Facilities
The Utah Faults, Fluids, and Fractures Group, in addition to it's own scientific and computing equipment, has access to facilities at the University of Utah and Utah State University.
Equipment:
- Mini-permeameter, used for measuring the permeabilities of rock core collected from the field.
- Portable rock coring equipement
- Scanning Electron Microscope lab (USU)
- X-ray diffraction lab (UofU, USU)
- Total station surveying equipement
- Magellon GPS units
Multiple computer platforms are utilized, including:
- Silicon Graphics (SGI) workstations
- Sun Sparcstations
- Macintosh Computers
- NT-based Pentium PC's
- A variety of scanners, laser and color printers including large format HP printers
Geostatistical, modeling, and 3-D visualization software:
- Terrastation by Terrasciences
- GSLIB by The Stanford Center For Reservoir Forecasting
- Voxel Analyst by Intergraph
- Microstation V5 by Bently
- FRACMAN by Golder Associates
- PV Wave by Visual Numerics
- Graphic Groundwater
- Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator
- Stratavision 3d
- NeuroShell 2 by Ward Systems Group, Inc.
Log analysis is performed on the NT-based PC using Terrastation by TerraSciences. Geostatistical analysis and 3-dimensional petrophysical modellingis carried out on the Sparc 10/51 using both public-domain and commercial software [e.g. GSLIB by Clayton and Deutsch]. Three-dimensional visualization software is available on each platform for reviewing and analyzing the results of petrophysical modeling and reservoir simulations.This workstation capability is used to develop detailed 3-dimensional petrophysical models and perform fluid flow simulations. A primary goal of each project is to preserve the influence of detailed, geologically-derived heterogeneity within predictive fluid flow simulations. Ongoing projects include outcrop-to-simulation studies of both normal faults and fluvial-deltaic sediments. In addition, detailed well-derived data are providing insight into the 3-dimensional character of a reservoir developed in a turbitite sequence. The workstations are also used to model the three-dimensional characterisatics of fractures. Probabalistic models based on field data are used to construct the fractures and constrain their geometeries.
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