New partnership provides 3d imaging, analysis
Visualization Sciences Group (VSG), Merignac, France, and Xradia Inc., Pleasanton, Calif., have signed a partnership agreement that permits Xradia to offer VSG's Avizo Fire software as their primary product offering for high-end 3D visualization and analysis used in conjunction with the company's 3D X-ray imaging solutions.
The offering enables fast analysis and modeling of Xradia's 3D imaging solutions for computed tomography at submicron and nanometer levels of resolution. This combination enables and facilitates a range of oil industry research and engineering. For example, X-ray CT-derived 3D segmented pore structures of rocks are used as the base grid systems for applying digital rock physics modeling of static and dynamic rock properties including porosities, permeabilities, multiphase relative permeabilities, and capillary pressures. These properties, the companies point out, are essential for resource assessment and for production design and optimization of oil and gas assets.
Rock and fluid transport properties are used by the industry for field scale models that predict recovery factors and production schedules that define the economics of resource development. Traditional physical measurements of these properties can be time-consuming, and in some cases impossible to carry out, the firms say. The ability to perform digital rock physics or virtual core analysis enables the companies to provide their clients with data in a cost effective manner and in weeks instead of months. The Xradia/Avizo Fire solution provides support in creating accurate, efficient work flows for challenging reservoir environments.
Source: Visualization Sciences Group, 87, Avenue Kennedy - BP 50227, Merignac Cedex, F-33708, France.
New alliance offers subsea site geotechnical investigation
Greatship Subsea Solutions, Singapore, and Gregg Marine Inc., Moss Landing, Calif., have formed an alliance to offer fully integrated subsea geotechnical site investigation services.
The new venture plans to offer state of the art comprehensive solutions in shallow to ultradeepwater environments.
Included are:
1. A geotechnical drillship with seafloor drill capable of coring and sampling at 3,000 m water depth, 150 m below the mud line.
2. A geotechnical site investigation vessel mounted with a deepwater cone penetration test spread, shallow core drill, and other sampling and site investigation tools.
Source: Gregg Marine Inc., 7532 Sandholdt Rd., Moss Landing, CA 95039-9649.
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