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Geology & Geophysics

Modeling

Streamlining deeper waters efforts are further supported by the

Evaluate uncertainty from play to prospect

Studio E&P knowledge environment scale, calculate chance of success and

Audrey Leon spoke with drilling, to verify and appraise the target that enables multi-user collaboration, as risked volumes, and move prospects through to the exploration drilling program.

closures. well as effective capturing and sharing of

Schlumberger’s Alexander

Images from Schlumberger.

knowledge between remote users.

Neber, technical marketing

OE: Could you illuminate these deepwater

Deepwater exploration uses techniques challenges in more detail, for example, OE: What speci? c, software-related mea- based on acoustic and elastic inversion, manager, Software Integrated for Geophysics work? ows? surements are required to address reser- rock physics analysis, and property mod-

Solutions (SIS), to discuss how voir engineering challenges in deepwater?

Neber: Generally speaking, deeper eling. In addition, pre-drill pore-pressure software can solve

Neber: waters are accompanied by deeper analysis is key to evaluate pore pres- The primary goal of deepwater prospects, often hidden below com- sures that might be encountered during reservoir studies is to answer essential reservoir engineering plex and seismically opaque geological drilling. questions concerning structure, reservoir and other deepwater extent, compartmentalization, formation structures.

Exploration teams must illuminate quality, and producibility. Petrophysical

OE : How does Petrel make deepwater exploration challenges.

exploration less risky and and geological measurements can be more cost e