The 2011 Barrel Award:
Introduction
36th Year
Barrel Award & MSc course schedule
Production
Geoscience
Exploration
Geoscience
Independent Projects
Utah
Examinations
Term 1
October
Development Geology
Wessex Basin Field Trip
Petropyhsics
Seismic methods
Seismic interpretation
Structural Geology
Petroleum Engineering
Reservoir characterisation
Geostatistics
Reservoir modelling
Wytch Farm Group Project
Term 2
January
Term 3
April
Sequence stratigraphy
Carbonate reservoirs
Clastic reservoirs
Biostratigraphy
Petroleum Geochemistry
Petrol. Systems Analysis
Basin Analysis
Basin modelling
Seismic interpretation
Advanced seismic methods
Barrel Award
May
Summer
June
July
September
Final presentations
Independent Project
Utah-Texas
Field Trip
Sequence stratigraphy
Fluvial clastic systems
Coastal-deltaic clastic systems
Fluvial-aeolian clastic systems
Delta tectonics/growth faults
Salt tectonics
Extensional tectonics
Barrel Award History
• Started in 1976 by Professor Richard Selley:
• Following early gas discoveries in the Southern North Sea
• During early oil discoveries in the Northern & Central North Sea
• Evaluation areas were based on the UKCS Exploration Licensing Rounds
(1976-93):
• Literature-based plus limited well and regional seismic lines
• Paper-based interpretations with coloured pencils!
• Strongly exploration-based (e.g. Beatrice Field discovered in the Inner
Moray Firth)
• 1990’s based on digital North Sea databases:
• 3D seismic & well logs from proven oil & gas fields
• Focused on near-field exploration (e.g. field extensions)
• e.g. North Alwyn & Beryl (NNS), Argyll (CNS), Lancelot (SNS), etc.
• 2000’s regional 3D seismic datasets plus digital well logs:
• PC-based workstations, basin modelling & other software
• Frontier &/or under-explored areas (beyond the North Sea)
• Imperial Barrel Award adopted by the AAPG in 2007 as a
global exploration teaching concept (c. 80 universities
competing world-wide in 2010)
Barrel Award Overview
• To document the tectono-stratigraphic development of a sedimentary
basin to allow a detailed assessment of its petroleum potential
• To analyse the hydrocarbon prospectivity of 11 datasets from
sedimentary basins in contrasting structural and stratigraphic settings:
• regional to sub-regional 2D or 3D seismic dataset
• 1-5 wells with wireline data
•
The analysis to be worked on by 11 teams of 4-5 students per team:
• ca. 4 weeks evaluation time: Tuesday 22nd February – Tuesday 22nd
March
• The project integrates all formal teaching from both Terms 1 and 2
ranging from Seismic Interpretation to Reservoir Characterisation, and
from Basin Analysis to Source Rock Evaluation
• Emphasis is on exploration evaluation and basin-scale studies
Rationale
• New Business Opportunities (NBO) provide the growth engines for oil
companies in the search for increasing their reserves base.
• NBO often arise as the current operator is prepared to offer an equity
stake in the acreage to another company – known as a “farm-out”
opportunity.
• The operator may “farm-out” for numerous reasons, e.g. (1) to dilute
equity or relinquish acreage in an area considered to have low potential,
(2) to acquire new, more prospective acreage, (3) to finance a drilling
campaign elsewhere, (3) rationalise (‘swop’) acreage, etc.
• To encourage companies to buy-in to the opportunity the operator
opens up a “data room” where prospective farm-inees can view the data
for a few days, assess its hydrocarbon potential and, critically, assign a
value ($$$) to it.
