”Downhole Fluid Analysis at Schlumberger: Current Status and Future Prospects”
Schlumberger Limited is the world’s leading oilfield services company supplying technology, information solutions and integrated project management that optimize reservoir performance for customers working in the oil and gas industry. Founded in 1926, today the company employs more than 118,000 people of over 140 nationalities working in approximately 85 countries. Schlumberger offers a full range of wireline and logging while drilling tools and services, delivering formation evaluation that accurately characterizes reservoir rocks and fluids. A core portion of these services characterizes reservoir fluids in situ by making downhole measurement on their composition as well as physical properties.
During this talk, I will describe Schlumberger’s current commercial offerings and the value that is derived from acquiring a better understanding of reservoir fluids. I will then describe the work being done to develop new techniques that both improve on existing measurements and allow us to offer entirely new measurements to our clients. Examples of these new techniques include terahertz time-domain spectroscopy to accurately quantify the water cut in a fluid sample.