Project Participants: The University of California at Berkeley (Jane Lewis Fellowships), The Government of Denmark, The Government of Oman, The Government of Spain, REPSOL, AMS, ChevronTexaco, Phillips, Statoil, and DOE

Project Contact: T. W. Patzek, Cal, 510-643-5834, patzek@patzek.berkeley.edu

Summary: The Electronic Core Laboratory is a common software/laboratory platform we use to understand the mechanical, transport, chemical, electrical, and magnetic properties of a sample of permeable rock and the fluids in the pore space of this rock. Using a somewhat different terminology, we strive to formulate a Common Rock-Fluid Model, that will allow specialists from very different disciplines (reservoir engineers, geophysicists, geologists, petrophysicists, geochemists, logging analysts, etc.) to acquire a common understanding of the subsurface rock-fluid systems at different scales. We start from the small, 0.5-10 cm, scale. The rock-fluid systems at this scale can be imaged and otherwise investigated in the laboratory, and modeled in the computer.

Our general procedure is as follows:

Looking down from the ALS onto Berkeley Campus and the Bay