• This exercise mimics this process but with a significantly longer data
viewing period than is typically encountered in the real world…
The 2011 Barrel Award: Key Players
Exploration Managers:
Alastair Fraser
Chris Jackson
Howard Johnson
Senior Consultants:
Mike Ala (Petrophysics)
Nigel Banks (Basin Analysis & Prospect Evaluation)
Fivos Spathopoulos (Petroleum Systems & Prospect Evaluation)
Technical Advisors:
Lorraine Sobers (Interactive Petrophysics)
AN Others
Exploration Teams (x11):
MSc Petroleum Geoscience students (45)
Exploration Process: defines the Barrel Award workflow
High-Grade Acreage & Drillable Prospects
prospect
inventory
Phase 2: Prospects
Prospect level understanding
prospect segmentation/
shotpoint risk (‘surgical
mapping’)
risk
seismic
imaging
uncertainty
seismic
attributes
geol
modeling
Play Focus
Phase 1: Basins
Fundamental
basin/play level &
regional understanding
(‘forensic
geoscience’)
basin statistics
- field size dist
- analogs
structural
styles
data
management
BP (Alastair Fraser) quote:
‘Geology from the bottom up!’
stratigraphy
-well data
-fieldwork
CRS: Common Risk Segment
lead inventory
play risk
- CRS maps
- success rates
Regional Understanding
play fairway analysis, CRS analysis
sequence
stratigraphy
plate
reconstructions
regional seismic
grav & mag
petroleum
systems
basic maps
- structure
- isopachs
documentation
Courtesy BP
Typical Exploration Work Programme
Wytch Farm Project
Barrel Award
Project
E drill: Exploration well
A drill: Appraisal well
A&P: Acquisition & Processing (seismic data)
FDP: Field Development Plan
Regional tectono-stratigraphic overview:
essential starting point
Hydrocarbon Occurrences
Regional Tectonic Evolution
Doust and Sumner, 2007
Summary of Basin Types and Structural Styles
Doust and Sumner, 2007
Stratigraphic Framework
Doust and Sumner, 2007
Define genetic play types: reservoir/source/seals
Doust and Sumner, 2007
Dynamic concepts of HC generation,
migration, entrapment & preservation
Fault
Traps
Channel PinchOut Traps
Top of Oil Window
Anticlinal
Traps
Sub-unconformity
truncation traps
Gas Generated
Deeper
(Based on the Miocene of the Balingian Province, offshore Sarawak)
Modified from Dolivo, 1991
Barrel Award: Aim & Objectives
General aim: to document the tectono-stratigraphy of a sedimentary
basin in order to assess its petroleum potential
Specific objectives:
•
Literature review to establish regional geodynamics/plate tectonics
•
Regional stratigraphic framework, depositional environments & palaeogeography
•
Basin type: classification and tectonic setting
•
Seismic interpretation (key horizons and associated maps)
•
Well log interpretation and correlation
•
Formation evaluation
•
Sequence stratigraphic analysis
•
Reservoir/source/seal evaluation (incl. reservoir thickness and quality maps)
•
Subsurface fluids and pressure regimes
•
Subsidence history and source rock maturation and migration (inc. 1D basin modelling)
•
Play fairway maps
•
Analysis of structural and stratigraphic traps
•
Prospect evaluation
•
Hydrocarbon volumetrics and risk assessment.
Barrel Award: Methodology
• The teams are in charge of their technical work and time
management
• The structure is less formal than Wytch Farm, partly due to the
diversity of the datasets… and now you’re all more experienced!
• Morning presentations on key subjects: basin modelling,
petrophysics, petroleum systems, play & prospect risking, visual
communication, etc.
• PETROMOD basin modelling seminar (1 member per team)
• Mid-week visits by senior consultants: day-long visits with individual
team discussions (approx. 30 minutes per team)
• Weekly review meetings with Exploration Managers (Friday pm) to
monitor progress, etc.
