UNCERTAINTY IN RESERVOIR EVALUATION - URE Report September 1999 - August 2007 Date: August 2007 Contact person: Prof. Henning Omre, IMF/FIM/NTNU, Tel: +47 73 59 35 31 Email: omre@stat.ntnu.no Personell involved: NTNU-faculty: Prof. Helge Holden, IMF/FIM/NTNU Prof. Henning Omre, IMF/FIM/NTNU Prof. Haakon Tjelmeland, IMF/NTNU Prof. Bjørn Ursin, IPT/GEO/NTNU Prof. Ole Torsaeter, IPT/GEO/NTNU Prof. Martin Landro, IPT/GEO/NTNU Prof. Jo Eidsvik, IMF/FIM/NTNU NTNU-Phd.students: Thomas G. Theting (dissertation August 2002) Klaus Lykke Dagø (terminates April 2001) Jo Eidsvik (dissertation October 2003) Jo Røislien (dissertation June 2004) Stig-Kyrre Foss (dissertation March 2004) Ole Petter Lodoen (dissertation November 2005) Tor Erik Rabben Vegard Stenerud Trond Sagerup Inge Bjørn Myrseth Plans: . The Ph.d. students continue to work on their research topics, see their Home Pages. Deviations/URE III: . The initiation of two Phd stipends has been delayed from August 2004 to August 2005 due to lack of qualified applicants in 2004. Two Phd students started August 2005. Activity: . June 2007 Henning Omre, Inge B.Myrseth, Vegard Stenerud, Jon Sætrom, Jon Vabø and Kjartan Rimstad participates in EnKF-Workshop, Bergen. Henning Omre is invited lecturer. . February 2007 URE-meeting 2006 in Trondheim with scientific presentation by Jo Eidsvik and Henning Omre on Variations over hidden Markov chains. . February 2007 Vegard Stenerud participates in SPE Reservoir Simulation Symposium 07, The Woodlands, Texas. . January 2007 Håkon Tjelmeland and Vegard Stenerud participates in First National Winter School in eScience on Monte Carlo Methods, Geilo. Håkon Tjelmeland presents a lecture. . January 2007 In-house seminar with participant. . December 2006 In-house seminar with participant. . December 2006 In-house seminar with participant. . October 2006 Henning Omre invited lecturer at The Statoil Research Summit/ Shared Earth Model, in Trondheim. . September - December 2006 Visited by Phd studente from University of Valencia, Spain. . June 2006 Håkon Tjelmeland, Henning Omre, Jo Eidsvik, Inge B.Myrseth, Marit Ulvmoen, Hugo Hammer and Trond Sagerup participates in 21st Nordic Conference on Mathematical Statistics, Rebilt, Denmark. Håkon Tjelmeland, Henning Omre, Jo Eidsvik and Hugo Hammer give presentations. . May 2006 Inge B.Myrseth participates in Phd course on Inference and simulation for Spatial Point Processes, Aalborg, Denmark. . May 2006 Henning Omre, Trond Sagerup and Inge B.Myrseth participates in EnKF-Workshop, Voss. Henning Omre is invited lecturer. . May 2006 Henning Omre is invited lecturer at Seminar: 50 år med Hovedfag i Matematisk Statistikk, UiO, Oslo. . April 2006 Henning Omre, Marit Ulvmoen and Inge B.Myrseth participates in Conference on Quantitative Methods for Reservoir Characterization, IFP, Paris, France. Henning Omre is invited lecturer and Marit Ulvmoen presents a poster. . March 2006 Henning Omre and Inge B.Myrseth participates in SPE/EAGE Workshop on What do Geoscientists and Engineers need to do to better manage uncertainty ? in Dubrovnik, Croatia. . November 2005 Ole Petter Lødøen defends Phd Thesis . October 2005 - September 2007 Henning Omre acts in Steering Committee of Second Petroleum Geostatistical Conference, September 2007, Cascais, Portugal. . October 2005 Phd course by Prof. Gilles Lambare on Seismic Depth Imaging at IPT/NTNU. Inge B.Myrseth and Trond Sagerup participates. . October 2005 URE-meeting 2005 in Trondheim with scientific presentation by Jo Eidsvik on: Statistical Particle Filtering. . October 2005 In-house seminar with participant. . October 2005 In-house seminar with participant. . October 2005 In-house seminar with participant. . October 2005 In-house seminar with participant. . October 2005 In-house seminar with participant. . September 2005 - March 2006 Henning Omre acts in Steering Committee of 2006 SPE/EAGE Joint Workshop on what do Geoscientists and Engineers need to do to better manage uncertainty ?, March 2006, Dubrovnik, Croatia. . September 2005 Trond Sagerup and Inge Bjørn Myrseth starts as Phd students. . August 2005 - June 2006 Martin Landrø visits Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado. . June 2005 Henning Omre presents seminar at Department of mathematical sciences, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South-Australia. . June 2005 Vegard R.Stenerud participates in SIAM Conference on Mathematical & Computational Issues in Geosciences, Avignon, France. Presents a paper. . May 2005 Henning Omre visits Melbourne University, Melbourne, Australia. Presents a lecture. . May 2005 Henning Omre visits CSIRO in