The Biennial Geophysical Seminar 2020
The Biennial Geophysical Seminar
The three challenges of the oil & gas industry
With rising global demand, highly volatile prices and increasingly stringent environmental regulations, the oil and gas industry faces three major challenges: 1. optimising the performance of its base assets, 2. maintaining cost efficiency, and 3. improving its environmental footprint.
The industry has already been through a tough several years of drastic cost-cutting and re-structuring, but is now more vigorous and adaptive and more resilient to a rapidly changing world than ever. To meet the increasingly difficult task of finding and producing more hydrocarbons we should both learn from past experience as well as trying new technologies and methods.
The biennial geophysical conference is the most traditional of all the geophysical events in Norway and has been organised in Kristiansand since 1975. The Norwegian Petroleum society and the programme committee is pleased to invite you to two days of interesting talks and fruitful network building in Oslo next March.
Special Offer for Young Professionals:
Bring a colleague under 30 for half price! Participant no. 2 or more under the age of 30 from the same employer receives a 50% discount on the conference fee. Contact the project manager tonje.raknes@npf.no for registration.
On behalf of the Organising Committee we look forward to welcoming you to the seminar in March 2020.
NPF and the programme committee with chairman Vetle Vinje
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Another successful Geophysical Seminar completed
Another successful Geophysical Seminar completed
Highlights at the Biennial Geophysical seminar
Highlights at the Biennial Geophysical seminar
The Biennial Geophysical Seminar - Call for abstract - Deadline extended to 15th of September!
The Biennial Geophysical Seminar - Call for [...]
Program
Monday 09. March
Registration
Get-Together with tapas and drinks
Tuesday 10. March
Registration and coffee
Welcoming addresse
Broadband acquisition and processing
Keynote: Looking forward, looking back: Seismic technology in Norwegian waters
The next generation source-over-cable acquisition in the Barents Sea
Authors: V. Vinje, T. Elboth, E. Kaszycka, G. Poole, N. Salaun, CGG
Shallow hazard determination using exploration 3D seismic data
Authors: P. Smith1, R. Milne2, G. Vey2, S. Way1, D. Brager1, M. Yanez1, G. Apeland1
Author’s Affiliation: WesternGeco1, AkerBP2
Coffee Break
Least-squares migration – the new standard for high-end imaging
Authors: Ø. Korsmo*, S. Arasanipalai J.Oukili, G.Rønholt, C. Hintz, PGS
Interbed multiples in the Norwegian Continental Shelf - modelling and attenuation through a variety of methods
Increasing Utsira basin resolution using Hexa and Ennea sources, a case study
Authors: Guillaume Henin1, Nicolas Salaun1, Andrew Wright1, Stephane Pellerin1, CGG
Exploration and Production case studies
Keynote: Considerations for seismic investments
Lunch
Integrated study to discover and characterize a shallow gas anomaly at Valhall
Authors: Einar Jarle Kjos, Fredrik Grastveit Jakobsen, John Ryan Paton, Ross Milne, Aker BP
Use of seismic amplitudes targeting undrained Lower Rannoch Fm. oilfilled sands, Vigdis field.
Coffee Break
Eldfisk OBN – A novel, cost efficient way of acquiring 4D seismic data with Ocean Bottom Nodes
Authors: Benedicte Myhre, Per Gunnar Folstad, Leila Bencherif-Sørensen, Ruben Thomassen, Victoria Flatås, ConocoPhillips
Improved Structural Imaging Using Joint Velocity and Q FWI on Eldfisk Ocean Bottom Seismic
Authors: A. Varghese1, K. McCluskey1*, J. Schultzen1, C. Henstock1, M. Naerheim2, B. Lyngnes2, L. Bencherif-Soerensen2, V. Flataas2.
