Panel Discussion:

Barriers to Industry Adoption of Seismic Inversion: 

Value, Integration and Communication

Hosted by: Øyvind Kjosnes (Aker bp) and Tanya Colwell (CGG)

Wednesday 28 October 2020 at 15:30 CET (UTC+1)

• A brief history of seismic inversion
  
• The financial benefits gained by seismic inversion
  
• A status quo of the industry: current trends and publications
  
• The barriers to its industry acceptance
  
• A touch upon practical aspects of seismic inversions
  
• What we can expect in the future, emerging, complementing and competing technologies 
  

The audience will be engaged with thought-provoking questions, answers and live polls.

Meet the Hosts

With over 15 years of practical experience in the oil and gas industry, specializing in seismic reservoir characterization, Øyvind Kjøsnes is currently a lead geophysicist at Aker BP, Norway. Focused on quantitative geophysics with continuing interests in R & D, he develops and deploys a broad range of methodologies from seismic processing and conditioning, to analysis with a strong emphasis on Bayesian prestack inversion and Machine Learning techniques. 

Tanya Colwell is a Product Strategy Manager for Seismic Reservoir Characterization at CGG based in Calgary, Canada. She has been with HampsonRussell software for more than 20 years and holds Master Degrees in both Applied Mathematics and Computer Science. Her responsibilities are to develop product strategies, study market trends, do competitive analysis and evaluations. With passion for traditional reservoir characterization and new machine learning methods, she often teaches workshops on these subjects for the world-wide audience.

This panel discussion is organised as part of the Technical Programme of the 1st EAGE Seismic Inversion Conference. For more details on the main conference programme or to register see below:

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