MODERATOR

Tuesday, 2 February 2021

All times are per local time in Algeria (GMT+1)

Farid AYADI is a mechanical engineer specialized in thermodynamics and energy from Houari Boumediene University of Science and Technology (USTHB) in 1997 and has an Executive MBA from the Algiers Business School (ESAA) in 2011. Farid worked in the headquarter of the national company SONATRACH within the Strategy, Economy and Prospective department as a study engineer from 2000 to 2007. He joined the ALNAFT agency in 2007 as head of the national market department in the natural gas division. He is currently the director in charge of the promotion of hydrocarbon mining domain and has held this position since 2016.

KEYNOTE ADDRESS

PRESENTATION TITLE | Exploration Challenges & Potentiality in Algerian Basins

PRESENTATION TITLE | Low Carbon Footprint Reservoirs in Algeria – A Review

PRESENTATION TITLE | Potentials to be developed related to the discoveries of oil and gas discovered, through the various sedimentary basins: open to development in partnership with IOC companies

Janpieter van Dijk graduated and obtained his PhD degree at Utrecht University (the Netherlands), andhas 28 years of worldwide experience in Oil and Gas, in New Ventures, Exploration, Appraisal andProduction, both in conventional and unconventional settings. His main professional occupation isProject Generation (Seismic Mapping, Ranking, Risking), and Asset Management, Global Networking,Research and Technology Development, and, more in general, Technical and Geoscience Managementin O&G. Additionally, he published numerous research papers and 2 books on tectonostratigraphy, structural geology, basin evolution, geodynamics, history of science and technology, and computermodeling. He is a major expert in Fractured and Faulted Reservoir Characterization and Modeling.Furthermore, he regularly organizes courses and field workshops, holds lectures on conferences and ismember of a number of editorial boards.

PRESENTATION TITLE | Tight Reservoirs - A New Era in Geology-driven Multiscale and Poly-phased 3d Fault & Fracture Modelling

Zeng is the Chief Geophysicist of BGP Algeria. He has over 18 years of experience in seismic survey with dynamite and vibrators abroad, during which Zeng worked in BGP Oman for around 10 years with high productivity technology. He is familiar with the design of seismic survey, the broad band sweep signal design of vibrator and the high productivity seismic operation. In the recently five years, Zeng has seen the tremendous change of seismic acquisition methods in Algeria that is lead by BGP.

PRESENTATION TITLE | Seismic Acquisition Case Histories

The outline of the presentation will include BGP experiences of seismic acquisition in Algeria, as well as the Broadband and High productivity cases in Algeria.

Panos was born and raised in Thessaloniki, Greece, where he graduated from the Electrical and Computer Engineering school of the Aristotle University. Following his doctorate research on "Inversion methods for the separation of blended data" at Delft University of Technology, he co-founded Delft Inversion with prof. Gisolf and Dr. Haffinger. He currently serves as Managing Director of the company and overlooks its strategic growth in several markets and industries. He is a proud father of two boys.

PRESENTATION TITLE | Utilizing the wave equation for effective de-risking of hydrocarbon exploration

Hydrocarbon exploration and exploitation relies on seismic data to fill in the lack of information between wells. AVO [Amplitude Vs Offset] seismic inversion has emerged as a tool to extract quantitative elastic properties about the reservoir. Based on this technology, operators can predict, in some cases, the presence of hydrocarbons as well as the reservoir properties. However, AVO inversion is based on a series of assumptions and linearizations of the wave propagation. The Wave-Equation-based inversion is a natural next step in the evolution of seismic inversion techniques, adopting a non-linear, full wavefield approach. This type of inversion is now possible due to advances in the computational front. In this talk, we will be analyzing the theory behind this non-linear solver along with some key applications that have led to de-risking of a various relevant hydrocarbon exploration projects. 

Oussama  Bouderbalah is the Head of prospective Analysis Department at the Algerian Agency for Valorization of Hydrocarbons Resources with 10 year experience. He is in charge of prospective G&G studies, national Oil & Gas reserves as well as the prospectivity of the Algerian hydrocarbons mining domain.

