New E+P Technologies
November 26, 2014 - London UKFinding Petroleum
natalie@findingpetroleum.com
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Integration It is becoming clear that a new generation of desk-top applications is arriving in which it is possible to integrate multi-measurements - data from satellites, vehicles, outcrops, well logs/core, seismic, production history - at scales ranging from global, regional, basin, play, prospect, field, for interpretation and visualisation by multi-users, by a team of petro-technical professionals. Integration will be a focus for this event. At the same time, although progress in the processing and analysis of any sort of petro-technical data is important, for example the analysis of well and seismic data to define areas of brittle shale which are suitable for fracking, the main innovations in petroleum technology arise from step changes in our ability to acquire data or to control what we do. Thus, this event will also focus on what’s happening in a few areas of "new technology", for example: Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPAs) Small RPAs are already used for activities such as: Inspection of rigs, stacks and the like Monitoring of pipelines Site survey planning for seismic operations Base-line, and follow-up, environmental surveys for, for example, well sites in ecologocally sensitive areas. A big lesson from the agricultural sector is that the use of RPAs is an order of magnitude less expensive than buying costly satellite data (using the same technologies: SAR, infra-red, high resolution cameras). But some RPAs are the size of executive jets! How much more is possible? And what happens when we can take the InterNet to remote wildernesses? Fibre Optics: Which has a range of uses, onshore and offshore, such as down-hole 'listening' both for seismic and for production-related signals; permanent reservoir monitoring; site securit Automation & Remote Control Can we cause a 'disruptive' change in both the cost and safety of offshore or remote operations by relying on digital technology much more? Our November Finding Petroleum Forum will address these technologies and, we hope, many more!