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This new milestone brings a lot of functionalities, from brand new modules to major improvements of existing ones for increased efficiency, flexibility and advanced workflows.
Multi-survey, gather conditioning, machine learning tools, 4D and azimuthal inversions... have a look at the detailed release notes here to discover the full potential of InterWell 2023!
 
InterWell, a comprehensive package for geophysical studies.

The Software Team

Dear all,

We are pleased to announce the release of OpenFlow Suite^TM 2021!
This past year has been challenging in many ways, but our teams never lost sight of our objective to deliver more to our customers: more capabilities, more performance, more possibilities.
This version is thus another step in the continuous improvement of our software solutions, meeting today’s industry needs for efficient and versatile tools.
Contact us at info@beicip.com or contact your account manager for more information!

The Software Team

- 2019 Carson-Bonnition-Salar NL19-CFB01 : https://lnkd.in/gk3auHB

- 2018 Orphan/Flemish basins NL18-CFB01 :  https://goo.gl/o5s4Y3

- 2018 Eastern Jeanne d'Arc basins NL18-CFB01: https://goo.gl/BAKSAN

- 2016 Orphan basins NL16-CFB01: https://goo.gl/CfK8e2

- 2015 Flemish Pass NL15-01EN: https://goo.gl/OYG0tr

Beicip-Franlab is pleased to announce the release of OpenFlow Suite 2019 !

Beicip-Franlab is pleased to announce the release of OpenFlow Suite 2018 !

Click here to discover the release official announcement.

Our Ocean plug-ins for OpenFlow Suite 2017 are now available for Petrel 2017!

• Petrel-OpenFlow Suite link, allows to exchange data (Grids, Wells, Horizons, Faults) seamlessly in both side

• Geostatistics from Petrel – CougarFlow link, drives Petrel workflows inside an “optimization loop” from the geological model to the fluid flow simulator 

OpenFlow Suite 2017 was already containing links with Petrel 2015 and 2016 versions.

These new links extend the offer towards last Petrel version.

Beicip-Franlab is pleased to announce the release of  Easytrace 2017!

Beicip-Franlab is pleased to announce that Thursday 17^th November 2016, Victor Alcobia, Project Director,  at Beicip-Franlab, will present a Talk at the European Chapter AGM, in London, organised by the Society Of Petroleum Evaluation Engineers (SPEE). The presentation will be about “Chemical EOR projects and their influence on PRMS application “. We hope to see you there. If you are interested please contact Mr Richard Smith by email at Richard.Smith@gaffney-cline.com The event will be held at the Lloyd’s Register, 71 Fenchurch Street, London. There is a participation fee of £40. 

Beicip-Franlab is pleased to announce the release of Easytrace 2016 !

Wednesday, August 24, 2016

Independent Resource Assessment identifies significant potential in the West Orphan Basin offshore Newfoundland and Labrador

Study shows the in place oil and gas resource potential is 25.5 billion barrels of oil and 20.6 trillion cubic feet of gas.

August 24, 2016, St. John’s, NL - The Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, Nalcor Energy and Beicip-Franlab announced today that the in place oil and gas resource potential is 25.5 billion barrels of oil and 20.6 trillion cubic feet of gas in the West Orphan Basin located within the area of the Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board (C-NLOPB) 2016 Eastern Newfoundland Call for Bids.

“The 2016 independent oil and gas resource assessment adds to our growing knowledge about our offshore oil and gas potential - leading to more exploration work by global companies and giving us assurance that we will have a thriving oil and gas industry in Newfoundland and Labrador for many years to come,” said The Honourable Dwight Ball, Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador. “We do recognize that exploration is down globally due to current challenges in the oil and gas industry. Still, we are cautiously optimistic about positive results of the licensing round in November 2016. We are fully expecting more exploration work by the leading oil and gas companies in the world.”

Nalcor, with its partners TGS and PGS, have been acquiring extensive 2D seismic data (110,000 line km to date) in the underexplored slope and deep water areas of the province’s offshore. To further delineate the West Orphan Basin, a 3D seismic survey was acquired over a portion of the area in the summer of 2015 and the data from the new 3D images has provided further insight into the area’s resource potential. This is the first time a 3D survey has been conducted offshore Newfoundland and Labrador in advance of a scheduled license round. 

