Presented by Carlos A. Santos M. (Repsol Technology Center, Spain)
Wednesday, November 30, 2016: 8 AM EST (East Coast) / 1 PM GMT (UK) / 2 PM CET (Europe) / 6.30 PM IST (India)
Join this webinar to discover how Repsol’s digital petrophysics workflow is producing meaningful inputs for rock typing and reservoir characterisation with the highest value solution available.
Register for free here: http://simpleware.com/news-and-events/events/webinars/webinar-reservoir-analysis.html
Requiring vast amounts of detailed petrophysics information, the traditional costs of gathering data for reservoir modelling and forecasting are significant. Digital Petrophysics Characterisation (also Digital Rock Physics/Analysis) has been a technology breakthrough for Oil and Gas. Compared to methods using approximate rock physics models, digital petrophysics characterisation allows information to be obtained from realistic rock images in a fraction of the cost and time. This digital method also works with rock materials not generally suitable for lab testing. However, the technology behind the method is still complex, costly and typically limited to specialists. With the help of Simpleware software, Repsol have been able to simplify these digital petrophysics workflows.
Join this webinar to discover how Repsol’s method is producing meaningful inputs for rock typing and reservoir characterisation with the highest cost-value solution available. The method also creates the possibility of non-expert personnel carrying out analysis at fractions of conventional times.
Workflow Presented
A conventional siliciclastic asset was selected to design and perform the presented methodology. The protocol is divided into 3 stages resembling standard geophysical prospecting surveys:
- Imaging: Data Acquisition from X-Ray Micro-Tomography
- Processing: Image enhancement, solid and pore phase separation (segmentation), meshed pore space representation
- Characterisation: Pore space morphometric analysis and interpretation and absolute permeability numerical simulation by Finite Element Analysis (FEA)
The work was conducted in two phases: 1) Pilot test for standard laboratory comparison and 2) Full workflow performance on field samples
Presenter
Carlos A. Santos M. is the Senior Rock Physics Technologist at the Repsol Technology Center, Spain. He leads the development and implementation of innovative analytical methods in digital petrophysics, including R&D and supervision of micro-CT and CT scanning activities, and reconstruction, processing, segmentation and pore network modelling of digital rock datasets. He also works on integrating mineral maps with tomographic datasets, and rock property prediction based on SEM and 3DS 2D models. His performance of rock physics diagnostic and modelling provides input to a multidisciplinary team involved in earth model building.
Date: Thursday, March 17, 2016
Time: 10.00 am – 2.00 pm
Venue: Wyndham Houston West - Energy Corridor, 14703 Park Row, Houston, TX 77079
Fee: free-to-attend
This lunch & learn seminar is aimed at people who have experience and are interested in FEA simulations and would like to extend the scope of their FEA work to image-based digital rock physics and reservoir characterisation. If you are currently working in the Oil and Gas Industry but feel you are limited in your existing capability or simply want to enhance you knowledge of the technology then this is for you.
Topics covered:
Generating multiphase meshes from 3D scan data with Simpleware Software
Quantifying porosity, cracks, effective material properties, absolute permeability and other statistics
Simpleware software compatibility with Abaqus, and solutions for digital rock physics and reservoir characterisation
Essential concepts of advanced simulation with SIMULIA Abaqus
Oil & gas applications using SIMULIA Abaqus and Simpleware software suite
Agenda:
10.00 am – 11.30 am Simpleware: Linking Abaqus and Simpleware software for oil & gas applications - From core analysis to reservoir characterisation.
11.30 am – 12.30 pm Lunch
12.30 pm – 1.30 pm VIASSIMULIA software for oil & gas applications - concepts & typical solutions for advanced FEA analyses. Isight workflow development for BOP optimization.
1.30 pm – 2:00 pm Simpleware & VIASQ&A
Register here: http://simpleware.com/news-and-events/events/workshops/simpleware-and-vias-houston.html#.Vt7b2JyLTcs
Thursday, June 25, 2015
This webinar is offered several times. Select the time that works best for you.
Register here: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/rt/521322809797116418
Simpleware software is suitable for a wide range of digital rock physics applications, where virtual exploration of scanned core samples and other rock types can complement physical testing. Volume imaging of rock samples allows for the material phases, grain structure and porous networks to be analysed without a destructive test.
