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SPWLA 56 ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM
JULY 18-22, 2015
TECHNICAL PROGRAM
NOTE: Selected papers listed below may not be in the order in which they will be presented. The final
program may differ from that shown due to substitutions.
CARBONATE RESERVOIRS CASE STUDIES
AN MICP-BASED PORE TYPING WORKFLOW – CORE SCALE TO LOG SCALE, Paul Theologou, Mark
Skalinski, Robert Mallan, Chevron ETC
CASE STUDIES OF LOW RESISTIVITY PAY IN A CLEAN CARBONATE RESERVOIR , Del Angel Morales, Juan
Gerardo, PEMEX, Carlos Buenrostro, QRI, Alejandro Omar Hurtado, PEMEX, Francisco Damian Lopez
Aboites, PEMEX, Pedro Anguiano Rojas, Consultant, Maria de Jesus Correa Lopez, PEMEX
CHALLENGES OF DEVELOPING PETROPHYSICAL RESERVOIR CHARACTERIZATIONS IN COMPLEX LOW
POROSITY FRACTURED CARBONATES – INTEGRATING PORE GEOMETRY, DETERMINISTIC
PETROPHYSICAL ROCK TYPES AND SATURATION HEIGHT MODELS – PEMEX CASE STUDY OFFSHORE
MEXICO., J. Mendez de Leon, PEMEX , G. W. Gunter, NExT/Schlumberger, E.J. Viro, Consultant NExT
Schlumberger
DETERMINATION OF WETTABILITY FROM MAGNETIC RESONANCE RELAXATION AND DIFFUSION
MEASUREMENTS ON FRESH-STATE CORES, Chanh Cao inh , Steve Crary, Philip Singer, Andrea Valori ,
Nate Bachman , Schlumberger, Gabor Hursan, Shouxiang Ma, Ali Belowi, Ghazi Kraishan, Saudi Aramco
DIELECTRIC RESPONSES OF CARBONATES FROM AN ALBIAN CARBONATE RESERVOIR, CAMPOS BASIN,
BRAZIL, Michael B Clennell, Matthew Josh, Tongchen Han, Lionel Esteban, CSIRO
EFFECTS OF OIL BASE MUD ADDITIVES ON PETROPHYSICAL PROPERTIES ON CARBONATE RESERVOIR SAUDI ARABIA CASE STUDY, Abdullah Alakeely, Gabor Hursan, Charles Bradford, Saudi Aramco
ESTIMATING THE PERMEABILITY OF CARBONATE ROCKS BY PRINCIPAL COMPONENT REGRESSION OF
NMR AND MICP DATA, Edmilson Helton Rios, National Observatory, Adam Keith Moss, Timothy Neil
Pritchard, Brent Anthony Glassborow, BG Group plc., Rodrigo Bagueira de Vasconcellos Azeredo,
Fluminense Federal University, Brazil, Irineu Figueiredo, National Observatory
EVOLVING PETROPHYSICS OF THE OVERBURDEN – A SPECTROSCOPY APPROACH, Amitabha Chatterjee,
Harish Datir, Mirza Hassan Baig, Jack Horkowitz, Jim Grau, Schlumberger, Jeremy Goonting, Helen
Haneferd, Dianne Tompkins, Brett Wendt, ConocoPhillips
GAS PRODUCTION PREDICTION IN CARBONATE RESERVOIR BASED ON CT AND NMR LOGGING, Li Ning,
Wang Kewen, Research Institute of Petroleum Exploration & Development, PetroChina, Wu Lihong,
Southwest Oil and Gas Field Company, PetroChina, Zhang Gong and Wu Hongliang, Research Institute of
Petroleum Exploration & Development, PetroChina, Zhao Luzi, Southwest Oil and Gas Field Company,
PetroChina, Feng Qingfu and Feng Zhou, Research Institute of Petroleum Exploration & Development,
PetroChina
IMPROVED PERMEABILITY PREDICTION IN HETEROGENEOUS CARBONATE RESERVOIRS: A NEW
APPROACH USING ROCK TYPING AND WIRELINE FORMATION TESTING, Iulian N. Hulea, Shyamalan
Ramaswami, Daniela Frese, Shell Global Solutions
INTEGRATED PETROPHYSICAL ROCK CLASSIFICATION IN THE MCELROY FIELD, WEST TEXAS, Mehrnoosh
Saneifar , University of Texas A&M, Mark Skalinski and Paul Theologou, Chevron ETC, Clifford Cuffey,
Chevron MBCU, Rafael Salazar-tio, Chevron ETC
MULTIFREQUENCY DIELECTRIC TOOL IDENTIFIES OIL/WATER CONTACTS WITHIN COMPLEX MEXICAN
CARBONATES IN OIL-BASED MUD, Marco A. Cabrera R., Eric Decoster and Constancio I. Barajas G.,
Schlumberger, Antonio Sanchez Trejo and Julian Gonzalez Morales, PEMEX
MULTI-SCALE CHARACTERIZATION OF PORE STRUCTURE IN CARBONATE FORMATIONS FOR
ENHANCED ASSESSMENT OF PETROPHYSICAL AND COMPOSITIONAL PROPERTIES, Mehrnoosh Saneifar
and Zoya Heidari, Texas A&M University
NMR LOG INTERPRETATION IN BIMODAL CARBONATE ROCKS BASED ON CORE-TO-LOG INTEGRATION,