“We are focused on advancing exploration activity that will scientifically assess our entire offshore. This can only be accomplished by utilizing state-of-the-art technology to acquire the highest quality data to form the greatest understanding of its potential,” said Jim Keating, Executive Vice President, Corporate Services and Offshore Development, Nalcor Energy. “The 3D seismic survey added an additional layer of insight which has played an essential role in helping us risk reduce key prospects from a 1 in 20 to a globally competitive 1 in 6 chance of success.”

Through the integration of satellite slick data, 2D long offset seismic, 3D long offset seismic and seabed coring a new Lower Tertiary play trend has been identified in the West Orphan Basin. The discovery of this play trend is fully described in a recent Nalcor conference paper accepted for presentation at the Society of Exploration Geophysicists(SEG) International Annual Meeting in Dallas, Texas this fall. This newly identified prospectivity has resulted in Beicip Franlab’s resource assessment identifying the in place resource potential of 25.5 billion barrels of oil and 20.6 trillion cubic feet of gas in this area.

“The independent integrated geological and geophysical study carried out by Beicip-Franlab, supported by the application of leading edge modeling techniques, has been instrumental in identifying and quantifying significant prospective oil and gas resources in the West Orphan Basin” said Jean Burrus, CEO, Beicip-Franlab. “Our analysis and modeling of the 2016 area indicates favorable geological conditions for oil and gas accumulations.”
The independent assessment is based on new data covering the nine parcels on offer in the West Orphan Basin, an area located 300 kilometres from the northeast coast of Newfoundland. The assessment covers approximately 2% (20,000 square kilometres) of Newfoundland and Labrador’s offshore area.

This is province’s second scheduled license round. Future license rounds scheduled through 2020 will follow the same process with detailed resource assessments being conducted and released prior to bid closing.

To download a copy of the resource assessment or the SEG conference paper, visit nalcorenergy.com/exploration.

Nalcor Energy Oil and Gas is currently a working interest partner in three offshore developments: the Hebron oil field, the White Rose Growth Project and the Hibernia Southern Extension. Nalcor is also leading the exploration of the province’s frontier and deepwater basins by making investments in new geoscience data and analysis to evaluate Newfoundland and Labrador’s undiscovered oil and gas resource potential.

Media Contact:
Leona Barrington
Corporate Communications and Stakeholder Engagement
Nalcor Energy
t: 709.737.4244 
c: 709.699.8035
e: leonabarrington@nalcorenergy.com

Michelle Cannizzaro
Media Relations Manager
Office of the Premier
709-729-3960
michellecannizzaro@gov.nl.ca

Jennifer Lancirica, Head of Communication
Beicip-Franlab
t. +33(0)1.47.08.81.81 c. +33 (0)6.37.27.58.97 
e. jennifer.lancirica@beicip.com

Exploration play fairways in the western Greece and southern Crete offshore

Véronique Carayon, Lucien Montadert,  Jonathan Allard (1) , Øystein Lie (2), Sofia Stamataki (3) and Spyridon Bellas (4).

(1) Beicip-Franlab-France;  (2) Petroleum Geo-Services-Norway; (3) Hellenic Hydrocarbon Resources Management S.A and (4) Oil & Gas Expert of the EFG, Upstream Expert - Hydrocarbons W/G, Ministry of Reconstruction of Production, Environment & Energy, Hydrocarbons Directorate-Greece

AAPG|SEG - ICE Barcelona -  3-6th April 2016

Blocks on offer during the Offshore Greece Licencing Round held in 2015

This exploration study realized as a support to the Offshore Greece Licencing Round held in 2015 on behalf of Petroleum Geo-Services was the basis for the delineation of the exploration blocks over the western Greece (Ionian Sea) to the south of Crete (Libyan Sea) offshore.

