Visualization of oil reservoirs over a large range of scales as a catalyst for multi-disciplinary integration

Author

Tyson, Stephen ; Williams, Brennan

Author_Institution

Santos Ltd., Australia

fYear

1993

fDate

25-29 Oct 1993

Firstpage

366

Lastpage

369

Abstract

We discuss a system which provides a single, unified model of oil and gas reservoirs that is used across a range of disciplines from geologists to reservoir engineers. It has to store, manipulate and display reservoir phenomena which are observed over several orders of magnitude from 1 mm to 10 km. We propose that the current capabilities of visualization, over this range of scales, can remove perception barriers that have existed between disciplines and provide clear insights into the problems of modeling reservoirs from geological and engineering perspectives

Keywords

data visualisation; energy resources; engineering graphics; geology; geophysics computing; natural gas technology; natural resources; oil technology; rocks; data display; data manipulation; data storage; gas reservoirs; geologists; large scale-range; modeling; multi-disciplinary integration; oil reservoirs; perception barriers; reservoir engineers; visualization; Australia; Computational modeling; Displays; Geology; Hydrocarbon reservoirs; Mesh generation; Petroleum; Sampling methods; Stochastic systems; Visualization;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Visualization, 1993. Visualization '93, Proceedings., IEEE Conference on

Conference_Location

San Jose, CA

Print_ISBN

0-8186-3940-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VISUAL.1993.398893

Filename

398893