• Dry runs: comprehensive feedback
interpretations, presentation quality, etc.
on
technical
analysis,
Schedule & Key Dates
• Final 25 minute talk on Wednesday 23rd March to a panel of senior oil
industry geoscientists
• Full “dry-runs” on Friday 18th March
• Technical report: summarises key structural stratigraphic and petroleum potential
observations:
• 20 page text limit (12 pt – 1.5 spacing) not including figures
• Maximum of 10 pages additional material as appendices
• Report should be clearly sectioned, bound, numbered and ready-to-read
• Report handed in to Shashi Luther no later than mid-day, Tuesday 22nd March
• Assessment: each team will be given a ‘team mark’ which will form part of each
individual team member’s assessed coursework
• Staff feedback: given at the dry-runs and after the final presentations and reports
(with marks)
Presentations Rules & Advice
•
Each team member MUST PARTICIPATE in the presentation
•
Each team decides who does what, but aiming for a balance among all
team members
•
The whole class must be present from 8.45 am and in the audience by
9.00 am LATEST (no late-comers allowed in)
•
Staff will assess your performance based on technical quality,
thoroughness, imagination, convincing arguments and
enthusiasm.
•
Demonstrate commercial & practical awareness in your
recommendations: BE REALISTIC
•
Questions restricted to panel members and staff
•
Be professional in ALL aspects of your work, appearance & presentation
• Marks deducted for spelling & grammatical errors, lack of
reference to data sources on slides, lack of clarity (e.g. scales!)
• Edit screen shots for improved clarity (legible text, scales and
scale bars, especially colour scale bars, seismic images with and
without interpretation, etc.)
Barrel Award Industry Panel
The panel will be looking for the following:
1. Evidence of rigorous and creative technical evaluations
2. The ability to work to a strict deadline
3. Effective teamwork (only the team, and not the individuals, are
assessed)
4. Sensible decision-making based on limited data
5. Lucid, positive & enthusiastic oral presentations
Each team is assessed primarily on technical quality and NOT on
overall prospectivity of their area
Each team member has to present and display:
1. Competence in their particular specialist contribution to the project
2. Awareness of the impact of their contribution on the overall project
3. A clear understanding of the overall results of their team's effort
Panel will announce 3rd, 2nd and 1st places at the end
‘Imperial Barrel Award’
at the AAPG European Section Meeting,
Prague, Czech Republic, Saturday 26th March 2010
• The winning team will be sent on an all-expenses paid trip to
the above meeting, representing Imperial College (depart 25th March 2010)
• Competition among other European & Russian universities, including
Moscow State University, IFP Paris, Royal Holloway
• Winning team will receive a modest cash prize and tickets to another
All-expenses paid trip to the AAPG Annual Convention in Houston, USA,
on 10-13 April 2011 to compete for the international Imperial Barrel Award
AAPG Europe changed the Prague date to 18th-19th March
Barrel Award: the ‘Real’ Assessment
• The Barrel Award constitutes part of your coursework marks
• You will receive one mark per team
• Marking is done exclusively by academic staff The external panel is not
involved in assigning marks, only selecting the winning team on the day
Assessment is in two forms:
1.presentation (50%), and
2.report (50%)
This constitutes 20% of your total coursework marks (= 25% of the final
degree mark).
What do we do now?
• Seismic data, well data and other available material is stored in:
student-share on ic.ac.uk\group\foe\ese in the MSc PetGeo Seismic/Barrel 2011
folder.
• Team folders are labelled and sub-folders can be made within your team folder to
store additional collated material
• It is important to delegate work tasks to each group member early in the project:
• Data QC and preliminary seismic interpretation
• Regional literature review
• Preliminary well data analysis
• …but prior to this it’s probably a good idea for all group members to look over the
different datasets to form a list of “brainstormed” ideas
Model Exploration Prospectivity Studies
Hawkes, P.W., A.J. Fraser & C.C.G. Einchcomb, 1998. The
tectono-stratigraphic development and exploration history of the Weald
and Wessex basins, Southern England, UK. In: Underhill, J.R. (ed)
Development, Evolution and Petroleum Geology of the Wessex Basin,
Geological Society, London, Special Publication, 133, 39-65.