The software offers capabilities for visualising, analysing and generating models from 3D image data (such as CT, micro-CT, FIB-SEM…), including the calculation of effective material properties from scanned samples.
Attend this webinar to learn how to get the most from your 3D image data when working on Digital Rock Physics applications. Topics covered include:
- A general introduction to using Simpleware software for Rock Physics applications
- Visualising 3D image data of core samples, rocks and sand
- Exploring the different image processing and segmentation tools available
- Taking measurements and computing statistics from image data
- Generating robust multi-phase meshes for FEA and CFD
- Calculating effective material properties, including: effective stiffness, permeability, electrical conductivity
- Scripting options
- Creating animations
- Examples of rock physics case studies
This webinar is aimed at researchers and engineers working in digital rock physics who want to learn more about using Simpleware software for their work.
Title: Digital Rock Physics applications with Simpleware
Session 1: Thursday, June 25, 2015 - 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM BST (London)
Session 2: Thursday, June 25, 2015 - 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM BST (London)
Dear colleagues,
We would like to draw your attention to the minisymposium "Multiscale Digital Rock and Granular Physics" which we are organizing as part of the Engineering Mechanics Institute Conference to be held at Stanford June 16-19, 2015.
Detailed information on the congress is available at: http://www.emi2015.info
The deadline for the abstract submission is November 15, 2014. For details see http://www.emi2015.info/abstract-submission
Best Regards,
WaiChing Sun*, Columbia University, USA
Teng-fong Wong, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Mario Martinez, Sandia National Laboratories, USA
Xiaoyu Song, University of Florida, USA
MS 83: Multiscale Digital Rock and Granular Physics
WaiChing Sun*, Columbia University, USA
Teng-fong Wong, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Mario Martinez, Sandia National Laboratories, USA
Xiaoyu Song, University of Florida, USA
The mechanical, hydraulic and thermal properties of unsaturated geomaterials are strongly influenced by the micro-mechanical liquid-gas-solid interactions occurring in the pore space. As a result, understanding how microstructural attributes evolve is the key step to characterizing macroscopic responses of geomaterials. This MS is aimed at providing a forum for both modelers and experimentalists to exchange ideas on digital rock physics – a technique that infers or estimates macroscopic material responses directly from pore structures inferred from digital images. In particular, we seek contributions on innovative usage of micro-CT imaging techniques for geomaterials, applications of 3D printing techniques to study single- and dual-porosity systems, and analytical and numerical techniques that predict fluid-induced micromechanical responses of porous media, and the multiscale homogenization techniques that connects microstructural attributes to field-scale simulations.
Dear colleagues,
We cordinally invite you to submit abstracts for our symposium on Multiscale Digitial Rock and Granular Physics in the upcoming EMI conference (June 16-19, 2015) at Stanford University. The scope of the conference is listed below. The due date for the abstract submission is 11/15/2014. Further details can be found at http://www.emi2015.info/
Best Regards,
WaiChing Sun, Columbia University, USA
Teng-fong Wong, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Mario Martinez, Sandia National Laboratories, USA
Xiaoyu Song, University of Florida, USA
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MS 83: Multiscale Digital Rock and Granular Physics
WaiChing Sun*, Columbia University, USA
Teng-fong Wong, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Mario Martinez, Sandia National Laboratories, USA
Xiaoyu Song, University of Florida, USA
The mechanical, hydraulic and thermal properties of unsaturated geomaterials are strongly influenced by the micro-mechanical liquid-gas-solid interactions occurring in the pore space. As a result, understanding how microstructural attributes evolve is the key step to characterizing macroscopic responses of geomaterials. This MS is aimed at providing a forum for both modelers and experimentalists to exchange ideas on digital rock physics – a technique that infers or estimates macroscopic material responses directly from pore structures inferred from digital images. In particular, we seek contributions on innovative usage of micro-CT imaging techniques for geomaterials, applications of 3D printing techniques to study single- and dual-porosity systems, and analytical and numerical techniques that predict fluid-induced micromechanical responses of porous media, and the multiscale homogenization techniques that connects microstructural attributes to field-scale simulations.