Carl Zeiss SMT Announces Ingrain's Adoption of the AURIGA® CrossBeam® Workstation
PEABODY, Mass. & OBERKOCHEN, Germany, Sept. 29, 2009—The AURIGA® CrossBeam® workstation, recently introduced by Carl Zeiss SMT, now has demonstrated the ability to improve the analysis of shale rock’s porosity and permeability in order to more accurately predict the shale’s suitability for the commercial extraction of oil or gas.
Houston-based Ingrain, a provider
of digital rock physics services to oil and gas companies around the world, is
now using an AURIGA FIB/SEM workstation to generate high resolution 3D images
that are used to create the company’s vRock digital reservoir rocks from shale
rock samples. Ingrain then uses proprietary simulation technologies to analyze
the samples for fluid flow. According to Henrique Tono, Ingrain CEO, “We have
significantly advanced our capabilities—especially for the analysis of shale
rock—by integrating the unique Carl Zeiss AURIGA instrument into our analytical
processes. As a result, our customers, who are world leaders in oil and gas
exploration, can now get more detailed, more accurate rock properties analyses.
In essence, we are now able to provide more accurate, more complete information
to support their decision making needs.”
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