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2002 SEG Annual Meeting postconvention workshops

Corresponding author: SALevin@lgc.com

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In addition to forums and special sessions, the 2002 Annual Meeting included several postconvention workshops of timely interest. Some of them will later be followed by special sections in TLE—the D&P Forum in July 2003—and/or online publication of abstracts for individual workshop presentations. For now, the following summaries, submitted by workshop organizers, provide the SEG membership highlights of most of the workshops.

	The Best of the D&P Forum

 
This workshop presented highlights from the August 2002 Development and Production Committee's Summer Forum, "Improved Prediction, Productivity, and Profitability Using Geophysical Tools," in Snowmass, Colorado.

Workshop-featured highlights consisted of nine 15-minute papers. The first three featured the instrumented oil field. The first paper presented the oil company perspective on the future of the instrumented oil field; the second discussed the upcoming technology for smart wells; and the third was on ocean-bottom seismic cables.

The next section featured three papers on "while-drilling" technology. The topics were: financial and technical impact of uncertainties in the placement of deviated wells; application of logging while drilling to guide the well placement and evaluate the formation; and application of seismics while drilling for hazard avoidance and formation evaluation.

A poster on the application of digital holography for D&P featured a 2 x 4 ft 3D holographic image of an oil reservoir that allowed delegates to see and "touch" the oil field in 3D. A short presentation on the future of this D&P technology followed.

The workshop concluded with talks on high resolution crosswell seismics, monitoring heavy oil production with surface seismics, and the application of mechanical vibration technology for enhanced oil recovery.

Although the workshop was too short to fully encapsulate a discussion-heavy, five-day long forum, leaving out significant topics, it drew more than 100 participants.

The Best of the 2002 D&P Forum: "Improved Prediction, Productivity, and Profitability Using Geophysical Tools"   Organizer: Mike Wilt (EMI) An operating company's vision for the instrumented oilfield, D. Johnson (ExxonMobil) Fiber . . . [Full Text of this Article]