September 15-19, 2008 in Houston and October 25-26, 2008 in Cape Town. Pore pressure prediction short course. AAPG Education Series. Taught by Martin Traugott.
May 14-15, 2008 in west Houston - Chevron/BP's
Pore Pressure Prediction Course for Drilling Engineers. Taught by Martin Traugott.
August 8-10, 2007 in West Houston - Chevron/BP's Pore Pressure Prediction Course.
April 25-27, 2007 in West Houston - Chevron/BP's Pore Pressure Prediction Course.
November 13-15, 2006 in West Houston - Chevron/BP's Pore Pressure Prediction Course.
November 9, 2006 in North Houston - SEG's Pore Pressure Prediction Course.
September 14-15, 2006 in Houston - AAPG's Pore Pressure Prediction Course.
October 20, 2005 (New Orleans - post-Katrina)
My ideas for my city: Build 1800-foot tall twin towers 50 miles south of New Orleans as a hurricane buffer. Use the powerful up drafts inside the towers to generate electricity. Build a sea wall in New Orleans East with the 200 thousand crushed cars from Katrina. Build a below-sea-level lake across the entire city of New Orleans and allow the natural seepage from the lake to dissipate rainwater and to re-water the base sediments - preventing further subsidence. Build a giant pyramid the size of Ginza with 100,000 ‘Katrina’ refrigerators as ideal building block. Use as a tourist attracting memorial, and storm shelter. Build a new political structure where all greater New Orleans is incorporated into one city, with one mayor, and one voice. With new thinking, not only will Katrina evacuees return, but the thousands who were part of the exodus from New Orleans to the North Shore over the last fifty years, will also return.
November 5-6, 2005 in Houston - SEG pore pressure prediction Course.
September 15-16, 2005 in Paris- AAPG pore pressure prediction Course.
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BPI announces sale of Leo McClure's book, Drilling Abnormal Pressure Safely
Posted June 9, 2005
Veritas shows a P3 seismic-derived pore pressure example (the name P3 used is this link is from Keith Hawkins Veritas, London. It should not to be confused with my P3 software, created with the encouragement of Tad Smith, now with Vertitas in Houston). Originally P3 was called PCubed, but that conflicted with PQubed pressure prediction software
SPLWA posts new Link to logging tool and curve name mnemonics (needed for log-derived pressure predictions)
Posted March 2005
Landmark releases next Presgraf version. Interface is improved. Report writing functions are improved. User defined-equation functions still have serious bugs.
September 28-30, 2005 in Aberdeen - Chevron/BP's Pore Pressure Course.
November 2-4, 2005 in Houston - Chevron/BP's Pore Pressure Course.
No Dates - Macpherson's Pore Pressure Prediction Course
April 25, 2005 - Ward's Pore Pressure Prediction Course.
Posted April 10, 2004
Overpressure detection from AVO.
Posted January 2004
Ten blowouts between 1988 and 1998 cost $4 billion. Piper Alpha alone cost $1.5 billion. (Source WorldOil)
Posted September 2000
DOE announces Research Project DE-FG03-00ER83111 Real-time Pore Pressure Prediction Ahead of the Bit Using a Suction Pulse Seismic Source
Posted July 7, 1992
Robert Weakly receives US patent 5128866 for seismic-derived pressure prediction
Use the 'info' operator in Google (e.g. info:www.p3help.com) to get information about a site including web pages that link to that site (from Mary Ellen Bates quoted in Find It Online by Alan Schlein). Another Google tip for finding P3 publications is the advanced option to search for only PDF documents.