oa Industry Adoption and Use of the CSEM Technology

After more than ten years of acquisition of EM data, it is widely accepted that the technology has a significant potential for improving exploration efficiency. However, despite the fact that there is a convincing track record of EM results correlating with well results and some oil companies incorporating EM technology into their workflows, adoption of the technology in the industry overall has not come a long way. This paper discuss some of the challenges faced by the petroleum industry in the interpretation of EM data, as well as necessary improvements of the technolgy in order to enhance the value of incorporating EM data into decision workflows. the current use of EM is illustrated by two examples, one unsuccessful and one successful