“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.