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

改进岩石物理概念的交流和理解从未如此重要。该提案通过提供一种新颖的解决方案，满足了行业对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。这建立在我们数十年来通过RCUK和行业联合项目开发的大量岩石物理学专业知识的基础上，通过开发一个主要的国际JIP，满足NERC的要求，促进我们行业合作的发展和扩展，并影响非常规碳氢化合物。（如页岩油和天然气），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、油、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被计算。考虑到岩石物理学的重要性，也许令人惊讶的是，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，而且这种理解往往存在严重缺陷。因此，同一个词或短语被不同的人或公司用来表示不同的事物，多个词和短语被用来描述同一个概念，并且许多概念被理解得很差或不正确，错误从一个传播到另一个而没有实现。因此，很容易产生重大和代价高昂的误解。这一主题是2014年3月在圣地亚哥举行的一次会议的焦点，与会者包括运营商、服务公司、专业培训师、顾问和学术界，主题是“教育岩石物理学家”。这次为期3天的及时讨论提出了一个问题，即我们如何改善专家和石油地质学家之间的沟通。这是一个真实的挑战，因为这门学科是跨学科的，是许多学科的重点，但也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。今天，社交媒体和学习技术的发展提供了增强的平台，可以使科学家通过提供一个可访问的和定义良好的词汇和概念集岩石物理学。拟议的催化剂资金建立在这些发展和我们的经验超过二十年从RCUK和行业资助的研究，在关键时刻，岩石物理学是越来越重要的决策。该提案旨在使联合王国在改善沟通和理解方面处于领先地位，而且还在学术界与工业界和社会之间提供知识交流。定义关键概念并建立清晰一致的岩石物理学词汇表，以改善与行业和公众的沟通是迫切需要的。主要交付成果将是演示一本电子书，用于在移动的世界中提供关键的岩石物理学概念和词汇表，并最终能够提供音频和视频。这一易于理解和清晰表达的集中岩石物理概念和术语集，使用一致的词汇表，将改善学科之间的沟通和理解。这一阶段将侧重于生成输出，这些输出展示了以一口大小的块提供岩石物理学的潜力，并允许用户以适当的深度和细节调查概念。这是一个初步的试点项目，展示了可行性，导致与工业界的实质性合作项目，为工业界提供一个虚拟学习环境。

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.