From 5 to 6,June, 2014 International Workshop on Digital Core Analysis Technology,hosted by UPC, was successfully held in UPC Qingdao. More than 100 scholars and experts from domestic and overseas universities, institutes and companies attended the workshop.
The workshop attracted professors, Ph.d candidates and research fellows from overseas universities, such as Imperial College London, New South Wales University, University of Calgary, CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization), Heriot-Watt University, etc. With the theme of Digital Core Technology Research, Pore Network Model Flow Simulation and its Application, attendees gave reports and exchanged ideas on the future of theory, technology and application of digital core.
In the past few years, digital core analysis technology has witnessed rapid growth. Universities and institutes at home and abroad has gained different experiences and developed features of their own. The digital core is formed with CT and construction method to create 3D cores for analysis of its physical properties, simulating the flow through it, and investigating the production conditions, fluid distribution and production mechanism in order to increase recovery. Digital core analysis technology workshop, launched by Center of Oil and Gas Flow Through Porous Media of UPC in 2012, offers an important platform for communication and cooperation between UPC and overseas universities, through which number of teachers and students has gone abroad for study and research and meanwhile, more and more foreign experts have been attracted to China and conducted joint researches with UPC.