Petroleum Geophysics at NGI is a discipline that is based on strong theoretical backgrounds and provides effective solutions to challenging problems in the focused area of reservoir exploration and monitoring.
Quality and amount of recent geophysical data have significantly increased. The challenge is to process and analyze the data with high accuracy and efficiency.
NGI's state-of-the-art expertise
- Electromagnetic wave propagation
Seismic wave propagation (including fractures)
- Coupled multiphase flow and poromechanics
- Inversion/Optimization algorithm development
- Numerical methods (finite element, finite difference, integral equation)
- Multiphysics and multiscale reservoir monitoring
Services related to Petroleum Geophysics
Petroleum geophysics is to analyze field data and increase our understanding of subsurface physical behavior in the context of exploration and production/injection. We achieve this goal through our R&D program where we develop advanced technologies and tools. In addition, our approach is based on the integration with other relevant in-house disciplines (such as geology, geomechanics, rock physics, subsea technology, etc.), which makes our solutions distinguished.
Research and Development
NGI's current research is focused primarily on reservoir exploration and monitoring, and on storage of CO2 in geological formations. Our challenges are related to:
- Multiphase flow simulation to monitor reservoir CO2 injection
CSEM monitoring of geological CO2 storage
- Coupling geomechanics, rock physics and geophysics for reservoir monitoring
- Seismic wave propagation in fractured media
- Acousto-elastic wave propagation in layered media
- Pressure measurement and analysis in production and injection well
- CSEM software development in multiclient projects
- Seismic and EM joint inversion technique
- Fast forward modeling and inversion algorithm
- Advanced absorbing boundary condition or domain