Abstracts Volume Inaugural Meeting 2002
From Sunday evening, 1st of September till Friday afternoon, 6th of September, the Inaugural Meeting of the Association SFERA was held at Pescara (Pe), Italy, comprising a three days Conference/Workshop, and two days of Field Trip in the area of the Montagna della Majella (Abruzzo Region).
The Published Abstracts Volume contains the program of the Meeting (Conference and Field Workshop), extensive background information, and the publications of all the presentations held during the Conference.
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The Abstracts Volume of the Inaugural Meeting September 2002 has the following Contents:

• ABSTRACTS:

1. Repressuring a Highly Fractured Depleted Reservoir by Gas Injection
   Ansari, Abbas, and Amorollah Fathi
   (Naftkav Engineering Services Co.)
   
   
2. The Use of Structural Modelling in the Simulation of Naturally Fractured Reservoirs
   Bonora, Massimo, Chris McKeown, Rob Smallshire, Steven Ahlgren, Carlo Sanders, David Richards, Stuart Bland, and Liz Thompson
   (Midland Valley Exploration Ltd.)
   
   
3. The Heterogeneous Structure of Fault Zones within Carbonate Rocks: Evidence from Outcrop Studies and Implications for Fluid Flow.
   Bonson, Chris G., J.J. Walsh, C. Childs, M. Sch_pfer, and V. Carboni
   (Fault Analysis Group, University College Dublin)
   
   
4. Machar Oil Field: Subsurface Modeling and Uncertainty Assessment in a Producing Fractured Chalk Reservoir
   Casabianca, David, L. Hartley, and R. Pollard
   (Machar Subsurface Team, BP PLC)
   
   
5. Physical Modeling of Jointing – New Technique and First Results
   Chemenda, Alessandre, C. Jorand, S. Bouissou, and J.-P. Petit
   (Geo-Fracnet; Univ. Montpellier, Univ. Nice; Shell, TFE, Eni-Agip and Enterprise Oil)
   
   
6. Subseismic Fault Modelling: Issues for Fractured Reservoir Simulation
   Daniel, Jean-Marc, Camillo Montes, and Bernard Bourbiaux
   (Institut Français du Pétrole)
   
   
7. Use of Field Analogues to Better Understand Subsurface Reservoir Characteristics: the Upper Cretaceous Limestone of the Apulian Platform (Southern Italy)
   Di Cuia, Raffaele, M. Sarti, and A. Artoni
   (TotalFinaElf, Università di Ancona, Università di Parma)
   
   
8. Data Driven Fracture Models
   Dijk, van, Janpieter
   (Eni E&P Division)
   
   
9. Deformation Bands and Granulation Seams in Porous Grainstones: A New Faulting Mechanism in Carbonate Rocks - Examples from Majella Mountain Anticline, Central Italy.
   Dijk, van, Janpieter, Gillespie, P., Ameen, M., Rawnsley, K., Cello, G., Petit, J.P., Marchegiani, L., and Meazza, O.
   (Eni-Agip, NorskHydro, Shell, SaudiAramco, Univ. Camerino, Univ. Montpellier)
   
   
10. Fracture Network Modeling – Origin and Future Directions
    Doe, Thomas
    (Golder Associates Inc.)
    
    
11. The Concept of Critically Stressed Fractures and Faults to Assess Hydrocarbon Migration and Fault Seal
    Finkbeiner, Thomas, Colleen Barton, Daniel Moos, Mark Zoback, and David Castillo
    (Geomechanics International Inc.)
    
    
12. Constraints from 3D Mechanical Models for Prediction of Fractures in Reservoirs
    Guiton, Martin, Sassi William, Leroy Yves, and Daniel Jean-Marc
    (Institut Français du Pétrole)
    
    
13. Determining Microfracture Orientations, Effective Fracture Porosity and In-situ Stress from the Magnetic Anisotropy of Core Samples.
    Hailwood, Ernie, Peter Whattler, Fung Ding, and Ernie Rutter
    (Core Magnetics, Enterprise Oil, University of Manchester)
    
    
14. Evolution of the Fracture Fault System in a Thrust-Related Anticline, Sawtooth Range, Montana
    Keijzer, de, Martin, Keith Rawnsley, and Jean-Pierre Petit
    (Shell Int. E&P B.V., Univ. Montpellier)
    
    
15. Subsurface Paleostress Analysis using Image Logs: Identifying and using Pinnate Joints as Fault-slip Indicators
    Lacazette, Alfred
    (Consulting Geologist)
    
    
16. Frequency-Dependent Anisotropy for Improved Fracture Characterization
    Li, Xiang-Yang, Mark Chapman, and Enru Liu
    (Edinburgh Anisotropy Project; British Geological Survey)
    
    
17. Scale Properties of Fracture Networks in the Majella Mountain, Central Italy
    Marchegiani, Leonardo, van Dijk, J.P., Tondi, E., and Cello, G.
    (TaskForceMajella; Camerino Univ., Eni E&P Division)
    
    
18. Predicting Fracture Density in a Strongly Folded Structure: East Painter Reservoir Field, Wyoming
    Narr, Wayne, and Thomas Heffner
    (ChevronTexaco)
    
    
19. Estimating Variability in Fracture Frequencies from Boreholes
    Peacock, David
    (Robertson Research Int. Ltd.)
    
    
20. Fracture Corridors: What Are They?
    Petit, Jean-Pierre, L. Balzagette, C. Bordarier, S. Buoisseau, A. Chemenda, P. Connoly, P. Cortes, C. Jorand and G., and De Joussineau
    (Geo-FracNet Team; Univ. Montpellier II, Univ. Nice)
    
    
21. Bringing together Fracture Characterisation, Seismic and Sequence Stratigraphy into a Fully Integrated Reservoir Model of the Fahud Field, Oman
    Rawnsley, Keith, Anthony Thompson, Elena Morettini, Tony Cortis, Wenche Asyee, Jan-Henk VanKonijnenburg, Peter Christman, Karen Foster, Victor H. Hitchings, Wilhelm Kolkman, and Gregor Eberli
    (Shell Int. E&P B.V.; Carbonate Development team Oman)
    
    
22. Fracture Modeling of the Rang Dong Basement Reservoir, Cuu Long Basin, Vietnam
    Schmidt, William J., Y. Shiomoto, H. Seki, and Nguyen van Que
    (Japan Vietnam Petroleum Company)
    
    
23. Successful Detection of Fractures in the Borehole Environment- a Continuing Challenge in the Commercial Management of Subsurface Fluid Resources
    Trice, Robert
    (Shell Int. E&P B.V.)
    
    
24. Matrix Block Size Estimation for Steamflood Simulation
    Zellou, Abdel M., Eilard EH Hoogerduijn-Strating, Salah al Dhahab, Wim W. Boom, and Lee Hartley
    (Veritas DGC, Inc., PDO, Serco Ass.)