Ingrain Digital Rock Lab
March 2008
Dr. Amos Nur Joins Ingrain as Chief Technology Officer
Houston, TX (March 3, 2008) -- Dr. Amos Nur has resigned as director of Stanford
University’s Rock Physics and Borehole Geophysics Project and accepted
a position as chief technology officer at Ingrain, a Houston-based
company he co-founded in 2007.
“Dr. Nur is world renowned for his innovations in rock physics,”
said Henrique Tono, co-founder and CEO of Ingrain. “His research
already allows us to address the historically difficult process of
measuring the physical properties of reservoirs with reliable accuracy.
As the leader of our notable technical and scientific teams, he will
continue developing our technology and preparing it for commercial
availability this spring.”
According to Gary Jones, Ingrain chairman, “Dr. Nur was
instrumental in creating the technology behind Ingrain’s measurement
methods. His expanded role with the company demonstrates its rapid
momentum and tremendous progress introducing what we believe will be a
breakthrough in how the oil and gas industry measures physical fluid
flow in reservoir rocks.”
Dr. Nur’s patented methodologies allow Ingrain to digitally
analyze reservoir rocks and drill cutting fragments after they have
been scanned with state-of-the-art imaging technology. The process
delivers extremely comprehensive reservoir-rock property measurements.