ISSUE 6 | VOL 2 | novemBER 2019 THE SPWLA TODAY NEWSLETTER SOCIETY OF P S E T T R S O Y P L H A Y N SI A CIS OG TS AND WELL L INSIDE THIS EDITION Calendar of Events ........................................................................................................................................05 From the President .......................................................................................................................................06 Board of Directors Reports Up Next .................................................................................................................................................09 Tech Today .............................................................................................................................................10 The Invoice ............................................................................................................................................12 Informative Technology ..........................................................................................................................13 Learning Opportunities ..........................................................................................................................15 Regional Understandings ........................................................................................................................16 Board of Directors Meeting Minutes - October 9, 2019 .................................................................................19 Articles Tales from the Oil Patch: 1970s in the Louisiana Gulf Coast—Vuggy Sandstones? (Surely You Jest, Dr. T.) ..20 You’ll Never Lose a Resistivity Interpretation Argument When James Clerk Maxwell is on Your Side ..........21 SCA Symposium Abstracts ............................................................................................................................25 JFES Symposium Abstracts ............................................................................................................................39 The Bridge Reminiscences of the Logging Profession—I Did It My Way .....................................................................47 Happy Hour Announcement ...................................................................................................................51 PDDA Scholarship Announcement ...............................................................................................................54 EOI 2020 BOD Election Announcement .........................................................................................................55 Chapter News ...............................................................................................................................................56 Recent Accolades .........................................................................................................................................71 In Memoriam ...............................................................................................................................................72 New Members ..............................................................................................................................................73 SOCIETY OF P S E T T R S O Y P L H A Y N SI A CIS OG TS AND WELL L Issue 06 SPWLA TODAY November 2019 4 The Society of Petrophysicists and Well Log Analysts Board of Directors 2019–2020 CALENDAR OF EVENTS President VP Finance, Secretary, Jesus Salazar and Administration November 1–2, 2019 Marathon Oil Company Doug Patterson Workshop on “Porous Media: Structure, Flow, Houston, TX, USA Baker Hughes, a GE Company and Dynamics” (+1) 512-785-8979 Houston, Texas, USA Hosted By: The Boston Chapter of SPWLA [email protected] (+1) 713 879-4056 [email protected] Cambridge, MA, USA VP Publications www.spwla.org President-Elect Tom Neville James Hemingway Asia-Pacific Fm. Eval. Services Consultant Brisbane, Australia March 1–5, 2020 Manitou Springs, CO, USA (+61) 416-672-392 SPWLA Bangkok–Asia Pacific Regional Conference (+1) 281-433-5170 [email protected] [email protected] Theme: “Petrophysics: From Exploration to Brownfield— The Impact of Formation Evaluation on Oil and Gas VP IT VP Technology Lin Liang Field Development Decisions” Michael O’Keefe Schlumberger-Doll Research Schlumberger Bangkok, Thailand Cambridge, MA, USA www.spwla.org Bucharest, Romania (+1) 617-335-4469 (+40) 739-855-658 [email protected] [email protected] June 20–24, 2020 VP Education SPWLA 61st Annual Symposium Katerina Yared Banff, Alberta, Canada SM Energy Highlands Ranch, CO, USA www.spwla.org (+1) 720-431-7482 [email protected] REGIONAL DIRECTORS N. America 1 Middle East/Africa Adam Haecker Shouxiang (Mark) Ma Continental Saudi Aramco Oklahoma City, OK, USA Dhahran, Saudi Arabia (+1) 979-587-1061 (+966) 3-874-5078 [email protected] [email protected] N. America 2 Asia and Australia Kelly Skuce Jennifer Market Core Petrophysical Consulting MPC Kinetic Calgary, Canada Perth, Australia (+1) 587-228-0203 (+1) 713-302-8325 [email protected] [email protected] Latin America Executive Director Nadege Bize-Forest Sharon Johnson Schlumberger SPWLA Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Houston, TX 77017 (+55) 21-97454-8772 (+1) 713-947-8727 [email protected] [email protected] Europe Craig Lindsay Core Specialist Services Ltd. Aberdeenshire, United Kingdom (+44) 7530-040117 [email protected] Managing Editor Publication Manager Stephen Prensky Anna Tarlton (+1) 301-593-4966 InkSpot Printing [email protected] 2301 S. Shaver About the Cover Pasadena, TX 77502, USA (+1) 713-472-1100 Modeled resistivity tool response to the Gulf Coast Invasion [email protected] formation model (Anderson, B.I., and Barber, T.D., 1997, Induction Logging Manual, Schlumberger). As Barbara Anderson explains in her column in this issue of SPWLA Today, resistivity modeling such as this is a valuable tool for understanding tool response and Notice: Articles published in SPWLA Today are not subject to formal peer solving complex interpretation problems. review but are subject to editorial review and are verified for technical consistency and relevance. Issue 06 SPWLA TODAY November 2019 5 From the President Fellow SPWLA members, this will be the last issue of the SPWLA Today newsletter in 2019. It will also be my last column of the year, and before I start updating you on what’s going on in our society I’d like to wish everyone a happy holiday season. Please enjoy in a healthy way, spend quality time with your family and friends, travel to amazing places, but please don’t eat too much or you’ll pay the price early next year. We are all super busy working on projects in our day jobs, but remember there’s only one life that we deserve to live it to the fullest. The survey to vote on changes to the Bylaws and Articles of Incorporations (BLAI) closed on September 19. A total of 651 members cast ballots, which is the usual number of voters we have during the annual elections (600 to 700). The membership has overwhelmingly voted to pass all the proposed changes with approvals that ranged between 84 and 95%, way above the minimum Jesús M. Salazar of 75% of the total number of ballots required to pass the proposed changes to BLAI. I hope 2019–2020 SPWLA President everyone had the chance to see the email showing the side-by-side comparison of the previous [email protected] articles and sections against the changes we proposed, with the voting results for and against such changes. The new BLAI are far from perfect, but the membership agreed that a few changes were warranted. Let’s give the new system a try for the next election and awards period and see what happens. There’s always room for improvement, and I’ll do my best to listen to the membership and make additional changes before my term is over or I would also set the table for the next President and his BOD. These changes are effective immediately. However, anyone in the current board who has been serving for more than five consecutive years will be able to finish their term and if they want to come back to the board, they may run for President-Elect only. Speaking of which, Past President Zach Liu sent an expression of interest (EOI) request for the upcoming elections of the new Board. Similar to last year, people are able to self-nominate. With the new BLAI there are a few requirements for critical positions, which are stated in the EOI. If you are passionate about SPWLA and have been already involved in local chap ters, conference, or with our publications, please contact Zach and add your name as a potential nominee. I had couple of busy weeks since my last column. I visited two chapters and also a sister organization. At every meeting I gave a presentation about the SPWLA and on technical topics about petrophysics. In late August, I visited the Houston Chapter of EAGE, thanks to an invitation extended by Dr. Mariela Araujo, who organizes their monthly seminar. It was a great opportunity to talk about the SPWLA and unconventional petrophysics to a mixed audience of geoscientists and engineers. At the beginning of September, I traveled to the American West, Lubbock, Texas, to speak at the Texas Tech University SPWLA Student Chapter. I had two incredible hosts, current and past chapter presidents Rushil Pandya and Ibe Ezisi, respectively. They gave me a tour of the Petroleum Engineering Department and introduced me to faculty and students. They wanted me to talk about the operations