RSI Seminar: Rock Physics of Shales & Integration with Other Data for Production Prediction
We will be holding this seminar in 2012, please fill out the form below and we will send you an email with more details as they become available.
The Rock Physics of Shales and Integration with Other Data for Production Prediction Seminar will feature Professor Gary Mavko, co-director the Stanford Rock Physics and Borehole Geophysics Project (SRB) and member of the RSI Technology Oversight Board along with Scott Singleton presenting an integrated case study built on RSI's world class rock physics knowledge and innovative solutions for shale gas reservoir characterization and production prediction.
The seminar will address fundamental characteristics of shales, the importance of rock physics modeling, the seismic expression of shales, difficulties in interpreting shales, and then move towards integrating microseismic and production data to predict production.
Agenda
| Time | Topic | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 8:15 | Introduction | Gareth Taylor |
| 8:30 | The rock physics of shale | Professor Gary Mavko |
| 9:30 | The role of modeling in shale rock physics analysis | Professor Gary Mavko |
| 10:15 | Break | All |
| 10:30 | A workflow for leveraging rock physics, seismic, microseismic, & production data to predict production: An example from the Marcellus Shale |
Scott Singleton |
| 11:30 | Lunch | All |
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Speaker Bios:
Professor Gary Mavko
Gary received his Ph.D. in geophysics from Stanford in 1977. He then joined the Tectonophysics branch of the USGS in Menlo Park where he worked in areas of rock physics and earthquake fault mechanics. In 1984 Gary joined Entropic Geophysical, in its first months as a start-up reflection seismic processing company. Gary developed many of Entropic's algorithms and software for reflection and refraction analysis, and eventually became their VP of research and development. He returned to Stanford in February, 1989, and is now Professor (Research) of Geophysics. He has been working on modeling and analysis of the acoustic properties of rocks and techniques of seismic interpretation for rock and fluid properties.
Gary co-directs the Stanford Rock Physics and Borehole Geophysics Project (SRB), a group of approximately 25 researchers (faculty, research associates, post-docs, and graduate students), working on problems related to wave propagation in earth materials - the field of Rock Physics. The goal is to better understand how rocks, pore fluids, and physical conditions of temperature and stress impact wave propagation, particularly in disordered, heterogeneous media.
Mr. Scott Singleton
Mr. Singleton graduated from New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology in 1979 with a BS in Geophysics. He then spent the next 5 years in marine acquisition and processing for Western Geophysical, Seiscom Delta, and Digicon. Attending Texas A&M University, he received a MS in Geophysics in 1988. He then joined Fugro-McClelland Marine Geosciences where he acquired, processed, and interpreted a wide variety of seismic data types. In 1993, Mr. Singleton began consulting in QC methods for seismic acquisition and processing, and soon joined forces with Energy Innovations, Inc., to provide these services to a growing number of O&G companies. Mr. Singleton specialized in relative amplitude processing techniques that could be used for AVO analysis. In 1998, he shifted his focus from the AVO-compatible acquisition and processing of seismic data to the rock property analysis of this data. At Jason Geosystems as a seismic data specialist, Mr. Singleton wrote tutorials on processing flows for seismic inversion and techniques for the incorporation of seismic velocities into the low frequency component of full-bandwidth impedance inversion. He joined Core Laboratories in 2003 for the explicit purpose of upgrading their rock property technology and revamping their workflow.
With the sale of CoreLab's Reservoir Technology Division to Paradigm Geophysical in 2004, Mr. Singleton joined Rock Solid Images to lead their Lithology and Fluid Prediction Consortium (I and II) where he developed and implemented several new technologies. In 2008 he became VP for Global Processing and Interpretation where he was responsible for project services throughout the company. In 2011 he became Seismic Technology Advisor and is currently responsible for developing and establishing new conventional and unconventional seismic technologies company-wide.