Offshore staff
OSLO, Norway – Equinor and Applied Petroleum Technology (APT) have formed an R&D collaboration to investigate alternative solutions for downhole sampling and production/wireline logging.
According to APT, the oil and gas sector’s need to reduce costs and emissions has created a requirement for methodologies that provide better insight into the character of petroleum fluids, in the absence of downhole samples.
The two companies will use geochemical analysis to extract information from slimmed down data sets.
“Equinor’s ambition is to reduce its group-wide emissions by 50% by 2030, and we aim to realize 90% of this ambition by absolute reductions,” said the company’s technology manager Vibeke Haugen.
“Extracting more data from current sources without having to execute more downhole operations could be one way of reducing both emission levels and operating costs.”
The R&D scope involves development and testing of analytical instrumentation, execution and verification of experimental technologies, and tool deployment/optimization.
Results will hopefully provide answers to questions related to whether the reservoir phase is oil or gas, the quality of the petroleum in the reservoir and how it varies, and which zone(s) are contributing to production.
“The aim is to develop a methodology that allows engineers to deploy geochemical techniques to enhance understanding of hydrocarbon reservoirs using proxies that are less costly and easier to obtain than the downhole samples that have historically been used for exploration, EOR and IOR work,” said APT’s Helge Nyrønning.
04.26.2022
