16/02/1433

Participants in winding up activities of the 1st Joint International Workshop for the Earth’s Surface and Subsurface 4D monitoring, organized by King Abdul Aziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) in collaboration with Japan Cooperation Centre Petroleum (JCCP) discussed more than 15 scientific paper that extended over four sessions focusing on technologies of monitoring the Earth’s surface and surface to explore oil, gas and water reservoirs.
Dr. Khalid Suleiman AlDamegh, Supervisor of KACST Oil and Gas Researches Institute, presented a scientific paper on “Experiment of Using Radar Interferometry in Al-a’ays Area,” Through which he elaborated on how KACST made full use of satellites technologies to explore coordinates of this area, control and monitor the movement of its subsurface changes to avoid the occurrence of any events that may affect it.
Dr. AlDamegh pointed out that KACST’s  usage of  these technologies contributes to the early detecting of any subsurface- reservoir  changes of Al-a’ays area adding that KACST’s  cooperation with authorities concerned with monitoring this area boasts KACST’s active role in this effect.
The workshop then discussed other work papers that covered issues of Time lapse for reservoirs and seismogenic zone, Technologies of surface and subsurface monitoring, monitoring oil and gas reservoirs using electromagnetic and gravity methods, oil and gas recovery and production, data actual refraction Interferometry and permanent seismic reservoir monitoring to optimize reservoir production and recovery.
The workshop also included a scientific lecture to discuss future usage of new technologies to monitor surface and subsurface changes that was shared by Prof. Michael Zhdanov from
University of Utah in the USA and Prof. Junzo Kasahara from University of Shizouka in Japan.