First EAGE Conference on Seismic Inversion

26-29 October 2020 | Online Event

Keynote Speakers

The conference features keynote presentations from leaders in seismic inversion and quantitative geophysics.

Director of Integrated Geophysics

BP

Mel Ball

Keynote: Geophysics and the Energy Transition

Mel Ball was appointed bp’s Director of Integrated Geophysics earlier this year. In this role she is responsible for developing discipline capability across geophysical analysis and interpretation. Since joining bp in 1991, Mel’s career has been focussed on quantitative geophysics. She was instrumental in developing and deploying bp’s 4D analysis workflows, and responsible for introducing a comprehensive set of company guidelines for geophysical analysis covering the topics of seismic inversion and lithology and fluid prediction.

Prior to her director role, Mel was the lead geophysicist for the Clair field in the North Sea. In this role she coordinated a progressive seismic programme which included the acquisition and analysis of Ultra High Density OBN data. This data has delivered a step change in image quality across the UK’s largest fractured reservoir and the use of PP and PS inversion methodologies is now transforming the team’s understanding of the field, directly impacting depletion planning.

Director

PCA Ltd.

Pat Connolly

Keynote: Facies Probabilities – Seismic Inversion Coming of Age

Patrick Connolly is a consultant geophysicist specializing in seismic reservoir characterization. He retired from BP in 2015 as Senior Advisor for Geophysical Analysis. His primary occupation now is providing training courses for the industry. He is also a Visiting Lecturer at the School of Earth & Environment, University of Leeds, UK.

Patrick was awarded the 2001 SEG Virgil Kauffman Gold Medal for the development of elastic impedance. He was an EAGE Distinguished Lecturer in 2007, an SEG Distinguished Lecturer in 2010 and his presentation Probabilistic seismic inversion using pseudo-wells was awarded the 2017 SEG Best Paper at the Annual Meeting.

Associate Professor

University of Wyoming

Dario Grana

Keynote: Reservoir Models, Geophysical Data, and Bayesian Methods: An Integrated Approach to Subsurface Characterization and Monitoring

Dario Grana is an associate professor in the Department of Geology and Geophysics and the School of Energy Resources at the University of Wyoming. He received a MS in Mathematics at University of Pavia (Italy) in 2005 and a Ph.D. in Geophysics at Stanford University in 2013. He worked four years at Eni Exploration and Production in Milan. He joined the University of Wyoming in 2013. He is coauthor of the book ‘Seismic Reflections of Rock Properties’, published by Cambridge University Press in 2014. He is the recipient of the 2017 EAGE Van Weelden Award, the 2016 SEG Karcher Award, the 2015 Best Paper Award in Mathematical Geosciences, and the 2014 Eni award with Gary Mavko, Tapan Mukerji, and Jack Dvorkin for “pioneering innovations in theoretical and practical rock physics for seismic reservoir characterization”. His main research interests are rock physics, seismic reservoir characterization, geostatistics, data-assimilation, and inverse problems for subsurface modeling.

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