Routine and SCAL Analyses:
1- Sample preparation (core handling, slabbing, plugging, etc鈥�)
2- Side wall and cuttings analysis
3- Core photography
4- Extraction and drying
5- Particle Size听Analysis
6- Porosity, gas Permeability and liquid permeability measurements
7- Relative permeability measurement
8- Capillary pressure and pore size distribution measurement
9- Electrical rock properties
10- Wettability analysis (contact angle and Amott test measurements)
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Fluid Properties:
1- Crude oil analysis: pour point, viscosity at different temperatures, API gravity
2- Oil and Gas composition (upto 40+)
3- Scale analysis
4- CO2 Analysis
5- H2S Analysis
6- Surface tension
7- Interfacial tension measurements covering the range: 10-6听鈥� 2*103听mN/m. These measurements can be done at different temperatures.
8- Full polymer/starch rheology analysis
9- Emulsion analysis
10- Nano drilling fluid analysis
11- Basic cement testing听
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Rock-Fluid Compatibility, Formation Damage & Core Flooding:
1- Testing the effect of damage/enhancement on formation core samples properties (from both wellbore end and reservoir end) caused by any drilling mud type, stimulation chemicals, acid (any type of acid including HF) and enzymes.
2- Performing any core flooding types (water flooding, water shut-off flooding, chemical EOR flooding such as Alkaline-Surfactant-Polymer flooding, microbial injection, steam injection, acid flooding,鈥�.etc). All of these tests are done under reservoir temperature and pressure.
3- X-Ray diffraction Compositional
4- Analysis & XRF Conduct SEM analysis (including photographs)
5- Cryogenic SEM for oil leg, by two methods to observe pore-filling and porelining fluid (including photographs)
6- Thin Section analysis (including photographs)
7- CAT scanning/photography
8- AFM/XPS/NMR analysis
9- Asphaltene analysis
Water Analysis:听
1- Anion (Na, K, Ca, Mg, Ba, Sr, Fe, B, Al, P, Si) and Cation (Cl, SO4, HCO3, Br) sampling and analysis (TDS)
2- VFA (formate, acetate, propionate, and butyrate) sampling & analysis
3- Field water dissolved gas (H2S and CO2) sampling and analysis
4- Field pH/temperature/ specific gravity sampling and analysis
5- Field total sulfide in water sampling and analysis
6- Field Total Dissolved and Suspended Solids sampling and analysis
7- Total Alkalinity, Bicarbonate Alkalinity, Carbonate Alkalinity, Hydroxide Alkalinity.
8- Total Hardness, Calcium Hardness
9- Microbiology reader bioscreen C
10- Bacterial nutrient (nitrate, nitrite, ammonia, phosphate, and iron) field sampling
11- MPN serial dilution sampling and analysis procedure- SRB, GAB, and NRB
12- Gradient PCR and real time PCR Nonculture technique for microbial identification at molecular level by 16 S rRNA using iron torrent
13- Cultural technique for isolation SRB / NRB under anaerobic conditions using anaerobic chamber
14- Nanodrop spectroscopy GC (TCD and FID detection)
15- Co-culture study: core flood
16- Co-culture study: lab scale bioreactor听
Numerical Modeling & Reservoir Simulation:听
1- Basin and petroleum system modeling
2- Reservoir static modeling
3- Reservoir dynamic modeling
4- Well log analysis
5- Petrel, Eclipse, Navigator, CMG package, and interactive petrophysics