Schlumberger mobile laboratory provides wellsite analysis
Posted: 7 October 2003
New PVT Express delivers analysis in just hours at the
wellsite
Schlumberger Oilfield Services today announced its new PVT Express
wellsite fluid analysis service, which can deliver reliable fluid
property results in as little as eight hours in turn around processing
time.
PVT Express delivers a step change in pressure-volume-temperature
(PVT) fluid analysis turn around time, using less than 50 ml of
fluids, enabling informed decisions during logging and well-testing
operations and eliminating costs associated with traditional fluid
analysis operations. Traditional laboratory services are conducted
in fixed-location laboratories and take between six to eight weeks
to analyze fluid measurements and require 200-4000 ml of fluid.
In a well offshore Newfoundland, the PVT Express system delivered
two complete PVT studies within hours of recovering the MDT samples
at the surface.
These results matched the known PVT properties from the exploratory
well, eliminating the requirement to do a well test and resulting
in earlier economic analysis for completion design and speedier
field development.
“PVT Express brings to the oil and gas Industry a technology
that is a unique laboratory system which delivers to our clients
early PVT results for critical well site decisions,” said
Sudhir Pai, business development manager for testing and completions,
Schlumberger Oilfield Services. “This mobile laboratory validates
sample quality during wireline formation testing, drill stem testing
or production testing operations.”
Its mercury-free laboratory equipment and modular rugged construction
allows it to be fully transportable by land, sea or air. The PVT
Express hardware/software laboratory includes fiber-optic sensors
to measure saturation pressure of gas condensates, volatile oils
and black oils. Patented helium ionization detectors are used in
dual gas chromatography to perform C12+ gas analysis and C36+ liquid
analysis.
The Schlumberger proprietary PVT Expert software model processes
all laboratory measurements and instantly provides the final PVT
report. Additionally the PVT Expert software model assesses the
reliability of the PVT results to ensure data quality.
For additional information see www.slb.com/oilfield/pvt.
About Schlumberger
Schlumberger is a global oilfield and information services company
with major activity in the energy industry. The company employs
78,000 people of more than 140 nationalities working in 100 countries
and comprises three primary business segments. Schlumberger Oilfield
Services is the world's premier oilfield services company supplying
a wide range of technology services and solutions to the international
oil and gas industry. WesternGeco, jointly owned with Baker Hughes,
is the world's largest and most advanced surface seismic company.
SchlumbergerSema is a leading supplier of IT consulting, systems
integration, and network and infrastructure services to the energy
industry, as well as to the public sector, telecommunications and
finance markets.
In 2002, Schlumberger operating revenue was $13.2 billion.
For more information see www.slb.com.
Posted by Richard Price,
Editor Pipeline Magazine
Information supplied by companies
or PR agencies who are responsible for content. Send press releases
to info@pipelinedubai.com |
