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Shales often show strong elastic anisotropy that originate from the alignment and platy nature of its constituent minerals. Despite its impact on AVO (Amplitude Variation with Offset) response and seismic time-shifts, elastic anisotropy of shales is, however, often ignored since it is difficult to...

The NTNU/SINTEF drillability test method has gained international recognition as a tool for describing the characteristics of rock and soil materials regarding cutter wear and penetration rates as well as for reliable time and cost estimates. Test results originating from the reference laboratory...

Flow diagnostics refers to a family of numerical methods that within a few seconds can compute visually intuitive quantities illuminating flow patterns and well connections for full 3D reservoir models. The starting point is a flow field, extracted from a previous multiphase simulation or computed...

Since shales are the far most abundant overburden formation, understanding the geomechanical and rock physics behavior of shales is essential. We discuss a particular deep overburden shale in light of a thorough static and dynamic multi-directional data acquisition, as a basis for complete static...

Carbon capture and storage (CCS) by geological sequestration comprises a permeable formation (reservoir) for CO₂ storage topped by an impermeable formation (caprock). Time-lapse (4D) seismic is used to map CO₂ movement in the subsurface: CO₂ migration into the caprock might change its properties and...

The Faroe Islands north of Scotland has a disproportionally large number of road tunnels. In addition to 44 km of existing tunnels, two further undersea tunnels totalling 22 km will be completed by 2023. A further 30 km undersea crossing is planned, providing nearly 2 m of tunnel for each of the...