Digitalcore’s technology is derived from a leading-edge imaging and analysis facility and computational infrastructure developed over the last ten years. It includes continued development of optimal hardware for acquiring high signal-to-noise 3D images via in-house built micro-CT technology down to 1 micron. Complimentary experimental techniques including optical microscopy, petrography, Backscattered Scanning Electron Microscopy (BSEM), and Focussed Ion Beam SEM (FIBSEM) allow Digitalcore to probe the pore scale structure in core material in a continuous range across over six decades of length scales (from 20 nm to 5 cm). This facilitates imaging of the 3D pore-space of a rock and fluid distributions within pores over several orders of magnitude.

Digitalcore uses highly innovative, optimised and massively parallel algorithms for image reconstruction, image registration, image quality control, enhanced and novel phase identification, structural characterisation and multi-phase fluid displacement.  They also use state-of-the-art software for the  prediction of key petrophysical properties directly from digitised tomographic images including permeability, resistivity, multidimensional NMR response, acoustic response, drainage capillary pressure, residual saturations and relative permeability.