Services include

• Integration of borehole data, outcrop data, and photogrammetry data 
• Fragmentation (block sizing) assessment
• Bench & slope optimization through kinematic stability evaluation
• Spill width evaluation
• Integrated DFN-FEM finite element stress solution
• Upscaled geomechanical properties input for other numerical modelling tools
• Mining method simulation
• Subsidence evaluation
• Support system evaluation including rock bolting, shotcrete, and grouting 
• Mineral resource evaluation
• Hydrogeological evaluation for groundwater flow
• Bespoke mining techniques and approaches for in-situ leaching and lithium brine extraction 
• Hydraulic fracturing rock mass preconditioning

WSP is a pioneer in the use of the Discrete Fracture Network (DFN) approach to solve mining characterization and engineering challenges.

By building geologically realistic models of the rock mass structure, DFN models can accurately capture both the geometry and connectivity of the fracture network, as well as the geometry of the associated rock blocks. DFN models are stochastic models, so the probabilistic likelihood of an occurrence such as block instability, or block size, or occurrence, can be determined through the generation of multiple realizations of the same statistically identical DFN model descriptions. Most importantly, DFN models provide a clear and reproducible route from site investigation and data acquisition to geotechnical modeling, because real fracture geometries and properties are preserved throughout the modeling process.

Services include

• Rock slope and bench stability
• Rock fragmentation and block sizing
• Probabilistic engineering design
• In-situ stress evaluation
• Tunneling support requirements against block failure via bolting & shotcrete
• Aperture Controlled Grouting (ACG)
• Ground water inflow evaluation
• Monte Carlo simulation and risk/uncertainty assessment
• Tunnel water inflows 

As the appetite for large infrastructure projects grows, so does the need for characterization and design services for large underground excavations within fractured rocks. 

FracMan has been utilized around the world for assessment of the stability of tunnel and cavern excavations, fractured rock slopes and benches, as well as for groundwater control and engineering support strategies.

We strive to deliver effective and innovative solutions to the challenges that operators face.

Services include

• Development of site descriptive models
• Radioactive waste repository site characterization
• Performance Assessment
• Groundwater flow and solute contaminant transport
• Discrete fracture network multi-phase flow modeling & particle tracking
• Fully transient flow test calibration
• Fractured rock analysis and characterization
• Earthquake and induced seismicity risk assessment
• Geotechnical design including cavern, deposition tunnel, and deposition pit stability
• Bentonite backfill interaction with fracture network
• Paleo-hydrogeologic modeling of glacial and brine end members
• Radioactive waste repository licensing support
• Monte Carlo simulation and risk/uncertainty assessment

WSP has been providing solutions for nuclear waste facilities in fractured rocks for over three decades. This means your company will benefit from our global experience with nuclear waste disposal and our solid reputation in fractured rock systems.

We have worked on nuclear waste repository programs across the world in a wide range of geological settings and rock types.  No application is too challenging. We are ready to move your project forward.

Services include

• Advanced data analysis
• Pore Pressure prediction
• 1D/3D MEM development
• Geologically realistic fracture DFN modeling
• Reservoir connectivity and compartmentalization assessment
• Support exploration and development well planning
• Integrated well test flow simulation for hydraulically calibration 
• Integrated geomechanics simulations
• Dual porosity dual permeability descriptions 
• Water cut analyses
• Fault reactivation evaluations 
• Upscaled flow and geomechanics simulation
• Hydraulic fracturing well stimulation techniques
• Evaluation of secondary recovery performance
• Simulation of coupled geothermal reservoir systems
• Simulation of supercritical CO2 reservoir storage
• Monte Carlo simulation and risk/uncertainty assessment

When you work with WSP, you work with confidence. WSP has evaluated a diverse array of fractured reservoirs throughout the world, including renewables like deep geothermal, conventional and unconventional hydrocarbons, and reservoir storage strategies such as Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS).  

The professionals delivering our consulting services using FracMan software bring a wealth of practical experience in the oil, gas and renewables industries and use specially designed workflows to provide clients with solutions to reservoir appraisal and development challenges.