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Terje Eidesmo
Founder & Executive Vice President
WHY RESISITIVTY
Archie's Equation:
Water saturation
True Resistivity
Formation porosity
Formation water resistivity
a,m,n = formation dependent constants
Introduction to CSEM
2500
EM anomaly
1500
1000
No EM anomaly
500
2000
Movie
Water
Overburden
Basalt
Sediments
Basement
Modeling result,
Inverted
Water
Overburden
Basalt
Sediments
Basement
CSEM
EMGS HISTORY
1997 First idea in Statoil research centre
2000 First full scale test Girasol (Angola)
2002 EMGS established by Statoil
2003 First commercial EMGS survey
2004 First commercial discovery
announced
2004 First 3D and scanning projects
WORLDWIDE EXPERIENCE
Delivered over 500 surveys for national oil companies, majors, independents and
national regulators
Water depths range from approximately 30 to 3500 metres
WORLDWIDE PRESENCE
GOING FROM 2D TO 3D
2.8
-900
2.6
-800
TWGP
2.4
2.2
-700
-600
2.0
-500
1.8
-400
1.6
-300
TWOP?
1.4
1.2
-200
-100
1.0
0.8
100
0.6
200
0.4
300
0.2
400
0.0
500
-10
-5
10
15
20
25
30
35
TWGP
TWOP
2.8
-900
2.6
-800
TWGP
2.4
-700
2.2
-600
2.0
-500
1.8
-400
1.6
-300
TWOP?
1.4
-200
1.2
-100
1.0
0.8
100
0.6
200
0.4
300
0.2
400
0.0
500
-10
-5
10
15
20
10
25
30
35
2.8
-900
2.6
-800
TWGP
2.4
-700
2.2
-600
2.0
-500
1.8
-400
1.6
-300
TWOP?
1.4
-200
1.2
-100
1.0
0.8
100
0.6
200
0.4
300
0.2
400
0.0
500
-10
-5
10
15
20
25
30
35
Productivity
Increased towing speed (up to 4kts)
Maneuverability - Reduced line change time
Safety
No risk of impact with seabed or subsea
installations
Inversion (2007- )
Quantitative approach
Good description of lateral and vertical resistivity distribution
Resolve complex settings
2.5D Inversion
3D Inversion
500 m
500 m
1500 m
1500 m
3D EM TECHNOLOGY UPDATE
Coarse grid inversion Speeds up time from acquisition to first prelim results
Handling large receiver spacing through multi-component azimuthal data & rigorous data
uncertainty modeling
Coarse 3D
grid:
2.5 km x 2.5
km
N-S towlines
only
Dense 3D grid:
1.25 km x 1.25
km
N-S and E-W
towlines
Q&A