Patent ID: 8244472

Claim:
A computer-implemented method of generating simulated data for a hypothetical rock formation to enable testing of a plurality of well-logging tools, the method comprising: generating, via a computer, a model of a hypothetical virtual geologic volume of interest not from an existing known wellbore formation, wherein the model of the hypothetical virtual geologic volume of interest describes the structure and composition of mineralogy and fluid present in the hypothetical virtual geologic volume of interest, and wherein properties of the mineralogy and the fluid in the hypothetical virtual geologic volume of interest are distributed in a configuration intended to mimic distributions of properties that occur in real world geologic volumes; determining a first test property as a function of position within the virtual geologic volume of interest, wherein the first test property is a first type of simulated data and wherein the first test property is measurable in actual geologic volumes of interest by a first well-logging tool; determining a second test property as a function of position within the virtual geologic volume of interest, wherein the second test property is a second type of simulated data and wherein the second test property is measurable in actual geologic volumes of interest by a second well-logging tool that is different from the first well-logging tool; providing the first test property as a function of position within the hypothetical virtual geologic volume of interest and a representation of the model of the hypothetical virtual geologic volume of interest to enable a simulated test of the hypothetical virtual geologic volume of interest by the first well-logging tool; and providing the second test property as a function of position within the hypothetical virtual geologic volume of interest and the representation of the model of the hypothetical virtual geologic volume of interest to enable a simulated test of the hypothetical virtual geologic volume of interest by the second well-logging tool.