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The EMARC Petroleum Systems Research Lab centers around a network of Sun workstations running Landmark's OpenWorks software. This lab is able to maintain multiple working 2D and 3D seismic data sets which currently include the Gulf of Mexico, Wyoming, Mexico, and the North Sea. Windows-based PC workstations are also available for researchers and students.
Reservoir Characterization and Modeling Lab
The EMARC Reservoir Characterization and Modeling Lab (RCML) has a network of dual-monitor Windows-based workstations, conventional PCs, a local server with a RAID 5 controller, printers, and scanners. Software in the lab includes packages for reservoir analysis, static reservoir modeling, fluid-flow simulation, and GIS applications. This software is used in research and teaching.
The Sedimentology Lab has a variety of modern equipment for sedimentological and petrophysical (e.g., porosity and permeability) analyses. For rock sampling in the field, the lab has a Pomeroy D026-C water-lubricated rock core drill. The lab also has an Olympus Magnafire cooled digital camera and software to acquire high-resolution, low-intensity microscopic images of rocks.
The Wayne T. (Dusty) and LaFawn Biddle Core Facility in the Benson Earth Sciences Building is a 1200 square foot facility that houses cores from many reservoirs and ore deposits and has a cool storage area for cores from uncosolidated reservoirs (e.g. Gulf of Mexico).
The core facility has a collection of cores from different types of sedimentary envrironments. The core facility is used in several graduate classes: Reservoir Characterization and Modeling, Sequence Stratigraphy, Petroleum Geology of Turbidite Systems, and Sedimentology. The facility is also used extensively in our reservoir geosciences research program.