Frederico Bastos Schuab, UNICAMP/PETROBRAS, Alessandra Winter, CEPETRO/UNICAMP, Osvair Vidal
Trevisan, UNICAMP
PETROPHYSICAL APPLICATIONS OF THE ELASTIC MODULI MODELING: SECONDARY POROSITY,
SATURATION AND PERMEABILITY EVALUATION IN COMPLEX CARBONATES THROUGH THE ROCKPHYSICS TECHNIQUES, Sergey Vorobiev, Wintershall, Vladimir Vorobyev, Lukoil Overseas
RECONCILING THOMEER HYPERBOLAS AND SEISMIC ATTRIBUTES FOR ASSESSMENT OF WATER
SATURATION AND PERMEABILITY: CASE STUDY FROM TERTIARY CARBONATE RESERVOIR, Taoufik AitEttajer, Laurent Fontanelli, Mudaham Zen, Repsol
FORMATION EVALUATION OF CONVENTIONAL RESERVOIRS
A STATISTICAL APPROACH TO WIRELINE FORMATION TESTING PROVIDES A HIGHER LEVEL OF
RESERVOIR UNDERSTANDING, Waqar Ahmad Khan, Diptaroop Chakraborty, Rojelio Medina, Venkat
Jambunathan, Jim Galford, Luis Quintero, Ron Balliet, Rohin Naveena-Chandran and Sandeep
Ramakrishna, Halliburton, Tony Gonnell, Connie L. Bargas, Ryan T. Murphy and Arthur H. Saller, Cobalt
International Energy
ACOUSTIC LOG & QAQC PROCESSING, Ahmed AbdelKarim, BG Group Consultant Petrophysicist, Tim
Pritchard, BG Group Chief Of Petrophysics
ADVANCED FORMATION LOGGING: A CASE STUDY OF REVEALING THE TRUE POTENTIAL OF A GAS
RESERVOIR, Keith Boyle, Chevron, Djisan Kho, Schlumberger , Paul Pillai, Chevron , Olga Filipstova,
Schlumberger
ADVANCED RESERVOIR FLUID CHARACTERIZATION UTILIZING LOGGING-WHILE-DRILLING, A DEEP
WATER CASE STUDY, Franck Michel, Jerry House and James Wilkins, Halliburton, Rob Alexander,
Marubeni Oil & Gas (USA) Inc.
AN OFFSHORE GABON INTEGRATED RESERVOIR EVALUATION USING WIRELINE NMR AND PUMPOUT
FORMATION TESTER, Alain Boitel, Perenco, Wael Soliman and Bob Engelman, Halliburton
APPLYING A CONSISTENT EVALUATION APPROACH TO THIN BEDDED SANDS IN A GULF OF MEXICO
DEEPWATER FIELD, Dr. Sarita Salunke and Jeffry Hamman, BP
AUTOMATIC PROCESSING OF FORMATION TEST DATA IMPROVES SAMPLE PUMPOUT AND
CAPTURING REPRESENTATIVE SAMPLES IN VARIABLY PERMEABLE ZONES., James Deering, and Mustafa
Isa Al Abdul Mohsin, Saudi Aramco, Mark Proett, Aramco Services Company, Sami Eyuboglu and Waleed
Hatem Fakhry, Halliburton
CHARACTERIZATION OF FORMATION FRACTURES WITH MULTICOMPONENT INDUCTION LOGGING
BASED ON BIAXIAL ANISOTROPY MODELS: METHOD AND CASE STUDIES, Junsheng Hou, Burkay
Donderici, David Torres and John Quirein, Halliburton
CONFOCAL LASER SCANNING MICROSCOPY AND AUTOMATED PETROGRAPHIC IMAGE ANALYSIS:
CAPILLARY PRESSURE CURVES AND 3D POROSITY RECONSTRUCTION IN DIFFERENT ROCK TYPES,
Miguel Angel Caja, Repsol Technology Center, Laurent Fontanelli, Repsol Technology Hub, Maria
Fernanda Leon, Repsol Technology Center, Taoufik Ait-Ettajer, Repsol Technology Hub, Diana AceroAllard, Schlumberger Doll Research, Weishu Zhao, Schlumberger Dhahran Carbonate Research, Neil
Hurley, Schlumberger Doll Research, (now with Chevron Energy Technology Company)
CORE PLUG NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE (NMR) ANALYSIS AS A METHOD TO ESTIMATE
PERMEABILITY ANISOTROPY, Evan R. McCarney, Magritek Ltd, Sam Taylor-Offord, Victoria University
Wellington, Malcolm J. Arnot, GNS Science, Mark W. Hunter, Magritek Ltd., Mark J.F. Lawrence, GNS
Science
EFFECT OF PORE GEOMETRIES ON ARCHIE’S EXPONENTS IN TIGHT SANDY CONGLOMERATE, Liu
Xuefeng and Diao Qinglei, China University of Petroleum, Li Danyong and Zhao Tianpeng, Irock
Technologies, Sun Baodian, CNPC Logging Company, Zhao Jianpeng, China University of Petroleum
ESTIMATING LIVE OIL VISCOSITY FOR A CALIFORNIA HEAVY OIL RESERVOIR BY MATCHING LAB- TO
DOWNHOLE-NMR, Terence P. O’Sullivan, Gomez Alvarez Dmitriy Astakhov and Juan Pablo, Aera Energy
LLC, Philip M. Singer, Schlumberger
ESTIMATION OF IN-SITU RELATIVE PERMEABILITY AND CAPILLARY PRESSURE FROM INVERSION OF
