Reservoir property image slices from the Groningen gas field for image translation and segmentation

arXiv cs.CV / 5/6/2026

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Key Points

  • The paper introduces a high-resolution, openly available dataset of 2D reservoir-property image slices derived from the Groningen static geological model.
  • The images are aligned and cover key properties—facies, porosity, permeability, and water saturation—making them suitable for visualization, segmentation, and image-to-image translation.
  • Alongside the original PNG corpus, the authors provide an archived software workflow to reproduce augmentation, mask generation, paired-image construction, and baseline experiments.
  • The dataset is intended to enable transparent, reproducible benchmarking of geological image analysis methods and to study cross-domain relationships among reservoir properties.
  • By separating the fixed dataset from the processing workflow, the work aims to support reuse across geoscience, reservoir modeling, and machine-learning applications.

Abstract

Reservoir characterization workflows increasingly rely on image-based and machine-learning/deep learning or even generative AI approaches, but openly available geological image datasets suitable for reproducible benchmarking remain limited. Here we describe a high-resolution dataset of reservoir-property image slices derived from the Groningen static geological model. The dataset contains aligned two-dimensional PNG images representing facies, porosity, permeability, and water saturation, generated from three-dimensional reservoir grids and prepared for downstream visualization, segmentation, and image-to-image translation tasks. In addition to the deposited original image corpus, we provide an archived software workflow for reproducing augmentation, mask generation, paired-image construction, and example baseline experiments. The resource is designed to support benchmarking of geological image analysis methods and the study of cross-domain relationships among reservoir properties. By separating the fixed image dataset from the reproducible processing workflow, this work provides a transparent foundation for reuse in geoscience, reservoir modeling, and machine-learning applications.