Seminar on Recent Advances in Digital Rock Technology

А JOINT SEMINAR OF SKOLTECH, FEI COMPANY AND TECHNOINFO LTD. COMPANY

10:00

Introduction1

Oleg Korneychik, the head of Geology and Diffraction department in TechnoInfo Ltd

 10:10

An overview of the solutions and services provided by FEI Company to Oil&Gas and other industries

Report by Hanish J. Yadav, Oil & Gas Business Manager in Europe & Russia, FEI Company

10:30

The development of Automated Mineralogy methods (QemSCAN, MAPS, MAPS Mineralogy, NanoMIN, Scios), their application and most significant results in Petroleum industry. Issues related to scaling of Automated Mineralogy methods. The discussion of MAPS and QemSCAN algorithms. Examples of the technology use by industrial and commercial companies.

Report by Alan R. Butcher Ph.D (Principal Petrologist) and Philip Scard Ph.D (Principal Petrophysicist), FEI Company

11:30

The development of dual-beam electron microscopy and microtomography methods, introduction to FEI PerGeos software; their application and most significant results

in Petroleum industry. The discussion of typical data generated with micro- and nanotomography using Heliscan microtomographs and Helios/Scios scanning electron microscopes. Processing micro- and nanotomography data with FEI PerGeos software. Examples of the technology use by industrial and commercial companies.

Report by Philip Scard Ph.D (Principal Petrophysicist) and Gwenolé Tallec (Senior Application Engineer), FEI Company

12-30

Report on cooperation of FEI Company with major Oil&Gas companies. Report by Alan R. Butcher (Principal Petrologist), Hanish J. Yadav  (Oil & Gas Business Manager in Europe & Russia), FEI Company;

Eugene Mikulinsky, projects director in “TechnoInfo Ltd”

13-00

Presentation of services offered by TechnoInfo Ltd and FEI Company to Skoltech.

Report by Alan R. Butcher Ph.D (Principal Petrologist), Hanish J. Yadav (Oil & Gas Business Manager in Europe & Russia), FEI Company; Eugene Mikulinsky, projects director in “TechnoInfo Ltd”

13-30

A “round table” discussion of the current progress and future perspectives of Digital Rock technology in Russian petroleum industry.

14:30

The end of the seminar