Based on the interpretation of a 12 500 km multi-client 2D “high frequency” seismic dataset acquired by Petroleum Geo-Services over an area of 225 000 km2, this study has enabled to evaluate the petroleum systems and identify exploration play fairways in the western Greece and southern Crete offshore.

Conducted over one of the last unexplored Mediterranean basin, this study encompasses: part of the Alpine thrust and fold belt represented by the Hellenides, the shallow water domain of the Apulian Platform and its southern extension within the Ionian Sea, the accretionary prism of Mediterranean Ridge associated to the subduction of the Africa Plate below the Hellenic Arc and remnants of Mesozoic basins with oceanic crust (Deep Ionian Basin and Herodotus Basin).

The main steps of this study were:

-A regional synthesis of the onshore and offshore Italian and Albanian, Adriatic and Western Greece hydrocarbons E&P results and previous offshore campaigns such as DSDP, ODP and Escarmed.

-A structural interpretation of a complex tectonic setting involving subduction/collision and large scale wrench faulting.

-Existing wells being too sparse to constrain lateral depositional variation, seismic reflectors configuration was used to define relevant tectonostratigraphic units and the respective contribution of their lithological content to potential reservoir rocks, source rocks and seals.

-Inventory of the play fairways and leads from the Permian till Pliocene associated to the evaluation of the petroleum systems has led to the evaluation of the potential hydrocarbon resources and exploration risks within the western Greece Ionian Sea and southern Crete Libyan Offshore.

The new insights brought by that study are three folds: hydrocarbon resources evaluation within the unexplored deep Mediterranean offshore, better understanding of the evolution of the sedimentary system of a deep basin and its relation with long standing shallow water platform, deepened knowledge about the Eastern Mediterranean Sea geodynamic.

Offshore 2D MultiClient GeoStreamer GS™ seismic survey (12350km) acquired by  Petroleum Geo-Services in 2012 

Thrusted anticline capped by carbonate build-ups located along the Eastern Apulian Platform edge

Uncertainty & Assisted History Matching: optimize your reservoir or petroleum system models and analyze the associated risks. #CougarFlow #uncertainty #AHM more info

Beicip-Franlab is honored to have provided the technical background to the recent offshore Newfoundland & Labrador resource assessment. Full report downloadable at:

http://www.nalcorenergy.com/OILGAS/resource-assessment.asp

“Through our independent geological and modelling analysis of new data from offshore Newfoundland and Labrador, we have estimated significant oil and gas potential within the studied area of the Flemish Pass” said Jean Burrus, CEO, Beicip-Franlab.

Interview with Laurent Cuilhé, Director of Operations, Beicip-Franlab.

Click here to read the interview

http://geofisicabrasil.com/noticias/37-empresas24/6625-beicip-aposta-na-tecnologia-para-vencer-desafios.html

In the frame of the 2014 BF Training Plan, a 5 days field-work session dedicated to clastic depositional systems (Formation BF-002) was led by Stratigraphy, Sedimentology & Petrography Team, in the Provencal Alps (Digne/Annot area). This in-house training was designed for basin geologists, geophysicists and reservoir engineers attentive to increase their knowledge about the intrinsic characteristics (e.g. geometry, nature, heterogeneities) of some siliciclastic reservoir-types to which they are confronted daily.  

(1) BF trainees on the “historical” Braux Road section throughout the Grès d’Annot, where A.H. Bouma (1962) developed his classical turbidite model. (2) “Seismic scale” panoramic view of deep-sea turbiditic sandy lobes within Grès d’Annot Formation (Chalufy area).

Beicip-Franlab led a workshop on core fracture analysis at the SPE conference ‘Unlocking Alberta’s Carbonate Reservoirs’. This workshop attended by 15 Industry people (from Husky Energy, Suncor, Osum oil sands, Cenovus…) was the ideal occasion of presenting our fracture capabilities, illustrated by the results of the Grosmont fracture study carried out for Laricina Energy. 

Beicip-Franlab is pleased to announce the release of OpenFlow Suite 2014. This release offers several functional enhancements and optimized features for better performance and usability to the OpenFlow platform, which we believe will provide significant assistance to your objective of finding and developing Oil & Gas resources.