Melbourne, Australia. Presents a lecture. . May 2005 Henning Omre visits Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. Presents a lecture. . March 2005 - April 2006 Henning Omre acts in Steering Committee of Conference in Quantitative Methods for reservoir Characterization; April 2006; IFP, Paris, France. . March 2005 Advertizement of two Phd grants are posted. . February 2005 Vegard R.Stenerud participates in SINTEF's Fifth Winter School on Inverse problems and parameter identification for PDE models, Geilo . December 2004 Henning Omre visits CSIRO in Melbourne, Australia . October 2004 Ole Petter Lodoen visits Australian School of Petroleum, University of Adelaide, Australia to work with Henning Omre. . September 2004 Haakon Tjelmeland and Ole Petter Lodoen participates in Geostatistics 2004 in Banff, Canada. Both presents papers. . August 2004 - July 2005 Henning Omre visits Australian School of Petroleum, University of Adelaide, Australia . June 2004 Reservoir Forum by Dean Oliver, University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma. . June 2004 Jo Roislien defends Phd Thesis. . June 2004 Tor Erik Rabben, Hugo Hammer and Henning Omre participates in Summer School in Mathematical Geophysics and Uncertainty in Earth Models at Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado Henning Omre presents invited lecture and research talk. . June 2004 Martin Landrø and Bjørn Ursin participates in EAGE; Paris, France. Presents papers. . June 2004 Henning Omre participates in EAGE-workshop on Uncertainties in Production Forecasts and History Matching; Paris, France. Presents a talk. . April 2004 URE-III initiation meeting. Lectures on stochastic models for well log data and seismic velocity modelling were presented. Plan for further work was discussed. . March 2004 Vegars R.Stenerud participates in SINTEF's Fourth Winter School on Adaptive methods for partial differential equations, Geilo . March 2004 Advertisement for up to two Phd positions were posted. . March 2004 Stig Kyrre Foss defends Phd Thesis . October 2003 Bjørn Ursin participates in SEG meeting; Houston, Texas. Presents invited lecture. . October 2003 URE 2003 Meeting; Trondheim . October 2003 Henning Omre visits CIPR-SFF in Bergen. Gives a lecture. . October 2003 In-house seminar with participant . October 2003 In-house seminar with participant . October 2003 In-house seminar with participant . October 2003 In-house seminar with participant . October 2003 Reservoir Forum by Robert Zimmermann; Imperial College, England. . October 2003 Jo Eidsvik defends Phd Thesis . September 2003 Ole Torsæter participates in International Symposium of the Society of Core Analysts; Pau, France. Presents a paper. . September 2003 Bjørn Ursin, Stig-Kyrre Foss and Henning Omre participates in the Ursin Fest. Bjørn Ursin and Stig-Kyrre Foss presents papers. . August 2003 - May 2004 Haakon Tjelmeland visits Department of Statistics, Duke University; North Carolina . August 2003 - June 2004 Ole Petter Lødøen visits Department of Petroleum Engineering, Stanford University; Stanford, California. . August 2003 Bjørn Ursin and Stig-Kyrre Foss participate in EAGE/SEG Summer Research Workshop; Trieste, Italy. Presents a paper. . August 2003 Two Phd students starts - Tor Erik Rabben and Vegard Stenerud . June-August 2003 Jo Røislien works as summer researcher at Doll Laboratories; Ridgefield, Conn. . June 2003 Bjørn Ursin and Henning Omre participate in EAGE, Stavanger. Henning Omre presents a paper. . May 2003 Henning Omre participates in Workshop in spatial ecology; Tromsø. Presents an invited paper. . May 2003 URE III (2003-2007) is operable. Four partners, NTNU and Research Council of Norway are participating. URE III has budget of approximately NOK 8 000'. . March 2003 Henning Omre gives a three-day course in Stochastic Reservoir Characterization for a EU-project at Schlumberger, Stavanger. . March 2003 Helge Holden participates in SIAM Conference on Mathematical and Computational Issues in the Geosciences; Austin, Texas. Presents an invited plenary session paper. . December 2002 Henning Omre participates in SPE ATW Dubai: Innovative Technologies in Reservoir Characterization: Bridging between Measurements and Modelling. Presents a paper. . November 2002 Henning Omre visits IFP, Paris, FR, presents two lectures. . October 2002 In-house seminar with participant . October 2002 In-house seminar with participant . September 2002 Henning Omre visits Stanford University, CA . September 2002 In-house seminar with participant . September-December 2002 Jo Roislien visits Department of Earth Systems, Imperial College, London, UK . September 2002 Ole