Workshop Overview

From the very first EAGE Workshop Practical Reservoir Monitoring to the latest fourth incarnation of the workshop an ever-challenging business environment has provided a constant backdrop to the workshop. The first workshop was held during a regime of low prices, which had improved by the time of second workshop, though many of the capital constraints remained. The third workshop was the first to be held online during the global pandemic, while the fourth workshop will be held during a period of increasing geopolitical tensions and a growing awareness for the need of the energy transition. 

What has been repeatable for all the workshops has been a desire to investigate, discuss, and share the successes that are provided from practical reservoir monitoring.

Workshop Aim

In common with the previous workshops the current incarnation aims to show how the use of modern reservoir surveillance practices can be applied to ensure safe injection and drainage, while optimizing field production and maximize value. 

The workshop aims to continue to investigate the benefits through multidisciplinary data integration, of geophysical and engineering data, and increased digitalization that allow for improved work processes that enhance reservoir monitoring capabilities.

The workshop has always provided a venue and will continue to do so, for embryonic ideas and technologies as well as future trends. Examples such as distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) and big data analytics, shared in previous workshops have later gone on to warrant their own workshops as the acceptance of these technologies has become widespread.

Participant's Profile

Specialists from leading operators, service companies and academia will come together to exchange insights on the latest developments and value proposition of reservoir monitoring. We encourage oral presentations and posters exploring global perspectives on the use of reservoir monitoring techniques within various geographical and geological settings.

Beyond the traditional applications in hydrocarbon reservoirs, we also welcome applications in other fields such as hydrogen storage, carbon storage and geothermal. New business challenges and opportunities presented by the coexistence of reservoir monitoring with wind farm development, and the use of reservoir monitoring for exploration are also invited.

1.Global Perspectives

• Mature basins / Deep water / Pre- and sub salt / Carbonates / Onshore
• 4D for Exploration / Synergy between Exploration and Monitoring
• CCS / Hydrogen storage

2.Operations

• Feasibility studies / Business cases / Interpretation
• Well Planning / Drilling / Overburden Integrity / Production Monitoring / Production Optimization
• Reservoir Management / Operational Optimization

3.Technology

• Using the whole wavefield / 4D FWI / Upgoing & Downgoing wavefield / Multiples
• Shear waves / Surface Waves
• Passive Seismic / Microseismic

4.Measurements

• Permanent Reservoir Monitoring / OBN / (Mini) Streamer
• Automation AUV & ASV / Fibre DAS, DTS, DVS, DSS / Sensors MEMS, Rotational…
• Simultaneous Sources / Marine Vibroseis
• Non-Seismic Methods / Gravity / Electromagnetic / Acoustic / Muon…

5.Developments in Modelling

• Rock Physics / Pressure & Saturation / Temperature / Carbonates
• Reservoir / Geomechanical / Geomodelling

6.Data Opportunities

• Data integration and Interpretation: Geophysics, Engineering, In-well sensing, Geomatics..
• Automation and Digitalization / Data Analytics (Machine Learning, Deep Learning etc)
• Open Datasets and Open Data Sharing