Seismic Multiples – The Challenges and the Way Forward 3–5 December 2019 | Kuwait EVENT PROGRAMME Platinum Sponsor Gold Sponsors Silver Luncheon Coffee Break Sponsor Sponsor Sponsor seg.org/events/Seismic-Multiples-2019 TECHNICAL COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS TECHNICAL COMMITTEE MEMBERS COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN: Adel El-Emam, Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) Frederico Xavier de Melo, WesternGeco/Schlumberger Adel El-Emam is a Consultant Geophysicist with Kuwait Oil Company, Exploration Group. He holds a BSc in Frederico Xavier de Melo is a Product Champion – Seismic Multiple Processing for WesternGeco/Schlumberger, Geology (1975) from Cairo University (Egypt) and a MSc in Geophysics “Attenuation of Seismic Waves” (1983) and holds an Eng and MSc degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Brasília (Brazil). He initially from the University of Pittsburgh (USA). Adel has over 40 years of experience with local and international oil worked as Electronic Engineer for the Seismological Observatory in Brasília, maintaining and developing applications companies. He joined KOC in 1995 and is currently responsible for seismic data acquisition and processing. for global and deep seismology studies. After obtaining his MSc degree, he joined WesternGeco/Schlumberger He previously held the position of Data Processing Manager with GPC in Cairo (Egypt). Adel presented and as a Data Processing Seismic Engineer in Kuwait, followed by a Testing Geophysicist role in Houston, before published more than 40 papers at local and international conferences. He was awarded “Best Poster Presented his current position. He has worldwide experience in multiple geological challenges and environments. His main at SEG 2005 Annual Meeting.” He is an active member of SEG, EAGE and SPE. Adel is a technical reviewer for interests are signal and multiple processing, pattern recognition, stochastic filtering and optimization. SEG and EAGE and has been the president of the SEG DISC since 2017. Guillaume Cambois, ADNOC COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRMAN: Said Al-Abri, Petroleum Development Oman (PDO) Guillaume Cambois graduated from École Polytechnique de Paris (France) and received a PhD in Geophysics Said Al-Abri has been a Processing Geophysicist at Petroleum Development Oman since 2010. He worked from the University of Texas at Austin (USA). He started his career with CGG, holding various positions in as Operation Geophysicist for 7 years. He obtained a BSc in 2002 and a MSc in Physics of the Earth and R&D and data processing, eventually reaching the position of Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice Atmosphere from Leeds University (UK) in 2003. He worked on Full Waveform Inversion, velocity model President Data Processing. He joined PGS in 2007, initially spearheading GeoStreamer technology deployment building and 3DVSP processing. and eventually becoming PGS Executive Vice President for Imaging and Engineering. He is currently Principal Geophysicist with ADNOC. He was SEG Vice President as part of the 2007-2008 Executive Committee and served as SEG Director at Large from 2013 to 2016. Halis Bayri, Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) Halis Bayri is a Senior Consultant Geophysicist at Kuwait Oil Company (KOC), supervising in-house seismic data processing as well as a number of outsourced projects. He received a PhD in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the State University of New York at Stony Brook (USA) in 1987. Following his graduation, he joined the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Hacettepe University in Ankara (Turkey) as an Assistant Professor. In 1991, he joined the Oil industry with Western Geophysical. He has over 28 years of experience in Seismic Data Processing. His main interests are in signal processing and multiple attenuation. Khaled Dulaijan, Saudi Aramco Khaled Dulaijan is an experienced geophysicist with a demonstrated history of working in Saudi Aramco for more than 15 years. He has a BSc from the University of Tulsa (USA), MSc and PhD from the University of Calgary (Canada). Currently, he is the 3D near-surface team leader. He is interested and has published in seismic anisotropy, borehole seismic, near surface, seismic imaging and velocity model building. He has participated in international conferences and workshops in technical committees and co-chairing sessions. Muneera Al-Awadhi, Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) Muneera Al-Awadhi graduated from Kuwait University with a BSc in geology in 2011. She has seven years of experience in the oil and gas industry, starting her career with Kuwait Oil Company in 2012 as a geophysicist. In 2017, she got a MSc in Petroleum Engineering and Geoscience from Kuwait University, as well as