Embedding a petrophysical vocabulary and petrophysical concepts within the petroleum geoscience community; towards a virtual learning capability

改善岩石物理概念的沟通和理解从未像现在这样重要。该方案通过提供一种新颖的解决方案，满足了岩石物理学家与石油地球科学和工程专业人员之间更好地沟通和理解岩石物理概念的行业需求。我们建议通过一致的岩石物理词汇来帮助行业定义和传达关键概念；我们将通过提供可下载、跨平台、独立于设备的交互式电子书*来实现这一目标。通过联合RCUK和行业项目，我们积累了数十年的丰富的岩石物理专业知识，通过开发一个主要的国际JIP，解决了NERC的要求，使我们的行业合作得以发展和扩展，并影响非常规碳氢化合物（如页岩油气），延长成熟盆地的寿命，并开发具有挑战性的环境。岩石物理学是对岩石的研究，特别是固体（矿物）和任何流体（水溶液、石油、天然气）的相互作用。因此，它是石油和天然气行业的中心，并提供定量数据，使石油和天然气的体积得以计算。考虑到岩石物理学的重要性，石油地球科学专业人员对岩石物理学术语和概念的理解水平低于其他石油相关学科，这可能令人惊讶，而且这种理解往往存在严重缺陷。因此，同一个单词或短语被不同的人或公司用来表示不同的事物，多个单词和短语被用来描述同一个概念，许多概念被理解得很差或不正确，错误在没有意识到的情况下从一个传播到另一个。因此，很容易产生重大而代价高昂的误解。2014年3月，在圣地亚哥举行了一次会议，会议的主题是“教育岩石物理学家”，与会人员包括作业者、服务公司、专业培训师、顾问和学术界人士。这次为期3天的及时讨论提出了一个问题，即如何改善专家与石油地球科学家之间的沟通。这是一个真正的挑战，因为这门学科是跨学科的，是许多学科的重点，而且还因为没有明确的岩石物理学培训路线，也没有关于岩石物理学的综合教科书。如今，社交媒体和学习技术的发展为科学家提供了更强大的平台，使他们能够提供一套易于理解且定义良好的岩石物理学词汇和概念。在岩石物理学对决策越来越重要的关键时刻，拟议的催化剂资金建立在这些发展和我们在RCUK和行业资助研究中20多年的经验基础上。该提案旨在使英国在促进沟通和理解方面处于领先地位，同时在学术界、工业界和社会之间提供知识交流。迫切需要定义关键概念，建立清晰一致的岩石物理词汇，以改善与行业和公众的沟通。主要成果将是演示电子书，用于在移动世界中传递关键的岩石物理概念和词汇，最终能够提供音频和视频。这是一套易于理解且清晰的岩石物理概念和术语，使用一致的词汇，将促进各学科之间的沟通和理解。这一阶段的重点是生成能够以小块形式提供岩石物理特性的输出，并允许用户在适当的深度和细节上研究概念。这是一个初步的试点项目，证明了可行性，从而导致与行业的实质性合作项目，为行业提供虚拟学习环境。

Improved communication and understanding of petrophysical concepts has never been more important. This proposal addresses an industry demand for better communication and understanding of petrophysical concepts between petrophysicists and petroleum geoscience and engineering professionals by providing a novel solution. We propose to help the industry define and communicate key concepts through a consistent petrophysical vocabulary; we will achieve this through providing a downloadable, cross-platform, device independent, interactive e-book*. This builds on our considerable petrophysics expertise developed over decades through joint RCUK and industry projects, addresses the NERC call in enabling the development and extension of our industry collaboration though the development of a major international JIP, and impacts unconventional hydrocarbons (e.g. shale oil and gas), extending the life of mature basins, and exploiting challenging environments.Petrophysics is the study of rocks, specifically the interaction of the solids (minerals) and any fluids (aqueous solutions, oil, gas). As such it is at the centre of the oil and gas industry, and provides quantitative data enabling the volume of oil and gas to be calculated. Given the importance of petrophysics, it is perhaps surprising that there is a lower level of understanding of petrophysical terms and concepts across petroleum geoscience professionals than for other petroleum related subjects, and often this understanding is seriously flawed. Thus the same word or phrase is used by different people or companies to mean different things, multiple words and phrases are used to describe the same concept, and many concepts are poorly or incorrectly understood, with errors being promulgated from one to another without realization. As a result significant and costly misunderstandings can easily arise. This topic was the focus of a conference in March 2014 in San Diego, attended by operators, service companies, professional trainers, consultants, and academia on "Educating the Petrophysicist". This timely discussion over 3 days raised the question of how we can improve communication between the specialist and the petroleum geoscientist. This is a real challenge because the subject is interdisciplinary and sits at the focus of many subjects, but also because there is no clear training route into petrophysics, and no comprehensive textbook on petrophysics. Today, technology developments in social media and learning provide enhanced platforms that can enable scientists through providing an accessible and well defined set of vocabulary and concepts in petrophysics.The proposed catalyst funding builds on these developments and our experience over two decades from RCUK and industry funded research, at a critical time when petrophysics is increasingly important to decision-making. This proposal aims to place the UK in a leading position in improving communication and understanding but moreover in providing knowledge exchange between academia and industry, and society. Defining key concepts and establishing a clear and consistent petrophysical vocabulary to enable improved communication with industry and public alike is urgently required.The main deliverable will be demonstration of an e-book for delivering key petrophysical concepts and vocabulary in a mobile world, and eventually capable of delivering audio and video. This accessible and clearly articulated set of focussed petrophysical concepts and terms, using a consistent vocabulary, will improve communication and understanding between disciplines. This phase will focus on generating outputs that demonstrate the potential to deliver petrophysics in bite-sized chunks, and allows the user to investigate concepts in appropriate depth and detail. This is an initial pilot project demonstrating the feasibility, leading to a substantial collaborative project with industry to deliver a virtual learning environment for industry.