A reliable determination of the effective properties of a reservoir using experimental methods may take several months or longer. In recent years, digital approaches have shown that it is possible to reduce the long and costly use of laboratory techniques. In such a digital approach, imaging techniques are used to produce an image stack of a sample, which is then segmented into phases, with each phase having its own material properties. The information on material properties obtained after segmentation is used to create a digital twin of the sample on which a variety of analyses are performed. This workflow is possible using efficient solvers that compute the properties of a rock without destroying the sample in the process.

The workshop will show the execution of several workflows, with a particular focus on the computation of key rock properties for industrial applications. A major advantage of the digital approach is that multiple analyses can be performed in parallel. For example, pore size distribution analyses can be performed simultaneously with permeability calculations. This saves time and costs.

The workshop on Digital Rock Physics will reveal how easy it can be to determine these parameters using the GeoDict software. We will present a one-click digital routine core analysis to carry out all steps of a routine core analysis fully automatically. In addition, we will present the new methods to calculate the complete hysteresis cycle, which are now available in the GeoDict 2023 release.