Sicily 2015
 
 
Conference Programme

Day 1 - Thursday 16th April


  Room 1

Room 2
         
09:00 - 09:35   Opening and Keynote 
How the geological history of the host rock controls the type, growth, orientation, spacing and regularity of fracture sets and networks and impacts on reservoir quality 
- John Cosgrove, Imperial College London


09:35 - 10:00
  Do fold assigned fracture models miss the big picture? The importance of a semi-regional perspective when characterising pre-folding fracture networks in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq - Alaister Shakerley, Maersk Oil

Upside Reservoir Potential Evaluation in Hasdrubal field (Reineche Member), Mouna Brahmi, Università delgi Studi di Napoli Frederico II
10:00 - 10:25
  Lamination-parallel fracturing: insights on secondary permeability enhancement - Matteo Maggi, Università delgi Studi Roma Tre
  Using artificial neural network to predict porosity and permeability in Fractured Granite reservoir, Cuu Long basin, Huy Nguyen, Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology
10:25 - 10:50   Effects of stress barriers on vertical fracture extension in layered rocks: A case study of Blue Lias rhythms (Bristol Channel Basin, UK), Sonja Philipp,Geoscience Centre, University of Göttingen
  Sampling of Small Fractures in Subsurface: Limiting Factors and Potential - Mohammed Al-Fahmi, The University of Oxford
Break
   
   
11:25 - 11.50
  Fault zones and associated fracture systems in geothermal reservoirs - Sonja Phillipp, Geoscience Centre, University of Göttingen,
  The importance of structural style in forecasting reservoir-scale fracture damage: insights from outcrops - Rob Butler, University of Abderdeen
11:50 - 12:15
  From photographs to 3D fracture characterization. A case study from an inaccessible carbonate reservoir analogue of the Sorrento Peninsula (Italy) - Amerigo Corradetti, Università di Napoli Federico II
  Architecture of Gafsa-Jeffara regional fault: structural development and impact on petroleum systems - Saber Idriss, National Engineering School of Sfax
12:15 - 12:40
  Integrated Fractured Basement Evaluation: An Effort to Unlock Naturally Fractured Basement Potential in North Sumatra Basin, Indonesia - Fithra Harris Darmawan, Petronas
  Deep water Numidian sandstones in Sicily: a proven gas play, Rosanna Maniscalco, The University of Catania
Lunch        
14:00 - 14:25
  Reservoir-scale mechanical stratigraphy of the Lower Cretaceous carbonates of Monte Faito (Sorrento Peninsula, southern Italy), Alessandro Innance, Università di Napoli Federico II
  Characterising flow network in a fractured and karstified carbonate aquifer in Southern France, Xiaoguang Wang, Imperial College London

14:25 - 14:50
  Characterising fracture variations in a fold and thrust belt; implications for DFN modelling and fractured reservoir quality), Hannah Watkins, University of Aberdeen
 

Fracture reactivation under different stress conditions in the Hyblean foreland domain of SE Sicily (Italy) and seismotectonic implication, Giovanni Barreca, University of Catania



14:50 - 15:15
  Insights on the Campanian-Maastrichtian and Eocene fractured reservoirs of Central Tunisia - Safouen Makni, National Engineering School of Sfax
  Evaluation of fractured reservoirs using digital outcrop models and local stress field simulations - Hagen Deckert, Institute for Geothermal Resource Management
Break
       
15:50 - 16:15
  Cracking/fracking along pre-existing discontinuities: Opening dilatancy, bands, Jean-Pierre Petit, Géosciences Montpellier, University Montpellier II   Fracture Characterization with Fractional Derivative of Pressure transient Data Analysis for Multi-Porosity Reservoir, Asha Mishra, SAL Institute of Technology and Engineering Research
16:15 - 16:40
  Fluid flow in layered carbonates and its implication on early-time karstification, Xiaoguang Wang, Imperial College London
  Water Tracer Campaign in West Mabruk Field/ Libya, to understand fluid movement within a water flooding carbonate Fractured reservoir, Rabia Hunky, National Oil Corporation, Libya
 
   
   
         
Day 2 - Friday 17th April


  Room 1

Room 2
09:00 - 09:35   Keynote -  Fractured reservoirs development: Uncertainties, Assumptions and Strokes of Luck, Davide Casabianca, Apache

09:35 - 10:00
  Fracture characterization through seismic attributes on Asia Pacific fields - Riaz Alai, Petronas

Estimation of uniaxial compressive strengths of reservoir rocks in the North German Basin using outcrop samples and regression analysesSonja Philipp, University of Göttingen 
10:00 - 10:25
  Dual sensor seismic imaging of Upper Cretaceous carbonate reservoirs in the Sicily Channel: Combining stratigraphic and structural visualization to identify reservoir sweet spots in a gas condensate discovery - Paul Fink, ADX Energy
  Characterization of fractured carbonate rocks as potential reservoir for CO2 storage: the case of “Miliolitico” Formation, Sulcis Coal Basin, ItalySabina Bigi, Sapienza University 
10:25 - 10:50   Possibility of assessment of varying fracturing direction with VSP - Ivan Karpov, Novosibirsk State University
  Structural Diagenesis as a Key Factor for Fractured Carbonate Reservoir Characterization and ModelingAlberto Riva, GEPlan Consulting
Break
   
   
11:25 - 11.50
   Weak-anisotropy approximation for P-wave reflection coefficient at the boundary between two TTI media - Yuriy Ivanov, NTNU
  Mechanical stratigraphy impacts on fluid circulations in carbonate fractured reservoirsRaffaele Di Cuia, GEPlan Consulting
11:50 - 12:15
  Inferring fault zone permeability by numerical-analytical modelling of fault-induced stress conditions: the FRAP software approach - Francesco Salvini, Università Roma Tre
  Paleofluid evolution in fault damage zones of a fractured carbonate reservoir analogue: The Jabal Qusaybah Anticline (Adam Foothills, North Oman),Mahtab Mozafari, KU Leuven
12:15 - 12:40
   Fracture Potential of Evaporite Seals - Sérgio Esperancinha, Imperial College London
  Application of Pyrenean Fractured Carbonate Outcrops for Subsurface Reservoir CharacterisationJon Gutmanis, GeoScience Limited
Lunch        
14:00 - 14:25
  From mode I cracking to pure dilatancy, shear-dilatant, and shear-compactive banding: Constraints from axisymmetric and poly-axial experiments and numerical models, Alexandre Chemenda, Géoazur University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis, CNRS
  Predicting fracturing in tectonic structures by replicating their kinematics with FORC, a Layered-HCA based numerical modeler Paola Cianfarra, Università Roma Tre
14:25 - 14:50
 
 

       
 14:50    Poster Session