| Halliburton
commercialises MRILab
Posted: 14 May 2003
The industry's only magnetic resonance technology to provide
accurate, down-hole fluid measurements in real-time
HOUSTON, Texas — Halliburton Energy Services
through its logging and perforating product service line and its
NUMAR division, today announced the global commercialisation of
MRILab, a unique logging tool with the ability to analyse key reservoir
fluid properties, including fluid type, viscosity and gas-to-oil
ratio, in real-time at reservoir temperature and pressure.
MRILab has the capability of analysing reservoir fluid samples
in wells using oil-based mud systems to determine mud filtrate contamination
and necessary pumping time.
The real-time in-situ measurements provide more accurate reservoir
information, better economic decisions and reduced rig costs. Halliburton
Energy Services is a business unit of Halliburton.
"MRILab is a breakthrough in the development of nuclear magnetic
resonance imaging technology for the energy industry," said
Tim Probert, vice president, Drilling and Formation Evaluation,
Halliburton. "This technology provides superior reservoir fluid
identification and characterisation in real-time. These measurements
are more precise than optical type devices and it adds to our arsenal
of total formation evaluation strategy."
MRILab operates as an integral component of the Reservoir Description
Tool (RDT), making laboratory quality measurements on reservoir
fluids that are necessary for reservoir engineering and completion
design.
It allows the properties of hydrocarbons to be immediately available
in real-time compared to conventional laboratory measurements. The
down-hole measurements are more accurate, as a result of being at
reservoir temperature and pressure, eliminating the need to reconstruct
down-hole conditions in the laboratory environment.
On a recent project in Indonesia, MRILab allowed the operator to
eliminate the need for retrieving samples for identifying production
fluid type. Without MRILab, the usual procedure involves pumping
a minimum of one hour on each zone to collect a representative sample.
MRILab down-hole fluid-typing was accomplished on an average of
20 minutes for each zone. This translates to a savings of five to
eight hours of rig time on a typical well evaluation.
Halliburton Energy Services provides products, services, and integrated
solutions for oil and gas exploration, development, and production.
Capabilities range from initial evaluation of producing formations
to drilling, completion, stimulation, and well maintenance —
for a single well or an entire field.
With more than 300 service centers in more than 100 countries,
Halliburton possesses the global perspective that is increasingly
important for energy exploration and production.
Halliburton, founded in 1919, is one of the world's largest providers
of products and services to the petroleum and energy industries.
The company serves its customers with a broad range of products
and services through its Energy Services Group and Engineering and
Construction Group business segments.
For more information see www.halliburton.com.
Posted by Richard Price,
Editor Pipeline Magazine
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