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a img { border: none; } a {color: #000000; text-decoration: none;} a:hover { color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;} h1, h2, h3, h4 { margin: 0 0 5px 0; } In a shale system, it is vital to know the relative permeability of oil and gas that is above the bubble point. Critical gas saturation ...

Stanford University's Jack Dvorkin and Ingrain's Jonas Tolke, Chuck Baldwin, Yaoming Mu, Naum Derzhi, Qian Fang and Avrami Grader discuss the digital experimentation of flow simulations and permeability calculations in the latest issue of The Leading Edge. Please see attached document

Stanford University's Jack Dvorkin and Ingrain's Naum Derzhi, Qian Fang, Amos Nur, Boaz Nur, Avrami Grader, Chuck Baldwin, Henrique Tono and Elizabeth Diaz explain how digital rock physics can reliably enhance data obtained from physical laboratories and reduce the number of complicated and costly measurements being used today. Please see attached document

The latest issue of World Oil magazine features an Ingrain case study co-authored with Noble Energy. The case study discusses how comparative analysis shows that a digital and real core compare favorably when digital and real experiments are run. Please see attached document

Houston-based Ingrain uses latest-generation 3D CT (computed tomography) to quickly and accurately determine absolute and relative permeability, resistivity, elastic properties, pore and grain statistics. Results are available in days, they claim, even in ultra-low permeability sandstones, complex carbonates and shales. Please see attached document

Ingrain's digital rock physics lab images the details of rock structure at the pore scale and uses these images to accurately simulate physical experiments in the computer. Only recently have powerful 3D scanners and computing clusters rendered this concept commercially viable on such complex physical objects as natural sediment. At Ingrain, different properties of rock are measured and interrelated at a varying spatial scales. This is hardly possible in the physical laboratory or in ...

Digital imaging and computation revolutionised photography by making film cameras obsolete and moving image processing from chemical darkrooms into computers. Ingrain, a Houston-based technology start-up, is using digital imaging and computation to reinvent special core analysis. At Ingrain's digital rock physics lab, latest-generation CT (computed tomography) scanners capture in 3D the actual fabric of reservoir rock samples; the pore-space and mineral matrix geometry fabric at ...

Houston-based Ingrain uses nano-scale imaging technology to rapidly measure the porosity, permeability and fluid flow characteristics of oil and gas shale formations. Click here to read article

With capital at their disposal, operators and service companies pulled out all the stops in 2008. Click here to read article

Next-generation computed tomography(CT) scanning reveals the actual pore structure of shale reservoirs at the nanometer scale, and breakthrough algorithms compute the physical properties of shale from these 3-D images all with unprecedented accuracy Please see attached document.

As earth scientists examine how to produce more oil from discovered resources, nanotechnology could provide insight into reservoir properties. Please see attached document

At this year's SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, first time attendee Ingrain brings the upstream industry a new paradigm in rock properties measurement that allows operators to create smarter, more efficient field development plans. The oil and gas industry's future lies in maximizing fields already in production and developing unconventional assets - opportunities that come with a range of technical challenges that previously prevented their development. It is imperative ...

A new paradigm for assessing permeability in reservoir rock.

A new company is showing its client reservoir rock information at the pore scale. Please see attached document

Ingrain's Jack Dvorkin makes a compelling case for a new kind of special core analysis: combining a state-of-the-art 3-D NanoXCT X-Ray tomographic scanner and high-performance computer modeling. Please see attached document

New rock physics company Ingrain has developed a new method to calculate rock porosity and permeability by taking a high-resolution scan of small rock sample