The School for Petrophysical Modeling of Sedimentary Rocks - Baltic PetroModel - is an international scientific event held by the Lomonosov Moscow State University Oil and Gas Center and the Schmidt Institute of Physics of the Earth RAS, with participation of Saint-Petersburg University Oil and Gas Center and Euro-Asian Geophysical Society.

The first School took place in September 2012 and received much attention from specialists working in service and oil & gas companies as well as scientists and university lecturers.

PetroModel is a platform for discussing the most topical issues of current oil & gas geology and geophysics, a meeting venue for a diversity of specialists: geologists, geophysicists, geochemists, mathematicians, programmers and all those who are involved in the problem of studying physical properties of sedimentary rocks including reservoir formations on various scale levels, from core sample microstructures to the entity of a sedimentary basin, using different methods, from micro-structural X-ray tomography to seismic survey and mathematical modeling of stress condition of mass and fluid filtration.

As we know, the geological model is built with ‘bricks’ – elements with given properties, the reliability of which has rarely been discussed at technical conference sessions in the last decade. The goals of the previous years included distribution of knowledge of technologies, overcoming interdisciplinary barriers and nurturing a generation of specialists in different fields who could understand each other and work together as a team. Young specialists who participated in the first conferences have become leading geologists and geophysicists in various companies, the discussions finished in compiling procedure documents, the use of stochastic inversion is determined by the customer, and geologists have no trouble differentiating resilient impedance from all other types…

However, are those ‘bricks’ as resilient and indivisible? Is it natural for them to be quadrangular or should they support the shape of the geological body? Will a complex of small fractures be able to resist a coming wave, and a fractured corridor – to close under the pressure of circumstances? These are good questions. They have always been there but we had no time for them before. We need to go back. Almost everything we know is already programmed and transformed into technology. It is time to restore not only fossil fuels but intellectual resources as well. There are some, they have come to universities but they need to be certified and be brought on the books.

The first two days of the School will be dedicated to lectures and seminars, the next three - to talks within the framework of the Technical Programme.

We invite you to participate in the School!

Mikhail Tokarev

Chairman of Organizing Committee