Extended Reality Innovations for Reservoir Engineering

石油和天然气行业的主要目标是寻找碳氢化合物矿藏并确定经济的开采战略。为了实现这一目标，石油和天然气专业人员必须在地下的3D表示上执行复杂的任务。这些复杂的任务还需要在这些表述的背景下分析大量和各种数据。沉浸式扩展现实(XR)技术，如增强现实(AR)和虚拟现实(VR)在过去几年中经历了复兴，高质量的硬件现在广泛可用。仍然没有解决的是如何应用这些技术来改善行业的工作流程。沉浸式应用具有许多被认为适用于油藏工程的好处。该项目将张兴(John)陈博士和Frank Maurer博士的研究专业知识与CMG有限公司经验丰富的团队结合在一起，以释放这些好处。陈博士在油藏工程的建模和模拟方面拥有丰富的经验，他的团队已经成功地开发了几个油藏工程的扩展现实原型，受到了业界的好评。Maurer博士在沉浸式分析应用的人机交互方面拥有广泛的研究专业知识。CMG有限公司在开发油藏模拟和分析软件方面处于领先地位。这个团队在揭示扩展现实如何为油藏工程领域提供价值方面具有独特的地位。他们的集体专业知识使他们能够确定将沉浸式技术有效地应用于油藏工程工作流程的最佳方式，从而在分析复杂的科学数据集时提供更高的效率。该项目将开发利用扩展现实的技术，以更好地理解场景、更高效的工作流程和更好的协作，同时推动加拿大的能源行业走在理解如何将这些令人兴奋的新视觉和交互技术应用于现实世界问题的前沿。

The primary objective of the oil and gas industry is to find hydrocarbon deposits and determine economical strategies for recovery. In pursuit of this goal, oil and gas professionals must perform complex tasks on 3D representations of the subsurface. These complex tasks also require the analysis of large quantities and varieties of data within the context of these representations. Immersive, extended reality (XR) technologies such as augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) have undergone a renaissance over the last few years and high-quality hardware is now widely available. What remains unsolved is how to apply these technologies to improve workflows in industry. Immersive applications have many benefits that are thought to be applicable to reservoir engineering. This project combines the research expertise of Dr. Zhangxing (John) Chen and Dr. Frank Maurer with the experienced team at CMG Ltd. to unlock these benefits. Dr. Chen has extensive experience in modelling and simulation for reservoir engineering, and his team has successfully developed several extended reality prototypes for reservoir engineering that have been well received by industry. Dr. Maurer brings extensive research expertise in human-computer interaction for immersive analytics applications. CMG Ltd. is a leader in the development of reservoir simulation and analysis software. This team is uniquely positioned to uncover how extended reality can provide value for the field of reservoir engineering. Their collective expertise allows them to determine the best way to apply immersive technologies effectively to reservoir engineering workflows to provide greater efficiencies when analyzing complex scientific data sets. This project will develop techniques to utilize extended reality for improved understanding of scenarios, more efficient workflows and greater collaboration while advancing the energy industry in Canada to the forefront of understanding how to apply these exciting new visual and interactive technologies to real-world problems.