Meana Petro
SR-04IntermediateWave 3AI

Digital Rock & Core Image Analysis

In one sentence

Measures porosity, grain size and fracture density from core photographs and CT scans instead of from a description written twenty years ago.

The problem

Core is the most expensive data an operator owns and the least used. Boxes are photographed once, described qualitatively, and then stored; the quantitative information in the images is never extracted.

How it works

Segmentation models run over core photographs, CT slices and thin-section images to quantify pore geometry, grain-size distribution and fracture intensity. Results are depth-registered against the log suite so they can be used as calibration points rather than sitting in a separate report.

Data required

  • Core photographs — white light and UV — at consistent scale with a colour reference
  • CT scans or thin-section images where available
  • Core-to-log depth shifts
  • Routine core analysis results for calibration

What you get

  • Quantified porosity, grain size and fracture intensity curves at core scale
  • Core-log calibration points with uncertainty
  • Searchable core image archive tagged by feature

What it cannot do

Image-derived porosity is a two-dimensional estimate and systematically disagrees with helium porosity by a few porosity units; we report the offset rather than hiding it. Legacy core photographs without a colour reference or a consistent scale bar cannot be calibrated at all, and in most archives that is the majority of the older boxes.

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