ZEISS Imaging Solutions for Pore Characterization

This Application Note is about Pore Network Modeling of Marcellus Shale using Digital Rock Analysis with Machine Learning Image Segmentation

Sweet spot imaging, high-resolution imaging at low keV, using Gemini electron optics with Inlens SE and ESB technology.  Observing nanoparticle decoration and better understanding the structure and morphology of nanoparticles. The paper provides more information on the subsurface and morphologically distinct regions of interest

In this infographic you will get an overview of the applications that ZEISS Microscopy offers solutions for.

The flow of oil and gas through subsurface reservoirs is governed by the scale of the tiny, tortuous pathways in the rock through which flow occurs. While frequently the fundamental pore, grain and mineralogical structures can be understood at these tiny scales, this often comes at the expense of a field of view representative of real geological structures. These structures can exhibit heterogeneity ranging from the kilometer to the nanometer scales. The ZEISS portfolio of light, X-ray, electron and ion microscopes is uniquely capable of solving these multiscale and multi-physics challenges, fusing, integrating and correlating data together and even observing reservoir processes directly in situ. This enables, for the first time, all pore scale information to be acquired based on macroscopic heterogeneity, and all the resulting insights to be directly and quantitatively upscaled to the core plug and whole core scales.