WELCOME
Dear RCP Sponsors,
We are excited to welcome you to the 2024 RCP Spring Meeting. The Reservoir Characterization Project (RCP) has entered its 40th year, and we will celebrate this milestone throughout Phase XX! RCP has diversified our research program in the last eight years while keeping the core elements intact. It is great to see that our students, as well as our research, are highly valued by the industry. Our work strives to adapt to the continued need for economical energy and the global shift towards sustainable energy solutions. RCP currently has twenty students – potentially the largest academic research consortium focused on energy and reservoir characterization research.
At RCP, our research program stands out for its unique strength in field data-driven research, a distinction that sets us apart from other academic consortia. This approach equips our students with a deep understanding of field data and research, enabling them to provide insights into new methods and their practical applications. Our program is focused on three main research directions – conventional reservoir characterization and monitoring, unconventional reservoir and hydraulic fracturing, and low-carbon strategies related to subsurface characterization, all of which are crucial in today’s energy landscape.
We are in the first year of RCP Phase XX, the main project of which is the new Permian Basin Fasken project. We also welcome Professor Lesli Wood, Weimer Distinguished Chair, Colorado School of Mines Department of Geology, who is now a contributing PI to RCP. Dr. Wood’s talk, “Seismic geomorphology as a tool to facilitate geology and geophysical integration,” will conclude Day 1 of our program.
Our program for this meeting is as follows: during the morning of Day 1, we will showcase our latest advances in seismic imaging for conventional reservoir characterization, focusing on multi-component and PP/PS joint inversion, which we have proven to be extremely valuable. We will then demonstrate how the technologies developed in the oil and gas industry can be transformed for carbon sequestration and renewable energy production, including wind farms and geothermal energy. In the afternoon of Day 1, we will provide updates on our main phase project – the reservoir characterization of Fasken Ranch assets in the Midland Basin. During the morning session of Day 2, we will discuss our recent developments in Distributed Fiber-Optic Sensing (DFOS) technologies. This section will include presentations on conductive fracture monitoring for unconventional reservoirs, highlighting precursors and observations to prevent fiber breakage, and borehole flow monitoring using DAS and DTS. We will also have a student poster session in the afternoon of Day 2, allowing for more in-person interaction with our students.
We look forward to engaging in discussions with our sponsors on existing research, future directions, and the continuous adaptations needed in our evolving energy landscape. We extend a warm welcome to our new sponsors and express our sincere gratitude to all of our sponsors for their unwavering support. Your contributions make our research possible, and we are committed to providing significant value to your organizations.
Sincerely,
Drs. Ali Tura and Ge Jin
RCP Consortium Co-directors, CSM
