oa Keynote Speech: Massive Digital Rock Physics Data Bases for Next Generation Reservoir Simulitaions

With the emergence of billion cell reservoir simulators it is becoming apparent that populating these cells with relevant rock properties is emerging as a major if not a critical necessity. This poses 2 major challenges: First the need for large amount of rock property (especially SCAL) data; and second the need to bridge length scales of some 12 order of magnitudes ranging from tens of meters of simulation blocks and seismic foot prints to sub mm (and occasionally down to micron and sub micron levels).