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SCHEDULE & GUIDELINES


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ANNUAL TECHNICAL CONFERENCE 2014

Schedule of Abstracts and Paper Submissions

Deadline of Abstract submission 25th May, 2014
Acceptance and intimation to selected authors.. 10th June, 2014
Submission of first draft of full papers... 01 August, 2014
Acceptance of feedback / final papers15 September, 2014

Please complete the Form given below and submit this with your abstract to
Technical Committee Chairman.

All Abstracts & Papers, email to:
mailto:tahir.maqsood@tullowoil.com
Tahir Maqsood
Manager Geophysics
#5, St; 34, F-8-1 Islamabad.
Ph. =92 (51)-8318117
Cell: +92(301)8507888



Form for submitting Abstract


(Please type or print clearly)
Title of Paper: e.g., Structural Traps and Hydrocarbon Exploration in

Primary Author:
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Address:
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This paper is offered for (highlight one in blue): Oral Poster Both Either
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Has this or a similar paper been published in any form: Yes No
If yes in either question, please complete the following:
Where: When:
How does this paper differ from the previous one?

If applicable, please list co-authors:

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GUIDE LINES FOR PREPRATION OF ABSTRACTS
Technical papers and posters presented at the 2014 ATC Conference and Exhibition are
selected from abstracts submitted to the Programme Committee. Early submission is
particularly important to ensure that committee members have ample time to review the
abstracts. Authors are strongly encouraged to submit their abstracts electronically.
Abstracts are evaluated on the basis of the information supplied on the abstract form in
accordance with the following criteria:
1. The proposed paper or poster must contribute to petroleum technology or be of
immediate interest to the oil and gas industry.
2. Data in the proposed paper or poster must be technically correct.
3. The substance of the proposed paper or poster must not have been published
previously in trade journals or other professional or technical journals.
4. The proposed paper must have necessary clearance before submission. Any
problems concerning clearance should be outlined when the proposed paper is
submitted.
5. The proposed paper must be written in English
Title/Commercialism/Copyright
Enter a title that is concise, yet descriptive of the primary content and application of the
proposed paper. ATC has a stated policy against use of commercial trade names, company
names, or language that is commercial in tone in the paper title, text or slides. Use of such
terms will result in careful scrutiny by the Program Committee in evaluating abstracts and
the presence of commercialism in the paper may result in it being withdrawn from the
program.
Abstract Content
A proper review of your abstract requires that it contains adequate information on which
to make a judgment. Written in English and containing a maximum of 250 words, abstracts
should include the following:
Description
Outline the scope and nature of the work upon which the paper is based (e.g., field data,
lab data, original analysis, or computer work). If the paper is a review paper, carefully
state the extent of the coverage.
Applications
Describe the possible applications of the information provided in the paper or poster.
Results, Observations and conclusions
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Summarise the results and major conclusions to be presented in the paper/poster and state
how these differ from previous work on the same subject. State whether new information
will be revealed and whether data from field, lab, or computer work will be included.

TOPICS OF ATC 2014 CONFRENCE


Shared Topics PAPG-SPE (Please highlight only one)

HSE (Health, Safety, Environment) in G&G and Engineering
Operations & Workplaces
Data and Knowledge Management, Skill Pool Management / Human
Resources

G & G Topics (Please highlight only one)

HSE (Health, Safety, Environment). G&G related
Emerging Plays, Petroleum System & Basin Studies
New Business Development, Unconventional Resources, E&P
Strategies
Prospect Generation workflows, methodologies, Strategies
QI/ Reservoir Geophysics, Seismic Acquisition/Processing
Production Geology, Reservoir Characterization & Modeling,
Wellsite Geology
Field Geology/Mapping, Remote Sensing, GIS Applications
PAPG Students Paper (based on students research projects, thesis)

PE Pakistan Topics (Please Highlight only one)

Drilling
Production
Engineering (facilities, Processing and production)
Well Engineering
Reservoir Engineering
IT/Knowledge Management
Enhanced Oil Recovery
Asset Management
Commercial and Legal
SPE Students Paper
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SPECIMEN


SFD (Stress Field Detection) and its Integration with Seismic in Kharan Forearc
Basin and its Implications for Hydrocarbon Exploration in a Frontier Area
George Liszicasz
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, Azer Mustaqeem
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, Moin Raza Khan
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, Muhammad Amir Bhatti
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and Abid
Hussain
2

NXT Energy Solutions Inc.
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and Pakistan Petroleum Limited
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The SFD technology, applied in numerous basins around the world, uses a unique quantum method to
extract stress field anomalies and hence trapped reservoir information from gravity field. The gravity
field acts as a carrier of stress induced energies that are the contributors to the gravitational field
potential. Unlike traditional gravity measurement devices, the SFD sensors can dynamically
(integration of signal over time) and selectively (through resonance) interact with the gravity field and
as a result able to detect minor perturbation related to trapping of fluids (oil, gas or water) in the
subsurface.

Kharan Forearc Basin covers an approximately 30,000 km
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area and is entirely obscured by
superficial deposits of the Kharan desert. The regional geological analysis has been carried out by
studying outcrops at Raskoh Range (Volcanic Arc) and Makran Accretionary Prism located just north
and south of Kharan Forearc Basin respectively. The analysis results show that unexplored Kharan
Forearc Basin could be a primary target for a potential Palaeogene petroleum system, a near perfect
analogue of some of the worlds producing forearc basins (Cook Inlet Basin, Alaska and Salin Basin,
Myanmar). The trapping mechanism, one of the key elements of petroleum play, is difficult to envisage
properly in the Kharan Forearc Basin due to presence of sand dunes at surface, which enveloped the
structural configuration of Kharan Forearc Basin.

For seeking entrapment mechanism, a total of 1900 km of SFD data was acquired covering most part
of the Kharan Forearc Basin. The survey results have provided a series of high graded areas showing
potential of trapped reservoirs. Regional seismic survey has also been acquired recently, which
covered part of the anomalous areas identified by SFD. Preliminary seismic interpretation and its
integration with SFD results are showing reasonable correlation and overlap of SFD identified
anomalies and structural/stratigraphic leads indicated on seismic.

In addition to the SFD survey in Kharan Forearc Basin, SFD data was also acquired for templating
purposes over some of the producing oil and gas fields of Sulaiman Range and Middle Indus Basin of
Pakistan. The SFD anomaly results over these fields provided a confirmation and calibration point of
SFD technologys validity. These examples have further demonstrated that technology is convenient
for various structural/stratigraphic settings and field sizes. This study presents a case where
integration of SFD survey and 2D seismic has helped in mitigating the risk associated with trap failure
and ranking of the identified structural/stratigraphic leads on seismic data in a frontier basin of
Kharan. The drilling of these leads will eventually provide further test of this technique in such basins.