The 2011 Barrel Award: Introduction

36th Year

Barrel Award & MSc course schedule

Production Geoscience Exploration Geoscience Utah Independent Projects

Examinations

Term 1

Term 2

Term 3

Summer

October

January

April

May

June

July

September

Development Geology Wessex Basin Field Trip Petropyhsics Seismic methods Seismic interpretation Structural Geology Petroleum Engineering Reservoir characterisation Geostatistics Reservoir modelling Wytch Farm Group Project

Sequence stratigraphy Carbonate reservoirs Clastic reservoirs Biostratigraphy Petroleum Geochemistry Petrol. Systems Analysis Basin Analysis Basin modelling Seismic interpretation Advanced seismic methods

Final presentations Independent Project

Utah-Texas Field Trip

Barrel Award

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) 1990s 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.

2000s 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 Phase 2: Prospects
Prospect level understanding prospect segmentation/ shotpoint risk (surgical mapping)
risk seismic imaging prospect inventory

BP (Alastair Fraser) quote: Geology from the bottom up!

uncertainty seismic attributes geol modeling

Phase 1: Basins
Fundamental basin/play level & regional understanding (forensic geoscience)
basin statistics - field size dist - analogs

Play Focus
lead inventory play risk - CRS maps - success rates

Regional Understanding
play fairway analysis, CRS analysis

structural styles data management stratigraphy -well data -fieldwork

sequence stratigraphy
plate reconstructions regional seismic grav & mag

petroleum systems basic maps - structure - isopachs documentation Courtesy BP

CRS: Common Risk Segment

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 Anticlinal Traps

Top of Oil Window

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 youre 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 members 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 its 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: Create a Company Name & Logo

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 (Snvit 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 Panel members discussion session

1.00 pm
2.00 pm 2.35 pm 3.10 pm 3.45 pm 4.20 pm

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 Snvit 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