HOUSTON — FEI announced the release of PerGeos, the industry’s first comprehensive digital rock software that helps geoscientists rapidly interpret and model digital rock imagery so that E&P engineers can obtain meaningful, actionable data quickly and easily.
PerGeos provides a better understanding of formation features and physical property of reservoir rock. Multi-scale, microscopic imagery and advanced digital rock modeling provides the only direct measurement for analyzing critical structural characteristics and physical properties, such as grain size, pore space and connectivity.
Using PerGeos, core analysts, geologists and petrophysicists can integrate data from multiple sources and share descriptions and statistics using a common platform. It features automated workflows, high-powered image processing algorithms and a user-friendly interface.
“Oil companies work with and analyze a bewildering array of image data types and formats when trying to understand the physical characteristics of reservoir rock, how those characteristics relate to the potential value of a reservoir, and relate those observations to the production techniques required to optimize that value,” said Mark Bashforth, general manager of FEI’s oil and gas business. “This information can now be managed digitally through PerGeos, via a collaborative workspace to create and share a common rock model much faster than using traditional core analysis methods.”
Bashforth adds, “This is very important for reservoir engineers awaiting these critical inputs, such as capillary pressure, porosity and permeability, for their geomodels; knowledge of these properties helps asset managers visualize and understand the ultimate potential recovery of a reservoir, thereby improving their estimates of reserves and overall production-related CapEx investments.”
The initial PerGeos release consists of three modules: petrophysics, pore statistics and core profile. Each module is designed to help users make statistical observations about the sample as it relates to their specific function, and then allows them to transfer this knowledge to a digital environment for interactive assessment by the entire asset team. This is a unique feature that provides cross-discipline collaboration, and enables all users to gain a common understanding of how the rock models are created – an important aspect in validating and understanding the contributors to reservoir viability and producibility.
PerGeos is the industry’s first digital rock software designed to help geoscientists rapidly interpret digital rock imagery so that E&P engineers can quickly and easily obtain meaningful, actionable data. Its visualization, processing, and analysis of 2D and 3D digital rock imagery enables improved evaluation of reservoir quality and faster understanding of static and dynamic rock properties that impact production.
PerGeos is comprised of the most advanced set of artifact removal, filtering, and analytical algorithms on the market. It can be used as a standalone software platform or bundled with a variety of applications to customize the user experience with additional functionality for digital core analysis.
PerGeos delivers Key Benefits :
- Collaborative Core Analysis – Multi-disciplinary sharing of information to build a common rock model
- Consistency in Data Processing & Modeling – Automated workflows to streamline efficiency and implement best practices
- Confidence in Results – Multi-scale, multi-modal image analysis to help users validate observations and properties from a variety of datasets
- Customized for Oil & Gas – The most advanced set of artifact removal and analytical tools on the market designed specifically for oil & gas reservoir characterization & digital rock analysis
Workflow Automation
Comprised of the most advanced set of artifact removal, filtering, and analytical tools on the market, PerGeos accurately characterizes rock properties. The advanced toolkit is available through an intuitive UI and easily integrates into user-defined automated workflows. PerGeos allows for more time spent analyzing results than processing image data.
Flexible Design and Automation
PerGeos delivers a flexible, modular architecture designed to facilitate rapid deployment of new capabilities as they are developed. This flexibility gives the end-user an adaptive environment suited to their daily interactions with core samples. In addition to built-in automated image processing workflows, PerGeos offers a suite of applications that provide a customizable user experience.
• Core Profile: A powerful, new whole-core data application that enables co-visualization of whole-core CT, core photography, and petrophysical logs in a single workspace. Also creates virtual logs based on whole-core CT data.
• Petrophysics: A suite of models for rock property analysis and simulations to derive measurements such as absolute permeability, Archie m (from formation factor F), thermal properties, and MICP porosity.
• Pore Statistics: An application that extracts a pore network model (PNM) from a segmented 3D dataset (FIB-SEM or microCT). Includes automated workflows to quantify 2-phase and 3-phase fluid storage and helps characterize pore and pore throat size distributions.
Robust Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis
PerGeos helps petrographers, geologists, core analysts, and petrophysicists with qualitative and quantitative rock analysis via its suite of image processing, filtering, and segmentation tools. These tools help users understand and share reservoir information.
PerGeos for Geology
Powerful algorithms support image analysis, segmentation, and built-in automation, adding statistical weight to observations from core material. Analysis capabilities help users quantitatively extract and measure data such as:
- Laminations
- Fracture density and orientation
- Organic versus inorganic porosity
- Depositional features
PerGeos for Petrophysics
PerGeos provides easily automated workflows for calculating pore statistics from image data such as pore size and network connectivity. Users have access to a suite of tools in the Pore Statistics Application to help accurately:
- Visualize pore size distributions and pore types.
- Characterize pore and pore throat size distributions.
- Evaluate connected and isolated porosity.
- Compare whole core CT data directly to logs.
The built-in features and automated workflows in the Petrophysics Application can help derive rapid digital RCA properties to QC traditional lab and third-party digital rock measurements, such as:
- Absolute permeability
- MICP
- Electrical resistivity
- Formation factor
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