MR41B:
Digital Imaging of Rocks and Limitations of Transport Property Simulations Posters

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Session ID#: 35042

Session Description:
X-ray computed tomography (CT) scanning relies on x-ray absorption images to generate tomographic volumes. Its application spans many fields, from biological to material sciences. In earth sciences applications, x-ray CT scans have been used to map rock samples to infer porosity and pore structures, which can then be used in digital rock simulations for the purpose of digitally predicting subsurface transport properties. This session seeks contributions that explore the latest advances in imaging techniques such as x-ray CT, SEM, FIB-SEM, among others to create digital analog of rock samples and use the digital information to infer hydrological processes. In particular, we are interested in contributions that quantify the limitations of the imaging techniques as well as the accuracy and the precision of the numerically obtained properties as compared to laboratory measurements.
Primary Convener:  Jean E Elkhoury, Schlumberger-Doll Research Center Cambridge, Cambridge, United States
Conveners:  Raji Shankar, Schlumberger-Doll Research Center Cambridge, Cambridge, MA, United States and James D Kirkpatrick, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, United States
Chairs:  Jean E Elkhoury, Schlumberger-Doll Research Center Cambridge, Cambridge, United States and Raji Shankar, Schlumberger-Doll Research Center Cambridge, Cambridge, MA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Jean E Elkhoury, Schlumberger-Doll Research Center Cambridge, Cambridge, United States
Index Terms:

3625 Petrography, microstructures, and textures [MINERALOGY AND PETROLOGY]
3653 Fluid flow [MINERALOGY AND PETROLOGY]
3954 X-ray, neutron, and electron spectroscopy and diffraction [MINERAL PHYSICS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Hybrid network modeling and the effect of image resolution on digitally-obtained petrophysical and two-phase flow properties (214662)
Arash Aghaei, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Materials and Structural Analysis, Houston, TX, United States
Identification and characterisation of individual Fractures in 3D fracture-network of shale reservoir rocks from microtomography (216464)
Chao Qi, Sun Yat-sen University, School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Guangzhou, China and Jie Liu, Sun Yat-Sen University, School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Guang Zhou, China
Modeling of carbonate reservoir variable secondary pore space based on CT images (221926)
Xin Nie1, Shichang Nie2, Jie Zhang2, Chong Zhang3, Chaomo Zhang1 and Zhansong Zhang2, (1)Key Laboratory of Exploration Technologies for Oil and Gas Resources (Yangtze University), Ministry of Education, Wuhan, China, (2)Yangtze University, Wuhan, China, (3)China Agricultural University, College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, Beijing, China
Calculating Effective Elastic Properties of Berea Sandstone Using Segmentation-less Method without Targets (270802)
Ken Ikeda1, Eric J Goldfarb1 and Nicola Tisato2, (1)Jackson School of Geosciences: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States, (2)University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States
Micro X-ray CT imaging of pore-scale changes in unconsolidated sediment under confining pressure (294076)
Mandy Schindler, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, United States and Manika Prasad, Colorado School of Mines, Department of Geophysics, Golden, CO, United States
Compositional Determination of Shale with Simultaneous Neutron and X-ray Tomography (297131)
Jacob LaManna, Daniel Seth Hussey, Elias Baltic and David L Jacobson, National Institute of Standards and Technology Gaithersburg, Gaithersburg, MD, United States

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