Petroleum

Volumetric uncertainty characterization

• Design, development and maintenance of a dedicated in-house software for the probabilistic evaluation of hydrocarbon resources



• Elaboration and realization of an interactive methodological guide for probabilistic assessment of in place hydrocarbon resources.



• Evaluation of gross hydrocarbon volumes using sparse well control and 3D seismic data.



• Advice and supervision of the development of an in-house software for hydrocarbon resources evaluation and uncertainty assessment.

Building 3D models of reservoir heterogeneity

• Design, development and maintenance of an in-house integrated software for the geostatistical analysis and modeling of geological, petrophysical and geophysical data.



• Development and application of a novel geostatistical approach for modeling the fracturing of reservoirs using fracturing, geological, logs, geomechanical and dynamic data.



• Preparation of an oil reservoir heterogeneity model, for flow simulation, using object-based and geostatistical simulation techniques.

Coarsening up fine grid models

• Development of a 3D adaptive gridding software, assistance for its use.



• Design and development of mesh generation and optimization programs for reservoir simulation

References

AGIP (Milan, Italy)
Elf Exploration Production ( Pau, France)
European Commission (THERMIE Program)
Institut Français du Pétrole (IFP, Rueil Malmaison, France)
Lundin Oil AB (Geneva, Switzerland)
Norks Hydro (Bergen, Norway)
Shell International Petroleum Maatschappij (The Hague, The Nederlands)
Shell U.K. Exploration and Production (London, U.K.)
Total Exploration Production (Paris, France)
TotalFinaElf (La Défense, Pau, France)