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Dear Member,
After a thoroughly enjoyable summer break LPS resumed evening
meetings last week with an excellent double bill of talks from Ahmed
Badruzzaman Ph. D, ANS Fellow Pacific Consultants and Engineers and
University of California, Berkeley and M. M. Aliyu of University of
Leeds. Ahmed gave us a fabulous talk titled “Alternative Nuclear-
based Technologies to Mitigate Risks of Radionuclide Well Logging
Sources: Their advantages and challenges” while Aliyu gave a talk
titled “Physicomechanical Characterisation of Flint: Variation and Control Perspectives”. Both talks prompt-
ed healthy debate and discussion. The evening meeting was well attended by students and experienced
professionals alike.
It was particularly exciting to see back to back presentations from an SPWLA Distinguished Speaker and a
LPS grant award recipient. We are very appreciative of the support from SWPLA in supporting travel costs. It
very much helps access to great speakers and allowed Ahmed to travel on to Aberdeen to present at AFES.
I want to remind you that it is not too late to get your registration in for the next one day seminar to be
held next week on Thursday 24th September. At a time of cost cutting, this seminar will be of interest to
petrophysicists, geologists, reservoir engineers, geophysicists, technical assistants, and support staff work-
ing directly with or looking for a refresher on legacy data, applying new tools/techniques to vintage data,
frontier exploration and research integrating complex datasets. The title is “Old data, New tricks: Fresh chal-
lenges, Mature targets, and Scientific oddities” and is being run in collaboration with U.K. International
Ocean Discovery Program (IODP). Please visit the website for more details and registration forms.
The next evening meeting will be held on 20th October where we have yet another SPWLA Distinguished
Lecturer to offer you. Mark Proett from Aramco Services Company will present a talk titled “Automatically
Quantifying Wireline and LWD Pressure-Test Quality”. Talk starts at 18:30hrs in the Geological Society as
usual. Free entry and no registration necessary.
Volunteers Needed! We are starting to look forward to our Annual General Meeting on Tuesday 17th No-
vember where we will present the LPS 2015 Executive Committee for the approval of the membership.
The Committee will need additional help in 2016, so if you would
like to volunteer some of your valuable time to assist in the running
of the LPS, our Past-President, Mike Millar, would really like to hear
from you ([email protected], 0118-929-3404).
I look forward to seeing you at some of the events above.
Best Regards
Iain Whyte Iain Whyte : LPS President
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Dates for your Diary
2015
One Day Seminar
Tuesday 24 September
Old data, New tricks: Fresh
challenges, Mature targets,
and Scientific oddities
Evening Lecture
Tuesday 20 October
Automatically Quantifying
Wireline and LWD Pressure-
Test Quality
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Message from the President 1
2015 LPS Committee 2
Inside Story Headline 3
Evening Lecture—Abstract 4
Dick Woodhouse Award 5
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The LPS is run by the Executive Committee, a group of volunteers from Industry and Aca-
demia, and we are looking for people to join us for 2016 and beyond. Executive Committee
meetings are held at Burlington House before the evening Technical meetings, and some of
the Committee work is also done via email. So if you would like to volunteer some of your
valuable time to assist in the running of the LPS, please get in touch with Mike Millar (Past-
President) by 15th October ([email protected], 0118-929-3430, http://lps.org.uk/
about-lps/contacting-lps/).
Volunteers Needed to help run the LPS.
Upcoming Evening Talks - Starting at 18:30
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LPS Membership Count
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Contacts:
Membership
Sharan Dhami
Seminar
Ian Draper
Newletter
Bilal Fazal
Date Evening Lectures Presenter
Tuesday
20th Octo-
ber
Automatically Quantifying Wireline and LWD Pressure
-Test Quality
Mark Proett
(Aramco Ser-
vices Compa-
ny
Industry
Professionals
281
University
Students
125
LPS membership continue to grow and we are glad to report that on 7th-Spe, mem-
bers are
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“Old data, New
tricks”
Inside Story Headline Old data, New tricks: Fresh challenges, Mature targets, and Scientific
Oddities
Thursday 24-Sep-2015
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Sep, 2015
Registration £150 for members and non members, (LPS is not VAT registered).
There are a limited number of free places for Students, but you must register in advance.
Includes lunch and refreshments.
To attend please download a Registration form and email to Ian Draper, VP Seminars.