WIRELINE FORMATION TESTER DATA, Koksal Cig, Morten Kristensen and Cosan Ayan, Schlumberger,
Eric Mackay, Heriot-Watt University
EVALUATION OF COEXISTING RESERVOIR FLUID GRADIENTS OF GOR, ASPHALTENE AND BIOMARKERS
AS DETERMINED BY CHARGE HISTORY IN RESERVOIR FLUID GEODYNAMICS , Oliver C. Mullins, Kang
Wang, Armin Kauerauf, Julian Y. Zuo and Yi Chen, Schlumberger, Chengli Dong and Hani Elshahawi, Shell
FORMATION EVALUATION ADVANCES IN COIL TUBING DRILLED WELLS , Gerardo Cedillo , Behrooz
Raeesi, Philippe Marouby and David Itter, BP Alaska
IMPACT OF FRACTURE-PORE DIFFUSIONAL COUPLING ON NMR-BASED PERMEABILITY ASSESSMENT,
Lu Chi and Zoya Heidari, Texas A&M University
IMPACT OF WATER SALINITY ON HIGH-FREQUENCY DIELECTRIC MEASUREMENTS IN ROCK-FLUID
MIXTURES, Huangye Chen and Zoya Heidari, Texas A&M University
INTEGRATED STRESS AND ANISOTROPY ANALYSIS USING MULTI-WELL BOREHOLE SONIC AND IMAGE
DATA IN THE KINABALU FIELD, MALAYSIA, Nicolas Gland, Babak Heidari, Shan Wang, Sook Ting Leong,
Michael Jones and Adam Donald, Schlumberger, Willy Tan and Alan Britton, Talisman Energy
INVERSION-BASED INTERPRETATION OF SONIC DISPERSION LOGS USING SEMI-ANALYTICAL SPATIAL
SENSITIVITY FUNCTIONS, Shan Huang, and Carlos Torres-Verdín, The University of Texas at Austin
MEASUREMENT AND USE OF FORMATION FLUID, SATURATE, AND AROMATIC CONTENT, WITH
WIRELINE FORMATION TESTERS , Christopher Michael Jones, Tian He, Bin Dai, Mickey Pelletier, Darren
Gascooke, Halliburton
MECHANISTIC DESCRIPTION, SIMULATION, AND INTERPRETATION OF SPONTANEOUS POTENTIAL
LOGS, Joshua Bautista-Anguiano and Carlos Torres-Verdin, The University of Texas at Austin
METHODOLOGY OF CAPILLARY PRESSURE CURVES FROM NMR LOGS IN HEAVY OIL RESERVOIRS, Jose
Bermudez, Hocol S.A., Ingrid Cabrejo, ECOPETROL S.A., Hamed Ali Diab Montero, Universidad de los
Andes, Daniel Andres Aramburo Velez, Universidad America
NEW METHODOLOGY FOR LOG PETROPHYSICS EVALUATION IN SAN JORGE GOLF BASIN, ARGENTINA,
INTEGRATING SPECTROSCOPY, DIELECTRIC DISPERSION AND MAGNETIC RESONANCE., Andre Paschier,
and Laurent Mosse, Schlumberger, Cecilia Biurrun, Julia Cabrera, Daniel Maza, Matias Suppicich and
Eduardo Breda, YPF
NEW MODEL FOR UNDERSTANDING TRIAXIAL INDUCTION RESPONSE IN DIPPING CROSSBEDDED
FORMATIONS, Gong Li Wang, Schlumberger
PATTERN RECOGNITION IN A DIGITAL AGE: A GAMEBOARD APPROACH TO DETERMINING
PETROPHYSICAL PARAMETERS, Daniel A. Krygowski and Robert M. Cluff, The Discovery Group
PULSED NEUTRON THROUGH-CASING TECHNOLOGY FOR DETERMINATION OF MINERALOGY AND
TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON – FIRST CASE STUDY IN THE NEUQUÉN BASIN, ARGENTINA, Freddy Mendez,
Baker Hughes, Gustavo Perez, YPF S.A, Nora Alarcon and Martin Paris, Baker Hughes
RESERVOIR CHARACTERIZATION AND DRILLING OPTIMIZATION BY NMR LWD DATA IN CHALK, Søren
Christensen, HESS Denmark, Holger Thern, Baker Hughes
RESERVOIR CHARACTERIZATION FROM INTEGRATED ANALYSIS OF FLUID PROPERTIES AND
CONNECTION TO STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY, Chengli Dong and Bruno Okoh, Shell International Exploration
and Production
ROCK TYPING IN GEOTHERMAL RESERVOIRS OF NEW ZEALAND , Angela Maria Prieto and Rosalind
Archer, University of Auckland
SIMULTANEOUS RESERVOIR PERMEABILITY AND FLUID VISCOSITY ESTIMATION FROM NMR IN CASE
OF VARIABLE VISCOUS OIL PROPERTIES, Emmanuel Caroli, Christine Lafaurie , Christine Duval, Benjamin
Nicot, Nopparat Vorapalawut And Mauricio Bueno, TOTAL
THERMODYNAMICALLY CONSISTENT ESTIMATION OF HYDROCARBON COMPOSITION FROM NUCLEAR
AND MAGNETIC RESONANCE MEASUREMENTS, Hyungjoo Lee and Carlos Torres-Verdin, The University
of Texas at Austin
UNTANGLING ACOUSTIC ANISOTROPY, Jennifer Market, Weatherford
USE OF ADVANCED LWD NMR PROCESSING AND INTERPRETATION TECHNIQUES TO CHARACTERIZE
