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TerraTek TRA

Tight rock analysis service

Evaluate reservoir and completion quality to maximize unconventional reservoir productivity.

TerraTek TRA tight rock analysis service provides detailed core measurements of rock permeability, porosity, and fluid saturation in challenging tight gas shales and other unconventional reservoirs.

By evaluating reservoir and completion quality, TerraTek TRA service helps determine the fundamental requirements for successful gas production. As a result, well productivity is maximized and recovery is increased after a thorough investigation of vertical and lateral heterogeneity, fracturability, and rock-fluid sensitivity along the wellbore.

Tight Rock Analysis Primer Course

Learn how a comprehensive evaluation of tight gas shale plays help accurately characterize your reservoir and optimize completions.

Our primer course for TerraTek TRA tight rock analysis service provides insight on how tight rock analysis can be used to predict gas productivity potential, analyze fracture containment, determine the best drilling and completion strategies, and map productive units across the basin using wireline logs.

This one-day course takes place at our training facilities or at the customer’s location of choice and is taught by leading rock mechanics experts.

Session 1: Introduction
Overview; Importance of tight gas reservoirs; Principal challenges and objectives

Session 2: Coring and early laboratory measurements
Core acquisition and preservation; Onsite desorption; Laboratory isotherm measurements

Session 3: Geologic description, strength profiling, and fracture analysis
Core description; Petrologic analysis; Continuous strength profiling; Fracture analysis

Session 4: Reservoir and mechanical properties
Petrophysical properties; Mechanical properties; Continuous profiles of measured properties

Session 5: Geophysical and engineering analysis
Cluster analysis; Log-based model for prediction of properties; Preevaluation of log data for core interval or sidewall plug selection; Propagation of the model at well and basin scale

Geomechanics Laboratory Services

Quantitatively assess reservoir properties that affect drilling and production performance

Better understand the interactions between rock fabric, in situ pressures, and temperature with lab precision.

XL-Rock

Large-volume rotary sidewall coring service

Close the gap between continuous core and sidewall cores.

Core Analysis Services

Quantified insight into porosity, permeability, and fluid saturation

Understand the reservoir with routine to special core analysis and petrology services.

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How new reservoir geoscience technology and workflows can help unconventional operators maximize reservoir performance early in the project life cycle.

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Tech Paper New Approach to Fluid Typing in Tight Carbonate Source Rocks

This paper presents an approach to poro-fluid typing rock through a case study from the Middle East.

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Product Sheet TerraTek TRA Tight Rock Analysis

Characterization and completion design of unconventional reservoirs.