Research & Development - Technology
Rock Solid Images is committed to research and development. The R&D team consists of world class scientists from the fields of rock physics, well logging, seismic, electromagnetics, geophysical data processing, modeling, and inversion. Our Center of Excellence’s goal is to develop and deliver to the market state-of-the-art 3D integrated interpretation solutions. The main projects are:
- Development of New Solutions for Seismic and CSEM Data Conditioning. Data quality is key to providing efficient performance of any interpretation approach. We are heavily investing in enhancing our processing and data conditioning technologies and software to allow for rapid delivery of high quality datasets for WISE interpretation workflows.
- Development of Advanced 3D CSEM and MT Inversion-Based Solutions. Inversion is the basis for marine CSEM and MT data interpretation. We are improving existing and developing new anisotropic 3D EM modeling and inversion algorithms and interpretation workflows to allow complex and geologically realistic earth models to be recovered.
- Development of 3D Integrated Geological Model Building Tools. Central to the WISE approach is a Shared Earth Model, in which seismic, EM, and rock physics can be integrated to provide a consistent model of the subsurface. We are building an integrated modeling platform based on the Skua software to allow detailed analysis and seamless interpretation of a wide range of G&G data types (Fig.1)
- Advanced Studies of Rock Physics. We continue to invest in research into appropriate rock physics models to describe ever more complex subsurface situations. Current work includes analysis of electric and elastic rock physics models to describe anisotropic shales and to develop efficient numerical schemes for cooperative inversion of 3D seismic and CSEM data.