ODP-KTB Petrophysical Workshop: A blueprint for interprogram collaboration

The international Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) and the Continental Deep Drilling Program of the Federal Republic of Germany (KTB) are large exploration projects in which core-calibrated borehole measurements play an important scientific role. In the organizations that run both projects, separate working groups are responsible for planning the borehole logging program, supervising the downhole operations, stimulating the research and development of interpretation methods, and initiating new tool designs and developments. These groups came together September 13–15, 1989, for a meeting at the KTB drill site laboratory in Windischeschenbach, Oberpfalz, FRG. Conveners were Ralph Hanel (NLfB, Hannover, FRG) and Paul F. Worthington (BP Research Centre, Sunbury-on-Thames, U.K.) About 50 scientists attended. They agreed that integrated working groups be established, through which the two programs could collaborate even more closely in borehole logging.