Digital rock analysis

Accelerate field development with digital SCAL

Overview

Physical and digital analysis, combined like never before

Digital special core analysis (digital SCAL) provides digital rock and fluid analytics services that help you integrate digital rock analysis, physical analysis, and fluid analysis, creating a 3D reservoir model that lets you rapidly simulate flow performance under different production scenarios.

Digital rock analysis gives petroleum engineers a unique look into the pore spaces of rocks by combining experimental and numerical studies that help evaluate fluid transport and petrophysical properties at pore scale. Technical evolution and the integration of processes have enabled digital rock analysis to effectively replace long-duration laboratory core testing with digital tests that are up to 100 times faster.

Digital SCAL extends the data provided by routine core analysis to deliver better insights into individual wells and overall reservoir performance. This all-in-one approach uses physical laboratory measurements to refine reservoir simulation, which enables accurate measurement of relative permeability, capillary pressure, net present value, and other parameters that are vital to optimal reservoir engineering.

Applications

Reservoir characterization
Sensitivity studies
Special core analysis
Petrophysical analysis
Direct hydrodynamic pore flow simulation
Tight carbonate model simulation
Enhanced oil recovery
Carbon capture and storage (CCS)

Benefits

Better decisions, faster

Depending on the analysis, answers are delivered in days rather than weeks, or months rather than years, compared with physical analysis alone.

More detailed insights

Integrating physical, digital rock, and fluid analyses maximizes your understanding of the reservoir, including interaction of rock, fluids, and pore-scale mechanisms.

Lab-quality results

Digital SCAL services deliver accurate and reliable SCAL within the range of uncertainty of repeated laboratory test results on the same core.

Improved simulations

Combining experimental and digital workflows provides a fast, robust approach to obtaining critical data that helps refine your simulation modeling.

Features

Integrating multiple measurements

As part of SLB digital SCAL services, DHD™ direct hydrodynamics pore flow simulation helps to simulate fluid flow through porous media by integrating digital measurements.

Provides core analysis on all scales from cuttings to whole core

Provides digital measurements in places where physical measurements are not possible

Accounts for multiphysics phenomena in complex processes

Increases reservoir model upscaling efficiency

Verifiable via minimal physical measurements (where applicable)

Digital Special Core Analysis (SCAL)

SLB uses digital special core analysis (SCAL) to take actual physical core measurements and digitally replicate them to simulate testing for multiple scenarios.