Biostratigraphy and Production Geology

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An early warning for your diaries.

23-24 June 1997
BIOSTRATIGRAPHY IN PRODUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT GEOLOGY
at the University of Aberdeen 

Call for papers

This international meeting is aimed at demonstrating the contribution 
which biostratigraphy can make to solving some of the problems of 
production and development geology. 

Biostratigraphy is widely regarded as a powerful tool in exploration 
geology. However, large parts of the oil industry are now focusing on 
increasing reserves by improving recovery from discovered fields, 
rather than exploring for entirely new reserves. With this trend 
apparent, biostratigraphy now has to apply itself to the relatively 
small-scale issues of production and development geology such as 
intra-reservoir correlation to help understand reservoir architecture, 
connectivity and compartmentalisation. 

Innovative biostratigraphic techniques have already been developed 
which, when combined with other geological and geophysical data, 
help provide the answers to problems faced by the production 
geologist. These include the development of High Resolution 
Biostratigraphy through quantitative and semi-quantitative analysis of 
data, better understanding of palaeoecology and depositional 
environments and the recognition of localised, but useful, marker 
events. Biosteering of horizontal wells is a direct development of 
these type of approaches, as are the improved reservoir models for a 
number of North Sea fields.

Papers for the meeting are invited which demonstrate biostratigraphic 
innovation and which can demonstrate the contribution biostratigraphy 
can make to production geology. In this context case studies are 
particularly welcome. It is intended that examples from 
around the world and in a variety of geological settings will be 
presented. The meeting will be of interest to both biostratigraphers and 
production and development geologists alike.

Offers of papers or posters should be sent to the convenors, as should 
requests for more information about the meeting. Titles of possible 
contributions are welcomed as soon as possible. The deadline for 
submission of abstracts is 1 February 1997. A conference 
volume is planned.

The meeting is held under the auspices of the Petroleum Group of the 
Geological Society. The venue will be the prestigious Conference 
Centre of the University of Aberdeen. Accommodation will available at 
all standards.

Convenors: Dr. Mike Simmons, Department of Geology and Petroleum 
Geology, University of Aberdeen, Meston Building, King's College, 
Aberdeen, AB9 2UE. Tel: 01224 273438. Fax: 01224 272785. e-mail: 
m.d.simmons@abdn.ac.uk and Dr. Bob Jones, BP Exploration, 1 
Harefield Road, Uxbridge, UB8 1PD. Tel: 01895 877765. Fax: 01895 
877530.

Mike Simmons