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Dear all, Please, find attached the minutes of the August 25th meeting. As usual, anyone is welcome to comment or amend (for those who were present) and my apologizes again for the delay. Thanks to Shell and Ron Masters for hosting the meeting. Thanks and regards, M.Verliac

Were attending: Ganglin Chen Arthur Cheng David Cooper Tom Daley Kevin Dodds Chris Liner Ron Masters Michel Verliac Don White Were excused: Cengiz Esmersoy William Goodway Michael Hoversten Lianje Huang Peter Kelemen Andreas Laake Stewart Levin David Lumley Partha Routh Colin Sayers Yoham Shoham Kurt Strack Manik Talwani Sergio Zarantonello Jie Zhang (replaced by Ganglin Chen)

AGENDA:

1. Topic # 1: Sub Committee Modification:

Due to a position change inside his organization, Jie Zhang asked to be replaced in our group by Ganglin Chen who attended the meeting with us. Welcome Ganglin !

2. Topic #2: Project Update

2.1. Project # 1: Las Vegas Special Session - Update by M.Verliac

There is no special update since our last meeting.

2.2. Project #2: 2009 Summer Research WS - Chairman David Lumley

David could not join our meeting but we discussed potential dates. We were waiting for the AAPG to decide their dates in order to align our agendas (the week before or the week after). Location will be probably Alaska or Canada. David is in the process of building his team and steering committee. We should know more in the coming weeks.

2.3. Project # 3: CO2 Webpage - Update by Stewart Levin

No update from Stewart.

Wiki

However, Chris made some tests after our meeting and sent the following message:

"All, After our meeting Monday, I asked our computer guy here at UH about setting up a wiki for the committee. Hosting it at UH avoids all the inevitable corporate firewall issues. In the long run, we can move the wiki to an SEG server or elsewhere. My guy had it up on Tuesday and I have been experimenting since then. Ron did a test drive Wednesday and all went well, so I figured it was time to float it to the whole committee. You are smart guys, so the content in the wiki now should be enough to get you all going. One thing we really need is a public location for depositing documents that then are linked into the wiki (PPT, PDF, images, etc.) I think an anonymous FTP site is the way to go, and we are looking into that.

Here is the wiki location: http://cage.uh.edu/rql/wiki/index.php/SEG_CO2_SubCommittee_Experimental_Wiki

Enjoy,

Chris"

2.4. Project # 4: Collaboration with Other Societies

Don and Kevin discussed a potential link with the GHGT. The GHGT-9 will happen in Washington the week after the SEG (Nov 16-20). The GHGT meeting happens every two years. If we approach them, Kevin asked to define the SEG role that could be maybe a Geophysics component. We could also announce there the Summer research WS. Kevin and Don will follow up on this group. We also mentioned that maybe we should announce the different workshop (AGU, AAPG, SEG, SPE) planed in 2008 and 2009 during the Special Session in Las Vegas.

2.5. Project # 5: SEAM Project - Update by Arthur Chang

Arthur informed us that Phase 1 will continue for a while, longer than expected and consequently there is no more pressure to prepare Phase 2. We can wait to meet in Las Vegas to progress further and prepare a formal proposal. We will need to be ready for 2009. Partha Routh is now leading the Project on our side. Chris mentioned that SEAM is mainly structural and asked how we could evolve for CO2-Phase 2. Kevin mentioned the importance of including Geomechanics and Saturation distribution. Arthur replied that SEAM is a corporation and therefore a mechanism for SEG to put projects together. Arthur proposed that the SEAM-CO2 group lead by Partha could get access to the SEAM-Phase 1 proposal report to evaluate what needs to be done. Chris agreed also that this project must be multiphysics. However Arthur said that the limit of our action will be related to the available funding. An option could be to involve other Societies like the SPE for Geomechanics to some part of the project. Each society could participate by doing the modeling by domain of expertise. We need to investigate for contacts in these Societies (SPE, EAGE, AAPG, etc).

2.6. Project # 6: CO2 Special Issue on TLE in Feb 2010:

We need to keep in mind that the deadline for the papers is Fall 2009 for a publication in February 2010. This will put a constrain on the deadline for the Summer Workshop if we want to include the best papers.

2.7. Project # 7: CO2 Special Issue on Geophysics:

Nothing new to report.

2.8. Project # 8: Standards and Best Practices elaboration

The DOE is reported to work on a document that could be published maybe next year. IAE has also some work on going. If the SEG would work on a similar project, there is a consensus among us that it should stay technical only. We could start by a Website. Kevin reiterated that first we need to agree on what we want to achieve. We could propose a list of geophysical techniques and what they can do and what they cannot. We could maybe then issue some recommendations. But firstly the website should be the tool of choice to accumulate knowledge and best practices. The SEG population could then comment and feedback. We should not try to develop standards but use the society to comment. Chris proposed to have a Wiki Website for interaction. Chris will check with Stewart how to put that into practice.

2.9. Project # 9: Contribution to Practicing Geophysics

Nothing new to report.

Topic #3: Proposal for a Project #10 With 3 sub projects

For the Project #10, on potential groups working on dedicated projects, here again the idea of having wiki pages could be the tool of choice. This must be tested for discussion and capturing existing documentation, publications and projects.

Topic #4: Any items proposed by the subcommittee members

Michel would like to take the opportunity of our Annual Convention where most of us will be to have an informal meeting of the Subcommittee during a dinner. It is probably the only occasion during the year to meet face to face and an informal atmosphere should contribute to the exchange of ideas between us. We propose to have a dinner in Las Vegas either on Sunday night after the IceBreaker but more probably on Monday night. Other evenings seem to be more problematic with other parties and commitments. Michel Verliac will “sponsor” the first one but will need help for the logistics (restaurant choice and booking). I have never been in Las Vegas before !

Misc

The next meeting will take place on Wednesday November 5th (the week before the SEG) in Houston at 10:00 AM Houston time. We will need a location, maybe this time outside BP and Shell who nicely welcomed us several times. Is there any volunteer ? I plan the send the agenda in a few days but mainly it will concern the preparation of our participation at the general Research Committee meeting with a status review and program of all our projects for 2008 and 2009. Regards, M.Verliac