Petroleum Geoengineering: Integration of Static and Dynamic Models (DISC No. 12)

Petroleum Geoengineering: Integration of Static and Dynamic Models explores improved linkage among techniques used at various scales to describe and model petroleum reservoirs. The book, which accompanies the 2009 SEG/EAGE Distinguished Instructor Short Course, is aimed at a broad range of geoscientists and engineers working in the petroleum industry. The ultimate objectives are to enable technical staff members to maximize the recovery of hydrocarbons. The impact of petrophysical heterogeneity at various scales on the recovery of oil and gas provides the focus for the book.

The integrated nature of the book makes it suitable for people from all subsurface disciplines (geology, geophysics, petrophysics, geomodeling, and reservoir and petroleum engineering). Petroleum Geoengineering is also very suitable for directing teams of subsurface staff members.

Colin Sayers is a scientific advisor in the Schlumberger Data & Consulting Services Geomechanics Group in Houston, Texas, providing consultancy in geophysics, rock physics, drilling and reservoir geomechanics, and characterization of fractured reservoirs. He joined Shell's Exploration and Production Laboratory in Rijswijk, the Netherlands, in 1986 and moved to Schlumberger in 1991. His technical interests also include pore-pressure prediction, analysis of wellbore stability, analysis of production-induced reservoir stress changes, subsidence, fault reactivation, 3D mechanical earth modeling, sanding, fractured reservoir evaluation, borehole/seismic integration, stress-dependent acoustics, advanced sonic logging, AVAZ, and fluid flow in fractured reservoirs.

Sayers is a member of AGU, EAGE, SEG, and SPE, the SEG Research Committee, and the editorial boards of The Leading Edge and the International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Science. He has a B.A. in physics from the University of Lancaster, U. K., and a D.I.C. in mathematical physics and Ph.D. in physics, both from Imperial College, London, U. K. He has published numerous papers and holds several patents.