GeoVerse Lab
← Intelligent Geophysical Exploration Division

Well Logging & Petrophysics Center

Analyzes well log data and rock physics relationships to characterize reservoir properties and fluid saturation, integrating wireline and LWD logs with core data to derive porosity, permeability, lithology, and hydrocarbon saturation for reservoir models.

⚙️ GeoVerse System Administration Division🖥️ AI & Computing Sciences Division🔬 Basic Sciences Division⚡ Intelligent Geophysical Exploration Division🛢️ Resource & Energy Engineering Division🌍 Applied Geoscience Solutions Division💼 Economics, Policy & Strategy Division🎓 Education & Training Development Division🚀 Innovation & International Collaboration Division
Seismic Exploration & Imaging CenterGravity & Magnetic Methods CenterElectromagnetic Methods CenterEarthquake Seismology CenterIntegrated Geophysics & Interpretation CenterInversion & Modeling CenterWell Logging & Petrophysics Center
Gus Archie🔑
⭐ Center Chief
Gus Archie
Center Head
💡 Archie's law for formation resistivity
Michael Schoenberg🔑
1943–2008
Michael Schoenberg
Researcher
💡 Introduced the linear-slip theory (1980, 1983) characterizing elastic wave behavior across fractured interfaces, foundational to seismic and acoustic-log anisotropy analysis for fractured reservoirs
⚡ Intelligent Geophysical Exploration DivisionWell Logging & Petrophysics Center
Irving Fatt🔑
1920–1996
Irving Fatt
Researcher
💡 Applied physics of fluid flow through small pores to petroleum reservoir rock, advancing core-analysis methodology for relative permeability and capillary behavior
⚡ Intelligent Geophysical Exploration DivisionWell Logging & Petrophysics Center
Arthur Compton🔑
1892–1962
Arthur Compton
Researcher
💡 Discovered the Compton effect (1923), the gamma-ray scattering physics that is the direct physical basis of gamma-gamma formation density logging
⚡ Intelligent Geophysical Exploration DivisionWell Logging & Petrophysics Center
Alexander A. Kaufman🔑
1931–2023
Alexander A. Kaufman
Researcher
💡 Made foundational contributions to inductive electromagnetic well logging theory, including resolving power, vertical resolution, anisotropy effects, and transient EM logging techniques
⚡ Intelligent Geophysical Exploration DivisionWell Logging & Petrophysics Center
Robert C. Earlougher🔑
1941–2011
Robert C. Earlougher
Researcher
💡 Authored the influential 1977 SPE monograph 'Advances in Well Test Analysis', the standard reference for pressure transient analysis and formation testing
⚡ Intelligent Geophysical Exploration DivisionWell Logging & Petrophysics Center
Fritz Gassmann🔑
1899–1990
Fritz Gassmann
Researcher
💡 Derived Gassmann's equation (1951), relating a porous rock's elastic moduli to the properties of its pore fluid, the standard tool for fluid substitution in well-log and seismic rock physics
⚡ Intelligent Geophysical Exploration DivisionWell Logging & Petrophysics Center
James Chadwick🔑
1891–1974
James Chadwick
Researcher
💡 Discovered the neutron (1932), earning the 1935 Nobel Prize in Physics; neutron physics is the direct foundation of neutron porosity well logging
⚡ Intelligent Geophysical Exploration DivisionWell Logging & Petrophysics Center
Edward Mills Purcell🔑
1912–1997
Edward Mills Purcell
Researcher
💡 Independently discovered nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) in condensed matter (1946), sharing the 1952 Nobel Prize in Physics; NMR physics underlies modern NMR well logging tools
⚡ Intelligent Geophysical Exploration DivisionWell Logging & Petrophysics Center
Wilhelm Röntgen🔑
1845–1923
Wilhelm Röntgen
Researcher
💡 Discovered X-rays (1895), earning the first Nobel Prize in Physics (1901); the underlying photoelectric absorption physics is engineered into the photoelectric factor (PeF) log and X-ray fluorescence core/cuttings analysis
⚡ Intelligent Geophysical Exploration DivisionWell Logging & Petrophysics Center
Adrian E. Scheidegger🔑
1925–2014
Adrian E. Scheidegger
Researcher
💡 Authored 'The Physics of Flow Through Porous Media', the standard reference textbook establishing the physical theory of permeability and multiphase flow in reservoir rock
⚡ Intelligent Geophysical Exploration DivisionWell Logging & Petrophysics Center
Serge A. Scherbatskoy🔑
1908–2002
Serge A. Scherbatskoy
Researcher
💡 Held over 200 patents in radioactivity well logging instrumentation, foundational to gamma-ray, neutron, and density logging tool design
⚡ Intelligent Geophysical Exploration DivisionWell Logging & Petrophysics Center
Marcel Schlumberger🔑
1884–1953
Marcel Schlumberger
Researcher
💡 Co-invented (with brother Conrad) continuous electrical well logging (1927) and co-founded Schlumberger Ltd, the origin of modern wireline formation evaluation
⚡ Intelligent Geophysical Exploration DivisionWell Logging & Petrophysics Center
Friedrich Kohlrausch🔑
1840–1910
Friedrich Kohlrausch
Researcher
💡 Kohlrausch's law of independent ion migration; precision measurement of electrolyte conductivity
⚡ Intelligent Geophysical Exploration DivisionWell Logging & Petrophysics Center