Research & Development and innovation have and will always be central to our operations. Much of our Research & Development and innovation has been funded internally but we have always tried to attract external funding. Our flagship software product TrapTester (successor to FAPS) was funded initially by Enterprise Oil and then by three UK Government Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Link grants, some with oil company funding

We have recently completed the following projects.

iSIMM

iSIMM, a basin modelling and seismic imaging project together with Cambridge University, Liverpool University. and Schlumberger, is funded by NERC, the DTI and a consortium of 7 oil companies. More details can be found on the iSIMM web site

Elastic Dislocation Project

The Elastic Dislocation Project, research into modelling the strain in faulted structures for small fault and fracture prediction, conducted with Professor Nick Kusznir, Liverpool University, is a LINK Project funded by the Engineering and Physical Research Council and the DTI and was completed in 2002. Now implemented as FaultED module in TrapTester..

SAIGUP

SAIGUP, research into geological aspects of reservoir modelling, was a university multi-company project funded by the European Union, completed in September 2003. More details about this project can be found on the SAIGUP web site

Fault-zone geometries and two-phase flow in reservoir simulation

Fault-zone geometries and 2-phase properties in reservoir simulation is an industry-funded project sponsored under the auspices of ITF (Industry Technology Facilitator), and led by the Fault Analysis Group at Dublin. The project finished in September 2004 and has extend the capabilities of TransGen.

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