The GEOPARD project is a Knowledge-building Project for Industry sponsored by the Research Council of Norway and four industry partners. It is an inter-disciplinary project, collaborating closely with the expertise of academia in geoscience and statistics. Three-dimensional geological models play an important role in predicting underground fluid flow and can be utilized across various fields, including hydrocarbon reservoirs and CO2-storage. Our aim is to improve model predictions by introducing geological concepts into the core of the statistical modelling algorithms.
The main delivery of the project is a model that not only generates a realistic representation of geology but also captures uncertainty and conditions data, including well data and outcrop analogues. This will meet the industry demands of more direct utilization of geological knowledge and analogue databases in development decisions.