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SEAM Pressure Prediction and Hazard Avoidance through Improved Seismic Imaging
Pressure Prediction and Hazard Avoidance through Improved Seismic Imaging will evaluate and advance current methodologies for pre-drill pressure and hazard prediction.
The research consortium provides a collaborative forum where industry experts prioritize current challenges in the use of seismic velocity models to construct pre-drill pore pressure forecasts for well planning. These challenges are used to design a comprehensive earth model and to “acquire”, through state-of-the-art computer simulation, benchmark data sets to be used by industry for quantifying risk and uncertainty associated with velocity models derived from current and future state-of-the-art in seismic acquisition, processing and imaging.
Though the focus will be Gulf of Mexico Deepwater, the resultant advances in pressure prediction technology and methodology will be more broadly relevant. SEAM Pressure Prediction commenced in late 2014.
SEAM Time Lapse Pilot
Following the launch of the Pressure Prediction project in 2014, there has been a significant extension of the project, funded separately by the U.S. Department of Energy through the National Energy Technology Laboratory which models 4D changes in pore pressure during a plausible production scenario. This is a small, simple, quick version of SEAM LoF that was completed at the end of 3Q16.
Participants
Get the Best Technical Modeling While Saving Money
Guide the formation of the project and tailor it to your specific needs while sharing the cost effort of substantial model design and generation. Get exposure to diverse expertise supplied by each participating company and access to the data two years before the industry.