GeoNeurale and Crienterprises

On the way to the excellence in Carbonate Petrophysics and Carbonate Research services GeoNeurale announces the partnership between GeoNeurale and Crienterprises for Research and Training.

www.Crienterprises.com

GeoNeurale and Neuronics : Strategical Partnership for Training and Research

Neuronics Inc. Switzerland develops and produces intelligent robots, which are being widely used in industry and research.  Neuronics was being established as a spin-off venture of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the Institut für Informatik of the University Zürich.

www.Neuronics.ch

GeoNeurale and Geovariances partnership

GEOVARIANCES is a French Independent Software Vendor, world Leader in GEOSTATISTICS.

GEOVARIANCES publishes ISATIS, integrated geostatistical software Solution, used by the majors

and independent companies.

GEOVARIANCES expertise lays in seismic QC and filtering, time-to-depth conversion, reservoir

characterization, risk assessment.

GeoNeurale and Geovariances

GeoNeurale and Geovariances are now partner for Training.   The joint presentation that Geovariances of Fontainebleau and GeoNeurale of Munich made at the UTG  " Umwelt Technologisches Gründerzentrum "  - Augsburg - , described the fundamental role that Geostatistics can play in the Reservoir Characterization for Geothermal Exploration.

PRESENTATION REPORT

GeoNeurale and Petrophysic-Consultants official members of the International Center for Science and Humanities

Geoneurale and Petrophysic-Consultants are now members of the International Center for Sciences and Humanities in Munich. The center is dedicated to promote the advancement of Science and was established

with the goal of facilitating the interdisciplinary exchange of international scientists.

To the center belong also: The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, The Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, The Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen, The Technische Universitaet Muenchen,                      The Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science.

NEW RELEASE OF FRACA 4.1 2006

Beicip-Franlab, Beicip Inc. and IFPmec are pleased to announce the imminent release of FRACA 4.1
NEW IN 4.1
- Deterministic fracture sets: for creating fractures/faults with specific properties at wells or anywhere

  in the field

- Single-media scale-up and output for use in single-media dynamic simulation with a single phase

This even more powerful FRACA version provides users with the ability to handle all the fractures present in a reservoir:
natural, stimulation and induced.
The software will be available for Linux, Windows and Sun Microsystems Operating systems.

FULL VAWE ACOUSTIC CHARACTERIZATION.

A new suite of acoustic wireline measurements tools is under development by several geophyiscal service companies.

These tools can be combined with other wireline services and have been studied to provide a wide range of measurements to reduce drilling risk, improve recovery and maximize productivity.
Properties of elastic homogeneous and hisotropic materials are easy to measure and to determine but rock mechanical properties in formations vary with pressure, temperature and invasion.
These variations are difficult to predict due to plastic and  nonlinear deformations.
Measurements at sonic frequencies dominate the evaluation efforts.
The first wireline acoustic tools where introduced in the early 1950s. Since then new measurements techniques have been developed  an example is the introduction of the dipole sonic tools that can measure the transversal waves velocity and polarization.
New tools developments are directed to obtain stress information critical to wellbore placement and maximum reservoir drainage.
This can be reached with mechanical characterization of the wellbore, including 3D characterization of the compressional and shear wave slowness in terms of their axial, azimuthal and radial variations that arise from non-uniform stress distributions, mechanical wellbore changes due to tre drilling process, invasion and from formation intrinsic inhomogeneity and anisotropy.
The geomechanical applications permit a more effective capacity to derive mechanical properties by a radial profiling with a dipole source that not only provides a large amount of energy over a wide frequency band, but also is capable of compensating for the effect of the sonic tool in the borehole (full characterization for acoustic
predictability).

NEW TOOLS SIGN HISTORICAL BENCHMARK IN FORMATION EVALUATION WHILE DRILLING.

Real time imaging and dip interpretation while drilling are the latest tools appeared on the market that dramatically improve the real time formation evaluation technology.
These are resistivity sub that can transmit at the surface real time high resolution images of the borehole allowing a rapid interpreation of dip and formation sedimentological features.
This type of measurement that previously was available only as wireline log is a real progress for petrophysical evaluation.
It allows imaging logging also in difficult drilling environments where wireline tools could easily get stuck.
It helps the drilling navigation in geosteering projects and allows an easier geological marker interpretation.
It is a precious tool expecially for drilling projects in carbonates and for geothermal projects.

DRILLING IN THE EARTH MANTLE

For the first time in the human hystory a drillship will drill the earth crust reaching the upper mantle.

For the first time a japanese scientific mission driven from the "Japan agency for Marine-Earth Science Technology" will try
to reach the deepest point never drilled before drilling down to the earth mantle.
This operation is part of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) a progran´m that started in October 2003.
Many countries participate to this scientific mission: Japan, USA and the European Union.
Main purpose is to study microbial life and seismotechtonics phenomena responsible of the high seismicity of the area.
The greatest drillship in the world has been built for this mission ( see photo below ).
This ship was called DV Chikyu and is capable of handling a maximum of drillstring length of 10000 m ( 32810 ft ) in deep water tables  up to 2500 m ( 8202 ft ).
The Expedition will probably start in September 2007 in the Nankai  Trough Seismogenic Zone, southwest of the japanese continental margin.

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