Khalifa, president of the Society of Petroleum Engineers International; and EAGE chairman Theodore Korticus, who urged participants to dedicate their efforts toward securing the future of oil and gas in order to meet the growing global demand for these two commodities. Several Saudi Aramco scientists and engineers participated in the conference, presenting a number of technical papers. Dr. Mohammed G. Al-Otaibi of Geophysical Technology presented a new analytical solution that uses seismic amplitudes to estimate the thickness of reservoirs considered seismically thin. His solution improves a method that has been commonly implemented in the industry for 30 years, according to a report of Saudi Aramco's web-site. Exploration Data Processing Team chief Dr. Saleh M. Al-Saleh presented a paper about his discovery of a modern technique to process seismic data and how to overcome factors hindering geologists' and geophysicists' ability to establish an accurate image of underground deep-rock layers and harsh terrains where oil fields and reservoirs exist. --MORE
