Monday

Programme

Monday 29 May

08:00
Registration
 
08:30
Opening
Rune M Holt, NTNU
 
08:40
POROELASTICITY:
Chairs: Boris Gurevich & Sirikarn Narongsirkul
 
08:40 - Fluid Dependence of Rock Compressibility, post Biot-Gassmann (Abstract)
Leon Thomsen
U Houston, USA
 
09:00 - On Poroelastic Homogeneity: Experimental Measurements of Cphi (Abstract)
Luca Duranti
Chevron, USA
 
09:20 - A combined geophysical, hydraulic and mechanical approach to study confining and pore pressure effects in sandstones (Abstract)
Ismael Falcon-Suarez
Nat. Ocean. Ctre., UK
 
09:40 - Saturation dependence of the elastic modulus in ultrasonic measurements: insights for wave propagation mechanisms. (Abstract)
Georgios Papageorgiou
U Edinburgh, UK
 
10:00
Discussion
 
10:20
Break
 
10:50
DISPERSION & ATTENUATION - 1:
Chairs: Ronny Hofmann & Dawid Szewczyk
 
10:50 - Effects of fractures and background porosity on seismic dispersion and attenuation: theory versus numerical simulations (Abstract)
Boris Gurevich
Curtin U, Australia
 
11:10 - Theoretical modelling insights into elastic wave attenuation mechanisms in marine sediments with pore-filling hydrate (Abstract)
Hector Marin Moreno
Nat. Ocean. Ctre., UK
 
11:30 - Progress towards understanding the broadband elastic dispersion in fluid-saturated cracked media from laboratory measurements (Abstract)
Douglas Schmitt
U Alberta, Canada
 
11:50 - Elastic dispersion in fluid-saturated limestones: experimental and modelling results (Abstract)
Jan Borgomano
ENS, France
 
12:10
Discussion
 
12:30
Lunch
 
13:30
QUANTITATIVE INTERPRETATION - 1:
Chairs: Anne-Kari Furre & Angus Best
 
13:30 - From cradle to grave – The rock-physics “life story” of a clastic sediment (Abstract)
Per Avseth
NTNU, Norway
 
13:50 - Rock Physics as a Constraint on Seismic Inversion: a Carbonate case study (Abstract)
Mark Sams
Ikon Sci., UK
 
14:10 - Integrating prestack inversion, machine learning, and forward seismic modelling for petrofacies characterization: A Barents Sea case study (Abstract)
Honore Yenwongfai
U Oslo, Norway
 
14:30
Poster intro
 
15:00
Break & poster session:

POSTERS:

1: Developing a Rock Physics Template for Improved Seismic Mapping of New Zealand Coaly Source Rocks (Abstract)
Stephen Brennan
University Of Auckland, New Zealand
 
2: The effect of CO2 partial saturation on seismic and ultrasonic velocities in Castlegate sandstone (Abstract)
Nicolaine Agofack
NTNU, Norway
 
3: The influence of pore size distribution on transport properties of rocks (Abstract)
Ho Yin Ma
National University Of Singapore
 
4: Seismic attenuation in fluid-filled fractured porous media – a wave propagation study (Abstract)
Vadim Lisitsa
Institute Of Petroleum Geology & Geophysics, Russia
 
5: Multiple response nonlinear regression applied to simultaneous density, vp and vs rock physics calibration and related statistical analysis (Abstract)
Erick Talarico
PUC Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
 
6: Elasticity of organic-rich chalk: insights from measurements and models (Abstract)
Omri Shitrit
Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er Sheva, Israel
 
7: Effect of capillary pressure and contact angle hysteresis in a partially-saturated crack on low frequency moduli and attenuation (Abstract)
Alexander Rozhko
University of Stavanger, Norway
 
15:40
QUANTITATIVE INTERPRETATION - 1 (continued):
 
15:40 - Rock Physics Diagnostics of Exhumed Reservoir Sandstone (Abstract)
Nazmul Haque Mondol
U Oslo & NGI, Norway
 
16:00 - Shear wave velocity prediction from petrophysical logs using MLP-PSO algorithm (Abstract)
Mehdi Assari
Shahrood UT, Iran
 
16:20 - The use of large numbers of pseudo wells for seismic inversion (Abstract)
Matthew Hughes
BP, UK
 
16:40
Discussion & wrap-up
 
17:20
End day 1
 
17:30
Reception & ice-crusher
 

 

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29 May - 2 June 2017
Trondheim, Norway

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