**Acknowledgement**

ADCO and ADNOC Management are acknowledged for their permission to publish these novel Digital Rock Physics based SCAL results.

Numerical Rocks (Norway) is acknowledged for providing the detailed drafts relating to the procedures adopted in example DRP computations and the robust measurements presented in this chapter.

Ingrain Inc (Houston and Abu Dhabi) are acknowledged for introducing the author to the various challenges ahead, and the uncertainties in current DRP based dvelopments.

Digital Core (Australia) is gratefully remembered in first introducing the concept of DRP to Middle East, and involving ADCO in one of the first Joint Industy Projects offered to industry.

iRocks (Beijing and London) are acknowledged for many stimulating discussions relating to the state-of-the-art.

Finally, one must remember the ADCO DRP team for the interest generated and the numerous insights to imaging, segmentation, data evolution and their impact on different Petrophysical, SCAL and elastic properties. I thank my son, AbdAllah, for helping me in getting this draft ready despite the very busy schedules of August 2012.

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