FRC News
New Staff
Member
We are pleased to welcome a new staff member Dr Rossella Sbarra, who brings
many years experience in carbonate and clastic sedimentology and diagenesis to
GeoScience. She will be working within our fractured reservoir characterisation
team as well as extending the company’s capabilities into other areas.
Next Fractured
Carbonate Field Course in the Pyrenees
The 2012 field courses in 'Fractured Reservoir Outcrop Analogs and their
Application to Reservoir Charactersation' will run on 14th-18th May and
17th-21st September, for Carbonates; and May 21st-25th for Clastics. Please see
our Training page for more information and registration details.
ERC Equipoise
Ltd
For several years now we have worked alongside our friends at ERC Equipoise Ltd
in London,
providing specialist fracture characterisation inputs to their reservoir
studies. This has now become an alliance in which we are promoting the
full FRC workflow from data analysis through to fracture modeling in
Petrel. Equipoise have a team of geologists, geophysicists and engineers
and offer a range of sub-surface reservoir characterisation services. See www.ercequipoise.com
Cambridge
Carbonates Ltd
GeoScience Ltd and Cambridge Carbonates Ltd (see www.cambridgecarbonates.com)
are now working together to bring a comprehensive service in the analysis and
interpretation of reservoir sedimentology, diagenesis, fracture
characterisation and geomechanics to the industry. This is a holistic approach
which can be applied both to carbonates and clastics. Please contact
either company for more information.
African Shield
Consulting Ltd
We are also in alliance with African Shield Consulting Ltd of Tripoli
to provide our fractured reservoir characterisation consultancy and training
services in Libya.
In 2010 we presented a 2-day fractured reservoirs workshop at the Libyan
Petroleum Institute. See www.africanshield.net
Recent and
current activity in fractured reservoirs
Over this year we have been working on a wide range of
reservoir formations from late PreCambrian basements through Cambro-Ordovician
quartzites, Ordovician glaciogenic sediments, Devonian fluvial and lacustrine
sandstones, Carboniferous and Permian sandstones, and Mesozoic to Tertiary
carbonates including those of the Zagros fold belt in Kurdistan.
Just about most formations in the column! The studies include fracture
characterisation fieldwork, image log analysis, core logging, geomechanical
models and fracture models. Training courses have continued in the excellent
field setting provided by the Pyrenees fold belt, and we have also delivered a
fractured reservoir training course in Malaysia.
72nd EAGE
Conference & Exhibition - Barcelona (June 2010)
We had a high profile at EAGE Barcelona on two platforms: in the Exhibition and
also in the Poster presentations where Jon Gutmanis and Lluis Ardevol (Geoplay
Pyrenees) presented on ‘Application of Pyrenean Fractured Carbonate Outcrops
for Subsurface Reservoir Characterisation’. A download of the poster abstract
is available here.