Dec 14th-Downtown Tech Lunch: Integrating Geological, Petrophysical and Seismic Rock Property Data to Identify* ...
Complete Title: Integrating Geological, Petrophysical and Seismic Rock Property Data to Identify Prospective Areas and High-grade Locations
Sponsored by: DDN
Meeting Location:
Petroleum Club of Houston
1201 Louisiana, 35th
Houston, TX 77004
(Valet parking onsite.)
Meeting Time: 11:00 to 1:00 pm
Registration Begins at 11:00
Lunch Served at 11:30
Presentation starts at Noon
NOTE: You Must Be Logged In to Register.
Speaker: Paola Fonseca, CGG GeoConsulting
New technologies in seismic acquisition, processing and reservoir characterization are allowing for a better understanding of hydrocarbon reservoirs. The ability to implement this complete technological value chain allows us to tackle the most complex exploration and development projects (figure 1).
The focus of this study was a shallow water carbonate reservoir located in the southern Gulf of Mexico. The main objective was to identify areas associated with the presence of fractures and/or good porosity (often vuggy) to help delineate the areas with the greatest potential for hydrocarbon production within the carbonate reservoir. The characterization effort posed a significant challenge due to the many processes that have affected the reservoir’s formation. Compaction, diagenesis, fracturing, dissolution, compressional and extensional processes, salt tectonics, among others have affected the reservoir to varying degrees, making for a very complicated geological environment, requiring optimal data for its analysis.
At the end of the process, we were able to high-grade prospective areas using lithology and porosity estimates from the integration of geologic and seismic data as well as fracture information derived from the azimuthal inversion process.
Speaker Biography: Paola Fonseca, Project Petrophysicist, CGG GeoConsulting
Paola is a graduate of the Universidad de America in Colombia where she earned her Bachelor of Science in Petroleum Engineering in 2002. She has more than twelve years of experience as a petrophysicist working in both conventional and unconventional reservoirs. She began her career with Ecopetrol – ICP where she was responsible for the petrophysical evaluation of mature fields. Her work included the ongoing review, updates and improvements of the petrophysical model for the Llanito Field in the Basin through the Magdalena Valley and also work in the Piedmont Basin.
In 2007, she joined CGG in Ciudad del Carmen, Mexico where she worked on Cantarell Field projects, gaining a wide experience in the petrophysical characterization of naturally fractured reservoirs.
In 2012, Paola was transferred to the CGG Houston office to provide petrophysical interpretation and rock physics modelling expertise for inversion projects, gaining extensive experience working the unconventional plays in North America for seismic projects and regional integrated geological studies.
She has presented papers on the Porosity Discretization in Sihil (part of the Cantarell Field) in the Petroleum Congresses in both Mexico and Colombia, and also at the EAGE 2010 in Barcelona, Spain. She has authored and co-authored several papers and published a paper in the EAGE First Break.
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$45 |
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$55 |
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$10 |
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