Fluid Lab Services Petroleum Geochemistry Ps

Petroleum Geochemistry
Understanding petroleum origin and processes controlling fluids behavior

to improve exploration success and production efficiency
APPLICATIONS The petroleum geochemistry domain is fundamental to understanding exploration targets and risks
■■ Exploration and appraisal as well as constraining basin-scale processes and models. It also directly applies to reservoir development
●● Source rock evaluation and production and increasingly contributes to engineering domains such as flow assurance, phase
●● Charge and petroleum system modeling behavior (PVT), and downstream processing. Geochemical evaluation helps assess caprock integrity,
●● Reservoir continuity and flow assurance carbon storage, and other subsurface containment challenges. Knowledge of the molecular composition,
●● Assessment of tight oil and tight
origin of fluids, and postplacement processes, together with understanding of their transport properties,
gas reservoirs is key to defining fluid property variations in reservoirs and developing the optimal approach to
●● In-reservoir process assessment effective recovery.
●● Compositionally graded fluid
Geochemical evaluation of source rocks and generated fluids is essential in modern exploration and
column assessments
production activities. Source rock research has advanced to include chemical and physical characterization
●● Caprock evaluation
technologies that enable a broader understanding of complex exploration and production targets, including
●● Acid gas studies
shale reservoirs, where conventional approaches may no longer be effective.
●● Aqueous geochemistry
Schlumberger Reservoir Laboratories perform full chain-of-custody rock and fluids services, from routine
■■ Development and production PVT to specialized analyses, under one roof. Analytical laboratory hubs in Houston, Dubai, and Aberdeen—
●● Production allocation
as well as a dedicated analysis laboratory in Calgary—employ leading geochemists who use highly
●● Lateral and vertical fluid specialized technologies and support a wide range of characterization projects.
gradient evaluation
●● Flow assurance
●● Thermal-recovery monitoring
●● Oil-to-surface and production-string studies
●● Reserves assessment
■■ Downstream
●●Crude oil typing
●● Fluid properties and behavior analysis Conventional
Reservoir
BENEFITS
■■ Reduced HSE and quality risks associated Gas cap
with sample shipments Oil
■■ Accurate, repeatable results representative Water
of the reservoir
Unconventional
■■ Technical expertise and reliable advice Reservoir
■■ Integrated fit-for-purpose sampling and
analysis solutions
FEATURES
■■ Full chain of custody
■■ Advanced equipment operated Source rock
Source rock
by industry experts
■■ Standardized analytical methods with
strict QA/QC
■■ Unique workflows supported by Malcom*
interactive fluid characterization software
■■ Centralized technical and domain support Geochemical evaluation, in the context of geological and basin history, is critical to characterizing petroleum
from leading geochemists generation, migration, and entrapment as well as future in-reservoir processes and leads to greater exploration
and drilling success.
Petroleum Geochemistry
Incorporating petroleum geochemistry processes into all other fluid, rock, ●● Reservoir continuity study support
modeling, and reservoir engineering services enables ●● Mixing processes study support
■■ reduced HSE and service-quality risks that are associated with shipments ●● Correlation and production allocation
■■ ensured data accuracy through standardized analytical methods and ■■ Unconventional reservoir evaluation
strict QA/QC ●● Characterization of heavy oil and oil sand reservoirs
■■ expedited workflow from sampling and analysis (PVT, water, flow ●● Study of self-sourcing liquid-rich and gas-rich shale reservoirs
assurance) through final data delivery and interpretation. ●● High-resolution organic facies and maturity studies
●● Multiwell dataset integration

SERVICES
●● Mapping of high-quality reservoir zones
■■ Source rock evaluation
●● Integration with petroleum systems modeling
●● Basic evaluation (total organic carbon [TOC]; RockEvalTM pyrolysis;
organic petrography) ■■ Project design and results interpretation
●● Advanced extraction (correlation of source rock and oil; pyrolysis gas
chromatography [GC], mass spectrometry [MS], or both [GC-MS];

geomechanics integration)
■■ Biomarkers and molecular markers
●● Quantitative saturated- and aromatic-hydrocarbon fraction analysis
●● Custom polar-fraction analyses
■■ Geochemical fingerprinting
●● Quantitative high-resolution GC for standard fluids
●● Quantitative GC-MS for heavy oils
●● Evaluation using Malcom software
■■ Gas and liquid stable-isotope analysis

●● Gas-source determination (biogenic vs. thermogenic)
●● Alteration-process identification (primary vs. secondary cracking)
Gas chromatography with isotope-ratio mass spectrometry measures the isotopic

composition of compounds in reservoir fluids.
Input of samples into laboratory
information management (LIM) system
Gas composition and

Fluids GC–isotope ratio MS
Input to conventional
and unconventional
Reservoir rock “stain” play evaluation and
reservoir studies
Whole oil or Aromatics
Source rocks Solvent extraction extract fraction
Quantitative whole oil gas
chromatography (WOGC)
Lithological liquid analysis
description
Liquid chromatography Quantitative
TOC (LC) separation GC-MS liquid analysis
RockEval GC–isotope ratio MS

liquid analysis
Saturates
Organic petrography: fraction
vitrinite reflectance (VR) and vitrinite Input to conventional
reflectance equivalent (VRE), and unconventional
fluorescence, description play evaluation Input to conventional
of whole rock and kerogen and unconventional
play evaluation and
reservoir studies
Schlumberger petroleum geochemists customize analytical workflows to support exploration and production activities.
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Petroleum Geochemistry

Understanding petroleum origin and processes controlling fluids behavior

●● Oil-to-surface and production-string studies

●● Multiwell dataset integration

chromatography [GC], mass spectrometry [MS], or both [GC-MS];

●● Evaluation using Malcom software

■■ Gas and liquid stable-isotope analysis

●● Alteration-process identification (primary vs. secondary cracking)

Gas chromatography with isotope-ratio mass spectrometry measures the isotopic

Gas composition and

RockEval GC–isotope ratio MS

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