Ingrain Digital Rock Lab
November 2009
Ingrain’s newly acquired Zeiss AURIGA® CrossBeam® workstation goes online.
“This is really big, not only for us but for the industry as a whole,” said Boaz Nur, Ingrain’s VP of Operations. “We can now accurately image and compute the pore space and mineralogy of shale and other tight rock formations, which up until now hasn’t been physically possible. We’re excited that we can now offer this technology to our clients throughout the world.”
Chief Marketing Officer John Elmer discusses Ingrain's technology in Geo ExPro
Houston (Nov 2009) -- In the Vol. 6 No. 4 issue of Geo ExPro magazine, Chief Marketing Officer John Elmer discusses Ingrain's
imaging technology in a featured article entitled Revolutionizing Core Analysis.
Houston (Oct/Nov 2009) -- 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.
The workstation provides the ultra-high resolution images, plus powerful analytical capabilities, needed to understand shale and other tight rock formations in a revolutionary new way.
Houston (Nov 2009) -- Ingrain’s new workstation, the AURIGA® CrossBeam® FIB-SEM (focused ion beam scanning electron microscope) allows the digital rock physics lab to generate 3D images at resolutions as high as 3 nanometers. These images are used to create the company’s vRock digital reservoir rocks from shale rock samples. Ingrain then uses proprietary simulation technologies to compute rock properties such as permeability, elastic properties, pore and grain statistics.“This is really big, not only for us but for the industry as a whole,” said Boaz Nur, Ingrain’s VP of Operations. “We can now accurately image and compute the pore space and mineralogy of shale and other tight rock formations, which up until now hasn’t been physically possible. We’re excited that we can now offer this technology to our clients throughout the world.”
Chief Marketing Officer John Elmer discusses Ingrain's technology in Geo ExPro
The article explains how Ingrain is addressing many of the
technical challenges facing physical experiments today with the
introduction of a series of technical breakthroughs in 3D imaging and
computations of reservoir rock properties. Using any rock sample,
including sidewall core plugs and drill cuttings, Ingrain can quickly
and accurate determine absolute and relative permeability, resistivity,
elastic properties and pore and grain statistics.
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To read the article in its entirety, please click here.
Noble Energy co-authored case study with Ingrain is featured in latest issue of World Oil Magazine.
The project, initiated by Noble Energy in March 2009, included
three main processes. First, 3D imaging of small rock fragments at a
resolution high enough to discriminate between pores and minerals was
conducted, followed by segmentation of the images to digitally define a
finite number of the elements of rock (specifically porosity and basic
mineral compound) and finally 3D computer simulations of single and
multiphase fluid flow for absolute and relative permeability,
respectively, electrical current flow for resistivity and formation
factor determination.
The case study verifies that Ingrain's technology and use of
proprietary algorithms quickly obtained more accurate measurements of
porosity, permeability, formation factor and relative permeability, and
that the rapid turnaround (30 days from sample selection to reporting
of analytical results) time can allow for more accurate information to
be used as inputs, resulting in the creation of better reservoir
models.
To read the article in its entirety, please click here.