Petter Lodoen participates in IAMG 2002, Berlin, Germany. Presents a paper with extended abstract. . August 2002 Thomas Theting defends Phd Thesis . July-August 2002 Stig Kyrre Foss attends the Stanford summer school in Geophysics (MGSS), Stanford,CA. . June 2002 Reservoir Forum by John Scales; Colorado School of Mines, Colorado . June 2002 Jo Eidsvik attends Stanford Rock and Borehole Physics (SRB) Annual Meeting, Stanford University, CA. Presents a paper. . June 2002 Jo Roislien and Ole Petter Lodoen attends the International conference on Mathematical Methods in Reliability, in Trondheim. . June 2002 Jo Eidsvik attends Scandinavian Conference in Statistics, Stockholm, Sweden. Presents a paper. . June 2002 Henning Omre presents an invited talk at the Workshop NUMROCK at Schlumberger Cambridge Research. . May 2002 Bjorn Ursin and Stig Kyrre Foss participates at the CWP-sponsor meeting in Veil, CO. Stig Kyrre Foss gives a presentation. . April 2002 Henning Omre attends the FORCE Workshop Future Directions in Petroleum Research, Stavanger. . January 2002 Henning Omre participates at The IMA Workshop: Quantifying Uncertainty and Multiscale phenomena in Subsurface Processes, in Minneapolis, MI. Presents an invited lecture. . November 2001 A one-day seminar was organized for participants. An introduction to heavy-tailed probability models in seismic inversion was given. Ongoing URE-research was presented. Future plans were discussed. . October 2001 In-house seminar with participant . October 2001 In-house seminar with participant . September 2001 In-house seminar with participant . September 2001 Bjorn Ursin, Stig Kyrre Foss and Jo Eidsvik participates at SEG Annual Meeting in San Antonio, TX. Jo Eidsvik presents an invited paper. . August 2001- July 2002 Bjorn Ursin and Stig Kyrre Foss visits Centre for Wave Phenomena at Colorado School of Mines; Golden, Colorado . June 2001 Henning Omre in organizing cimmittee of SEG Forum in Taos, New Mexico. Jo Eidsvik participates also. Presentation of Jo Eidsvik is selected as one out of three to represent Forum at SEG Annual Meeting. . June 2001 Henning Omre in organizing committee of FORCE seminar: 'Key Uncertainties from Seismic to Geomodelling', Stavanger, Norway . May 2001 One Phd student starts - Ole Petter Lodoen. . April 2001 Klaus Lykke Dago terminates his Phd studies, caused by illness in near family. . March 2001 Henning Omre visits Univ. of Texas, Texas, Duke University, North Carolina, and Schlumberger-Doll Labs, Connecticut and gives several lectures. . February 2001 Post-graduate course: Quantitative electro-magnetic logging methods/ Terry Hagiwara . January 2001 The funding is reduced by NOK 450' due to Norsk Hydro's take over of Saga Petroleum. . January 2001 In-house seminar with participant . January 2001- December 2001 Jo Eidsvik visits Department of Statistics and Department of Geophysics, Stanford University, California . December 2000 Henning Omre and Jo Eidsvik visited Rock Physics Group at Department of Geophysics, Stanford University, California for one week. . November 2000 Post-graduate course: Quantitative accoustic logging methods/ Xiaoming Tang . November 2000 Several URE-presentations in the Norwegian Petroleum Research Seminar in Bergen, organized by the Norwegian Research Council. . November 2000 A one-day seminar was organized for the participants. An introduction to the theory of stochastic differential equations was given. Ongoing URE-research was presented. It was decided to use Gullfaks data in the near-well activity. . November 2000 In-house seminar with participant . November 2000 One Ph.d. student starts - Stig Kyrre Foss . September 2000 Post-graduate course: Wave propagation in visco-elastic anisotropic media/ Jose M. Carcione . June 2000 In-house seminar with participant . June 2000 In-house seminar with participant . December 1999 Jo Eidsvik, Jo Røislien and Henning Omre visited the Rock Physics Group at Stanford University, Ca. for a week. Research colaboration was established with Prof. Gary Mavko and his group. . November 1999 A one-day seminar was organized for the participants. In the morning the topic was Seismic depth conversion. After lunch availability of real data was discussed. It was decided to look for suitable data among the Gullfaks data, since it is in public domain and easy available at NTNU. . September 1999 - December 2000 Ph.d.students takes course work and initiate research. . August 1999 Three Ph.d. students start - Jo Eidsvik, Jo Roislien and Klaus L. Dago . The initiative includes four industry partners; Statoil, Norsk Hydro, Schlumberger and BP; NTNU and Research Council of Norway.