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Malaysian Chapter (Kuala Lumpur)

FORMATION EVALUATION SOCIETY OF MALAYSIA (FESM)


LATEST UPDATES:


Posted 21st December 2011 (From Dr Ralph Kugler)

The Geology Department of the University of Malaya and the Geological Society of Malaysia will be hosting a 2-day short course entitled "Risk and Volume Asessment in Exploration" on 17th and 18th of January 2012. The course will be conducted by Jan de Jager, (ex-Shell) Professor of Regional and Petroleum Geology at the Vrije Universiteit (VU) of Amsterdam.  

A brochure can be downloaded from here


Posted 19th December 2011 (From Jurry van Doorn)

In view of my imminent transfer to Algeria I handed over my responsibilities as FESM secretary today to Long Jiang (Schlumberger), who just joined the committee. To contact FESM from now on you are kindly requested to use our new email address fesm.secretariat@gmail.com.

Thank you for your continuing support in making FESM one of the most thriving SPWLA chapters.

The FESM Committee would like to wish all members and their families a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.


Posted 17th December 2011

Our first meeting in 2012 will be organised on Tuesday 17th January. Bill Lodwick (Geophysical consultant in KL) has provided the following title for his presentation: "Rock Physics: Us or Them? A Geophysicist's Perspective". FESM members will receive a notification of this talk as soon as an abstract and details on the venue will be available.


Posted 15th December 2011

Our last technical talk in 2011 by Carlos Maeso (Schlumberger) on "LWD Resistivity Response Interpretation in SE Asia" attracted 51 people to The Apartment. Please note that the materials Carlos used will NOT be available for download.


Posted 25th November 2011

One of the most important events in the calender of the Malaysian petrophysical community is the yearly Petroleum Geoscience Conference & Exhibition (PGCE) in the KL Convention Centre. In 2012 the PGCE will be held on 23rd and 24th April.

Please note that the deadline for abstracts is 15th January 2012.

For more information on the PGCE, please set your browser to the: PGCE 2012 Home Page 


SPONSORS:

 

Our sponsors are gratefully acknowledged for their support in helping to create a discussion forum and developing the Malaysian formation evaluation community.


PREAMBLE:

The purpose of the Formation Evaluation Society of Malaysia (FESM), a Chapter of the SOCIETY OF PETROPHYSICISTS AND WELL LOG ANALYSTS (SPWLA) is, in general, the same as stated in Article IV of the SPWLA Amended Articles of Incorporation, and specifically to advance the science of formation evaluation. The FESM is responsible to, and subject to, the Amended Articles and by-laws of the parent SPWLA.


MEMBERSHIP:

To apply for membership in the FESM please send an email to the secretariat at fesm.secretariat@gmail.com indicating your first name, last name, company, current position and preferred email address, which will be added to our mail distribution list. Unlike SPWLA, there is no requirement for active engagement in formation evaluation through analysis of well logs and/or related data, no references are required and there are no dues or fees to be paid for FESM membership. Regular mailings will keep FESM members up to date with our technical programme and other events. 

 


NEXT TECHNICAL TALK:  

DATE Thursday 23rd February 2012
TIME

3:00 pm

VENUE 

TBA

 

Entrance is free, but registration by Wednesday 22nd February EOB is required

 REGISTRATION

To ensure that adequate catering and seating arrangements can be provided it is important to register for this event by sending an email to our secretariat at fesm.secretariat@gmail.com with subject title "Registration FESM 23-FEB-2012"

TITLE

"Water Saturation From Generic Capillary Pressure Data"

 SPEAKER A H Asari Ramli (PETRONAS Carigali Sdn. Bhd.)
POSTER

A poster can be downloaded later

ABSTRACT

It is a standard industry practice to compute water saturation from resistivity logs. Spuriously high water saturation has often been computed in hydrocarbon bearing reservoirs with low formation resistivity, resulting in underestimation of hydrocarbon resources. One common approach to overcome this problem is to use capillary pressure data from cores. Although technically sound, its main drawback is that most wells lack appropriate core data.

