In-situ mining requires an excellent understanding of the mineral deposit to ensure the process yields production levels of the desired mineral. Reservoir characterization parameters such as porosity, permeability and capillary pressure are vital to provide viable deposit modeling.
Green Imaging are globally recognized experts in measuring porosity, permeability and capillary pressure utilizing nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technologies in the laboratory.
These technologies allow us to measure the fluids in all types of rocks and provide information about how that fluid interacts with the pore networks. We can flow different fluids through the rock samples and measure the effects these fluids have on the pore network.
Green Imaging has the ability to measure porosity on rock core samples, but if coring is not viable, we can utilize drill cuttings to provide the same measurement. This opens up the potential sites where this measurement can be performed.
If a customer is using a downhole NMR tool at their wellsite, this data can be maximized by calibrating it with lab-based NMR measurements. The bore hole is a very hostile environment, especially for a magnet-based technology like NMR and a lot of noise can show up in the data logs. NMR has long been used to calibrate the data logs and diminish the noise in the data.