Petrophysical services in Saudi?

[Kim Frankcombe]

Is anyone aware of a contractor or university offering petrophysical testing of core samples in Saudi Arabia?

In particular I'm looking for IP/Res but the full suite would be good. 

Sending samples overseas is probably a hurdle too high for the client.

Cheers
Kim

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Kim Frankcombe

Senior Consulting Geophysicist

ExploreGeo

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Hi Kim,

 

There was a plan to do this but it became difficult.  I’m open to working with the right provider in country but happy to offer you an overseas option.

 

We are offering P and S wave on core as well so that might appeal even more and get your client over the line.

 

Cheers

Barry

 

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[Kim Frankcombe]

Thanks Baz.

Let me see if I can find someone local first before I go down the path of dumping their finance department admin on you.😉

Cheers
Kim

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Terra Petrophysics are happy to accept credit card Kim if it gets too hard.  Often it is the case with some of the groups we deal with.  We can even assist with customs clearance.

 

Baz

[Stephen Reford]

The Saudi Geological Survey in Jeddah offers physical property analysis. I’m not sure if they have IP/Res capabilities.

 

SGS has set up an excellent core scanning facility in the last couple of years, including hyperspectral and XRF. They have scanned > 70 km of core.

 

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Is anyone aware of a contractor or university offering petrophysical testing of core samples in Saudi Arabia?

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[S E Geoscience and Exploration]

The SGS does no have facilities to measure physical properties. 

What they have is a hyper spectral core scanning. A few months ago, they celebrated 100 km of scanning. 

Sergio Espinosa, Ph.D., P.Geo

Director, Geophysics

S E Geoscience & Exploration

[Stephen Reford]

OK, Googe’s AI overview is incorrect or at least ambiguous.

[S E Geoscience and Exploration]

In these cases, I prefer to use HI. 

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[S E Geoscience and Exploration]

About AI. 

The other day I was preparing some slides. I wanted to have a figure showing the magnetic vector potential. Since I was too lazy to do by myself, I asked AI to draw the vector field. It did it wrong twice. 

We should not always believe immediately all results given by AI (or by any software). 

Was Immanuel Kant who said “we should always doubt, even that the sun will rise tomorrow”? 

Sergio Espinosa, Ph.D., P.Geo

Director, Geophysics

S E Geoscience & Exploration