The Seismic
Method 10 Years Ahead
By
Ian Jack1
(1) BP, London, United Kingdom
It is not difficult to extrapolate current trends and R&D programs into the future. The main areas of development will be:
- Speed of manipulation and analysis
- HSE awareness
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Visualisation, & interpretation
methodology
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Data
management (Storage, Transmission, Retrieval, Mining)
-
Land seismic
catches up with marine
-
Step function improvement in seismic
resolution
- Visibility on pressure and fluid changes in the reservoir
- An integrated, automated environment - the “e-Field”
The paper will cover all of these and will concentrate on the last three items.