Rock Property Prediction

Geocosm specializes in diagenetic modeling and rock property prediction.

Our technology is broadly used in the hydrocarbon industry and also is a useful tool for geothermal energy exploration and production and CO₂ sequestration.

Applications include:

  • Frontier basins:  use calibrated models for reservoirs from other basins together with basin models from the region of interest to assess reservoir quality risk in areas with little or no well data.
  • Play analysis and prospect pre-drill predictions:  use data from analog wells to calibrate model parameters prior to making predictions at specific prospects or over map regions.
  • Field development planning: use data from discovery wells to calibrate model parameters and then predict rock properties within earth models down structure to provide a unique basis for constraining injector well placement and aquifer support.

Our systems also been used to address a number of research topics in the geosciences.

Technology

Our reservoir quality, diagenesis, and rock property simulation systems are de facto industry standards.

Apply this technology to your problems by working with us on proprietary consulting projects or by joining our RQC consortium.

Science

Our systems for reservoir property prediction build on our scientific research.

Our approach is scientifically rigorous, quantitative, reproducible, and testable. Our methods build on our expertise in sedimentary petrology, geochemistry, physics, basin modeling, artificial intelligence, and risk assessment.

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Recent Posts

New Textbook!

2022/05/24

Sandstone Petrography, Petrology, and Modeling is now available from SEPM at this link:  https://lnkd.in/g9X9cwxC This book owes its existence to Tom Taylor, who had minor assistance from Linda Bonnell and Rob Lander. Chapter 12 includes a discussion of various diagenesis and reservoir quality models including Geocosm’s Touchstone, Prism2D, and Cyberstone simulation systems. From the publisher’s…

Touchstone 8.2 Released

2021/03/04

We are delighted to announce the release of version 8.2 of Touchstone, Geocosm’s flagship system for prediction of the diagenesis and properties of clastic rocks. Important new capabilities and enhancements in Touchstone 8.2 include: Sorting impact on compaction: We have introduced a new compaction model option that considers the influence of depositional IGV variations on…

2020 RQC Meeting

2020/12/22

Thanks to all who attended our 2020 RQC meeting discussion session on December 17th. This year we used an online format for the first time for our meeting with pre-recorded videos of our presentations and online workshops that were posted about a week before a live online discussion session. We had nearly 40 people take…

Touchstone Fundamentals Online!

2020/10/14

After months of work on both the content and our website we are delighted to announce that the Touchstone Fundamentals Course is now available online for active RQC members and recipients of academic Touchstone licenses. The course is intended for individuals who are new to Touchstone but experienced Touchstone modelers might find some things of…

Shaking

2020/04/13

In this strange time it isn’t surprising that you just want to shake something! Check out this Cyberstone simulation where we shake grains into a tighter packing arrangement.

3rd International School on Diagenesis

2020/02/10

The Applied Sedimentology Group at the GeoZentrum NordBayern (FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg) and Geocosm LLC. announce the 3rd School on the Diagenesis of Silicilastic Sediments on September 7-11, 2020.  The school will be held at the Geozentrum Nordbayern in Erlangen, Germany and will focus on the controls on sandstone diagenesis and their implications for data interpretation and modeling.…