LONDON, June 15, SPA -- Saudi Aramco has established a prominent presence at the 69th European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers Conference and Exhibition, which concluded yesterday.
Khalid Al-Falih, senior vice president of Industrial Relations, visited the Saudi Aramco exhibit in the EAGE exhibition area, according to a report of the Company's web site.
In addition to a recruiting station, Saudi Aramco has set up a display area that showcases the company's state of the art geosciences technologies, which are used to continually add to the company's massive reserves base and to ensure maximum recovery from its reservoirs.
"Our goal at the 69th EAGE is to share some of our unique experience as custodians of the world's largest crude oil reserves, and to display some of the cutting-edge technology we use to find and manage these reserves," said Abdulla AlNaim, Saudi Aramco vice president of Exploration.
"We not only invest in some of the best technology available," he said, "but we also have some of the best people in the industry developing new technologies in-house. EAGE offers an excellent opportunity to share what we've learned, and to exchange ideas with others in the industry."
Toward that goal, the Saudi Aramco exhibit showcased the company's technologies and expertise via several dynamic e-posters, informational videos, and presentations to be delivered by geoscientists and engineers.
In addition, two Saudi Aramco geoscientists made presentations during formal sessions at the EAGE: Mohammed G. Al-Otaibi presented a new analytical solution that utilizes seismic amplitudes to estimate the thickness of reservoirs that are considered seismically thin. His solution improves on a method that has been commonly implemented in the industry for 30 years. It has been tested with known models and proved its applicability.
On his part, Saleh M. Al-Saleh presented an efficient wave equation datuming (WED) technique that is based on space-frequency explicit wavefield extrapolation.
Saudi Aramco tested this method using a real data set acquired over an irregular recording surface. This proposed WED methodology was compared with the conventional vertical time-shift approach based on the same velocity model provided by refraction tomography, and the WED result has proved superior.
Through its active participation in world class technology conferences, Saudi Aramco continues to share and access the latest advances in the geosciences, thus maintaining its lead as the world's foremost supplier of oil.
© Saudi Press Agency 2007
