Stable Isotope Techniques for Gas and Oil Exploration and Production
Isotopes Measurements Benefit Reservoir Analysis
New quantitative aspects of gas formation for gas potential assessment and source rock identification and prediction of co-produced liquids in oil and gas exploration are available for petroleum exploration and production clients. Stable isotopes are used in development and production of oil and gas fields for compartment definition, flow unit identification, reservoir communication and production allocation and other field operations. Intertek exploration and production services provide key field and laboratory services related to the use of isotopes to help optimize production and exploration results.
Use of Isotopes for Exploration Applications:
Fundamentals of gas isotopes
Sampling and analysis
Processes of gas formation
Quantification of gas formation
Gas Potential
Timing of gas formation
Co-produced liquids
The concept of empirical calibration and prediction
of gas properties
Formation, assessment and potential prediction
of CO2
Isotopes for Field Development and Production Applications:
The concept of repeated filling of gas and oil fields during extended
geological time as basis for compositional variations in gas and
oil fields
Isotope fingerprinting of gases
Real-time carbon and deuterium isotope analysis of methane in mud-gas
Real-time concentrations of methane and ethane in mud-gas
Mud-gas isotope analyses and their applications
Prediction of reservoir compartments
Horizontal well applications
Open hole and coal gas applications
Production allocation
Integration of gas isotope geochemistry into field development plans