DEEP WATER SILICICLASTIC RESERVOIRS OFFSHORE ANGOLA, Doug Murray, Vikas Jain and Chandan
Majumdar, Schlumberger, Mauro DaCruz and Carlos Sanuca, BP
USING CASED HOLE FORMATION EVALUATION TO STEP INTO THE VOID WHEN OPENHOLE LOGGING IS
NOT FEASIBLE, Raghu Ramamoorthy, Schlumberger, Angelos Mavromatidis, Fatima Mohamed Al Aryani,
Adel Rourou, Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, Sebastian Thum, Suvodip Dasgupta and Awadh Al-Jabry,
Schlumberger
FORMATION EVALUATION OF UNCONVENTIONAL RESERVOIRS
A BALTIC BASIN SHALE RESERVOIR INTEGRATED EVALUATION USING A WIRELINE GEOCHEMICAL,
NMR, AND ACOUSTIC DIPOLE WORKFLOW, Krzysztof Wolanski, PGNiG SA, Slawomir Ochalik, PGNiG SA,
Pawel Barankiewicz, PGNiG SA, Maciej Kozlowski, Halliburton, Dan Buller, Halliburton, Ron Balliet,
Halliburton, Kresimir Vican, Halliburton
A MULTILEVEL ITERATIVE METHOD FOR QUANTIFYING EFFECTS OF PORE-SIZE DISTRIBUTION ON
PHASE EQUILIBRIUM OF MULTI-COMPONENT HYDROCARBON FLUIDS IN UNCONVENTIONAL SHALE
PLAYS , Baoyan Li and Alberto. Mezzatesta , Baker Hughes , Yixin Ma, Oklahoma University
A NEW CASED-HOLE 2 1/8-IN. MULTIDETECTOR PULSED-NEUTRON TOOL: THEORY AND
CHARACTERIZATION, Jianxing Chen, Larry Jacobson and Weijun Guo, Halliburton
A NEW MODELING METHOD FOR ACCURATE ESTIMATION OF HYDROCARBON PHASE BEHAVIOR
UNDER THE NANO-PORE CONFINEMENT OF UNCONVENTIONAL SHALE RESERVOIRS, Alberto
Mezzatesta and Baoyan Li , Baker Hughes , Yinghui Li , InPetro Technologies , Bahareh Nojabei , Penn
State University
APPLYING MICRON-SCALE SPATIAL MINERALOGY ANALYSIS AND LITHOTYPING OF DRILL CUTTINGS TO
LOG-SCALE GEOPHYSICAL INTERPRETATION OF CLAY-RICH RESERVOIRS, David Haberlah, Cary Purdy,
Kimball Skinner, Eric Goergen, Herman Lemmens, FEI
DETERMINATION OF TOTAL SPECIFIC SURFACE AREA USING CATION EXCHANGE CAPACITY AND
NITROGEN ADSORPTION: A CASE STUDY IN MONTEREY, NIOBRARA, BAKKEN, HAYNESVILLE, AND
EUROPEAN SILURIAN FORMATION, Lemuel J Godinez, Milad Saidian and Manika Prasad, Colorado
School of Mines
ENHANCING SHALE RESERVOIR COMPLETION DESIGN USING ORIENTED UNIPOLE LWD SONIC
MEASUREMENTS IN HORIZONTAL WELL, Nnadozie Nwosu, Jeff Alford and Hanatu Kadir, Schlumberger,
Jason Byl and Paul Codd, BNK Petroleum
FORMATION EVALUATION OF MULTIPLE PAY ZONES WITHIN AN UNCONVENTIONAL RESERVOIR
(PERMIAN BASIN): AN INTEGRATED INTERPRETATION USING ELEMENTAL, MINERALOGICAL,
PROGRAMMED PYROLYSIS, AND MUD-GAS DATA., Pukar Mainali, Weatherford Labs, Gbenga Yemidale,
Weatherford, Brian Hankins and Christopher C. Matson, Weatherford Labs, Uduzei Ovbiagele,
Weatherford
IMPACT OF ANISOTROPIC ELASTIC AND PETROPHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF EAGLE FORD SHALE ON
STRESS PREDICTION, Clotilde Chen Valdes and Zoya Heidari, Texas A&M University
LABORATORY INVESTIGATION OF PETROPHYSICAL APPLICATIONS OF MULTI-FREQUENCY INDUCTIVECOMPLEX CONDUCTIVITY TENSOR MEASUREMENTS, Siddharth Misra and Carlos Torres-Verdín, The
University of Texas at Austin, Dean Homan, Gerald Minerbo and John Rasmus, Schlumberger
Technology Corporation
LOCATING BYPASSED OIL THROUGH IN-WELL SURVEILLANCE IN PRUDHOE BAY, David Itter and
Gerardo Cedillo, BP Exploration (Alaska), Xiaogang Han, BP Exploration, David Chace and Yonghwee Kim,
Baker Hughes
MAXIMIZE PRODUCTION POTENTIAL OF UNCONVENTIONAL PLAYS BY IDENTIFYING THE PALEO
DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT VIA ADVANCED CUTTINGS CHARACTERIZATION, Karim Bondabou, Reda
Karoum, and Ilaria De Santo, Schlumberger
MEET THE UNIQUE CHALLENGES FROM THE SULURIAN SHALE GAS PETROPHYSICAL EVALUATION, Ian
Zhang, Shell China, Yan Wang, Shell US, Luo Xing, Shell China
MULTI-SCALE MICROSCOPY FOR INTELLIGENT SAMPLING AND CHARACTERIZATION OF MUDROCKS,