This presentation proposes that generic capillary pressure curves generated using core data from typical sandstone reservoirs can be used to compute water saturation in other similar sandstone reservoirs from different areas or regions. This is based on the assumption that sandstone reservoirs having similar Reservoir Quality Index and wettability, will exhibit similar capillary pressure behavior with respect to the wetting phase saturation, namely water saturation. Generic capillary pressure curves have been generated using actual core data from several wells in Malaysia. Empirical relationships were established between curve fitting parameters and the RQI values of the core plugs. The generic capillary pressure curves were then used to compute water saturation in other wells, which do not have core data. The pseudo RQI values for these wells were generated using the log derived porosity and permeability. With these pseudo RQI values and height above the Free Water Level, a water saturation equation was generated, as a function of RQI and height.

The results have been verified in test wells, which have their own core data. In wells without core data, water saturation derived from generic capillary curves was compared with that computed from resistivity logs. These water saturation values were found to be more realistic than those computed from resistivity logs alone. Well test results, where available, also confirmed the validity of the method used and the reliability of the computed water saturation. The results from these experiments confirmed the assumption that generic capillary curves can be used to predict water saturation in wells without core data. A Saturation Height Function has also been generated using the generic capillary pressure data. This saturation height function has been tested and used in several geocellular models for Full Field Reviews, with good results. It has been adopted for computing water saturation independent of resistivity logs.

BIOGRAPHY

A H Asari Ramli is a Senior Petrophysicist with PETRONAS Carigali Sdn. Bhd. He graduated with First Class Honours BEng. in Mechanical Engineering, minoring in Petroleum Engineering from Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS and joined PETRONAS Carigali in 2006. He is currently assigned to the Specialized Study Section in the Petrophysics Department. He has been involved in the development of several petrophysical models and guidelines in PETRONAS Carigali. He is a member of SPE and SPWLA.


TECHNICAL PROGRAMME 2007 - 2012:  

 

2012

 
17th January

"Rock Physics Us or Them? - A Geophysicist's Perspective"
By Bill Lodwick (Fletchwick International Pty Ltd)

2011

 
15th December 

"LWD Resistivity Response Interpretation in SE Asia"
By Carlos Maeso (Schlumberger)

30th November 

"Formation damage - Any Time, Any Place, Any Where"
By Mike Byrne (Senergy)

 

Click here to download Mike Byrne's presentation

15th September 

"S.E. Asia Deep-Water Deposits - Geology and Formation Evaluation challenges from a Borehole Perspective (primarily borehole images and 3D resistivity)"
By Adrian Bal (Baker Atlas)

 

Click here to download Adri Bal's presentation

7th July

"Something About Nothing - "Towards a Better Understanding of Carbonate Porosity"
By Dr. Richard Bray (PETRONAS Carigali Sdn. Bhd.)

 

Click here to download part 1/2 of Dr. Richard Bray's  presentation

 

Click here to download part 2/2 of Dr. Richard Bray's presentation

23rd June 

Master seminar on "Porosity"
Speakers: Paul F. Worthington (Gaffney, Cline & Ass.), Duncan Barr (Carigali-Hess), Bob East (Core Lab), Mehmet Altunbay (PETRONAS), Arnout Everts (LEAP Energy)

 

Paul Worthington provided the following references to his presentation:
- Worthington, P.F.  1997. Application of investigative engineering to formation evaluation  3 - Determination of porosity. Scientific Drilling, 6(1), 1-13.
- Worthington, P.F.  1998. Conjunctive interpretation of core and log data through association of the effective and total porosity models. In: Core-Log Integration (P.K. Harvey & M.A. Lovell: Eds.), Geological Society, London, Special Publication, 136, 213-223.
- Worthington, P.F.  2010. Quality-assured evaluation of effective porosity using fit-for-purpose estimates of clay-mineral volume fraction. Journal of Applied Geophysics, 71, 36-45. 

 

Click here to download Bob East's presentation

26th May 

"Impact of Geology and Geophysics on low cost well design"
By Dr. Keng Seng Chan (PETRONAS Carigali Sdn. Bhd.)

