Principal Investigator: Ernie Majer (510-486-6709), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Team Members: Chester J. Weiss, (505-284-6347); Dave Aldridge (505-284-2823); Kurt Strack (KMS Technologies, website) and Rich Ostermeier (Shell)

Sponsor: Natural Gas and Oil Technology Partnership (NGOTP)

Duration: (FY)2001-2003

Description: This project was motivated primarily by three long-range goals in the oil & gas community: increasing hydrocarbon recovery rates to > 70%, minimizing water production, and "smart" placement of drilling platforms to optimize reservoir penetration. It was modeled after the DeepLook project in which a "collaboration entity" (such as this NGOTP project team) serves as the hub which integrates market needs of the oil and gas community, technology innovation and development, and commercialization of the technical product to the oil & gas service companies. Loosely stated, the class of geophysical production problems of interest included not only finding hydrocarbon resources but also monitoring production, enhancing steerable wellbore systems and impacting the control safety/environmental aspects of hydrocarbon production. As such, our technical focus was directed toward joint seismic/electromagnetic methods for subsurface imaging which combines the high spatial fidelity of the seismic wavefield response with the extreme sensitivity to fluids of the electromagnetic response.

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