Mike Marsh, Carl Zeiss Microscopy, David Unrau, Fibics Inc, Ken G Lagarec, Fibics Inc and Andy
Steinbach, Carl Zeiss Microscopy
NEW GENERATION NMR TOOL FOR HIGH PRECISION, CONTINUOUS T1 AND T2 MEASUREMENTS ,
Vivek Anand, Mansoor Ali, Farid Hamichi and Rob Badry, Schlumberger
NEW INNOVATIVE TECHNIQUE TO EVALUATE SHALE SWEETSPOTS, A CASE STUDY FROM NORTH
AFRICA, Ahmed Algarhy, Richard M. Bateman and M. Y Soliman, Texas Tech University
NMR RELAXOMETRY IN TIGHT OIL SHALE AND IMPLICATIONS ON LOGGING, Ravinath Kausik, Kamilla
Fellah, Erik Rylander, Philip M. Singer, and Richard E. Lewis, Schlumberger, Steven M. Sinclair, Matador
Resources Company
ON THE EQUILIBRIUM STATE OF SHALE GAS RESERVOIRS, Richard F. Sigal, Consultant
PITFALLS OF RUNNING CONVENTIONAL PRODUCTION LOGGING IN HORIZONTAL/HIGHLY DEVIATED
WELLS: A CASE STUDY, Waqar Khan, Venkataraman Jambunathan, Halliburton, Luis Quintero,
Halliburton
RAPID INVERSION OF POROSITY LOGS IN SUB-RESOLUTION BEDS WITH LAYER THICKNESS
UNCERTAINTY, J. A. Whetton, H. Chok and P. A. S. Elkington, Weatherford
RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN COMPRESSIONAL, SHEAR, AND DENSITY LOGS IN UNCONVENTIONAL
FORMATIONS, John Quirein, Mehdi Far, Ming Gu, Deepak Gokaraju and Jim Witkowsky, Halliburton
SELECTIVE ADSORPTIVES FOR MICRO- AND MESO-PORE STRUCTURE AND WETTING ORIENTATION
STUDY OF SELF-RESOURCING SHALES, Sanyog Kumar and Manika Prasad, Colorado School of Mines
SHALE GAS TRANSPORT IN ROCK MATRIX: DIFFUSION AND CAPILLARY CONDENSATION, Jin-Hong
Chen, Qiushi Sun, Dan Georgi and Hui-Hai Liu, Aramco Research Centers-Houston, Luis Estevez and
Emmanuel P Giannelis, Cornell University
SUBSURFACE FLUID CHARACTERIZATION USING DOWNHOLE AND CORE NMR T1T2 MAPS COMBINED
WITH PORE-SCALE IMAGING TECHNIQUES, Margaret Lessenger, Newfield Exploration, Richard Merkel,
Denver Petrophysics, Rojelio Medina, Sandeep Ramakrishna, Songhua Chen and Ron Balliet, Halliburton,
Harry Xie, Core Lab, Pradeep Bhattad, Anna Carnerup and Mark Knackstedt, FEI-Lithicon
TENSILE STRENGTH OF UNCONVENTIONAL SHALES USING MICROWAVING, Jin-Hong Chen, Dan Georgi
and Jinlin Zhang, Aramco Research Centers-Houston
USING ADVANCED LOGGING MEASUREMENTS TO DEVELOP A ROBUST PETROPHYSICAL MODEL FOR
THE BAKKEN PETROLEUM SYSTEM, Gary A. Simpson and John Hohman, Hess Corporation, Iain Pirie and
Jack Horkowitz, Schlumberger
USING MICRO-RESISTIVITY IMAGING AND ELEMENTAL ANALYSIS DATA TO IDENTIFY THIN ORGANICRICH BEDS IN THE WILLISTON BASIN, NORTH DAKOTA, Treasure Bailley and Robert Denton, Halliburton,
Flemming Mengel, Anschutz Exploration Company
USING SONIC AND RESISTIVITY EFFECTIVE MEDIUM THEORIES TO QUANTIFY THE INFLUENCE OF ROCK
FABRIC ON THE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF ORGANIC MUDROCKS, Paul Sayar and Carlos TorresVerdín, The University of Texas at Austin
HA/HZ WELL EVALUATION AND/OR ADVANCED MUD LOGGING AND
REAL-TIME DECISION-MAKING
A 3D SOLUTION TO A 3D PROBLEM - A NEW APPROACH TO THE SEMI-AUTOMATED TRUE DIP
CALCULATION FROM LWD DENSITY IMAGES, Evgeny Tyurin and Stephen Morris, Baker Hughes
A NEW INTEGRATED DATA ANALYSIS ALGORITHM AND WORKFLOW FOR OPTIMIZING HORIZONTAL
WELL COMPLETION IN UNCONVENTIONAL RESERVOIRS, Mehdi.E. Far, Ming Gu, Deepak Gokaraju, John
Quirein and Dan Buller, Halliburton
AN INTEGRATED HORIZONTAL FORMATION EVALUATION AND COMPLETION ANALYSIS CASE STUDY IN
THE BARNETT SHALE USING ADVANCED LWD QUADRAPOLE SONIC AND BOREHOLE IMAGING, John
Spaid, and Jeff Dahl, Devon Energy, Susana Carrilero, Jessica Mitchell, Glenn Carpenter and Dan Buller,
Halliburton
CASE STUDY: THE APPLICATION OF SINGLE WELL PRODUCTIVITY GEOSTEERING PREDICTION WITH
LOGGING-WHILE-DRILLING (LWD) DATA, Linda Hanalim, PETRONAS Carigali Sdn. Bhd., Hooi Yee Kang,
Schlumberger, Ko Ko Kyi, PETRONAS Carigali Sdn. Bhd.
