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PROGRAMME

Monday, 16 March 2020Sunday, 15 March 202007:00 - 08:00 Onsite Registration

Coffee, tea, juices and morning refreshments available 08:00 - 08:05 Hotel Safety Briefing08:05 - 08:10 Welcome Address by Committee Co-Chairs08:10 - 08:40 Opening Address on Decision-Ready Live Earth Model

by Aus Tawil, Saudi Aramco

SESSION 1 SEISMIC IMAGING: FWI, MULTI COMPONENT,VELOCITY MODEL BUILDING Session Chairs: Taiwen Chen & Falah Al Mutairi

08:40 - 09:05 Applying Conditional Generative Adversarial Networks forSeismic Data ReconstructionEmilio Vital Brazil, IBM Research

09:05 - 09:30 Elastic Full-Waveform Inversion with Geologic Constraintsfor Transversely Isotropic MediaSagar Singh, Colorado School of Mines

09:30 - 09:55 Effect of Customized De-multiple Flow on Seismic ReservoirCharacterization in a Carbonate Field Offshore Abu DhabiZuo Xu, CGG

09:55 - 10:15 COFFEE BREAK – 20 min – Al Rifaa Foyer Area

SESSION 2 CONVERTED WAVE DATASession Chairs: Christian Oviawe & Aiman Bakhorji

10:15 - 10:40 Converted Wave Velocity Model Building and Imaging Basedon the CFP TheoryHongwei Liu, Saudi Aramco

10:40 - 11:05 Seismic Attributes Characterization from Joint Multi-Component Inversion ResultsThibault de Fréminville, Beicip-Franlab

11:05 - 11:35 Moderated Discussion – 30 min

11:35 - 12:35 LUNCH – 1 hr – Al Rifaa South

SESSION 3 SEISMIC ATTRIBUTESSession Chairs:Mohammed Saleh & Mohamed Hafez Abdul Razak

12:35 - 13:00

13:00 - 13:25

The Art of the Possible – A Case Study to Optimize Exploration Potential of the Lower Jurassic Reservoir in North Kuwait by Integrating Multiple Conventional and Machine Learnt Seismic AttributesHesham Moubarak, Kuwait Oil CompanyRefining Seismically Derived Porosity Using a Deep Feed Forward Neural Network for an Offshore Field in the UAE Shraddha Chatterjee, CGG

08:00 - 08:30 Opening Address by Jalal Khazanehdari, CGGQuantitative Seismic Reservoir Characterization: A Look Back and Ways Forward

SESSION 6 SEISMIC INVERSIONSession Chairs: Mohamed Hafez Abdul Razak & Mohammed Abdulhameed Al-Yami

08:30 - 08:55 Multi-Geophysics for Reservoir Characterization: A Comparison of Deterministic and Statistical Inversion MethodologiesClaudio Leone, WesternGeco

08:55 - 09:20 Enhanced Quantitative Interpretation through Depth-Domain Inversion Based on Point Spread FunctionsMaud Cavalca, Schlumberger

09:20 - 09:45 Seismic Reservoir Characterization of Burgan Formation in North Kuwait Using Prestack GeostatisticalInversion Integrated with Rock Physics ModelingTaiwen Chen, Kuwait Oil Company

09:45 - 10:05 COFFEE BREAK – 20 min – Al Rifaa Foyer Area

SESSION 7 4D SEISMICSession Chairs: Abdullah Alshuhail & Beth Rees

10:05 - 10:30 KEYNOTE: Monitoring Gas Plume Thickness with 4D Seismic Data through a Bayesian Update of the ReservoirModel in Sub-Seismic Resolution ConditionsPhilippe Nivlet, Saudi AramcoIntegrating all Components of 4D OBC Data to Match and Update the Dynamic Reservoir Simulation Model for theEdvard Grieg FieldPer Eivind Dhelie, Lundin Norway ASInterpretation Workflow of a Noisy 4D Seismic Data in a Carbonate ReservoirLee Jean Wong, Heriot-Watt University

11:20 - 11:50 Moderated Discussion – 30 min

11:50 - 12:50 LUNCH – 1 hr – Al Rifaa South

SESSION 8 FRACTURE CHARACTERIZATION AND GEOMECHANICSSession Chairs: Beth Rees & Khalaf Al Temimi

12:50 - 13:15 KEYNOTE: Cascading Elastic Parameter Transforms to Simulate the Response of a Medium with Orthorhombic AnisotropyPeter Mesdag, CGG

13:15 - 13:40 Improved Elastic Anisotropy Input for Geomechanical & Geophysical ApplicationsFlorian Karpfinger, Schlumberger

13:40 - 14:05 Joint VVAz-AVAz InversionBenjamin Roure, CGG

14:05 - 14:25 COFFEE BREAK – 20 min – Al Rifaa Foyer Area

SESSION 9 INTEGRATING STATIC WITH DYNAMIC MODELSSession Chairs: Mohammed Saleh & Philippe Nivlet

14:25 - 14:50

14:50 - 15:15

15:15 - 15:40

15:40 - 16:10 16:10 - 16:20

KEYNOTE: Closing the Modeling LoopHisham Almohammadi, Saudi AramcoCore-Based Carbonate Sedimentology/Diagenetic Facies Integrated with Rock Flow Properties for Reservoir Quality Mapping: A Late Jurassic Example from Offshore Abu DhabiClaire Gill, CGGIncorporation of Geologically Consistent Fault Properties in Dynamic Simulation ModelsHisham Salem, Saudi AramcoModerated Discussion – 30 minWrap-Up by Committee Co-Chairs – 10 min

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2nd SEG | DGS Workshop:Advances in Quantitative Seismic Reservoir Characterization

15–16 March 2020 | Bahrain

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SESSION 4 ROCK PHYSICS MODELING ANDSEISMIC FACIESSession Chairs: Mukarram Ahmed & Abdullah Alshuhail

13:25 - 13:50 KEYNOTE: Saturation and Permeability from Seismic:State-of-the-ArtJack Dvorkin, KFUPM

13:50 - 14:15 Single Loop Litho-Petro-Elastic Modelling andInversion: An Example of Prospect Characterizationin the Norwegian SeaAndrea Murineddu, Schlumberger

14:15 - 14:40 Seismic Acoustic Impedance as a Predictor ofReservoir Connectivity Regions and its Application toImprove 1D Permeability ModelingBabatope Kayode, Saudi Aramco

14:50 - 15:10 COFFEE BREAK – 20 min – Al Rifaa Foyer Area

SESSION 5 ROLE OF MACHINE LEARNINGSession Chairs:Mohammed Abdulhameed Al-Yami & Beth Rees

15:10 - 15:35 Predicting Acoustic, Elastic and Reservoir RockProperties Using Deep Learning TechniquesBehzad Alaei, Earth Science Analytics AS

15:35 - 16:00 Challenges of Relative Scarcity of Data: How RockPhysics and Machine Learning Can Overcome itShraddha Chatterjee, CGG

16:00 - 16:25 Facies Classification Using Machine Learning inVertical and Spatial DomainsSyed Sadaqat Ali, Saudi Aramco

16:25 - 16:55 Moderated Discussion – 30 min

18:00 - 20:00 ICEBREAKER RECEPTION – Elements Pool

E-POSTER SESSION14:40 - 14:50 Estimation of Soil Porosity and Water Saturation

using Seismic Velocities and Ground-Penetrating Radar: A Case Study over a Sand Dune in eastern Saudi Arabia Naser Al-Naser, KFUPM