Visualization of oil reservoirs over a large range of scales as a catalyst for multi-disciplinary integration

  • Authors:
  • Stephen Tyson;Brennan Williams

  • Affiliations:
  • Santos Ltd., Australia;GeoVisual Systems Ltd., United Kingdom

  • Venue:
  • VIS '93 Proceedings of the 4th conference on Visualization '93
  • Year:
  • 1993

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Abstract

We discuss a system which provides a single, unified model of oil and gas reservoirs that is used across a range of disciplines from geologists to reservoir engineers. It has to store, manipulate and display reservoir phenomena which are observed over several orders of magnitude from 1mm to 10km.We propose that the current capabilities of visualization, over this range of scales, can remove perception barriers that have existed between disciplines and provide clear insights into the problems of modelling reservoirs from geological and engineering perspectives.