Doust, H. and Sumner, H.S., 2007. Petroleum systems in rift basins - a
Collective approach in Southeast Asian basins. Petroleum Geoscience,
13, 127-144.
2011 Barrel Award Teams:
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MSc PETROLEUM GEOSCIENCE COURSE 2010-11
Wednesday 23rd March 2011
PESGB BARREL AWARD PRESENTATIONS
Room 1.31, Royal School of Mines
2011 PESGB Barrel Award Programme
8.30 am
Coffee and Panel Briefing
9.00 am Team 1 (Arouwe Permit North, offshore Gabon )
9.35 am Team 2 (Snøvit West, Barents Sea, offshore northern Norway )
10.10 am Team 3 (Arouwe Permit North, offshore Gabon)
10.45 am
Coffee Break
11.05 am Team 4 (Bellatrix Basin, offshore western France)
11.40 am Team 5 (Lower Congo Basin, offshore Angola )
12.15 am Team 6 (Great Australian Bight, offshore south Australia)
12.50 pm
1.00 pm
2.00 pm
2.35 pm
3.10 pm
3.45 pm
4.20 pm
Panel members’ discussion session
Lunch
Team 7 (Rockall Basin)
Team 8 (Bristol Bay, Alaska)
Team 9 (Block 5505/17A, Central North Sea, offshore Denmark)
Team 10 (Carnarvon Basin, offshore NW Australia)
Team 11 (Schagen, northern Netherlands)
4.55 pm Panel members’ discussion session
5.30 pm
Barrel Award Reception
2011 PESGB Barrel Award Industry Panel
Steve Garrett, Chevron (Aberdeen) & PESGB President
Iain Brown, Interpretation Director Reservoir, PGS Ltd.
Kevin Purvis, Chief Geologist, Centrica
Emeritus Professor Richard C. Selley, Imperial College (Panel Chair)
Chris Flavell, Chief Geologist, Tullow Oil Corporation (London)
(to be confirmed)
Acknowledgements
We would like to thank the following companies for kindly donating
subsurface datasets for use in the 2011 PESGB Barrel Award:
AAPG, Australia Geoscience, BP, Hess, Hunt Petroleum, Perenco,
Petroleum Affairs Division (Ireland), Rocksource, Statoil
Surinder Singh Dio is thanked for his help in data loading and computer
support.
Jaron Lelijveld (PETROMOD) is thank for running the basin modelling
seminar
Student demonstrators: Lorraine Sobers and others
2011 Barrel Award Teams
?
1 – Arouwe Permit North, offshore Gabon
• Wang
• Allen
• Agbegha
• Carwithen
2 – Snøvit West, Barents Sea, N. Norway
• Fu
• Inchenko
• Hussain
• Onokwai
3 - Arouwe Permit North, offshore Gabon
• Phillips
• Elwaseef
• Elliott
• Liu
4 – Bellatrix Basin, offshore western France
• Alxanarani
• Zouari
• Chaytor
• Afifuddin
5 – Lower Congo Basin, offshore Angola
• Akande
• Belote Silva
• Mort
• Chebotar
6 – Great Australian Bight, S. Australia
• Morris
• Dauletov
• Wright
• Le Barbanchon
2011 Barrel Award Teams
7 – NE Rockall Basin, offshore west Ireland
• Rosindell
• Shamil
• Sherwin
• Marshall
8 – Bristol Bay, offshore northern Alaska
• Froud
• Grangier
• Torregrosa Morales
• McLay
• Lewis
9 – Block 5505/17A, offshore Denmark
• Pilet
• Hadro
• Pelletier
• Hugall
10 – Carnarvon Basin, offshore NW Australia
• Briggs
• Holt
• Jones
• Gonzalez-Quijano
11 – Schagen, northern Netherlands
• Hobday
• Webster
• Muchangos Dalsuco
• Whorton