(MENAFN- The Peninsula) Total Research Centre€Qatar recently filed two new patents, showing that scientific and technological innovation is of paramount importance to Total.
Globally, 60 percent of oil and 40 percent of gas reserves are located in carbonate reservoirs. Moreover, during the past decade, two-thirds of the giant discoveries were made in carbonates. And all of Qatar's currently producing oil and gas reservoirs are carbonates.
This is why TRC-Q has decided to focus its efforts on scientific and technical challenges related to carbonates, through two main research projects, Geochemistry and Acid stimulation.
The first patented innovation refers to the Geochemistry project, which is a process for production allocation of hydrocarbon fluids in carbonate reservoirs. The aim of the invention is to determine the respective contribution of each reservoir to the global production of a well: a subject which is particularly relevant for Qatar's oil and gas industry.
The second Total invention merges the skills developed in the two TRC-Q projects, Geochemistry and Acid stimulation. This is a method for evaluating the efficiency (in terms of production) of an acid stimulation operational intervention using chemistry analytical methods on produced hydrocarbon samples. The originality of this innovation is to combine two completely different scientific and technical domains to improve and better monitor the production of carbonate reservoirs.
Dr Philippe Julien, Director of TRC-Q, said: "The goal of a petroleum research team is always to generate new ideas, to test them on producing fields and to implement them in order that they can be used in the Oil & Gas industry. In this way, Total contributes to building a knowledge-based economy in Qatar. In our research centre, we are very proud to have leading edge and innovative research projects which benefit all the oil and gas bearing carbonate reservoirs in Qatar and elsewhere in the world".
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