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In 1987, Dr. Renjun Wen, Founder and Chief Technology Architect moved to Norway to pursue research interests in geostatistics and petroleum geology. As part of a post-doctorate project at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in the early 1990's, Wen developed Geomodeling's core technology, SBED.

Based on his research, he was contracted by Statoil Research Centre in 1996. He worked with fault analysis from seismic attributes and provided small-scale models for remaining reserves projects. The foundation of VisualVoxAt was created during this period.

At Statoil Renjun participated in an integrated reservoir characterization study called the Remaining Reserves project. The aim of the project was to explore solutions for improving oil recovery in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea fields. The reservoir asset teams knew that part of the solution was to include the effects of small-scale heterogeneity in full-field-scale reservoir models. However, available reservoir technology was unable to model the complex interlayering in the sandstone fields.

In two months, Wen developed software that could realistically model the cross bedding and parallel bedding structures observed in the deposits. These detailed models were subsequently used to calculate the kv/kh for the reservoir units and helped to define strategies for optimal recover.

After completing his contract in the Remaining Reserves project, Wen immigrated to Canada with his wife and two children. In Calgary, Alberta, Wen saw great opportunities for taking his research to the business units of major petroleum companies. With the advent of the software and an idea, Geomodeling was born.

Today, Geomodeling has international offices and resellers in Canada, China, Brazil, Malaysia, Mexico, Norway, USA and Venezuela.