New Strategies in Petroleum Research

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New Strategies in Petroleum Research

• Introduction
• By
• Kristian Kolbjørnsen, Chairman FResCo

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• FResCo mandate
• FResCo project list
• View from the oil companies
• Conclusion

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FResCo mandate

• Stimulate cooperation and promote research
  between oil companies and research institutes and
  universities.
• Maintain relations with NRC and OG21.
• Review and distribute incoming project proposals
  to the relevant committee(s) in FORCE.
• Responsible for arranging the Annual Seminar

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• The Fresco committee
• Kristian Kolbjørnsen(leader) DNO
• Kjell Sigve Lervik Statoil
• Ragnar Knarud Norsk Hydro 
• Rune Teigland Total EP Norge
• Mark Shahly BP Norge as
• Siri Helle Friedemann Research Council of
  Norway
• Arild Haugen Force Secretariate/NPD
• Ingrid Magnus Dong Norge
• Claus K Clausen ConocoPhillips
• The seminar organising committee consists of
  above plus
• Annik Myhre University of Oslo
• Martin Landrø NTNU
• Tor Arne Johansen University of Bergen

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Project List
Force project proposal list
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Sedimentology/Stratigraphy CommitteeNORWEGIAN
SEA RESEARCH PROJECT

• Problem
• Recent poor exploration results in the Møre and
  Vøring Basin indicate a serious problem in the
  prediction of the presence of reservoir sands.
• Seismic features such as flatspots have not
  proven to be prospective.
• Existing sand fairway models have been falsified.
• The aim of the project is to address two main
  uncertainties in the
• exploration process
• The absence of clay mineralogical input to a
  "rock properties" model for the Upper Cretaceous
  (shale rock properties in particular), enhancing
  seismic attribute evaluation
• Methodologies to predict sand-presence in a
  distal/basinal setting

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• Contractor Geological Institute, University of
  Oslo
• Project started March 2004 3years
• Total cost 4 mill NOK
• Funding expected from Norwegian Research
  Council
• Participating companies
• Conoco Phillips
• Norsk Hydro
• Gaz de France
• Statoil

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Presentations by companies

• Presentation of your company at the FORCE annual
  meeting for cooperation between the
  Universities/Research institutions and the Oil
  companies.
• On behalf of FORCE we kindly ask you to
  contribute with 1-2 overheads to be presented in
  the opening session on the annual meeting between
  Force and the Universities and Research
  organisations. The meeting is taking place on May
  13-14 th 2004 at NPD in Stavanger. The overheads
  will be presented by the chairman of the
  Force/Fresco committee.
• The overheads should show very general your
  company's research interests within Exploration
  and Increased Oil recovery (Force- area), future
  trends and, if possible, also list ongoing
  (official) projects. If you can include your
  company's need for candidates from the
  Universities, this will be highly appreciated by
  the Universities' representatives attending.
  Finally we kindly ask you to include a contact
  person for the Universities and research
  institutions for Force-related projects.

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The following companies responded

• BP Link
• ENI Link
• Esso Link
• Norsk Hydro Link
• OER Link
• Statoil Link
• Total Link
• Shell No Link

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Conclusions

• Only 7 out of 20 companies answered
• Difficult to make a short synthesis, but some hot
  items
• Time Lapse/4D, 4C, Rock mechanics, LFP, Imaging,
  Demultiple
• Seabed logging (EM)
• Real time reservoir management, E-field,
  visualisation
• WAG
• Sand injections
• Carbonates
• Intelligent Wells, Low cost efficient drilling,
  Low cost drainage points
• If you find some items on the slides of interest
  we advise you to take direct contact with the
  given contact persons.