Permanent Sensors Technology Development
KMS Technologies' staff has been involved in developing many geophysical systems for land, airborne, marine and borehole applications. Our present company focus includes ElectroMagnetic (EM) systems such as Magnetotellurics (MT) and Long Offset Transient ElectroMagnetics (LOTEM or Lotem) systems, both land and marine as well as borehole EM systems for LWD and geosteering applications.
Our vision is to take these technologies in the permanent water/ steam flood monitoring market. On this path we have developed various products. These products cover:
- Hardware products for magnetic and electric field measurements: EM permanent sensors
- Demonstration services for oil companies and geothermal producers:
EM Permanent Sensors
Together with various alliance partners we can provide full permanent or semi-permanent EM monitoring of water/steam flood from the surface or borehole or borehole-to-surface.
KMS Technologies has invented a system for mapping changes in fluid content of Earth formations which can be used where there is little acoustic impedance contrast between moved fluids, where the moved fluids are relatively electrically resistive, and which does not require permanently placed sensors in substantially every well bore drilled trough a reservoir.
KMS developed in the past gravity technology but dropped this effort due to the long lead time-to-market and the fact that rock density is included in the seismic impedance, and in most cases the use of seismic is recommended. From this effort we develop a spin off product Hole-o-Grav which you can see in the software section of this website.
While we can operate with little acoustic impedance, the integration with seismic is key to our overall direction of linking fluid and porosity monitoring with the exact location in the three-dimensional space. If you are interested in this or other products please contact us at info@kmstechnologies.
Related publications
Allegar, N., Strack, K.-M., Thomsen, L., and Yu, G., 2008, Reservoir monitoring with CSEM: SEG Las Vegas Annual Meeting-Workshop-10 "Unconventional time-lapse geophysics."
Colombo, D., S., Dasgupta, K. -M., Strack, and G., Yu, 2010, Results of Feasibility Study of Surface-to-Borehole Time-Domain CSEM for Water-Oil Fluid Substitution in Ghawar Field, Saudi Arabia, Presented at GEO 2010.
Colombo, D., M., Jervis, 2011, Feasibility Analysis of Surface-to-reservoir Electromagnetics for Waterflood Monitoring, 73rd EAGE Conference and Exhibition, Extended Abstract.
Davydycheva, S., I. M. Geldmacher, T. Hanstein, and K. Strack, 2017, CSEM revisited - Shales and reservoir monitoring, EAGE Annual Meeting, Paris.
Geldmacher, I., and K. Strack, 2017, A Fit-for-purpose electromagnetic System for Reservoir Monitoring and Geothermal Exploration, GRC Transactions, 41, 1649-165.
Hu, W., Yan, L., Su, Zhulio, and Zheng, R., 2008, Array TEM Sounding and Application for reservoir monitoring: SEG Las Vegas Annual Meeting, Extended Abstracts, 634-638.
Passalacqua, H., P. Boonyasaknanoon, , and K, Strack, 2016, Integrated Geophysical Monitoring for Heavy Oil, Heavy Oil Conference Kuwait, SPE-184089-MS (manuscript, presentation)
Passalacqua, H., S. Davydycheva, and K. Strack, 2018, Feasibility of multi-physics reservoir monitoring for Heavy Oil, Heavy Oil Conference Kuwait, SPE-193690-MS.
Strack, K.-M., 2010, Advances in Electromagnetics for Reservoir Monitoring: 8th International Conference & Exposition, Hyderabad.
Strack, K.-M., 2010, Advances in electromagnetics for reservoir monitoring: Geohorizons, June 2010, 15-18.
Strack, K.M., and Aziz, A.A., 2012, Full Field Array ElectroMagnetics for hydrocarbon reservoir exploration and monitoring, Geohorizons, Special Issue on Shale Gas, 18, 32-43.
Strack, K., S. Davydycheva, T, Hanstein, and M. Smirnov, 2017, A New Array System for Multiphysics (MT, LOTEM, and Microseismic) with Focus on Reservoir Monitoring, GeoEM 2017 conference Bandung Indonesia - invited keynote (paper submitted for publication, Expanded abstract, presentation), AIP Conference Proceedings 1861, 020001 (2017);