PRESENTATION TITLE | Potential areas of interest associated with the different stratigraphic plays on the sedimentary basins of the Algerian hydrocarbon mining domain

This presentation will talk about areas of interest (ZOI), revealed by several integrated regional studies launched by ALNAFT over the past three years for the assessment of the hydrocarbon potential in place within the main basins of the Algerian hydrocarbon mining domain, even Offshore and Onshore domain, which may interest oil and gas companies (IOC) to invest in the exploration for the hydrocarbon potential in place, still under-explored.

Giancarlo is the Marketing and Commercial Manager at Fugro ITALY SpA. His specialties include: Geophysical Marine Survey, Land geophysical and geological survey and offshore marine survey in general.

PRESENTATION TITLE | Gas seep/Geochem/Heat Flow and Shallow 2DHR Seismic Surveys for Hydrocarbon Exploration

A detailed interpretative model of the hydrocarbon seepage is useful to reduce offshore exploration risk and cost. The link between hydrocarbon seeps and commercial reserves is well established. Marine seep hunting is at the forefront of hydrocarbon exploration due to recent advances in offshore geophysical and geochemical technologies. Fugro’s team of geoscientists deliver an advanced client-focused seep hunting service for the offshore industry creating a competitive advantage for our clients. This Case of Study creates a programme consisting of a legacy data study, geophysical acquisition survey, targeted coring, geochemical sampling and heat flow measurement program. It demonstrates how Fugro approach, compared to historic industry success rates, can more than double the likelihood of recovering samples bearing evidence of migrated liquid petroleum and thermogenic gas. Identifying and sampling sites where deep fluids have migrated to the seabed provides the highest quality geochemical data for understanding the deep reservoir.

PRESENTATION TITLE | Characterization, distribution and prospectivity of Paleozoic shale plays across Algerian Saharan Platform: a guide for regional sweet spots tracking

Amine is a Geophysicist with an extensive experience in the O&G industry covering many aspects of seismic acquisition, processing and imaging in both business and R&D context.  Amine started his career with Veritas-DGC as a seismic processor then joined BP complex imaging R&D team where he became the land seismic Subject Matter Expert (SME) providing support to BP assets as well as working on R&D projects. Amine was a part of the development team that created the “nimble node” technology which led to the creation of STRYDE - Where he holds now the position of Head of Processing. Amine has a particular interest in High Density Seismic and has many publications on this subject

PRESENTATION TITLE | High density seismic finally accessible to all industries

High density seismic has been synonym of high quality subsurface images and attributes for more than 2 decades now, and although firstly made available by innovative source technologies like blended acquisition, which converted vibroseis fleet into very efficient autonomous single sources points, the receiver side was lagging behind with bulky heavy cables, and later, bulky heavy nodes, preventing it from spreading the sensors efficiently and reaching the full potential of an unlimited channel count system. So more nimble receiver systems were required to respond to the continuous need for better seismic images at a lower cost, lower environmental impact, and lower HSE exposure for both Oil&Gas and non Oil&Gas industries. In this paper, we will introduce the story behind the invention of a new generation of nimble nodes and how it has already disrupted the way seismic is being acquired, especially in difficult terrains, making high density seismic finally accessible to all industries.

Roberto's career has developed following the evolution of the world of energy. He started working in the Oil & Gas in Italy in ENI. Later, he moved to Enterprise Oil, a very entrepreneurial medium-small E&P company. In 2007 Roberto joined Enel's Upstream Gas division after few years spent in OMV and a short period in Shell. This unit was set up to capture the entire value chain of gas by recognizing its specific characteristics. After directing the Exploration, Development, and Operation department, he moved to renewables as head of the geothermal global technological line. In 2020, he left Enel to pursue his passion. He has returned to teaching as a Visiting Professor in Economic Geology at Camerino University.

PRESENTATION TITLE | Desktop geological review of the geothermal potential of Algeria

The presentation will identify the different potential geothermal play types present in the country highlighting where they may be located and, finally, will indicate how they could be exploited. 

PRESENTATION TITLE | Hydrocarbon potential in the Eastern Atlas Range with emphasis of Cretaceous plays, Algeria