Reservoir Geology — PCX

Productivity Enhancement

Formation Damage can cause a significant decrease in well productivity. Worldwide yearly lost production is equivalent to billions of dollars in lost revenue! We work with you to identify issues and make recommendations to help you make better decisions and help improve hydrocarbon productivity and injectivity in your reservoirs.

Damaging mechanisms can occur at any point in the life of a well, and studies are typically used to evaluate upcoming well operations (like drilling, workover, injection) to identify potential issues, or to simulate the history of wells that are candidates for productivity enhancement, identify specific mechanisms, and use this data to effectively target treatments.

Our world-leading facilities evaluate well performance and identify issues in all kinds of wells, utilising state of the art high-temperature and pressure coreflood simulators to conduct studies at full reservoir temperature and pressures. We work with you to help identify reservoir uncertainty associated with drilling and completion fluids, treatment fluids, stimulation fluids, workovers, scaling and scale inhibition, injection water properties, gas storage and carbon capture. Identification and reduction of these Formation Damage problems can lead to immediate returns in the form of increased production rates and extension of the life of any field.

What Is The Prize? Even A 1% Increase In Production Can Deliver Millions Of Dollars In Added Value To A Well

“It is much cheaper to experiment in the laboratory than in the field and with the correct design, execution, and interpretation of studies conducted at Premier Corex we can help you reach conclusions and make recommendations on the potential for improved hydrocarbon recovery in your fields.”

We boast award winning, innovative, and patented geological interpretation and quantification workflows by using 3D Alteration Modelling. Our novel approach lets us see where damage is occurring by allowing visualisation and quantification of the damaging mechanisms within samples. This data can be used to understand in more detail the impact of operational fluids and sequences and identify key opportunities to improve hydrocarbon productivity and injectivity.

Through such use of novel research and developments, we have received both innovation and technology awards, as well as “focused recognition” awards from clients. We have gained vast experience and an excellent reputation as independent formation damage experts accredited as “the world leaders in Formation Damage” by major energy operators around the world. Our huge database of nearly 50 years of results allows us to make meaningful comparisons and put your study results into context.

Many operators, including many of the largest worldwide, see the benefit of independent checks on fluids and operations before they occur. They use Premier Corex to screen all drilling and other introduced fluids prior to commencing work in new wells, and to help identify potential routes for productivity enhancement in existing wells.