connollygeo

Numerical simulation of geological and geomechanical systems.

We offer a complete range of services supporting your simulation of a geo-system at any scale. We can help you design simulations for computation on your platforms or undertake the complete study from inception to reporting.

Below are a few key points, please contact us to discuss your requirements

PRE-PROCESSING

• earth modelling QA/QC and validation
• model design incl. discretisation strategies assessment/recommendation
• discretisation and model construction

SOLVING

• simulation goals govern the technical requirements of the solver(s). Unfortunately, no solver can do everything required in a geological simulation. Each have their strengths and weaknesses.
• we review your project goals and provided solver recommendations and the reasoning for those. This includes discretisation strategies and their associated strengths and weaknesses.

POST-PROCESSING

• analysis and interpretation
• recommendations and identification of critical/useful parameters
• advanced & novel visualisation / information sharing techniques

Structural and field geology.

We can undertake a range of structural and field stuidies. From QC’ing interpretations and structural models to detailed collection of field information and related mapping.

Below are a few specialities, please contact us to discuss your requirements

FRACTURE NETWORKS

• mapping
• mechanical impact on elastic properties

FAULTED and FOLDED TERRANES

• poly-phase deformation in mid-low grade settings

STRUCTURAL and EARTH MODEL BUILDING

REGIONAL ANALYSES

RESERVOIR ANALOGUES

Computational geoscience

Over 30 years’ of experience designing, commissioning, building and maintaining hardware and software systems for individuals, small and large teams in academia, consulting and corporate environments. We can evaluate your computational geoscience requirements and design a custom strategy with solution(s) fit for either the next project or numerous upgrade cycles and at all scales.

We will evaluate your existing infrastructure and your ongoing computational requirements then provide several strategies on how to achieve those goals for the highest ROI.

A few of the numerous factors we consider are listed below, please contact us to discuss your requirements:

• number of users
• budget
• types of computation: graphics, earth modelling, simulation (e.g. geomechanics, geophysics, reservoir, loosely coupled, fully coupled, CFD…)
• software stack(s): commercial code vs. in-house-vs. FOSS; business cases based on relative impact of IP, licencing, OpEx, CapEx and in-house IT requirements.
• HPC, workstations, remote blades…
• storage, back-up, archival, retrieval…
• upgrade strategy – aka future proofing (which isn’t possible).
  • Both the hardware architecture and software stacks evolve rapidly and strategies are necessary to minimise the productivity and $ impact those have;
• cloud options
  • pretty much anything can now be passed to the cloud. Normally this is a balance between OpEx (higher $/cycle) turnaround rate and CapEx (upfront cost and maintenance, upgrades).