Author’s affiliation: CGG1, ConocoPhillips2
Improved reservoir monitoring with PP & PS time-lapse imaging utilising up/down deconvolution: An OBC case study from the Edvard Grieg field
Authors: F. Twynam1, R. Ford1, P. Caprioli1, M. Hooke1, R. Whitebread1, P.E. Dhelie2, V. Danielsen2, K.R. Straith2
Author’s affiliation: WesternGeco1, Lundin Norway2
Gudrun 4D – a time lapse case study using an evolutionary processing approach
Authors: Per Inge Flo (CGG), Cris Henstock (CGG), Erik Hicks (CGG), Kyrre Simonsen (Equinor), Muhammad Faheem Abbasi (Equinor) and Kristoffer Sundøy (Equinor)
End of Conference day 1
Aperitif & Conference Dinner
Wednesday 11. March
Emerging technologies & Machine Learning
Keynote: Emerging technologies & Machine Learning
From plugs to plays - Integrated property prediction across scales with machine learning and deep neural networks in the Norwegian North Sea
Authors: Arne Klepp Kvalheim, Steve Purves, Behzad Alaei, Dimitrios Oikonomou, Eirik Larsen, Earth Science Analytics AS
Generative neural networks for seismic processing
Authors: A. J. Bugge, J. E. Lie, E. H. Nilsen, Lundin Norway AS
Coffee Break
SOM – an additional tool in reservoir characterization, an example from Barents Sea
Authors: M. Roudot, T. N. Helgheim, E. K. Dahl, M. J. Grepstad, E. T. Delaney, Equinor
Utsira: Processing and imaging a large-scale, high-density OBN survey
Authors: Rayment, T. Letki, L, DownUnder Geosolutions
Reducing sound levels emitted from marine seismic sources
Broadband multi-source acquisition based on the principles of signal apparition
Authors: P. Riste*. L. Amundsen*. F. Andersson†. M. Cogan*. Å. S. Pedersen*, J. Robertsson†. Author’s affiliation: *Equinor ASA, †Seismic Apparition GmbH
Field Monitoring, Multi-Azimuth
Cost-effective reservoir monitoring using seafloor measurements of gravity changes and subsidence
Authors: Hugo Ruiz, PhD, Martha Lien, PhD, Octio AS
Lunch
Grane PRM: Handling sparse acquisition challenges in processing
Authors: M. Berraki, N. Moyle, R. M. Elde, Equinor
Increasing resolution at Brent Level, a multi-azimuth Martin Linge case study
Authors: Nicolas Salaun1, Andrea Roubaud1, Guillaume Gigou1, Jean-Baptiste Mitschler1, Alessandro Pintus1, Daniel Fischer2, Inger Ruth Wikander2, CGG
Keynote: What is the future of the geo-community in Norway?
Closing remarks and result from best paper
End of Conference
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Practical information
Members of Conference Committee:
- Vetle Vinje, CGG Norge (Chair of Committee)
- Atle Aamodt, PGS
- Anniken Teigen, Petoro AS
- Mark Andrew Ackers, Spirit Energy
- Terje Dahl, Equinor
- Massimo Virgilio, Schlumberger
- Odd Petter Skogly, Shell
- Ruth Synnøve Haga Pettersen, Aker BP
- Leila Benchrif-Sørensen, ConocoPhillips
- Espen Harris Nilsen, Lundin
Venue:
Quality Hotel Expo
Snarøyveien 20, NO-1324 Lysaker, Norway
Conference fee:
NPF personal members NOK 8.400,- plus 25% VAT
Non-npf-members NOK 10.400,- plus 25 % VAT
Payment can be done upon registration by credit card (Master Card/Visa/AmEx) or by invoice. If the invoice needs to be changed due to wrong or missing information there will added a fee of NOK 150 to the total amount. All international payments must be approved before the conference starts.
The conference fee includes:
- Exended Abastract/ Conference papers
- Coffee/tea
- Lunches
Conference paper:
Extented abstracts from the conference will be available on Internet for those signed up two days before the conference starts.
Abstract Submissions:
For abstracts accepted for the conference program, the deadline to submit an extended abstract is 31st of January 2020. Template can be downloaded from this website. Please visit document named: NPF Abstract Template.
Membership of the Norwegian Petroleum Society (NPF)
We offer conference participants to purchase membership of NPF together with registration and payment for the conference:
1 year membership for conference participants – other local charters (NOK 1,000)
Accommodation:
Please make your reservation when signing up for the conference. Single room rate NOK 1.275 per night to be paid directly to the hotel.
Cancellations:
Cancellations must be received in writing by 24th February 2020, and will be subject to a cancellation fee NOK 2.000 unless a substitute delegate is offered. After this date, the full registration fee will apply, however, substitutions will still be accepted. Substitutions for registered delegates may be made at any time, but we would appreciate prior notification.
In case of cancellation of the conference by the Norwegian Petroleum Society, (NPF), the participant will be refunded the conference fee and/or the exhibition fee. Other expenses the participants may have are not refunded, and is not the responsibility of NPF.
Force majeure
Events beyond the control of the NPF – for example, but not limited to, extreme weather conditions, acts of war, terrorism, transportation shut-down (strikes or accidents), government regulation or advisory including travel warnings, serious illness or epidemics that makes it impossible to fulfill the obligations of conducting the conference entitle NPF to cancel the event without liability.
Conference paper:
Extented abstracts from the conference will be available on Internet for those signed up two days before the conference starts.
Programme changes:
It is sometimes necessary to change timing of the programme. The conference organiser will not be liable for any such unavoidable changes.
Contact:
For further information please contact:
Norwegian Petroleum Society
Tonje Raknes
Project Manager
tel. +47 983 06 117
E-mail: tonje.raknes@npf.no