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Seminar Chair
Peter Fitch
Speaker Affiliation Title
Craig
Lindsay
Core Specialist
Services Core Analysis - Past, Present and Future
Michael Blum & Mark Foster
Old or Ancient E-Logs from the U.S., Venezuela, Ita-
ly, Eastern Europe and Iran, Old LAS files Files and
Data Management Challenges and Issues
Lachlan
Finlayson Petrofac IES
Interpretation of Induction-SP logs: calibration to mod-
ern log suites
Sarah Han-
nis BGS
Re-evaluating legacy wellbore integrity logs for wells
in the vicinity of a CO2 storage site
Craig
Buchan
Task Fronterra
Geoscience
Maximising value from vintage data using smart tools
- finding faults in your reservoir
Mark
Fellgett BGS
Reservoir modelling for water reservoirs: Utilising
legacy geophysical log data for today’s challenges
Chris Mac-
Leod Cardiff University
Core-log integration and core reorientation: applica-
tion, and scientific potential of an under-utilised re-
source
Jan
Vinogra-
dov
Imperial College
London
Measurements of Streaming Potential for Improved
Understanding of Controlled Salinity Waterflooding
Matthew
Reeve
Imperial College
London
The Stratigraphic Record of Pre-Breakup Geodynam-
ics on the Northwest Shelf, Australia: New Insights
from Integrating Industry and ODP Datasets
Joanne
Tudge Weatherford
Now for something totally different... a journey
through a subduction zone (IODP NanTroSEIZE Ex-
peditions)
David
Buchs Cardiff University
Sediment routing and diagenetic processes of forearc
systems: constraints from integrated analysis of IODP
data and detrital pyroxenes collected during the Nankai
Trough Seismogenic Zone Experiment
(NanTroSEIZE, Japan)
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Sep, 2015
Abstract— Upcoming Evening lecture Automatically Quantifying Wireline and LWD Pressure-Test Quality
Thursday 20-Oct-2015
Presenter
Mark Proett is a Sr. Petroleum Engineering Consultant
for Aramco Services Company, Upstream Group in Hou-
ston. Mark is best known for his publications advocating
the viability of the formation testing-while-drilling
(FTWD), introduced in 2002, with the Sperry GeoTap
service. He has been awarded 54 US patents and au-
thored over 50 technical papers, most of which deal with
sampling and testing analysis methods. He has been an
SPWLA Distinguished Speaker and SPE Distinguished
Lecturer. In 2008 Mark received the SPWLA Distin-
guished Technical Achievement Award and in 2013 the
SPE Gulf Regional Formation Evaluation Award. Mark
has a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering
from the University of Maryland and his Master of Sci-
ence from Johns Hopkins University.
Abstract In the literature regarding wireline (WL) and logging-while-drilling (LWD) pressure
testing analysis, theoretical transient models are promoted to evaluate the quality of
pressure test points, typically by a skilled analyst. However, in practice, other crite-
ria are normally used to judge the test quality. Some are ad hoc, but there is a grow-
ing consensus that several convenient, simple, and effective real-time measurements
are needed to evaluate the quality of the test points. This presentation demonstrates
an automated process that was developed where these real-time measurements are
used to determine the validity of the pressure test and a rating assigned based on pre-
determined standards.
The primary measurements made now include the drawdown mobility (md/cp) and
buildup stability (psi/min). Although these measurements can be effective inde-
pendently, they are also a source of information that can be expanded upon to further
analyze the data. For example, how does the pressure stability compare to what is
expected considering the drawdown mobility? Noise in the pressure data caused by
mud flow is particularly evident in LWD pressure testing and the standard deviation
of the pressure data during the buildup is another consideration for test quality. The
radius of investigation can be estimated using the drawdown/buildup times with the
mobility estimate to quantify the testing effectiveness. Supercharging is a concern
for pressure measurements when the pressure measured is influenced by mud filtrate
invasion that has elevated the pressure at and near the wellbore. The supercharge
potential can be determined by making some simplifying assumptions to further
evaluate the data points. These calculations can be made by using basic principles
and will guide the analyst monitoring the test to determine the relative quality of the
test points. In this way, the best quality test points are used in the analysis of fluid
gradients or for integration into the Petrophysical analysis.
“Call for 2016
Evening lectures”
We are now putting
together our
programme of
evening events for
2016. If you have a
technical talk you
would like to give,
please contact
VP Technology
Liz Davis
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Dick Woodhouse Award
Annual prize trophy & cash award (£1000)
The Dick Woodhouse Award to Young Professionals
Guidelines for Submissions Why: To encourage the pursuit of excellence in young professional Petrophysicist and other ge-oscientists involved in formation evaluation. To celebrate the outstanding contribution that Dick made to our industry during his 45 year career. Who: Industry professionals with up to three years industry experience; or researchers (but not MSc or PhD students as they are covered by the Iain Hillier award scheme). Where: UK based companies or research centres, or UK based workers on short/medium term over-seas assignments. What: The annual prize consists of a trophy and a cash award of £1000. How to apply: Qualifying young professionals can nominate themselves, or they can be nominated by a colleague or friend, the submission process is the essentially the same. Submit a conference style poster (or paper) to LPS committee for review. The topic should be an inspiring, original and innovative project or piece of work based on formation evaluation using well bore data such as logs, core, pressures. Integration with other subsurface disciplines is encouraged. Original contributions on theoretical and applied aspects of petrophysics, including both open-hole and cased-hole well logging as well as core analysis. Case histories and interpretation are of special interest. You can submit posters or papers that have been published or are under consideration for publication elsewhere, but please give de-tails. The work can have been done as part of a team and does not have to have been an individual pro-ject.
All material presented will be kept confidential.
Mail to:
Mike Millar Mike.millar@bg-
group.com
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2015 Dick Woodhouse award is given to Awarded
to Sarka Hlavackova for her work on ‘Petrophysical and Lithology evaluation of the Upper Jurassic in Quad 15, UK Central North Sea’
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The 2016 international symposium will be held in Reykjavik, Iceland. As an industry in change petro-
physicists are responsible for making sure we acquire the right data for our projects. But we must also
demonstrate that value is added to the project through interpretation of high quality, fit-for-purpose data.
Petrophysics is one of the key inputs linking geology into reserves optimization, and in today’s economic
climate with an increasing challenge to find new reserves it is more important than ever to emphasize the
value petrophysics adds to our business.
The SPWLA Board of Directors invites you to join us in Reykjavik, Iceland, June 25-29, 2016 to show-
case your recent innovations and discoveries at the 57th Annual Symposium. We solicit papers on all
aspects of formation evaluation.
To watch an introduction Video, go to http://www.spwla2016.com/video/2015/08/12/the-video.html