FAST AND AUTOMATIC INVERSION OF LWD RESISTIVITY MEASUREMENTS FOR PETROPHYSICAL
INTERPRETATION, David Pardo, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) and Carlos Torres-Verdín,
The University of Texas at Austin
IMPROVED FORMATION EVALUATION WITH INVERSION TECHNIQUES USING LOGGING WHILE
DRILLING AZIMUTHAL DEEP RESISTIVITY SENSOR – A CASE STUDY, Abdulla Ahmed Al Aamri, Indrajit
Bandyopadhyay and Asma Hassan Ali Bal Baheeth, ADCO
NEW METHOD OF INTERPRETATION OF SONIC WAVEFORMS ACQUIRED IN HIGH-ANGLE AND
HORIZONTAL WELLS, Ruijia Wang, Carlos Torres-Verdin, Shan Huang and Wilberth Herrera, The
University of Texas at Austin
OPTIMIZING WELL PLACEMENT IN GEOSTEERING USING AN AZIMUTHAL RESISTIVITY TOOL AND ITS
APPLICATION IN COMPLEX THIN BED RESERVOIRS IN THE GULF OF THAILAND, Donald Hawkins, Numan
Phettongkam, Keith E Ross and Ian Luis Murugesu, Weatherford, Nitiwut Nakchamnan, Wirot
Teeratananon, Warin Lobtong, Pakawas Mangkang, Somchai Aursirisuk and Tonya W. Bordenave,
Chevron Thailand E&P, Ltd.
RAPID AND PRACTICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF NEAR-WELLBORE LAYER STRUCTURE AND PROPERTIES
IN HIGH ANGLE AND HORIZONTAL WELLS , Mohammad Taghi Salehi, Joan Abadie, Shahzad Asif, Koji
Ito, David Maggs, Chris Morriss, Luca Ortenzi, and John Rasmus , Schlumberger
RESERVOIR MULTI PORE FLOW SYSTEM MEASUREMENTS AND APPLICATIONS USING TRANSIENT
DRAW DOWN ANALYSIS, Kostandinos Zamfes, Prospectors Services International Corp., Eldar Hasanov,
Era Energy USA, Neville Henry, Winchester Energy LTD., Mehmet Kaldirim, Era Energy USA
SHALE FRACTURING CHARACTERIZATION AND OPTIMIZATION BY USING ANISOTROPIC ACOUSTIC
INTERPRETATION, 3D FRACTURE MODELING AND NEURAL NETWORK , Deepak Gokaraju, Ming Gu,
Dingding Chen, Yi Zhou and Mehdi E. Far, Halliburton
SIMULATION AND INTERPRETATION OF LWD SONIC MEASUREMENTS ACQUIRED IN HIGH-ANGLE AND
HORIZONTAL WELLS , Wilberth Herrera, Ruijia Wang and Carlos Torres-Verdín, The University of Texas
at Austin
THE CASE FOR MAKING CONVENTIONAL PETROPHYSICAL WORKFLOWS IN HAHZ WELLS OBSOLETE,
Ed Stockhausen, Chevron
THE ESSENTIAL ROLE OF THE ADVANCED GAS MUD LOGGING IN THE RESERVOIR FLUID EVALUATION
WORKFLOW, Ivan Fornasier, Aleksandar Gligorijevic, Smail Chouya, Wa Wei Wee and Gokarna Khanal,
Schlumberger, Toru Yasukochi, Ryuichi Uchimura, Seiji Shirai, Kenta Izumi and Zhenji Chai, Nippon OEX
THE SHALE ACTIVITY TEST (SAT) AS A KEY PROCESS IN UNCONVENTIONAL (AND CONVENTIONAL) PLAY
CHARACTERIZATION, Kostandinos Zamfes, Prospectors Services International Corp., Eldar Hasanov, Era
Energy USA, Neville Henry, Winchester Energy LTD., Mehmet Kaldirim, Era Energy USA
THE WAVEFIELD OF A MULTIPOLE ACOUSTIC LOGGING-WHILE-DRILLING TOOL IN HORIZONTAL AND
HIGHLY DEVIATED WELLS, Hua Wang, Earth Resources Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Guo
Tao, The Petroleum Institute Abu Dhabi
TRIAXIAL INDUCTION INTERPRETATION IN HORIZONTAL WELLS: MAPPING BOUNDARIES,
CHARACTERIZING ANISOTROPY AND FRACTURES, Dzevat Omeragic, Zikri Bayraktar, Michael Thiel,
Tarek Habashy, Samer Alatrach and Frank Shray, Schlumberger
WELL PLACEMENT AND RESERVOIR CHARACTERIZATION CHALLENGES ON PEREGRINO MITIGATED BY
DEVELOPMENT OF EXTRA-DEEP AZIMUTHAL EM TECHNOLOGY, Frank Antonsen, Katharine Sandler
Klein, Jose Eustaquio Barbosa, Andrew McCann and Per Atle Olsen, Statoil, Yuriy Antonov, Andreas
Hartmann, David Larsen, Jon Skillings and Richard Tilsley-Baker, Baker Hughes
