“We are now able to derive our rock property data using a set of tools that is completely different from how we have traditionally derived that information,” explains Joanne Fredrich, R&D manager in BP’s Pushing Reservoir Limits Flagship programme, which is tasked with developing new technologies to maximise recovery from existing fields. “With a technology like this, we can reduce the time it takes to acquire the basic rock property data that we use to characterise the subsurface reservoir.
Digital disruption
Using the supermajor’s proprietary Digital Rocks technology, BP reservoir engineers and geologists reckon they can now ascertain details of reservoir rock properties up to a year earlier than traditional core sampling and measurement methodologies allow.
24 January 2014 0:00 GMT
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24 January 2014 0:00 GMT
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