The main objective of this project is for a university-industry consortium to develop a comprehensive model for fractured carbonate reservoirs based on the "data cube" concept using the Michigan Basin as a prototype. This project will combine traditional historical data with 2D and 3D seismic data as well as data from modern logging tools in a novel way to produce a new methodology for characterizing fractured reservoirs in carbonate rocks. Advanced visualization software will be used to fuse the data and to image it on a variety of scales, ranging from basin-scale to well-scales.

Figure produced from digital data acquired from http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/1997/of97-455/