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The 2011 Barrel Award:

Introduction

36th Year


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Barrel Award & MSc course schedule

Term 1 Term 2

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

Barrel Award

Utah-Texas

Field Trip

Examinations

Independent Project

Final presentations

Production

Geoscience

Exploration

Geoscience

SummerTerm 3

Independent ProjectsUtah

Sequence stratigraphy

Fluvial clastic systems

Coastal-deltaic clastic systems

Fluvial-aeolian clastic systems

Delta tectonics/growth faults

Salt tectonicsExtensional tectonics


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Barrel Award HistoryStarted 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 universitiescompeting world-wide in 2010)


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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 fromsedimentary 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 22ndMarch

The project integrates all formal teaching from both Terms 1 and 2ranging from Seismic Interpretation to Reservoir Characterisation, andfrom Basin Analysis to Source Rock Evaluation

Emphasis is on exploration evaluation and basin-scale studies


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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 equitystake in the acreage to another company known as a farm-outopportunity.

The operator may farm-out for numerous reasons, e.g. (1) to diluteequity or relinquish acreage in an area considered to have low potential,(2) to acquire new, more prospective acreage, (3) to finance a drillingcampaign 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 datafor a few days, assess its hydrocarbon potential and, critically, assign avalue ($$$) to it.

This exercise mimics this process but with a significantly longer dataviewing period than is typically encountered in the real world


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The 2011 Barrel Award: Key Players

Exploration Managers:

Alastair FraserChris 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)


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Exploration Process: defines the Barrel Award workflow

Phase 1: BasinsFundamentalbasin/play level &regional understanding(forensic

geoscience)

Phase 2: ProspectsProspect level understandingprospect segmentation/shotpoint risk (surgicalmapping)

uncertainty

seismic

imagingseismic

attributes

geol

modeling

Play Focus

Regional Understandingplay fairway analysis, CRS analysis

petroleum

systemssequence

stratigraphy

play risk

- CRS maps- success rates

prospectinventory

basin statistics

- field size dist- analogs

lead inventory

data

management

stratigraphy

-well data-fieldwork

basic maps

- structure- isopachs

regional seismic

grav & mag

document-

ation

plate

reconstructions

Courtesy BP

High-Grade Acreage & Drillable Prospects

structural

styles

CRS: Common Risk Segment

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

risk


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Typical Exploration Work Programme

Barrel Award

Project

Wytch Farm Project

E drill: Exploration wellA drill: Appraisal wellA&P: Acquisition & Processing (seismic data)FDP: Field Development Plan


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Regional tectono-stratigraphic overview:

essential starting point

Hydrocarbon Occurrences Regional Tectonic Evolution

Doust and Sumner, 2007


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Summary of Basin Types and Structural Styles



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Stratigraphic Framework


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Define genetic play types: reservoir/source/seals


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Modified from Dolivo, 1991

Anticlinal

Traps

FaultTraps

Channel Pinch-

Out Traps

Dynamic concepts of HC generation,

migration, entrapment & preservation

Top of Oil Window

Gas Generated

Deeper

Sub-unconformity

truncation traps

(Based on the Miocene of the Balingian Province, offshore Sarawak)


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Barrel Award: Aim & Objectives

General aim: to document the tectono-stratigraphy of a sedimentarybasin 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.


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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, visualcommunication, etc.

PETROMOD basin modelling seminar (1 member per team)

Mid-week visits by senior consultants: day-long visits with individualteam discussions (approx. 30 minutes per team)

Weekly review meetings with Exploration Managers (Friday pm) tomonitor progress, etc.

Dry runs: comprehensive feedback on technical analysis,interpretations, presentation quality, etc.


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Schedule & Key Dates

Final 25 minute talk on Wednesday 23rd March to a panel of senior oilindustry geoscientists

Full dry-runs on Friday 18th March

Technical report: summarises key structural stratigraphic and petroleum potentialobservations:

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)


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Presentations Rules & Advice

Each team memberMUST 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 ofreference to data sources on slides, lack of clarity (e.g. scales!)

Edit screen shots for improved clarity (legible text, scales andscale bars, especially colour scale bars, seismic images with and

without interpretation, etc.)


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Barrel Award Industry Panel

The panel will be looking for the following:

1. Evidence of rigorous and creative technical evaluations2. The ability to work to a strict deadline3. Effective teamwork (only the team, and not the individuals, areassessed)4. Sensible decision-making based on limited data

5. Lucid, positive & enthusiastic oral presentations

Each team is assessed primarily on technical quality and NOT onoverall prospectivity of their area

Each team member has to present and display:

1. Competence in their particular specialist contribution to the project2. Awareness of the impact of their contribution on the overall project3. A clear understanding of the overall results of their team's effort

Panel will announce 3rd, 2nd and 1st places at the end


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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 tothe above meeting, representing Imperial College (depart 25th March 2010)

Competition among other European & Russian universities, includingMoscow State University, IFP Paris, Royal Holloway

Winning team will receive a modest cash prize and tickets to anotherAll-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


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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 notinvolved in assigning marks, only selecting the winning team on the day

Assessment is in two forms:1.presentation (50%), and2.report (50%)

This constitutes 20% of your total coursework marks (= 25% of the finaldegree mark).

Barrel Award: the Real Assessment


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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 2011folder.

Team folders are labelled and sub-folders can be made within your team folder tostore 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 thedifferent datasets to form a list ofbrainstormed ideas


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Model Exploration Prospectivity Studies

Hawkes, P.W., A.J. Fraser & C.C.G. Einchcomb, 1998. Thetectono-stratigraphic development and exploration history of the Wealdand 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 - aCollective approach in Southeast Asian basins. Petroleum Geoscience,13, 127-144.


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2011 Barrel Award Teams:

Create a Company Name & Logo


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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 B l A d P


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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 Lunch

2.00 pm Team 7 (Rockall Basin)

2.35 pm Team 8 (Bristol Bay, Alaska)3.10 pm Team 9 (Block 5505/17A, Central North Sea, offshore Denmark)3.45 pm Team 10 (Carnarvon Basin, offshore NW Australia)4.20 pm Team 11 (Schagen, northern Netherlands)

4.55 pm Panel members discussion session

5.30 pm Barrel Award Reception

2011 PESGB Barrel Award Programme


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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)


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Acknowledgements

We would like to thank the following companies for kindly donatingsubsurface 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 computersupport.

Jaron Lelijveld (PETROMOD) is thank for running the basin modellingseminar

Student demonstrators: Lorraine Sobers and others


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2011 Barrel Award Teams

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1 Arouwe Permit North offshore Gabon


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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

Liu4 Bellatrix Basin, offshore western France

Alxanarani Zouari

Chaytor Afifuddin

5 Lower Congo Basin, offshore Angola

Akande Belote Silva Mort

Chebotar6 Great Australian Bight, S. Australia

Morris Dauletov

Wright

Le Barbanchon

7 NE Rockall Basin, offshore west Ireland

Rosindell Shamil Sherwin Marshall

8 Bristol Bay, offshore northern Alaska

Froud Grangier

Torregrosa Morales McLay

Lewis9 Block 5505/17A, offshore Denmark

Pilet Hadro Pelletier

Hugall10 Carnarvon Basin, offshore NW Australia

Briggs Holt

Jones Gonzalez-Quijano

11 Schagen, northern Netherlands Hobday

Webster Muchangos Dalsuco

Whorton

2011 Barrel Award Teams

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