Basin and Reservoir Lab

For Prospective Students

The Basin & Reservoir Lab houses industry-standard software, workstations and visualization equipment with the capacity to process and interpret large data volumes.

Basin & Reservoir Research Lab Infrastructure
Equipment by Theme

Reservoir Characterization & Provenance

Basin Analysis & Stratigraphy

Outcrop Analogs, Cores & Reservoir Modeling
  • Polarizing microscope & digital imaging (PETROG)
  • Binocular microscope
  • MicroProbe
  • PC Workstation Cluster (8)
  • High-speed network
  • Plotter, printer & disc storage
  • Large format scanner
  • Schlumberger Petrel
  • Kingdom Suite
  • Winpics
  • BlackOil
  • GeoQuest/GeoFrame
  • Stratabugs
  • ALT Well & Core CAD
  • Sable 3D Mega Merge
  • IONGXT NovaSpan
  • Scintillometer (Outcrop GR)
  • Permeameter
  • Black lights
  • High-res & waterproof cameras
  • Toughened laptops, PDAs & Tablet PCs
  • Satellite phone
  • Walkie-talkies
  • Portable scanner & printer
  • GPS, differential & hand
  • Ground Penetrating Radar
  • LiDAR (OpTech)

The visualization infrastructure is the lynchpin that allows full integration of research findings into comprehensive geological and reservoir models within a sequence stratigraphic framework.

Visualization Infrastructure                  

 Projectors, Schlumberger & CyViz