Directional Resistivity Measurements - Experience from Statoil

by Per Atle Olsen, Statoil

Abstract

One of the biggest challenges on the Norwegian Continental Shelf is to maintain the current oil production. The last decade’s added resources have, according to the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate, mainly come from existing fields in production. A key enabling technology has been directional drilling of long horizonthal wells. Directional resistivity measurements have lately become popular for optimizing well placement and the talk will give examples of Statoil experience with directional resistivity measurements and discuss current limitations and future potentials.

Per Atle Olsen, CV

Per Atle Olsen is research scientist at Statoil Research Centre in Trondheim. He started in Statoil in 1998 on projects on marine controlled source EM. He then moved to the Åsgard license working as a Petrophysicist and was involved with operational petrophysics and geo-steering as well as formation evaluation and redetermination. From 2007 he has worked at Statoils Reserch Center with IOR projects. Currently he is involved in the Geophysical Reservoir Imaging and Monitoring project focusing on wellbased methods.