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Technology
T>Map™ extends Touchstone™ by automating the simulation of sandstone reservoir properties using data from 3D basin models. T>Map can use burial history data exported from any 3D basin modeling system.
Touchstone
Our Touchstone™ software system incorporates facilities for analysis of controls on sandstone reservoir quality in analog samples and for forward modeling of sandstone diagenesis and petrophysical properties for areas away from well control.
Prism2D
Prism2D™ is our unparalleled system for simulation of sandstone diagenesis and is an important research tool for many Geocosm R&D activities.
COAN
COAN™ is an image analysis system for sandstones that was developed by Geocosm for quantitative analysis of the spatial geometry of grain coating materials, among other things.
Services
We conduct reservoir quality prediction studies and provide proprietary research and development services.
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Publications & Appearances
October 6, 2014
Publications | GSA Bulletin
Insights into rates of fracture growth and sealing from a model for quartz cementation in fractured sandstones
by Rob Lander (Geocosm) and Steve Laubach (Bureau of Economic Geology), published in the Geological Society of America Bulletin, is now available as a free download using the link above.
September 16, 2014
Appearances | AAPG Distinguished Lecturer
Rob Lander has been named the Haas-Pratt Distinguished Lecturer by the AAPG.
He will present Model the Rock! Using Diagenesis Simulation for Rock Property Prediction on his North American lecture tour in early 2015.
June 1, 2014
Appearances | Geological Society Conference
Linda Bonnell and Rob Lander gave presentations at the Geological Society's Reservoir Quality of Clastic and Carbonate Rocks: Analysis, Modelling and Prediction
on May 28-30 in London. Rob was one of the conference co-convenors.
May 10, 2014
Publications | Notable Papers: 2010
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Six out of the 10 notable papers for the AAPG Bulletin in 2010 are from the August
special issue on reservoir quality prediction that was co-edited by Geocosm's Rob Lander. One of the six is the paper by Geocosm co-founders Rob Lander and Linda Bonnell
describing our model for fibrous illite formation in sandstones (this paper also won the best paper award for 2010).
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January 8, 2014
News | Apache Joins RQC
Geocosm welcomes Apache Corporation to the Consortium for Quantitative Prediction of Sandstone Reservoir Quality. The
RQC now has 23 active members.
May 7, 2013
Publications | Notable Papers: 2008 and 2009
April 22-24, 2013
Consortia | 25th RQC Meeting
We celebrated the 25th RQC meeting in grand style in a 12 century castle in Sigüenza Spain. In addition
to a review of Geocosm's R&D efforts, the 10 participant presentations lead to an outstanding technical program.
The T>Map consortium also met in Sigüenza.
January 3, 2013
Appearances | Keynote Talk for AAPG
Geocosm co-founder Rob Lander has been tapped to give the keynote talk at the inaugural meeting of the AAPG Charles Taylor Fellowship
on February 4th in Houston. The Charles Taylor Fellowship comprises all current and past members of AAPG's Editorial Board. Geocosm's other co-founder, Linda Bonnell, is an Associate Editor
of the AAPG Bulletin and is a fellowship member.
May 8, 2012
Publications | AAPG Best Paper Award
Geocosm's co-founders Rob Lander and Linda Bonnell won the prestigious Wallace E. Pratt Memorial Award for the best paper published in the AAPG Bulletin in 2010. Their paper on a new predictive model for fibrous illite formation in sandstones is a product of research supported by the Consortium for Quantitative Prediction of Sandstone Reservoir Quality.
April 10 , 2011
Publications | 2011 Publication of the Year Award
Modeling Fracture Porosity Evolution in Dolostone by scientists from the Bureau of Economic Geology and Geocosm received the 2011 Publication of the Year Award from the Bureau of Economic Geology.
February 20 , 2011
Publications | 4th Hottest Paper!
Structural diagenesis, published in the December issue of the
Journal of Structural Geology, comes in at number 4 in the list of the
25 hottest papers in the journal over the period of October to December,
2010. The article provides an introduction to a special issue
dedicated to this emerging discpline and is authored by researchers from
The University of Texas, RWTH Aachen University, and Geocosm.
August, 2010
Publications | AAPG Bulletin Special Issue
Geocosm has a major presence in the August, 2010 issue of the AAPG Bulletin. This special issue on Sandstone Reservoir Quality Prediction was co-edited by Joanna Ajdukiewicz from ExxonMobil and Rob Lander from Geocosm. |
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The issue includes a paper by Rob Lander and Linda Bonnell describing the unique fibrous illite model now available in Touchstone and T>Map. Rob also coauthored a review of the state-of-the-art in reservoir quality prediction. with Joanna Ajdukiewicz. Articles from Shell and BP geoscientists highlight the application of Touchstone for reservoir quality prediction in conventional and tight gas sandstone reservoirs.
October 29, 2009
Publications | AAPG Bulletin
Natural fracture characterization in tight gas sandstones: Integrating mechanics and diagenesis appears in the November 2009 issue of the AAPG Bulletin. The article concerns the origin of fractures in tight gas sandstones and discusses how quartz cementation may influence fracture permeability. The authors of the paper are Jon Olson (Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering Department at The University of Texas at Austin), Steve Laubach (Bureau of Economic Geology), and Geocosm's Rob Lander.
May 13, 2009
Publications | Journal of Structural Geology
Modeling fracture porosity evolution in dolostone is in press with the Journal of Structural Geology. This article highlights new high resolution cathodoluminescence imaging of dolomite cements in fractured dolostones and incorporates simulation results of the growth of these cements using Geocosm's Prism2D model. This work is the result of Geocosm's research collaboration with the FRAC group at the Jackson School of Geoscience at The University of Texas-Austin.
November 6, 2008
Publications| AAPG Bulletin Article
September 15, 2006
Awards | President’s Certificate for Excellence
from the Energy Minerals Division of the AAPG for Synkinematic Carbonate Fracture Sealing Cements in Opening-Mode Fractures: Characteristics and Models presented by Julia Gale and Rob Reed from the Bureau of Economic Geology and Geocosm's Rob Lander at the 2006 AAPG meeting in Houston.
September 27, 2004
Awards | DOE Best Talk Award
Geocosm / University of Texas won the award for the best university presentation at the US Department of Energy Symposium "Flow and Transport: from Pore to Reservoir Scales". Geocosm's Rob Lander presented Predicting Fracture Porosity in Sandstone. |