 

Click here to download Dr. Keng Seng Chan's presentation

21st April 

"New Technologies for Petrophysics: Applications of Micro-CT Tomograms and Pore Network Modeling to Evaluate the Storage and Flow Capacity of Tight Gas and Basement Reservoirs"
By Dr. Lutz Riepe (PETRONAS Carigali Sdn. Bhd.)

10th March 

"Fluid logging: The Advantages of Quantitative Fluid Evaluation While Drilling"
By Dr. Martin Niemann (Geoservices)

 

Click here to download Martin Niemann's presentation

17th February

"What Do We Need Spectroscopy Mineralogy For?"
By Jean-Baptiste Peyaud (Baker Hughes Inc.)

18th January

"Effect of Incompatible Drilling Fluids on Formation Evaluation: It Must Be The Geology's Fault!!!"
By John Kennedy (Hess Oil & Gas Sdn. Bhd.)

2010

13th December

"Formation Evaluation in Fresh Water Shaly Sands of the Malay Basin"
By Grant Heavysege (ESSO Production Malaysia Inc.)    

 

Grant Heavysege's work was presented earlier on 20th September 2010 at the Geological Society of Malaysia (GSM) in Kuala Lumpur. It was an oral presentation that has not been published.

21st October

"State-of-the-art Permeability Determination from Well Logs to Predict Drainage Capillary Water Saturation in Clastic Rocks"
By SPWLA Distinguished Lecturer Chiew F. Choo (Petronas)

 

Chiew's paper was prepared for presentation at the SPWLA 51st Annual Logging Symposium held in Perth, Australia, June 19-23 - 2010 (Paper 2010-RR)

23rd September

"Integration of Real Time Logging While Drilling and Geomechanics to Monitor, Calibrate and Predict Pore Pressure"
By Leo Anis, Aqil Ahmed, Scott Fey (Schlumberger)

 1st July

"Downhole Fluid Analysis coupled with Asphaltene Nanoscience for Reservoir Evaluation "
By Dr. Oliver C. Mullins (Schlumberger)

 

Click here to download Oliver Mullins' presentation

17th June

First talk: "Formation Fluid and ID Sampling While Drilling"
By Mark Proett (Halliburton)
Second talk: "Shale Gas: Challenging Petrophysics and Geology in a Broader Development and Production Context"

By Luc Bolle (Baker Hughes)

 

Click here to download Luc Bolle's presentation 

20th May

"Net Sand Count from Image Logs in Thin Bedded Environments using an Optimised Synthetic Cut-Off"
By Chinedu Anijekwu (Sarawak Shell Bhd, Miri)

15th April

"From Pore Throat to Seismic: Tying the Geology to the Physics"
By Duncan Barr (Carigali Hess)

25th March

"Chemostratigraphy (Overview of Technique & Case Study)"
By John Woods (Chemostrat Ltd., Welshpool, U.K.) 

25th February

10th Anniversary Celebration Programme: 
"Short Overview of 10 years FESM (1999 - 2009)"

"Digital Core Technology"

By SPWLA Distinguished Lecturer Mark Knackstedt (Australian National University, Canberra)

"Dicussion on "Past, Present and Future of Petrophysics in Malaysia"

21st January

"Enhanced Crosswell Reservoir Monitoring Using Seismic & Electromagnetic Measurements"
By: Ajay Nalonnil (Schlumberger)

2009

 

19th November

"Training of the Future Geoscience Workforce for the Malaysian Oil and Gas Industry"
By Dr Zuhar Zahir (Universiti Teknologi Petronas) and Dr Ralph Kugler ( Universiti Malaya) 

10th September

"Rock Strength from Core and Logs: Where We Stand and Ways to Go"
By Toby Kayes (Helix RDS)

 20th August

"Speed and precision: Pore-scale reservoir rock characterization using digital rocks"
By: Sven Roth (Numerical Rock AS)

 

 Click here to download Sven Roth's presentation

18th June

"Compact™ C-Thru Logging, a New Look at Formation Density Measurements"
By James Autry (Weatherford)

 

James Autry's presentation was based on the article "Cased Hole Formation Density Logging with a Compact Open Hole Tool, and Implications for Gas Zone Evaluation" by P.A.S. Elkington (Weatherford), J.R. Samworth (Weatherford) & C.A. Pereira (Weatherford) published in the SPWLA Symposium Transactions 2006, Paper BBB.

