Coring an exploratory well is a fine balancing process. Geoscientists need to compromise on how much data they want vs. how much they can obtain in a reasonable time frame. But when it comes to core analysis, which is often essential to subsurface understanding, the time frame can be anything but reasonable.This issue has prompted many companies to try to deliver solutions in which most of the preliminary core analysis work is performed at the well site. One such company is PetroArc International (PAI), which since 2005 has worked with…

View the complete original article here.