DMT CoreScan II Digital Core Imaging System
Digital core imaging is a new method of acquiring data from drill cores in addition to conventional (geological and geotechnical) core and geophysical borehole logging. However, this method has also some important advantages:
DMT CoreScan II for full circumference and slabbed core images |
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Using a comprehensive suite of software, additional evaluations can be carried out with regard, e.g., to lithofacies characterization, paleotransport analysis and acquisition of geotechnical parameters. Core images on different scales in the range of mm and smaller allow to describe the lithological and physical properties of the rock. The use of this digital imaging system has proven to be accurate, quick, and therefore economical.
Reservoir analysis based on digital images requires a high resolution of images for the understanding of depositional environments and facies within a reservoir. The orientation of various bedding features is an added input, which complements the vertical facies variations.
However, cores are seldom oriented when they are taken. In many cases transportation to core laboratories and storage in core-houses could be avoided because all the core images acquisition work can be done at the drilling site. The New CoreScan II is based on a high resolution (up to 40 pixel/mm) digital acquisition system and provides a new portable stand-alone system for Core Analysts with numerous different functions as indicated on these pages.
