How we innovate
- Subsurface sample library (sedimentary and igneous/metamorphic)
- Sample prep studies (initial conditions)
- Synthetic cores prep (standards)
- Imbibition studies
- Porosity, pore size distribution and connectivity
- Wettability characterization
- Mineralogy and pore/grain morphology (reactive and accessible surface area)
- Petrophysics (connecting core/geologic and reservoir engineering data); e.g., low-field NMR
- Multimodal microscopy
- 2D-3D microfluidics and nanofluidics
- Nano-confinement mechanisms
- Thin films and capillary interfaces
- Advection and diffusion, gas partitioning
- Dissolution and precipitation
- Emulsions in porous structures
- Fracture-to-matrix transport (leak off)
- Computational fluid dynamics (CFD); pore-scale modeling
- Advection and diffusion
- Dissolution and precipitation
- Relative permeability and capillary pressure curves (imbibition & drainage)
- Core- and reservoir-scale modeling (evaluate pore-scale impacts)
- Multimodal collocation
- Optical and electron microscopy
- Time-lapse multiphase flow
- Image analysis