incorporation and benchmarking of a new second-order fast forward method to simulate Ecoscope LWD density measurements with UTAPWeLS: Edwin Ortega , [Jeffrey Miles, John Rasmus, Brad Roscoe, and Denis Heliot, Schlumberger].

9:15 AM   Progress report on the numerical simulation of LWD neutron-capture gamma-ray spectroscopy measurements: Oyinkansola Ajayi , Carlos Torres-Verdín, and William Preeg.

Sonic Logging

9:45 AM   2D finite-element simulation of borehole sonic measurements acquired in the presence of a LWD tool: Pawel Matuszyk , Leszek Demkowicz, and Carlos Torres-Verdín.

10:15 AM    Break

10:30 AM   Simulation of acoustic logging measurements acquired with borehole-eccentered tools using a hp-Fourier finite-element method:
David Pardo , Pawel Matuszyk, Victor Calo, Angel Mora, and Carlos Torres-Verdín.

11:00 AM   2D Joint processing of forward and backward extended Prony and weighted spectral semblance methods for robust extraction of velocity dispersion data: Jun Ma , Pawel J. Matuszyk , Robert K. Mallan, Carlos Torres-Verdín, and Ben Voss .

11:30 AM    Estimation of apparent frequency dispersion of flexural and Stoneley waves from sonic waveforms: Shan Huang , Jun Ma, and Carlos Torres-Verdín.

12:00 PM    Lunch recess : catering service .

Formation Testing

1:15 PM     Effects of highly-laminated reservoirs on the performance of wireline and while-drilling formation-tester sampling with oval, focused, and conventional probe types: Hamid Hadibeik , Mark Proett (Halliburton), Carlos Torres-Verdín, Tony van Zuilekom (Halliburton), Bob Engelman (Halliburton), and Kamy Sepehrnoori.

1:45 PM     Fast 3D streamline-based simulation of formation-tester measurements: Hamid Hadibeik , Carlos Torres-Verdín, and Kamy Sepehrnoori.

2:15 PM    Break

Pore-Scale Petrophysics

2:30 PM     Progress report on pore-scale modeling of dynamic petrophysical properties: Vahid Shabro , Carlos Torres-Verdín, Farzam Javadpour, and Kamy Sepehrnoori, with collaborations from Masa Prodanovic, Steven Bryant, Tad Patzek, Christopher Arns, Mark Knackstedt, and Ayodeji Jeje.

3:00 PM     Process-based sedimentation modeling using arbitrary-shape grains: Tatyana Torskaya and Carlos Torres-Verdín.

3:30 PM     Dynamic permeability at the pore scale and its effect on transient flow modeling: Vahid Shabro , Carlos Torres-Verdín, and Kamy Sepehrnoori.

SUMMARY SESSION

4:00 PM     Summary and final round-up discussions. Action items and conclusions: Carlos Torres-Verdín .

4:30 PM   Adjourn

For your convenience, we are please to offer Formation Evaluation Consortium Meeting attendees a group rate at the conference center hotel the Four Seasons Hotel-Austin

Four Seasons Hotel-Austin

98 San Jacinto Blvd. , Austin , Texas , 78701

Tel: (512) 478-4500

For reservations, please call:

Reservation Phone: 512-685-8100

Reservation Discount Code: Formation Evaluation Consortium

Room Type: King-City View

Room Rate: $195.00