WELLSITE MINERALOGICAL DATA ACQUISITION; RECONCILING RESULTS FROM MULTIPLE ANALYTICAL
SOURCES, Brian BJ Davis, Amber Koch, Gerald Braun, Cassie OConnor, Elton Frost Jr, and Terrence
Quinn, Baker Hughes Incorporated, Chi Vinh Ly, Guy Oliver and Graham Spence, CGG, Bill Whatley, Neil
Cardy, Michael Wilson and Yulia Vasilyeva, Baker Hughes Incorporated
HOST CHAPTER (CALIFORNIA) SESSION
EXPLOITATION OF BYPASSED PAY IN THE LOS ANGELES BASIN USING A UNIQUE MULTI-NEUTRON
THROUGH-PIPE LOGGING TECHNOLOGY, Mark Milhet, BreitBurn Management Company, LLC, James
Neff, Roke Technologies USA, Inc., Jaison Thomas, BreitBurn Management Company, LLC, Hermann
Kramer, Roke Technologies LTD
IN SITU EVALUATION OF VAPOR PROPERTIES USING CONDENSED VAPOR GAMMA,
Terence P. OSullivan, , Aera Energy LLC
LESSONS LEARNED FROM THE WORLD’S LARGEST RESERVOIR SATURATION SURVEILLANCE PROGRAM,
David Barnes, Chevron and Anthony Lucas, Schlumberger
NMR ENHANCED NATURAL FRACTURE EVALUATION IN THE MONTEREY SHALE, Stephen Grayson,
Cheryl Blume, and Lee Swager, Schlumberger, Marc Kamerling, Venoco Inc.
QUANTIFICATION OF BIOGENIC SILICA AND IDENTIFICATION OF HIGH-PERMEABILITY ARKOSIC SANDS
VIA GEOCHEMICAL SPECTROSCOPY IN THE MONTEREY SHALE, Jeffrey Little, Lee Swager and Jack
Horkowitz, Schlumberger
NEW BOREHOLE LOGGING TECHNOLOGY
A NEW PORTABLE SPECTROMETRIC SURFACE DATA ANALYSIS SYSTEM FOR QUALITATIVE AND
QUANTITATIVE DETERMINATION OF PETROLEUM HYDROCARBONS IN CONVENTIONAL AND
UNCONVENTIONAL RESERVOIRS, Margaret C. Waid, The Waid Group, Inc./Hanby PetroAnalysis, John D.
Hanby and Charles D. Fator, Hanby PetroAnalysis, Charles C. Waid, The Waid Group, Inc./Hanby
PetroAnalysis
ADVANTAGES AND LIMITATIONS OF THE NEUTRON-GAMMA DENSITY MEASUREMENT WHILE
DRILLING – A CASE STUDY FROM SAUDI ARABIA, Said Mahiout, Ali Belowi, Ali Alqunais and
Mohammad Jad Kareem, Saudi Aramco
AN INNOVATIVE SLIM PULSED NEUTRON LOGGING TOOL, David Rose, Tong Zhou, Sicco Beekman, Tim
Quinlan, Mauricio Delgadillo, Gerardo Gonzalez, Scott Fricke, James Thornton, Dale Clinton, Frederic
Gicquel, Irina Shestakova, Ken Stephenson, Chris Stoller, Olivier Philip, Juan Miguel La Rotta Marin,
Stephane Mainier, Bob Perchonok and Jean-Pierre Bailly, Schlumberger
BREAKTHROUGH IN ACCURATE DOWNHOLE FLUID SAMPLE CONTAMINATION PREDICTION IN REAL
TIME, Julian Y. Zuo, Adriaan Gisolf, Hadrien Dumont, Francois Dubost, Thomas Pfeiffer, Vinay Mishra, Li
Chen and Oliver Mullins, Schlumberger, Mario Biagi, ENI
CHALLENGES OF MEASURING DIELECTRIC ANISOTROPY WITH HIGH-FREQUENCY DIELECTRIC LOGGING
TOOLS, Michael Rabinovich, BP America, Fei Le, Baker Hughes, Shujie Liu, BP America, Hans-Martin
Maurer, Baker Hughes
ENSEMBLE-BASED FRAMEWORK FOR GEOSTEERING, Xiaodong Luo, IRIS, Peder Eliasson, SINTEF, Sergey
Alyaev, IRIS, Anouar Romdhane, SINTEF, Erich Suter and Erlend H. Vefring, IRIS
FORMATION POROSITY ESTIMATION IN THE PRESENCE OF SOLIDS INVASION, Boyang Zhang,
Hao Zhang, Jinhong Chen, Geoff Page, Holger Thern, Alberto Mezzatesta and Rosa Swartwout,
Baker Hughes
FROM SEISMIC TO WELL INTEGRITY: A SUMMARY OF LWD MULTI-POLE APPLICATIONS IN THE
AFRICAN ATLANTIC DEEP-WATER ENVIRONMENTS, Iain Whyte, Assia Belhaouas and Olivier Tallon,
Tullow Oil, Luca Ortenzi, Syed Ali Faisal, Matthew Blyth, Jon Acquaviva and Mereke Akshayeva,
Schlumberger
GRAVEL PACK IMAGING TOOL (GPI): PRECISE AND ACCURATE KNOWLEDGE OF GRAVEL PACK
INTEGRITY, John Smaardyk, GE Oil & Gas Downhole Technology, Donald Steinman, Applied Physics and
