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Technology Watch from The Data Room - EAGE/EUROPEC Conference 2009 Proceedings, Amsterdam
The Data Room, Oct 2009
Shell’s 12 safety rules
EAGE attendance was low, particularly noticeable at the plenary sessions with only around 50 present for the Mature Basins session and only 20 at the start of the HSE2 session. The organizers need to take a rain check as to what is really of interest to attendees. Perhaps we should too, after all, what is ‘Mature Basins’ and HSE to Technology Watch? Well, the answer to that is twofold – we can only report on what actually goes on in these shows even if they are somewhat peripheral to our technology focus. Also such ‘industry at large’ presentations broaden the mind and also provide a snapshot of the extent to which technology underpins the diverse workflow of the upstream. Note the ‘extent’ qualifier. In the Mature Basins session, contributors gave their own companies or themselves most of the credit for their success, although technology, in the form of direct hydrocarbon detection and Schlumberger’s Petrel, did get a mention.
The impression given in the HSE session was that industry safety is improving but that there is no room for complacency. There is a marked shift in risk from oil company employees to contractor personnel. Road traffic accidents make up the majority of fatalities. Shell has introduced ‘12 life saving rules’ which apply to all Shell and service company personnel. A presentation from a Dutch aviation safety expert discussed the human factor in accidents, human-machine interaction and the use of standard operating procedures.
‘Uncertainty management’ is an extremely popular field. BP presented use of its ‘Top Down Reservoir Modeling’ approach to facility design/sizing of an Angolan FPSO. Shell (with Sonardyne) has successfully deployed an acoustic sea floor subsidence monitoring system to help plan 4D seismics on Ormen Lang. Seismic acquisition continues to get more and more esoteric. A WesternGeco presentation introduced the use of near simultaneous multiple sources shooting into a complex wide azimuth recording array. The Paris School of Mines and IBM are adapting ‘dusty deck’ seismic migration algorithms to the new world of multi-petaflop computing. It is expected that million shot migration workflows will be realizable on tomorrow’s 100,000 plus core machines. At the entry-level end of the technology spectrum, Google Sketchup and open source software like Collada and GeoTools are extending geographical information systems to 3D geology. Adrok’s low powered ‘invisible’ laser light exploration system that is claimed to ‘see’ up to 4km deep with near perfect correlation with lithology was met with considerable skepticism. On the exhibit floor, novelties included Fugro-Robertson’s Plate Wizard – an ArcGIS-based plate tectonic reconstruction mapping tool, a ‘virtualized workstation’ running GeoFrame (on Linux) simultaneously with Petrel (on Windows).
Highlights
- Mature Basins Session
- HSE Session
- BP’s uncertainty management
- Preparing for multi-petaflop computing
- Open Source – Sketchup, Collada, Google Earth
- Virtualization on the desktop
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