OHM to deliver seismic project

Offshore Hydrocarbon Mapping and Rock Solid Images, have agree a deal to carry out a three-year joint industry project to investigate ‘Well Integration with Seismic and Electromagnetics’ (WISE). The aim of the project, sponsored by a consortium of oil companies and the OHM Group, is to develop new and innovative methods of jointly integrating and interpreting seismic, Controlled Source Electromagnetic (CSEM) and well log data — the ultimate objective being to provide improved maps of reservoir properties, such as hydrocarbon saturation, across a field. Total, Chevron and DONG Energy along with the UK government’s Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR) are joining the consortium, which has been brought together by the Industry Technology Facilitator (ITF). Investigations will include establishing the optimum algorithm for remapping CSEM results into the higher resolution seismic data and developing a joint inversion methodology for seismic and CSEM data.