MIPT has developed import-independent software for oil workers and gold miners

The digital solution proposed by MIPT employees allows, by processing field data from electrical exploration, to determine the presence of mineral deposits in the study area. This progressive approach can significantly reduce the risks of unproductive drilling during the production process.

*Using specialized software, you can build a 3D model of the study area*

Electrical prospecting is a geophysical research method based on determining the electrical properties of the subsurface. By transmitting electrical signals from the surface and recording the induced fields on it, it is possible to obtain information about the composition of the soil, the presence of fluids, precious metals, oil and gas. At the same time, Vasily Golubev, leading researcher at the Laboratory of Applied Computational Geophysics at MIPT, clarifies that drilling operations are not required for this.

“Using specialized software, you can build a 3D model of the area under study. The “digital terrain map” is based on electrical survey data. By analyzing this information, it is possible not only to study the structure of the proposed deposit, but also to determine the quality of reserves (types of precious metals, presence of oil or gas at the site). Also, the use of computer modeling methods allows us to accurately determine the location of fossils in the territory, which reduces the risk of drilling a well in the wrong place,” — continues Vasily Golubev.

*The use of computer modeling methods allows us to accurately determine the location of fossils in the territory*

Software developed Laboratory of Applied Computational Geophysics MIPT from scratch in the C++ programming language without using any commercial or third-party libraries. This completely solves the problem of external dependencies or restrictions on its application to any projects of domestic mining companies. There are no direct analogues of the software on the domestic market, but among foreign ones we can highlight the service provided by SLB and Viridien. Taking into account the existing difficulties in purchasing licenses for foreign software products for companies in the oil and gas sector, this fact is a significant advantage.

To date, the calculation kernel has been developed and tested in detail, which allows the laboratory team to carry out commercial work in two areas: calculation of electric and magnetic fields and impedance for a given model of a geological massif; reconstruction of a three-dimensional model of the physical properties of a medium based on electromagnetic field or impedance measurements.

“The advantages of the software we have developed include, firstly, its effective parallelization on multi-core and multi-processor systems, which allows us to carry out calculations on full-size geological models in a short time. Secondly, the use of specially developed preconditioning technologies ensures significantly faster convergence of numerical solutions. In addition, the software can be easily adapted to the specifics of the work and the needs of a particular customer.A”, – says Vasily Golubev, leading researcher at the Laboratory of Applied Computational Geophysics at MIPT.

Лаборатория прикладной вычислительной геофизики МФТИ была создана в 2014 г. в рамках программы 5топ100 Московского физико-технического института, направленной на повышение конкурентоспособности ведущих российских университетов среди ведущих мировых научно-образовательных центров.

Основном задачей лаборатории является проведение передовых исследований и разработка методов геофизических исследований на основе инновационных методов численного моделирования и решения обратных задач геофизики на высокопроизводительных вычислительных системах.