Day: April 19, 2022

Great news!

A new dataset has been published by the Nederlandse Aardolie Maatschappij (NAM), through EPOS-NL. This open access dataset constitutes photographs of core slabs (core-parallel slices) taken from the reservoir intervals of 67 cored wells in the Groningen field and surrounding areas.

The Groningen gas field is the largest gas field in Europe and has been showing seismicity since the 1990s. The approximately 200 meter thick gas reservoir is situated at ~3 km depth, and comprises Permian (Slochteren) sandstone from the Rotliegend formation. The reservoir has been cored extensively by NAM. Each core has been sectioned (cut vertically) and all sections have been photographed. The resulting photograph database allows for detailed inspection of sedimentological features of the Rotliegend reservoir of the Groningen Field. This dataset further includes a web-based core Image viewing tool developed in-house by NAM. This tool allows for scrolling through photos of individual wells with zoom-in functionality at different magnifications.   

Access the data here  

The third call for Facility Access was open from 10 March – 17 April 2022. We received 7 applications for access to the Multi-scale Imaging and Tomography (MINT) facilities at Utrecht University and Delft University of Technology, the ESL High Pressure and Temperature (HPT) Lab at Utrecht University, and the Delft Petrophysics Lab at Delft University of Technology.

In addition, EXCITE, a European network to provide access to a wide range in Microscopy and Tomography facilities also received many applications to get access.

It’s great to see that there’s so much interest for research facilities developed within EPOS-NL and EXCITE, and to welcome all these projects and collaborations that, without Facility Access, may not have been initiated!