Energy Exploration & Development
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Hydrogeology & Geochemistry Services Brochure
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Computational Fluid Dynamics for the Oil and Gas Industry Brochure
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.
Energy Exploration Facilities
Our unique laboratories 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.
Energy Exploration and Development Services
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
- Remote sensing
- Infrastructure and geotechnical engineering
- Risk, hazard, and probabilistic safety assessment
- Computational fluid dynamics
Related Terminology
energy exploration problems • energy development • oil and gas industry • structural geology • geomechanics • reservoir engineering • physical analog modeling • geochemistry • fluid flow
