Analytical and consulting solutions for enhanced oil recovery (EOR), enabling you to optimize the extraction of your oil beyond that recoverable by primary and secondary methods.
Responding to an ever-increasing demand, petroleum engineers are continually being challenged to develop new and improved techniques and strategies for hydrocarbon recovery. With expert knowledge in sophisticated, multi-disciplinary EOR studies, and our integrated laboratory and consultation services, we offer a comprehensive understanding of your reservoir.
Why choose EOR solutions from SGS?
We help you to:
- Benefit from the highest level of experience, reliable analytical results and engineering consulting services for all your EOR projects
- Gain expert advice on the best methodology, adapting it to the specific conditions of your reservoir
- Reduce the risks and uncertainties when undertaking pilot and full field EOR project designs
- Access a range of EOR studies, including advanced flood, interfacial tension, advanced fluid studies and recovery tests
Our range of EOR studies include:
- Chemical EOR (cEOR) and optimization
- Miscible and immiscible gas injection, including water alternating gas (WAG)
- Multi-phase solubility or swelling studies
- Slim tube miscibility and immiscible displacement studies
- Forward and reverse multi-contact studies
- Gas revaporization studies
- Custom studies (e.g., asphaltene + EOR)
Our advanced flood studies include:
- Physical simulation through actual measurement:
- Waterflooding and low salinity
- Gas injection, WAG cyclic gas
- Chemical injection – polymer, surfactant, alkaline and alkali/surfactant/polymer (ASP)
- Hybrid methods (solvent and gas, chemical and gas, etc.)
- Flow assessment at reservoir conditions
- Optimization and injectivity improvement
- In-situ rheology at specified conditions
- Evaluation of chemicals performance
- Dynamic adsorption and recovery parameters
- Microemulsion characterization
- Relative permeability
- Formation damage
- Rock-fluid compatibilities studies
- Asphaltene deposition
- Permeability impairment
- Post-test analysis of produced fluids
- Carbon sequestration and storage
Our interfacial tension studies include:
- Optimization of chemical formulations
- Gas (CO2) miscibility studies
- Wettability changes due a gas, solvents or chemical injection
- Phase behavior studies
- IFT and contact angles at high temperature and high pressure
Our advanced fluid studies include:
- Solubility-swelling
- Multi-contacts
- Miscibility studies w/ Slim Tube
- Miscibility mechanism identification
- Minimum miscibility pressure (MMP)
- Minimum miscibility enrichment (MME)
Why SGS?
We offer a full range of multidisciplinary testing facilities to cater for the unique aspect of every reservoir and EOR project. We maximize the economics of your reservoir by using state-of-the-art laboratory equipment and methodologies to rapidly and efficiently characterize all phases of your EOR project.
Our proven track record of EOR projects includes:
- Miscible floods on Alaska’s North Slope
- Gas injection/miscible displacement in Venezuelan heavy oil fields with concurrent asphaltene deposition measurements
- CO2 sequestration in Argentina
- WAG studies in Colombia
- Solubility/swelling with concurrent asphaltene deposition in Algeria
- Complex three-phase CO2 solubility studies in the United States
- Offshore Chemical EOR feasibility study for two fields in Indonesia – an integrated project, including initial screening, lab evaluation, formulation, numerical simulation and pilot design