Reservoir Characterization

I am studying Reservoir Characterization in University of Calgary and here I want to briefly introduce it to you. In general reservoir characterization tries to study static and dynamic properties of an oil or gas reservoir. It covers and combines Petroleum Engineering, Geology and Geophysics of Reservoir. These days in every oil company people try to ease communication between Engineers, Geologists and Geophysicists. All the information we have about a reservoir comparing to complexity of the earth is very little. Thus, we need to mix whatever we know about reservoir to get as realistic as possible image of what is going on down there. But the problem is that discussion between geologist and geophysicists is like talking English to a French guy. And when these two try to communicate with an engineer it's like ice hockey. In fact they don't talk, they fight. Hence, some people started thinking hah! Maybe we can teach them a little bit of each of these. Then these girls and guys can seat together in peace and get something out of the earth. These things started mostly in Austin and Stanford and some other oil and gas hotspots. Last year two good fellows at U of Calgary started thinking, "Well we have geologists, we have geophysicists, and we have engineers! And we have lots of oil. We need it and we can do it! So, let’s do it! And they did it. These to guys are Dr.Larry Lines, an unbelievably nice old (young in heart) geophysicist and an Engineer, (He just reminds me scotch lords and scientists) Sir Tom Harding former Nexen's Manager.
According to Larry, during an afternoon coffee session they came up with the initial idea. The idea is to put ideally equal number of people from each disciplines in teams and teach them to do all the stuff on reservoir together. For the first year only 8 people got admission in that it was announced so late. But the plan is to get up to 24 people, 8 from each discipline. Dr. Jerry Jensen newly assigned as coordinator of this program.
In my opinion this is a unique opportunity especially for those who have some experience in industry to quickly catch all they need and go back to industry which is in a great demand of such people. This was the idea made me to leave Schlumberger and come here.
For those who are interested in the program I suggest to take a look at this.