The purpose of this Athenaeum is to develop lucid pictures of large systems in earth subsurface that are based not only on the default black-and-white reductionist approach proposed by Descartes, but also incorporate order, organization and relationships in these systems.  Only then we can paint the more holistic and colorful pictures of the complex multiscale oil and gas reservoirs, using the scientific approach proposed by Leonardo da Vinci two centuries earlier and largely forgotten in earth sciences outside of geology.

The Ali I. Al-Naimi Petroleum Engineering Research Center (ANPERC) and the Energy Geosystems Group (EGG) of King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) hosts a select group of leading academic and industry researchers to work in multidisciplinary teams to develop the rudimentary dictionaries that will help in translating into one another the mutually impenetrable languages of geology, geophysics, petrophysics, reservoir engineering, and drilling. 

To have such dictionaries in hands of our teams is more important than ever, because today we must work across disciplines to find solutions to current complex field problems, and – more importantly- implement these solutions in an environmentally friendly and economic way.​

 

The event is organized by Professor Tadeusz W. Patzek and the KAUST

Ali I. Al-Naimi Petroleum Engineering Research Center with financial support from the KAUST Office of Sponsored Research and the KAUST Industry Collaboration Program, Industry Engagement Office​​.​​​​​​