Geoscience Aspects of Estimating Petroleum Resources and Reserves
Focusing on the role of geoscience and geoscience professionals is an essential goal of this conference. It is particularly important in light of the new definitions and guidelines for estimating reserves provided by the recently adopted Petroleum Resources Management System (PRMS), jointly developed by the SPE, AAPG, WPC, and SPEE, and the new Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) guidelines for reserve disclosure. The conference is designed to address these issues.
Eleven sessions are currently planned for this 2½ day workshop.
The first two will address
- PRMS definitions and guidelines
- the general role of the geologist in resource and reserve estimation.
The next four will address specific aspects of geoscience contributions to reserve estimation:
- petrophysical
- geophysical
- geologic mapping
- geocellular modeling.
The subsequent four sessions will cover
- engineering aspects,
- estimation of unconventional resources/continuous accumulations,
- quantifying uncertainty
- ethical/professional issues in estimation.
Each of these sessions will include a few invited talks, but these are intended to be catalysts to discussion among the entire audience. The workshop will conclude with break out sessions and discussion of the key issues identified during the conference.
To facilitate discussion, attendance at the workshop will be limited to 70-80 people, chosen both by invitation and by application. In the event that demand greatly exceeds the available openings, subsequent workshops sharing the information developed in this one will be scheduled.
All participants must register for the conference.