Recovery Enhancement
Maximize your return on investment - recover more, monetize faster, and produce for longer
Overview
Unlock bypassed barrels and deliver returns faster
In today’s market, getting more from your existing assets isn’t just a choice, it’s how you stay ahead. As producing wells mature and the cost of starting up new discoveries rises, getting more from your existing assets isn't just a choice, it's a competitive edge. We can help you capture untapped barrels, accelerate cash flow, and extend production so you can keep delivering value.
With deep technical expertise, proven performance in subsurface, conventional, unconventional reservoirs, and integrated workflows, we're helping our customers produce more, and for longer - efficiently, responsibly, and at scale.
Challenge
Why focus on recovery now?
The world needs energy, and your assets hold the potential to deliver it. Mature fields dominate production but often leave significant reserves behind due to limitations in traditional methods. Meanwhile, capital constraints and regulatory challenges have shifted the focus away from new exploration and toward maximizing existing wells.
Though enhanced recovery methods have existed for decades and while innovation in the space continues today, only 4% of global oil production leverages them. Yet despite the promise of enhanced recovery, many projects stall due to complexity and delayed returns, leaving barrels stranded underground.
- Economics are strained by long payback periods and multi-year derisking timelines, making traditional recovery projects difficult to justify.
- Complexity stems from the specialized knowledge, technologies, and workflows required, which are often inaccessible in many geographies.
- Declining investment in greenfield developments has narrowed the pipeline of new opportunities, shifting the focus to existing assets.
- Sustainability imperatives and ESG pressures demand low-impact operations with high efficiency and minimal carbon intensity.
Solutions
Accelerated and derisked recovery projects from design to field expansion
Your assets deserve a solution that moves as fast as you need them to. SLB combines deep reservoir expertise, digital tools, targeted interventions, downhole technology and advanced chemistry to transform recovery potential into reality. Together, recovery programs are not just planned, they are executed efficiently and at scale.
- Industrialization of EOR projects, with domain and project management expertise
- Intervention at scale to manage reservoir and ensure recovery is optimized through the lifecycle
- From design to execution, modular, scalable, and fit-for-purpose solutions
- Reservoir characterization through data driven models, micro-pilots, and lab testing
- Low-carbon technologies to minimize your footprint
- Fit-for-purpose chemical solutions to ultimately increase recovery
Dive Deeper
We bring together multidisciplinary workflows—from reservoir characterization and modeling to pilot design and full-field implementation—tailored to each asset’s specific needs. Our services include:
Oil and Gas Production Chemicals and Services
Maximize production from reservoir to refinery
Chemistry solutions that protect flow and sustain recovery
Intelligent well stimulation
Prevent production setbacks and boost recovery with proactive, reservoir-focused stimulation solutions
Smarter stimulation unlocking more recovery from every well
Artificial Lift
Integrated lifting solutions for enhanced well production
Adaptive lift systems maximizing recovery in every stage
Digital rock analysis
Accelerate field development with digital SCAL
Reservoir insights driving smarter, higher recovery decisions
Redefining Production and Recovery
Unlock the full production potential of your asset, across the entire lifecycle.
Integrated solutions maximizing recovery across the production lifecycle
Processing and Separation
Oil, gas, water and solids solutions for onshore, offshore, and downstream
Optimized processing ensuring reliable, cost-effective recovery
Benefits and capabilities
Enhance well performance with targeted solutions designed to unlock trapped resources and boost production efficiency. SLB’s integrated recovery capabilities help you capture more barrels, reduce project risk, and extend the life of your assets, transforming plans into measurable performance.
Invest with confidence, extend the life of existing assets
SLB's integrated recovery portfolio empowers operators to:
- Shorter project timelines, accelerated time-to-production
- Improve project economics with lower cost per barrel
- Improved recovery factors and extended asset life
- Access affordable, lower carbon barrels
- Confidence in investment decisions and reduced risk at each stage
- Maximize existing infrastructure
- Support ESG and Energy Transition Goals
Enhancing recovery to unlock your asset’s full potential, together
SLB delivers the right solutions to maximize your asset's recovery:
- End-to-end solutions from screening to operations
- One-stop-shop comprehensive, scalable portfolio
- Worldwide expertise in water-flooding, chemical and CO2 EOR
- Advanced digital and monitoring technologies
- End-to-end domain expertise from subsurface to facilities
- Chemically enhanced recovery solutions to improve flow and separations
- We partner with you to deliver results—safely, efficiently, and reliably
Leading the Next Era of Recovery
SLB is delivering what the industry has long needed but never had, a true end-to-end Enhanced Recovery solution that combines technology, insight, and execution.
As the energy sector evolves, we’re ready to help you get more from what you already have with less impact, less risk, and more certainty.
Let’s recover more, together.
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