21st May

"Use of Cased Hole Dynamics Tester (CHDT) to Mitigate Risk in Measuring Pressures in Drawndown Reservoirs "
By Yee Ling Yak (ExxonMobil)

5th February

"Dielectric Dispersion: A New Wireline Petrophysical Measurement"
By Michel Claverie (Schlumberger)

 

Michel Claverie's presentation was based on the work published in 2008 by Hizem M., Budan H., Deville B., Faivre O., Mosse L. and Simon M., under the title "Dielectric dispersion: a new wireline petrophysical measurement" as SPE paper 116130. 

2008

 

2nd December

"Tight Gas Sands Fracture Stimulation Optimization"
By Randall S. "Randy" Miller (Core Laboratories)

 
20th November

"Capillary Pressure, Saturation, Permeability and NMR: Malay Basin Examples "
By Andrew Logan (Talisman)

 
30th October

"Grain Size Distribution from NMR Log - Two Case Studies "
By Ms. Syamsina Rashid (Petronas Carigali Sdn. Bhd.) 

25th March

"Porosity Typing and Productivity Analysis by Modified-Timur-Coates Permeability Model for Carbonates using NMR and Conventional Logs "
By Mehmet Altunbay (Baker Atlas) 

2007

 

22nd November

"Advances in LWD Sonic Technology and Applications"
By Jennifer Market (Halliburton)

29th October

First talk: "Formation Pressure While Drilling - A Critical Link to Full Data Evaluation and Cost-Efficient Wellbore Construction"
By: Ulrich Hahne (Baker Hughes INTEQ)
Second talk: "Campos Basin Anisotropic Turbidites Formation Evaluation: Challenges and Proposed Solutions"
By SPWLA Distinguished Lecturer Paolo Ferraris (Schlumberger)

6th September

"Understanding the Pressure Gradients Improves Production From Oil/Water Transition Carbonate Zones"
By Andrew Carnegie (Schlumberger)

28th June

"Determination and Characterization of Rock Types based on Pore Throat Size Estimation "
By Libny Leal (Hess)

24th May

"Cased-Hole Logging for Reservoir Management ... a Malaysian Perspective"
By Chris Ovens (Petronas Carigali)

19th April

"Thin Bed Analysis – Applications and Examples from Malaysia"
By Jeff Hook (Murphy) & Richard Leech (Schlumberger)

 


PHOTO GALLERY

Photo collage FESM Meeting 21st April 2011


CHAPTER OFFICERS (2011 - 2012) 

President Dr. John Phillips (Schlumberger) phillips0@exchange.slb.com
First Vice-President Dr. Budi Kantaatmadja (PETRONAS) budi_priyatno@petronas.com.my
Treasurer Louis King (Core Laboratories) louis.king@corelab.com
Secretary/Web Master (<- Dec) Jurry van Doorn (Schlumberger) doorn@exchange.slb.com

Secretary/Web Master (Jan ->)

Long Jiang jiangl1@exchange.slb.com
Meetings Secretary Janice Boay (Hess) janice.boay@hess.com
Publicity Officer Dave Jackson (Gaffney, Cline & Ass.) david.jackson@gaffney-cline.com
Special Events Co-ordinator Adrian Bal (Baker Hughes) adriaan.bal@bakerhughes.com
Sponsorship Suzie Hamzah (ExxonMobil) suzie.hamzah@exxonmobil.com
Technical Programme Ryan Lafferty (Lundin) Ryan.Lafferty@lundinmalaysia.com
University Liaison Dr. Ralph Kugler (University of Malaya) rlkluger@um.edu.my


CHAPTER OFFICERS (2010 - 2011)

President Dr. John Phillips (Schlumberger)
First Vice-President & Web Master        Libny Leal (Hess)
Treasurer Louis King (Core Laboratories)

