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Production Enhancement
To enhance production, reservoirs are commonly hydraulically
fractured to improve flow, and flooded with water, carbon
dioxide, or hydrocarbon gases to force more oil and gas to
the wellbore. Through its Production Enhancement business
unit Core Laboratories provides patented and proprietary completions
diagnostics technology to enhance hydraulic fracturing. And
the success of a flood can be bolstered by using our proprietary
field-flood tracer technology which enables the movement of
the flooding agent to be tracked, thereby helping to eliminate
any costly remediation.
Production can also be enhanced by controlling formation damage,
which is recognized as the leading cause of under-performing
wells worldwide. Core Laboratories’ provides well-completion
perforating gun systems that are specifically designed to
minimize formation damage while maximizing the communication,
or transmissibility, between the producing formation and the
wellbore.
Additionally, Core Laboratories provides a broad range of
testing services for drilling cementing, completion and stimulation
design, additive evaluation, petrology and reservoir analysis.
Reservoir Management
Maximizing production from existing reservoirs is critically
important for any company exploring for and producing hydrocarbons.
Through its Reservoir Management business unit Core Laboratories’
offers seismic acquisition, processing, and imaging methods
that can delineate the size, shape, and thickness of a reservoir,
and can monitor flood fronts as they pass through the producing
formations.
To enable oil and gas companies to "see" how their
reservoirs are performing, Core Laboratories makes continuous
real-time measurements of reservoir temperature, pressure,
and flow. These measurements are critical to the successful
implementation of any reservoir management, production enhancement,
or enhanced oil recovery (EOR) project.
While accurate data generation is important, understanding
how to use these data is critical. Core Laboratories is expert
at generating, compiling, and interpreting reservoir data.
Through regional geological and petrophysical studies that
integrate detailed seismic, geological, petrophysical, and
well production information, Core Laboratories can provide
a multi-disciplinary approach to complete reservoir characterization.
And to help our customers manage their producing fields optimally,
Core offers integrated teams of engineers, geophysicists,
and geologists to apply our unparalleled knowledge of reservoir
systems and our proprietary completion and production enhancement
techniques to reservoir management projects worldwide.
Reservoir Description
Core Laboratories’ Reservoir Description technologies
measure rock properties and the ways that reservoir fluids
behave when a reservoir is being produced. Samples of reservoir
rocks are analyzed for their porosity to determine reservoir
storage capacity, and for their permeability to define the
ability of the rock to permit fluid flow. These basic measurements
are then combined with advanced rock properties analysis to
provide detailed input for electric log calibration, saturation
distribution, and fluid flow parameters. Analysis of formation
damage is also performed to provide detailed solutions to
wellbore and production impairment problems and support investigation
of stimulation and treatment effects.
The ability of Core Laboratories to combine all aspects of
reservoir characterization allows us to develop critical input
for the development of reservoir simulation models that are
central to the appraisal and development of any hydrocarbon
accumulation. Core's fundamental and basic measurements provide
the foundation for determining how much oil and gas are present
in a reservoir and the rates at which the hydrocarbons can
be produced. The more completely the properties of oilfields'
reservoir systems are understood, the more oil and gas these
fields will ultimately produce.
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