EMGS announced today that it has begun an extensive and diverse program of electromagnetic (EM) imaging surveys over the Troll field, which is situated in a shallowwater region of the
Svein Ellingsrud, EMGS chief technology officer stated: "This will be a unique and valuable project for several reasons. Firstly, we will demonstrate our latest innovations and imaging capabilities by deploying a broad array of EM technologies and methods in a wide range of acquisition geometries. Secondly, the Troll West oil province is geologically interesting and complex from an EM perspective in that it contains a large gas reservoir and a much thinner, less visible oil reservoir situated below it in relatively shallow water. Thirdly, the existing infrastructure surrounding this mature producing field will provide a challenging environment in which to validate our data acquisition and processing techniques."
EMGS chief executive Terje Eidesmo commented: "We deployed our early generation technology on Troll in 2003, so it's fitting that we should return to the field to advance and validate our latest technology and methods.”
Ellingsrud continued, "We will acquire four major survey types: a high-density grid geometry to enhance our current understanding of 3-D resistivity mapping and how this can be used to delineate reservoirs and to estimate hydrocarbon volumes; a course grid EM scanning survey deployed over a larger area to demonstrate the effectiveness of scanning in detecting commercial hydrocarbon reservoirs rapidly; magnetotelluric (MT) data; and time-domain EM data evaluation using techniques derived through our recent acquisition of KMS Technologies. In addition, interpretation methodologies and the integration of the various EM data types with each other and with other measurements such as seismic will be a key objective."
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