Go to PMI website GEOGENOME™ INDUSTRY CONSORTIUM


"... is it possible to break down a natural composite (bone, shale, concrete) to a scale where mechanical properties do not change from one specimen to another, and 'nanoengineer' its behavior from the nanoscale to the macroscale of large scale engineering applications?"
GEOGENOME™ NEWS

* GeoGenome Consortium 2009 meeting will be held at O.U, June 4-5 2009.

* GeoGenome Consortium 2008 meeting was held on August 19-20, 2008 at ConocoPhillips in Houston, TX.

* QGGMS™ v.1.10 was released in May 2008 and available to download in GeoGenone™ software section

* SPE paper 110120 "Geomechanics Field and Lab Characterization of Woodford Shale: The Next Gas Play" presented at ATCE 2007 conference, Anaheim, California, November 2007 and highlighted in the American Oil & Gas Reporter, January 2008

* Minh Tran and Nabanita Gupta poster on Barnett shale characterization won the 1st place award in the 2008 AAPG/SEG Student EXPO
Synopsis
  • GeoGenome™ of sedimentary rocks and earth material is a basis for quantifiable mechanical classification based on Nanotechnology, Genetic Sequencing, Earth material history

  • GeoGenome™ is an upscaling for geoengineering applications similar to human genome

  • The identification of the fundamental physico-chemical functional units in shales (geogenes)

Consortium Members
ConocoPhillips
Ecopetrol
Halliburton
Saudi Aramco
Statoil
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