It was a fantastic project to work on and a massive success. I am very proud of this work and a great team of people who all pulled together to make it happen.
Mike - in a situation where you have polarity change which you illustrated (i,e. hard kick for water, sift kick for oil) good idea to create a cosine phase attribute volume (this gets rid of the polarity flip) pick on that and do amplitude/attribute analysis n the reflectivity volumes. I used this this on Everest Forties gas field which also has a polarity flip
Thanks Alan. We had some expert geophysicists on the team (including Simon, Ian, Russell, Kevin & Paul) as well as the renowned expert Jon ffrench who was with our JV partner. They did all sorts of clever things to map the hydrocarbon-bearing sands. In this video I am purposely trying to simplify the explanation so more viewers might understand the issue and the implications. Glad you didn't pelt me for the simple explainer.
Is a video about Gryphon (operated by Maersk Oil too) worthwhile, showing how the sand injectites were modelled, the 4D response observed and even a bit about the FPSO going off station? I worked on the GP3 fields for several years with Maersk and was heavily involved in the Balloch development as WRFM manager. Happy days! Your video brought back some good memories.
Thanks for your note Doug. Gryphon is another field close to my heart as I was subsurface manager for the field in the Kerr-McGee days and TCM rep for Harding (which I later worked on at Taqa). There's a lot to show at Gryphon and the injectites and their imaging will certainly be of interest to the viewers. We will add it to our list - we have numerous videos at various stages of readiness, so it maybe some time........ ATB, Mike
good content, before shale boom, Permian conventional field also have been trying to get 2X oil from the so called "Residual Oil Zones", and lots of horizontal wells were added
I think there is huge potential in abandoned fields which have had years or in some cases, decades, to depressurise, re-saturate and re-equilibrate. We have workflows for undertaking such studies and are working a redevelopment which should be capable of delivering another 80 million barrels of oil. Would you be so kind as to point me to any papers on successful Permian field re-developments. I would be interested in understanding how these worked.
@@mikecooper2093 I enjoyed this video a lot , decommissioned fields may be redeveloped by fresh folks - the one you worked on did well bit other fields have had less success - One that cold be great is Buchan which was due to be redeveloped by Jersey oil, Mohit talks a good game and his people have logical plans. Although the economics have been challenged by our new government
Great insights, thanks for sharing.
It was a fantastic project to work on and a massive success. I am very proud of this work and a great team of people who all pulled together to make it happen.
Mike - in a situation where you have polarity change which you illustrated (i,e. hard kick for water, sift kick for oil) good idea to create a cosine phase attribute volume (this gets rid of the polarity flip) pick on that and do amplitude/attribute analysis n the reflectivity volumes. I used this this on Everest Forties gas field which also has a polarity flip
Thanks Alan. We had some expert geophysicists on the team (including Simon, Ian, Russell, Kevin & Paul) as well as the renowned expert Jon ffrench who was with our JV partner. They did all sorts of clever things to map the hydrocarbon-bearing sands. In this video I am purposely trying to simplify the explanation so more viewers might understand the issue and the implications. Glad you didn't pelt me for the simple explainer.
Thanks Alan, I hope Mike's response explains we were trying to simplify the story. Hopefully it's not too wrong!
Is a video about Gryphon (operated by Maersk Oil too) worthwhile, showing how the sand injectites were modelled, the 4D response observed and even a bit about the FPSO going off station?
I worked on the GP3 fields for several years with Maersk and was heavily involved in the Balloch development as WRFM manager. Happy days! Your video brought back some good memories.
Thanks for your note Doug. Gryphon is another field close to my heart as I was subsurface manager for the field in the Kerr-McGee days and TCM rep for Harding (which I later worked on at Taqa). There's a lot to show at Gryphon and the injectites and their imaging will certainly be of interest to the viewers. We will add it to our list - we have numerous videos at various stages of readiness, so it maybe some time........ ATB, Mike
good content, before shale boom, Permian conventional field also have been trying to get 2X oil from the so called "Residual Oil Zones", and lots of horizontal wells were added
I think there is huge potential in abandoned fields which have had years or in some cases, decades, to depressurise, re-saturate and re-equilibrate. We have workflows for undertaking such studies and are working a redevelopment which should be capable of delivering another 80 million barrels of oil. Would you be so kind as to point me to any papers on successful Permian field re-developments. I would be interested in understanding how these worked.
that should say re-pressurise
@@mikecooper2093 I enjoyed this video a lot , decommissioned fields may be redeveloped by fresh folks - the one you worked on did well bit other fields have had less success - One that cold be great is Buchan which was due to be redeveloped by Jersey oil, Mohit talks a good game and his people have logical plans. Although the economics have been challenged by our new government
Ummh! I know Buchan. That's all all I'm going to say........