Ingrain Launches CoreHD High-Definition Core Imaging and Logging
Houston (April 21, 2010) Ingrain, the oil and gas industry’s fastest growing
digital rock physics company, today introduced CoreHD®, its
breakthrough technology platform for 3D high-definition imaging of whole core
from oil and gas wells. Ingrain’s CoreHD technology has
significantly advanced the oil and gas industry’s ability to use CT scanners to
image and analyze core.
“CoreHD gives geoscientists
high-definition 3D visibility into their reservoirs at the wellbore scale,”
said Henrique Tono, Ingrain’s CEO. “CoreHD is a major advance over the imaging
that traditional core analysis labs provide. As the industry moves into complex
rocks like oil shales, 3D high-definition whole core imaging is becoming an
essential tool for geological core description, rock properties analysis and
reservoir modeling.”
Combined with Ingrain’s proprietary image
processing capabilities, the company offers the CoreHD® Suite,
including the Continuous Core Viewer, the CT Borehole Image, and the CT Density
and Atomic Number Log. The Continuous Core Viewer shows over 1500 digital cross-sections
per meter of core. The CT Borehole Image that is similar to the kind of
wellbore image that can be obtained from wireline logging. The specialized
CoreHD image acquisition allows Ingrain to compute a Density and
Atomic Number log.
When used on the entire whole core from a
well, the CoreHD® Suite can be used to characterize rock types and
flow units. This enables fast, accurate optimization of the number and location
of core plugs for advanced rock properties analysis. Once the core plugs are
selected, Ingrain can quickly image and compute accurate basic and advanced
rock properties using its proprietary technologies for scanning, image
processing and high performance computing.
Ingrain’s CoreHD® technology
is being used at Ingrain’s digital rock physics lab in Houston and Abu Dhabi,
UAE. CoreHD® services are available to all of Ingrain’s clients,
which include oil and gas companies operating in North America, South America,
the Middle East and Africa. Ingrain also has regional offices in Calgary and
Rio de Janeiro and plans to expand its operations to the Middle East during
2010.
Since starting up in 2007, Ingrain has
introduced technical breakthroughs in 3D imaging and computation that enable
them to quickly and accurately compute porosity, permeability, elastic
properties, electrical properties and multiphase flow in oil and gas reservoir
rocks. This information allows oil and gas companies to more accurately
estimate the potential of their reserves and make faster, better-informed field
development decision