Solutions for Research

Many University R&D programs focus on the fact that rocks are inherently complex, heterogeneous porous systems. Few problems in shallow geophysical logging are independent of pore spaces, pore fluids and rock-fluid interactions. Mount Sopris tools are used as part of R&D programs addressing rock and soil properties as related to in-situ problems encountered every day. Sonic wave velocity analysis, hydraulic & electromagnetic properties, and petrophysical properties, along with problems associated with borehole breakouts, instability, and mapping of fractures from borehole images are all a part of subsurface modeling and prediction.

Other uses of Mount Sopris downhole geophysical logging tools span a wide variety of scientific investigations and applications carried out at universities all over the world, some of which include:

• Sea level variations and salt water intrusion
• Thermal and mechanical properties of shale in fracking areas
• Faults and Fracture Zones
• Structure and Lithology
• Caverns, Sinkholes and Karsts
• Nuclear Waste Disposal
• Bedrock topography
• Properties of natural gas hydrates
• Advanced Stratigraphy
• Buried Paleochannels
• Borehole logging through ice
• Uranium research