Customized Laboratory Services – A ResLab Speciality

ResLab is renowned for its capability to adapt and build laboratory equipment to address specific reservoir questions. In the Gulf region, where the spectrum of oil & gas assets is so diverse in terms of geology, reservoir architecture and production history, a customized approach to analytical procedures becomes paramount. The EL ResLab laboratory has the strong support of the ResLab equipment design and manufacture division in Norway, to enable our clients to tackle the most challenging reservoir questions, to achieve the most realistic reservoir simulation possible.

Expanding Range of Services In The Middle East – Rock and Fluid Analyses and Consultancy Services

Since 1998, resulting from our total commitment to high quality analyses and personal service, EL ResLab has established itself as a premier core analysis laboratory in the Middle East. We are delighted that the demand for our services has expanded both in terms of geographical reach and the range of services that we can provide.

Convention Core Analysis

• Core handling and preservation
• Gypsum core stabilization
• Spectral core gamma log
• Core screening
• Fluid saturation
• Fluid saturation by tracer analysis
• Plug analysis – porosity, permeability and grain density
• Whole core analysis
• Automated probe permeability
• Digital core photography
• Standard core photography
• Thin section preparation
• Core slice resination
• Core slabbing and packing
• High Pressure Mercury Injection (MicroMiretics Autopor 5)

Special Core Analysis

• Miscible solvent flush cleaning
• Electrical properties, ambient and at reservoir conditions
• Capillary pressure – single sample porous plate at reservoir confining pressure, ambient and high temperature
• Combinations of resistivity /porous plate measurements in single core holders
• Overburden measurements
• Wettability
• Unsteady state relative permeability at reservoir conditions
  • Water- and oil displacements
  • Gas- and oil displacements
• Steady state relative permeability
• Capillary pressure and relative permeability

Reservoir Fluid Sampling and Analysis

A complete reservoir fluid management service is available for our clients at the wellsite. The following range of services are currently available in this area.

FLUID SAMPLING SERVICES

• Bottom Hole Sampling
• Wireline Formation Sampling (WFS)
• Separator, Wellhead & Flowline Sampling
• Isokinetic Sampling
• Sample Cylinders

WELLSITE FLUID ANALYSIS SERVICES

• Reservoir Fluid Analysis (RFA)
• Gas Analysis
• Oil or Condensate Analysis
• Water Analysis

COMPLIMENTARY FLUID SERVICES

• Fluid sample bottle storage
• Fluid sample management sevices
• PVT Laboratory Services (from Norway)

Geological and Consultancy Services

Integrated reservoir studies have been at the heart of the success of our operations in the Middle East since EL ResLab was established. We continue to expand this area of our business as demand for high quality, coherent reservoir modelling grows year on year.

• Integrated Reservoir Description
  • Reservoir architecture description and prediction
  • Reservoir quality evaluation
  • Inorganic geochemistry
  • Bore hole imaging interpretation
• Core sedimentology including lithofacies and ichnofacies analysis and key surface recognition
• Thin section petrography – modal and textural analysis for measurement of framework grains
• SEM/EDAX examination
• XRD analysis
• Cathodoluminescence examination
• Stable isotope analysis
• Fluid inclusion analysis
• UV flourescence
• Heavy mineral analysis
• Minipermeametry analysis
• Biostratigraphical analysis
• Interpretation / report generation / consultancy
• Fracture logging analysis
• Wireline log interpretation
• Integration with NMR data

EL RESLAB SERVICES Available from the ResLab Group

In addition to the range of services that we offer from our laboratory in Abu Dhabi, ResLab provides a comprehensive range of services from its world-class laboratories in Norway. All rock and fluid sample handling and procurement is dealt with by El ResLab for projects requiring sample shipment to Norway. Samples can be collected from the point of origin and professionally handled until the delivery of the analytical results and return of samples to the client. Please ask for further information and “flyers” regarding ResLab services in each of the following areas:

Laboratory Equipment Manufacture

Our in-house capability of developing and manufacturing laboratorytesting equipment gives us the ability to tackle the most complex reservoir questions for our clients. This is indeed one of our principal competitive advantages, as we develop more sophiosticated analytical methods and improved Core Analysis equipment from our research laboratories in Norway. We can offer our clients complete quality assurance at our laboratories, due to our intimate knowledge of the testing equipment that we manufacture and deploy.

NMR Studies

ResLab is the world leader for the provision of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) studies, within the Oil & Gas sector. NMR laboratory tests provide our clients with significantly enhanced reservoir definition in terms of pore size, pore size distribution, vertical permeability variation in the well bore, and vertical reservoir compartmentalisation based on permeability criteria. We therefore offer our clients data to achieve more accurate permeability prediction models and ultimately enhanced reservoir volume definition and flow predictions, by integration with existing petrophysical and geological data.

Advanced Reservoir Studies

Today, ResLab has probably the highest capacity commercial laboratory for performance of reservoir condition studies. Our equipment design and manufacture allows all of our reservoir condition rigs to be highly flexible and adaptable. These systems are continually being assessed to ascertain areas of improvement, in order to provide the most accurate reservoir conditions data possible.

Formation Damage Studies – Solutions for Increasing Production

ResLab adopts a multidisciplinary approach within Formation Damage, utilising geologists, petrophysicists and reservoir engineers to provide a complete service from test design and construction, to damage mechanism identification and interpretation. We continue to direct our research towards providing solutions to the problems that well fluids cause to reservoir productivity.

• Studies for the effects of mud and completion fluids on near well-bore flow properties
• Fluid simulation tests
• Permeability versus rate tests
• Fines migration tests
• Dynamic filration tests
• Solids / filtrate invasion depth tests

Rock Mechanics

Linking rock mechanics and core analysis puts ResLab in a unique position as a service supplier. This relates the parameters affecting underground stresses, rock deformation and reservoir performance. The integrated data is crucial for well and reservoir engineering, providing our clients with further information to optimise their present and future production operations.

PVT Analysis

The trend away from outright exploration orientated new ventures, towards a preference for EOR production ventures within the E & P companies brings added importance to the analysis of reservoir fluids within the service sector. In 1999, ResLab established our world-class PVT laboratory in anticipation of increasing demand for fluid analysis. The PVT laboratory is now complimented with our offshore sampling capability, providing our clients with a comprehensive reservoir fluids service.

Storage Services

ResLab has pioneered the commercial development of high capacity storage services for the E & P companies from its facilities in Norway. Within the ResLab storage facility in Stavanger, alone, we handle and store more than 250,000 meters of core for the E & P companies on a day-to-day basis. We have already exported these storage services to the Middle East and Latin America in recent years and we will continue to commit to servicing international markets locally, according to requests from our clients.

Research and Development

ResLab is dedicated towards providing its customers with the highest possible level of service, which fuels our desire to meet the present and future technical challenges. ResLab is actively pursuing Research and Development across all of its technical divisions in our continuing effort to maintain our position as a leading provider of rock and fluid analytical services.