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GEOLOGICAL AND RESERVOIR LABORATORIES |
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Petroleum Geochemistry
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Evaluation of source-rocks in individual wells/sedimentary basins; |
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Delineation of oil-windows, immature or post-mature sediments; |
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Identification of migrated hydrocarbons; |
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Biomarker study |
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EQUIPMENT/FUNCTION: |
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Rock-Eval 6 turbo with Acquisition Workstation
Type of organic matter (Type I, II, III, IV);
Thermal maturity Tmax oC (Oil window - Immature Zone);
Hydrogen & oxygen indices;
Hydrocarbon generating potential;
Migrated oil presences;
Mineral carbon;
Total organic carbon;;
Reservoir geochemistry;
Carbon Analyzer/ Muffle Furnace
Total organic carbon (TOC) determination (for screening prior to pyrolysis analysis by RockEval-6) by ‘loss on ignition method’
Gas Chromatography/Mass Spectroscopy Equipment
Identification of biomarker;
To correlate Oil -Oil and Oil -Source rock;
Contamination of hydrocarbon in soil and water samples;
Contamination of hydrocarbon in drilling mud. |
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ACHIEVEMENT: |
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Around 250 geochemical investigation reports on outcrops and drill-cuttings of wells drilled by OGDCL and JV operator since 1979; |
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Conducted more than 33400 TOC analysis; |
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Conducted 12500 pyrolysis analyses |
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Database management of results and reports of geochemistry branch since 1979. |
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PROFESSIONALS: |
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PhD, M. Phil & Postgraduates professionals with experience of up to 32 years |
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MICROPALEONTOLOGY
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Foraminifera |
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Nannoplanktons. |
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MAIN OBJECTIVES:
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Establishment of rock ages
Recognition of Unconformities
Paleoenvironment interpretation
To mark the Formational boundaries. |
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Since the establishment of OGDCL we are providing the biostratigraphic services to the company and to Pakistan Basin evaluation project foreign team. |
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Postgraduates & Foreign trained up to 25 years experienced professionals |
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ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY |
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MAIN OBJECTIVE:
To assist in formation evaluation by chemical analysis of formation fluids;
To help trouble shooting on the basis of analysis data by assigning reasons;
To carryout onsite testing for taking right decisions in real time;
To help resolve controversies in testing the crude for pricing at refineries.
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Chemical analysis of water (formation, waste, drinking ) and allied testing by exploiting DR-4000 spectrophotometer;
Testing of crude oil/condensate oil;
Corrosion coupons analysis;
To analyse the sludge & scale samples etc. recovered from vessels & pipelines;
To address the controversies in testing of crude oil for pricing at refineries;
Environment related testing of BOD, COD by exploiting BOD & COD system of HACH, USA;
Sulpher analysis in oil by SLFA-2100.
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ACHIEVEMENT:
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Participation in joint sampling & testing of crude oil with joint ventures companies;
Providing analytical facility to OGDCL since 1962;
• Providing services to joint venture and Private sector oil industries since 1962.
PROFESSIONALS:
Professionals with up to 30 years of Oil Industry and analytical lab experiences
CORE ANALYSIS LAB
MAIN OBJECTIVE:
Furnish both geological & engineering information;
Guide the decision affecting both the cored and subsequent wells in the area;
Direct physical measurement along-with down-hole well logs and other well-test data to the best development decisions;
Produces the basic data about a reservoir;
The presence or absence of hydrocarbon;
The storage capacity (Porosity);
The flow capacity and its distribution (Permeability). |
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Dean-Stark Apparatus: |
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To determine the quantity of hydrocarbons accumulated in a porous rock formation; |
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Residual fluids in the recovered core reflect the quantity and type of fluids present at reservoir conditions. |
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Core Measuring System(CMS-300): |
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An integrated, automated computer directed permeameter & porosimeter; |
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Determines sample length, sample diameter, porosity, pore volume, air permeability at a specified mean pressure, klinkenberg permeability, Forchheimer inertial Factor and Klinkenberg measured slippage correction factor. |
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Core Gamma Ray Logger: |
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Used for discerning lithology and depth correlation with down hole well logs. |
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PROFESSIONAL: |
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Postgraduate with 24 years of geological and reservoir experience. |
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SEDIMENTOLOGY |
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MAIN OBJECTIVES: |
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Lithological description and Petrographic study of well cuttings, cores and field rock samples from thin sections, slabs and processed cuttings;
Facies Analysis;
Management of OGDC Core House. |
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FUNCTIONS: |
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Identification of rock types.
Demarcation of formation boundaries
Depositional Environments
Feedback of analyzed data to Basin Studies and Research, Prospect Generation, Well Supervision, Petrophysical and Development Geology, Exploitation and Reservoir Engineering, Production and multinational E&P companies. |
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PROFESSIONAL: |
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Local Postgraduates and Foreign doctorate in Geology having up to 25 years of professional experience. |
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