a MSc in Geophysics from IFP School (France) in 2018. She has been working with the Seismic Reservoir Characterization unit in exploration focusing mainly on rock physics, deterministic and stochastic seismic inversion. She recently got involved in borehole seismic processing starting from basic full waveform sonic processing to VSP processing. TECHNICAL COMMITTEE MEMBERS TECHNICAL PROGRAMME Myrna Staring, Delft University of Technology All technical sessions take place at Jumeirah Messilah Beach Hotel & Spa, Kuwait. Myrna Staring is a 4th year PhD student in Applied Geophysics at Delft University of Technology (Netherlands). Her PhD project is to evaluate the advantages and limitations of the application of Marchenko equation-based methods on field data. As part of her PhD, she has worked as an R&D intern with CGG in Brazil, as a visiting TUESDAY, 3 DECEMBER 2019 researcher with CGG Netherlands and as a visiting researcher with Aramco Overseas Company Netherlands. She is currently founding an EAGE Women in Geoscience and Engineering committee in the Netherlands, in addition to being part of a think-and-do tank with young researchers and NGO’s. 07:00 - 08:00 Onsite Registration Coffee, tea, juices and morning refreshments available 08:00 - 08:05 Hotel Safety Briefing 08:05 - 08:10 Welcome Address by Committee Co-Chairs 08:10 - 08:15 Welcome Address by Mohammed Dawas Al-Ajmi, Exploration Manager, Kuwait Oil Company 08:15 - 08:35 Pierre Hugonnet, CGG Opening Address by Adel El-Emam, Consultant Geoscientist | Exploration Group, Kuwait Oil Company Pierre Hugonnet currently holds the position of Senior Research Advisor at CGG Seismic Imaging. He completed his PhD in Geophysics in 1998 from the University of Pau (France). Since then, he has always been with CGG SESSION 1 UNDERSTANDING THE MULTIPLES AND THE ROLE OF ACQUISITION in seismic processing R&D (first at the Massy center, then at the Pau dedicated center). His main topics of Session Chairs: Halis Bayri & Guillaume Cambois interest are signal processing, multiple attenuation, noise attenuation and deblending. 08:35 - 09:00 KEYNOTE: Impact of Scattering from Micro Internal Multiple Reflections on Seismic Attenuation and Seismic Anisotropy Antonio Pica, CGG 09:00 - 09:25 Seismic Acquisition Design: Could we Enable Better Multiple Attenuation during Processing? Frederico Xavier de Melo, Schlumberger 09:25 - 09:50 Improving Acquisition Efficiency Using Imaging with Multiples Sören Naumann, PGS 09:50 - 10:15 Moderated Discussion – 25 min Rodney Johnston, BP 10:15 - 10:35 COFFEE BREAK – 20 min – Messilah 2 Foyer Area Rodney Johnston is global R&D Portfolio Manager for BP’s Upstream Technology involving data acquisition, imaging and inversion. He has broad interests from source control and deconvolution to multi-component and SESSION 2 UNDERSTANDING THE MULTIPLES AND THE ROLE OF ACQUISITION wide-azimuth seismic for field development onshore/offshore, and led trans-Atlantic research projects including Session Chairs: Khaled Al Dulaijan & Dan Whitmore Passive Seismic, Elastic Imaging, and Full-wavefield Reservoir Characterization applied to conventional and unconventional reservoirs. He has a MSc degree from the French Petroleum Institute – ENSPM (France) and a 10:35 - 11:00 Understanding the Generation of Multiples via the Reflector Spectrum Concept PhD from the University of Edinburgh (UK). He is an active member of SEG, EAGE, PESGB, GSH and CSEG, has Dongliang Zhang, Aramco Services Company received multiple awards from SEG and PESGB, oganises SEG’s Distinguished and Honorary Lecture events, 11:00 - 11:25 Multiples in South Oman: Understanding their Origin and Sensitivity to Near-Surface Geology Fabian Ernst, Petroleum Development Oman and is a member of SEG’s Europe Regional Advisory Committee. 11:25 - 11:50 Understanding the Multiples Generation in Ordovician Tight Sands of Saudi Arabia Sarah Bandar Aljohani, Saudi Aramco 11:50 - 12:15 Moderated Discussion – 25 min Tariq Al Khalifah, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) 12:15 - 13:15 LUNCH – 1 hr – Garden Café Tariq Alkhalifah is a professor in the Physical Sciences and Engineering Division. Before he joined KAUST in June 2009, he was research professor and director of the Oil and Gas Research Institute at King Abdulaziz City for SESSION 3 MULTIPLE PREDICTION Science & Technology (KACST). From 1996 to 1998, he served as a postdoctoral researcher for the Stanford Session Chairs: Adel El-Emam & Frederico Xavier de Melo Exploration Project at Stanford University (USA). Member of SEG and EAGE, he received the J. Clarence 13:15 - 13:40 KEYNOTE: A New Perspective on Removing and Using Multiples – They Have the Same Exact Goal – Imaging Primaries – Karcher Award from SEG and the Conrad Schlumberger Award from EAGE in 2003, and was honorary lecturer Recent Advances in Multiple Removal for the SEG in 2011. He