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Permeability multipliers: allies or foes?

3D reservoir modelling is built on 2 pillars: the static and dynamic reservoir models. The static model quantifies the architecture of the reservoir and the volume in place at initial…

A new closed-loop horizontal geothermal well solution

In Europe, deep geothermal heat production for district heating and to a lesser extent district cooling is mainly based on the conventional doublet geothermal well solution. Examples are the wells…

Salt and Grit

“My fascination with geology started with asking myself a question”, says Clara Rodríguez Rondón. “I grew up in Venezuela, in a town called San Juan de Los Morros, in a…

Geomodelling for CCS, a bridge too far?

Traditionally, geomodels are built in a simplistic fashion, taking into account the inherent degree of uncertainty in the input data. Attempting to accurately depict an unseen geological object, often multiple…

The competitive world of coring

Until wireline logging came into swing, cutting core was the most important way to obtain reliable information about the targeted formation. With the advance of wireline logging though, the need…

A dissolvable tool

Andrew Garioch from Well-SENSE talks us through the use of fibre-optic technology for well intervention work

Can a seal fail?

A seal is a rock that has a higher capillary entry pressure relative to other adjacent rocks. The higher the contrast, the greater the hydrocarbon column it can hold. The…