With about 3,000 billion barrels of remaining oil in place and more than 3,000 trillion cubic feet of gas in place, carbonates present us with some of the greatest challenges and opportunities to develop new technologies and processes, or refine existing ones.
To meet rising global energy demand and consumption, sustaining production from existing fields and increasing recovery factors will be critical. To do this, it will be necessary to improve our understanding of fluid flow mechanisms and reservoir systems.
Market size
More than 60% of the world’s oil and 40% of the world’s gas reserves are held in carbonates†.
The Middle East has 62% of the world’s proved conventional oil reserves‡; more than 70% of these reserves are in carbonate reservoirs†.
The Middle East also has 40% of the world’s proved gas reserves‡; 90% of these gas reserves lie in carbonate reservoirs†.
We are committed to understanding and addressing the challenges and technical risks presented by carbonates. We are at the forefront of technology development into the specific challenges of carbonate reservoirs, and our continuous investment in R&D is helping our customers optimize and improve the characterization, the production, and the management of carbonate reservoirs.
Characterization of Fractured Reservoirs
Schlumberger uses a unique combination of modeling and visualization techniques to simulate fracture properties providing a more complete understanding of the reservoir and its fluid flow mechanisms.
Carbonate Advisor
Schlumberger has launched a new service for petrophysics and productivity analysis of carbonate reservoirs. Carbonate Advisor methodology offers a systematic analytical framework that integrates information from magnetic resonance and elemental capture spectroscopy, as well as other logs and core data, to produce a comprehensive petrophysical formation evaluation of carbonate rocks.
Carbonate Reservoir Stimulation
Understanding and addressing the specific challenges and technical risks that carbonates present has put Schlumberger at the forefront of technology development to help optimize productivity.
