Reslab Solintec do Brasil is a Brazilian service company, with headquarters in Rio de Janeiro, and storage & laboratory facility about 25 km NE of the city. Founded in 2000, the company pioneered the provision of storage and wellsite services to the international oil companies in Brazil, in full accordance with the directives of the National Petroleum Agency, ANP. The parent company, Reservoir Laboratories A.S., with headquarters in Trondheim (Norway), supplies additional support for high-end analytical and technical services. As a result, a comprehensive range of world-class storage & logistics, as well as rock & fluid analytical services are available locally today.

Based on the high quality of its services during and after drilling operations, the company has built a significant client portfolio, which includes Amerada Hess, BP, BG, ChevronTexaco, Devon, ElPaso, ENI, ExxonMobil, Kerr McGee, Maersk, Ocean Energy, Repsol YPF, Shell, TotalFinaElf, Unocal and Wintershall, among others. Particularly successful within the scope of services offered, are the storage service packages, which are designed to provide the local operations teams with a practical 'hands-off' solution for the day-to-day handling of their subsurface samples (rocks and fluids).

Services offered in Brazil

• Storage and Logistics
• Wellsite Core Services and Specialised Core Handling Equipment
• Conventional Core Analysis
• Petroleum Geochemistry
• Biostratigraphy
• Reservoir Geology
• Non-Exclusive (Multiclient) Studies

Being able to mobilise a comprehensive range of additional services from the Reslab Group, the company continues to adapt to the local service demand, subject to specific client request.

Services available from the ResLab Group through ResLab Solintec do Brasil

In addition to the range of services offered from the laboratory facility in Rio de Janeiro, a comprehensive range of services is available from ResLab's world-class laboratories in Norway. For such services, and projects requiring sample shipment to Norway, all sample handling and procurement is dealt with by the Brazilian company, covering all aspects of sample collection and preparation, export logistics and repatriation. Please inquire for further information and brochures regarding ResLab services in each of the following areas:

Laboratory Equipment Manufacture

ResLab's in-house capability of developing and manufacturing laboratory testing equipment gives the company the ability to tackle the most complex reservoir questions for its clients. This is indeed one of the principal competitive advantages, as more sophisticated analytical methods and improved Core Analysis equipment is developed in the research laboratories in Norway.

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 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. ResLab, therefore, offer 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.

Special Core Analysis

ResLab has a unique range of testing capability in the areas of Petrophysics, Capillary Pressure, Wettability and Relative Permeability. The company's experience ensures that SCAL programmes are designed to maximise value. . Similarly, during the data integration and modelling phases of the work programme, ResLab is on hand to make sure that the SCAL data generated is used to its full potential.

Advanced Reservoir Studies

Today, ResLab has probably the highest-capacity commercial laboratory for performance of reservoir condition studies. Advanced equipment design and manufacture allows all of the 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. Research continues to be directed 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 filtration tests
• Solids / filtrate invasion depth tests

Rock Mechanics

Combining 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 clients with further information to optimise their present and future production operations.

Fluid Sampling

Again driven by client demand, ResLab has made a recent investment in additional offshore equipment, to sample and analyse reservoir fluids at the wellsite. ResLab Sampling A.S. offers a comprehensive range of fluid sampling and wellsite analysis services to the international oil and gas industry.

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 a world-class PVT laboratory in anticipation of increasing demand for fluid analysis. The PVT laboratory is now complimented with offshore sampling capability, providing clients with a comprehensive reservoir fluids service.

Research and Development

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