SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE

Energy Exploration and Development

	Sandbox model simulating at SwRI

To provide innovative solutions for exploration and production problems in geologically complex settings, Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) applies its extensive field, laboratory, and modeling expertise.

The unique laboratories of SwRI are supported by state-of-the-art computer modeling and visualization technologies. These technologies provide integrated, multidisciplinary problem-solving capabilities for a broad range of services to the oil and gas industry.

SwRI has the staff, expertise, and facilities to offer complete, independent services and to augment your in-house corporate capabilities in these and related areas:

• Structural geology

• Field and short courses in extensional and contractional tectonic regimes in the United States and abroad

• Geomechanics and reservoir engineering

• 3DStress^®

• Physical analog modeling

• Reservoir characterization

• Estimation of effective reservoir properties for heterogeneous and fractured porous media, including development of constitutive theory for predicting relative permeability relationships

• Stochastic simulation of facies distributions under geologic constraints

• Geochemistry and fluid flow

• Subsurface gas disposal and storage

• Infrastructure and geotechnical engineering

• Risk, hazard, and probabilistic safety assessment

For more information about energy exploration and development capabilities at SwRI or how you can contract with SwRI, please contact Dr. David Ferrill at dferrill@swri.org or (210) 522-6082.
 

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Southwest Research Institute® (SwRI®), headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, is a multidisciplinary, independent, nonprofit, applied engineering and physical sciences research and development organization with 11 technical divisions.

September 29, 2008