News
Koenraad Weber to Receive Powers Medal
Monday 14 May 2012
Koenraad Weber, member of the PGK, is the recipient of this year's Sidney Powers Memorial Award, the highest honor of the AAPG. A video of the event can be found here.
PGK-NKAM Source-to-Sink field trip
Tuesday 1 May 2012
Pre-registration for the PGK-NKAM Source-to-Sink field trip (22-30 September 2012) is now open! Use this link.
PGK excursion to "Hot sites"
Tuesday 18 October 2011
The picture on the right was taken during the most recent PGK-excursion discovering geothermal energy projects in and around The Hague.
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Upcoming Events
lecture · drinks
Wednesday 23 May 2012 17:00 - Wednesday 23 May 2012
Integrating outcrop data and numerical models for better understanding of fractured reservoirs: ongoing work at TU Delft
Lecturer: Giovanni Bertotti (TU Delft)
17:00 - 18:00 Social Hour
18:00 - 19:00 Lecture
The great exploration and production challenges presented by fractured carbonate reservoirs require an increase ability to predict reservoir scale physical properties. As far as the structural component of the problem is concerned, one should be able to predict i) the part of the system experiencing fractures, ii) the spatial orientation and the type of fractures, and iii) the 3D geometry of fracture network. This information can then be used to construct DFNs and eventually determine reservoir permeabilities and flow patterns. Predictions are typically non-trivial as reservoirs present major geometric (folds and faults) and sedimentological (i.e. different domains in isolated carbonate platforms) heterogeneities. In addition, diagenesis imposes causes substantial mechanical changes during their entire subsidence path from deposition depth to present burial depth.
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At TUD (in collaboration with VU) we have been developing a new work flow which integrates numerical mechanical models and field studies of outcrops. Outcrops are of great importance as they are a major source of information on the 3D topological distribution of fractures and sedimentary features such as bedding. In this frame innovative techniques are developed for field data analysis and for visualization purposes leading to a multiscale imaging and properties of outcropping reservoir rocks. Knowledge acquired from outcrops is coupled with mechanic models of the reservoir and the behaviour of predicted reservoir architecture tested with simple flow models. Case studies in atoll-like carbonate platforms (Dolomite), in folded shallow and deep-water carbonate successions provided important guidelines on the way these rocks fracture.
A significant part of this work has been developed in the frame of Industry-Academia partnerships. Indeed, such collaborations are not uncommon but too often cooperative projects are less successful than expected. This calls for a re-thinking of the way Industry and Academia collaborate with each other.
Location
Kivi buildingPrinsessegracht 23
2514 AP
Den Haag
lecture · drinks
Monday 18 June 2012 17:00 - Monday 18 June 2012
PGK-SPE-DPS event
Organiser: Bas van der Es
Coen Leo (Sorgenia): Sorgenia’s shale gas adventure in Poland
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Henk Duyverman (Cuadrilla Resources) - shale gas: doing the job right
excursion
Saturday 22 September 2012 - Sunday 30 September 2012
Pyrenees field trip
Organiser: Geert-Jan Vis (TNO)
PGK-NKAM field trip | 22-30 September 2012:
-Combined with Nederlandse Kring Aardse Materialen (www.NKAM.nl );
-The trip will be organized following the Source-to-Sink concept:
-Three days central Pyrenees (NKAM part: Hans de Bresser, UU), 22-26 September;
-One relax day in Barcelona, 26 September;
-Three days Tremp area (PGK part: Poppe de Boer, UU), 26-30 September;
-Possibility to join either one or both parts of the field trip;
-Pre-registration for the PGK-NKAM Source-to-Sink field trip (22-30 September 2012) is now open! Use this link.