Measurements, Inc., Russel Hertzog, Applied Physics and Measurements, Inc., Michael Lexa and Meena
Ganesh, GE Global Research Center
HIGH-DEFINITION IMAGES OBTAINED OVER LOW-RESISTIVITY LOW-CONTRAST DEEP-WATER DEPOSITS
FROM SOUTHEAST ASIA WITH AN OBM MULTI-FREQUENCY RESISTIVITY IMAGER, A. A. Bal, B. Corley,
S. Forgang, R. Gold, A. Guzman and G. Itskovich, Baker Hughes Incorporated, G. R. Gaafar, PETRONAS
Carigali
JOINT INVERSION OF TRIAXIAL INDUCTION AND SONIC DATA FOR RADIAL VARIATIONS OF POROSITY
AND SATURATION IN COMPLEX MINERALOGY, C. Sirju, T. Pritchard and A.B. Guedes, BG Group,
S. Shetty, L. Liang, V. Simoes, S. Zeroug, B. Sinha, T. Habashy and A. Boyd, Schlumberger
NEW MODELS FOR ACOUSTIC ANISOTROPIC INTERPRETATION IN SHALE, Eric Murphy and Saul Rivera
Barraza, Chesapeake, Ming Gu, Deepak Gokaraju, Mehdi E. Far and John Quirein, Halliburton, Liwei Ou,
Colorado School of Mines
NEW OPTIONS FOR WIRELINE LOGGING DEPTH DATA QUALITY IMPROVEMENT, Harald Bolt, ICT
Europe, Ton Loermans, Consultant, Philippe Theys, Consultant
NEW SAMPLING WHILE DRILLING TECHNOLOGY IN HORIZONTAL WELLS SAVES INTERVENTION COSTS
IN MARGINAL FIELDS – A CASE STUDY FROM THE THANG LONG FIELD, VIETNAM, Phuoc Gia Phan,
LamSon Joint Operating Company, Nikhil Prakash Hardikar, Baker Hughes, Viet Hung Vu and Nam Van
Nguyen, LamSon Joint Operating Company, Raveen Kantha Kumar, Baker Hughes
RBF-BASED NMR VISCOSITY PREDICTION MODEL FOR KUWAIT SHALLOW UNCONSOLIDATED VISCOUS
OIL FORMATION, Khalid Ahmed, Faisal Hassan, Fatma Taqi and Waleed Al-Khamees, Kuwait Oil
Company, Songhua Chen, Wei Shao and Magdalena Sandor, Halliburton Energy Services
RESISTIVITY ANISOTROPY AND FORMATION DIP EVALUATION AT ALL WELL INCLINATIONS USING LWD
DIRECTIONAL ELECTROMAGNETIC MEASUREMENTS, Mathias Horstmann and Keli Sun, Schlumberger,
Per Atle Olsen, Statoil, Peter Berger, OMV, Steve C. Crary, Dzevat Omeragic and Roger Griffiths,
Schlumberger
SPECTRAL GAMMA RAY MEASUREMENT WHILE DRILLING, Libai Xu, Cornelis Huiszoon, Jiaxin Wang, Bob
Adolph, Jong Yi, Dustin Cavin, Gary Laughlin and Ed Tollefsen, Schlumberger
UTILIZATION OF ELECTRO-MAGNETIC ACOUSTIC TRANSDUCERS IN DOWNHOLE CEMENT EVALUATION,
Doug Patterson, Ed Domangue, Pawel Matuszyk and Jesus Tizon, Baker Hughes
RESERVOIR AND PRODUCTION SURVEILLANCE
ENHANCE RESERVOIR UNDERSTANDING BY THE INTEGRATION OF POST-FRAC PRODUCTION LOGGING
DATA WITH (PRE-FRAC) STATIC PETROPHYSICAL DESCRIPTION, William Dawson, German Merletti,
Adrian Zett, Robert Clark, David Spain and Michael Webster, BP
FIELD EXPERIENCE OF NMR LOGGING THROUGH FIBER-REINFORCED PLASTIC CASING IN AN EOR
OBSERVATION WELL, Azzan Hamed Al-Yaarubi and John Edwards, Schlumberger, Suryanarayana
Guntupalli, Liali Al-Qasmi, Jackie Kechichian and Ghalib Al-Hinai , Petroleum Development Oman, Nate
Bachman and Aryaf Al Amri, Schlumberger, Matthias Appel, Shell
NEW RESISTIVITY MODELS FOR RESERVOIR MONITORING APPLICATIONS, Ahmed Fouda, Burkay
Donderici, Glenn Wilson, Tasneem Mandviwala and Etienne Samson, Halliburton
THE EFFECT OF TIME ON APPARENT CEMENT INTEGRITY - TIME-LAPSE LOGGING OF CEMENT BOND
LOGS, Ian Leslie, Tom Bradley and Julius Balamaga, Baker Hughes RDS, Steve Gill, Baker Hughes,
Pressure Pumping Services, Iain Whyte, Tullow Oil
WELL PRODUCTION AND PERFORMANCE EVALUATION IN DEEP WATER GRAVEL PACKED
COMPLETIONS, Ivan D. Pinzon, Adrian Zett and Xiaogang Han, BP, Shang Kwong, Chris McIlroy, Weijun
Guo and Daniel Dorffer, Halliburton