Monday, March 7, 2011
A Day in the Life
All of us at school run into the days, weeks, of work on a single project and lose connection with the rest of the world. We spend countless hours working days and nights, exhausting our bodies and minds. Lately, the past eight weeks, I have spent a large portion of my life working on a project for an international competition in the Great Bight Basin, Australia. The competition is call the Imperial Barrel Award sponsored by AAPG. This Thursday the team and I will be presenting our investigation of oil prospective properties in the basin for a school review. The region competition will be on March 19, and then the international competition in Houston will be on April 9, 2011.
The Bight Basin is a highly prospective area for oil and gas exploration. There has only been a few unsuccessful well drilled in the basin; therefore, most of the exploration is done through seismic data. Our Team and other teams are evaluating this basin for the best locations to drill the next well. We are mapping multiple units that have the potential to act as a reservoir and areas that contain all the petroleum elements and systems for hydrocarbon potential. This article (Regional Geology of the Bight Basin) is a good source about the geology of the basin and exploration history. With that being said...I hope the team and I find the best spot, and we find the billion dollar well.
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Dr. Chrysoberyl,
ReplyDeleteI want to point out first that I believe it is a necessity for one such as yourself, who is an aspiring geological engineer, to work day and night on such analytical problems to develop the critical skills needed for you line of work. I would like to ask a few questions about your project though. I have received information from other reliable sources that there were multiple data sets to be used in this competition. What are the difference between these data sets? Were you working on the development of just a single area of the Bright Basin or the entire basin? What type of data were you give to work with, and in your opinion now after the competition has finished, what would you say the is the quality of that data? If you wouldn't mind enlightening me, thank you.
Dr. Firmicute
First I would like to annouce that the Colorado School of Mines IBA team place second at the regional competition.
ReplyDeleteTo answer Dr. Firmicute questions: there were multiple data sets randomly assigned. The differences in these data sets is the area and of course with a different area comes different information. The bight basin data was mainly 2D seismic and three dry wells. Our area consisted of the entire Bight Basin but we focused on the Ceduna sub basin after investigation and research. The ceduna possibly has a greater potential for commercial hydrocarbon production. The data in the bight basin had moderate to poor resolution; therefore, our reccomendation for the project was to continue collecting data (such as 3D siesmic) before drilling any wells and to farm in with another company to help with costs of exploration in the Bight Basin. Thank you for your questions and please let me know if you have any more...Cheers :)
Congratulations! That was my question.
ReplyDeleteSo, how come you think you got second? What would you do differently in hindsight?