Agenda for the 2008 SRB Annual Meeting

 

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  WEDNESDAY JUNE 18, 2008  
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8:00 am - 10:00 am Registration and Breakfast (Pastries, Juice & Coffee) Quadrus Breezeway
     
  WELCOME  
10:00 am - 10:20 am Gary Mavko Co-Director
     
10:20 am - 10:40 am Mark Zoback Co-Director
     
  RESERVOIR CHARACTERIZATION  
     
10:40 am - 11:00 am Ergodicity of rock physics transforms Jack Dvorkin
     
11:00 am - 11:25 am Probabilistic seismic inversion based on rock-physics models for reservoir characterization Kyle Spikes
     
11:25 am - 11:50 am Compaction trends for shale and brine-sand in shallow sediments, GOM Tanima Dutta
     
11:50 am - 12:15 am Synthetic bitumen reservoir inversion for PSEI attributes Kevin Wolf
     
12:15 am - 1:30 pm Lunch Deck
     
1:30 pm - 1:55 pm Lab Overview Tiziana Vanorio
     
  CARBONATES  
1:55 pm - 2:20 pm The effect of porosity and mineral composition on the elastic properties of carbonate rocks Cinzia Scotellaro
     
2:20 pm - 2:40 pm Porous grain model: New applications (opal, chalk) Franklin Ruiz
     
2:40 pm - 3:00 pm Break Breezeway
     
3:00 pm - 3:25 pm Linking chemical and physical properties to enhance the prediction of the acoustic properties in carbonate rocks Tiziana Vanorio
     
3:25 pm - 3:50 pm Combined modeling of laboratory measurements of velocity and resistivity of carbonates Carmen Gomez
     
  HEAVY OIL AND SOURCE ROCKS  
     
3:50 pm - 4:15 pm Nanoscale elastic property measurements of shales: Application of atomic force and confocal laser scanning microscopy Ramil Ahmadov
     
4:15 pm - 4:35 pm Break Breezeway
     
4:35 pm - 5:00 pm Ultrasonic measurement of bitumen sand properties: Challenges and advancements Kevin Wolf
     
5:00 pm - 5:20 pm Elastic anisotropy of clay Kaushik Bandyopadhyay
     
5:20 - 5:45 Emerging methodologies to characterize the rock physics of organic-rich shales Tiziana Vanorio
     
5:45pm RECEPTION / APPETIZERS  
     
6:15pm DINNER  
     
  THURSDAY JUNE 19, 2008  
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8:00 am - 8:30 am Registration and Breakfast (Pastries, Juice & Coffee) Quadrus Breezeway
     
  ELECTRICAL, ELASTIC AND TRANSPORT PROPERTIES  
     
8:30 am - 8:55 am Kozeny-Carman for two-phase flow Jack Dvorkin
     
8:55 am - 9:15 am Elastic property calculations from numerical simulation and experimental data Ratnananbha Sain
     
9:15 am - 9:35 am Analyzing different threshold schemes for CT scanned rocks Richa
     
9:35 am - 10:00 am Hydrocarbon volume estimation from seismic attributes and resistivity Carmen Gomez
     
10:00 am - 10:25 am Break Breezeway
     
10:25 pm - 10:45 pm Estimating low frequency seismic impedance from CSEM resistivity Tapan Mukerji
     
10:45 am - 11:05 am Analyzing threshold sensitivity for transport properties for CT scanned rocks Richa
     
11:05 am - 11:30 am Pore-scale models of chemically reactive flow Danica Dralus
     
11:30 am - 1:00 pm Lunch Deck
     
  ANISOTROPY  
     
1:00 pm - 1:20 pm Fluid substitution for vertical velocities in anisotropic media Kaushik Bandyopadhyay
     
1:20 pm - 1:40 pm Relating elastic and strength anisotropy Ratnananbha Sain
     
1:40 pm - 2:00 pm Fracture detection using amplitude versus angle and azimuth at Teapot Dome Oil Field, WY Laura Chiaramonte
     
2:00 pm - 2:20 pm Conductivity anisotropy and cross property relations in anisotropic rocks Kaushik Bandyopadhyay
     
2:20 pm - 2:50 pm Break Breezeway
     
  CARBONATES  
     
2:50 pm - 3:15 pm Observations and limitations of effective medium models for pore shape Gary Mavko
     
3:15 pm - 3:35 pm Relating thin section attributes of carbonates to acoustic measurements Ratnananbha Sain
     
3:35 pm - 4:00 pm Equivalent elastic model: Theory Franklin Ruiz
     
4:00 pm - 4:20 pm Break Breezeway
     
4:20 pm - 4:45 pm Factors affecting the pressure-sensitivity of the elastic properties of carbonate rocks Cinzia Scotellaro
     
4:45 pm - 5:10 pm Equivalent elastic model: Applications Franklin Ruiz
     
  FRIDAY JUNE 20, 2008  
     
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