Secretary

Jurry van Doorn (Schlumberger)
Sponsorship & Marketing Aleeya Brookes (PEIS)
Special Events Co-ordinator Adrian Bal (Baker Hughes)
Technical Committee Member  Dr. Budi Kantaatmadja (PETRONAS)
Technical Committee Member Kamal Ariffin (PETRONAS)
Technical Committee Member Mohd. Azlin Mohd. Nasir (ExxonMobil)
University Liaison Dr. Ralph Kugler (University of Malaya)


CHAPTER OFFICERS (2009 - 2010)

President Scott Dodge (ExxonMobil)
First Vice-President & Secretary    Jurry van Doorn (Schlumberger)
Treasurer   Louis King (Core Laboratories)
Sponsorship & Marketing  Gavin Lindsay (Baker Hughes)
Petroleum Club Liaison   Yoel Bonnye (PETRONAS)
Student Liaison   Poh Chee Howe (Halliburton)
Technical Committee Member   Dr. John Phillips (Schlumberger)
Technical Committee Member   Kok Keng Hung (Halliburton)
University Liaison   Azlan Shah (PETRONAS)
Web Administrator  Libny Leal (Hess)


CHAPTER OFFICERS (2008 - 2009)

President Scott Dodge (ExxonMobil)
First Vice-President & Secretary Jurry van Doorn (Schlumberger)
Treasurer Louis King (Core Laboratories)
Petroleum Club Liaison Tony Daniel (Schlumberger)
Sponsorship & Tech. Committee  Kok Keng Hung (Halliburton)
Student Liaison Ko Ko Kyi (PETRONAS)
Technical Committee Member Dr. John Phillips (Schlumberger)
Technical Committee Member John Kennedy (Hess)
Technical Committee Member Azlan Shah (PETRONAS)
Web Administrator Libny Leal (Hess)


CHAPTER OFFICERS (2007 - 2008)

President                                      Edwin Francis Untam (PETRONAS)
Secretary Dave Maggs (Schlumberger)
Treasurer Louis King (Core Laboratories)
Meeting Organisation Scott Dodge (ExxonMobil)
Sponsorship Scott Fey (Schlumberger)
Student Liaison Ko Ko Kyi (PETRONAS)
Technical Committee Shahrizal Aziz (Fugro Jason)
Technical Committee Tony Daniel (Schlumberger)
Technical Committee Bill Furber (Baker Hughes)
Technical Programme Jeff Hook (Murphy)
Web Administrator Libny Leal (Hess)


CHAPTER OFFICERS (2006 - 2007)

President                                     

Edwin Francis Untam (PETRONAS)
Secretary Dave Maggs (Schlumberger)
Treasurer Louis King (Core Laboratories)
Technical Committee          Chris Ovens (Schlumberger)
Technical Committee Scott Fey (Schlumberger)
Student Liaison Ko Ko Kyi (PETRONAS)
Technical Committee Shahrizal Aziz (Fugro Jason)
Technical Committee Tony Daniel (Schlumberger)
Technical Committee Tore Gjerdingen (Baker Hughes)
Technical Committee Jeff Hook (Murphy)
Web Administrator Libny Leal (Hess)

 


FIRST FESM CHAPTER OFFICERS (1999 - 2000)

President                                                

James Kijam Dato (PETRONAS)
Vice-President & Co-Secretary  Peter Lloyd (Schlumberger)
Treasurer & Co-Secretary Peter Lane (Core Laboratories)
Steering Committee Chiew Fook Choo (PETRONAS)
Steering Committee Rokiah Esa (Schlumberger)
 

also representing the Malaysian Society of Exploration Geophysicists

Steering Committee Dr Azhar Haji Hussin (Univ. of Malaya)
  also representing the Geological Society of Malaysia
Steering Committee Grant Heavysege (Esso Production (M))
Steering Committee Mario Petricola (Schlumberger)
Steering Committee Mark Sams (Jason Geosystems)
Steering Committee Dr. Ahmad Tajuddin Ibrahim (Univ. of Malaya)

 


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