This week, we are showcasing a slightly older technology we developed and continue to perfect: Quantitative Diamondoid Analysis (QDA). First described in Dahl et al. (1999), this method revolutionized the ability to estimate oil cracking and identify oils derived from more than one source. Diamondoids are basically molecular-sized diamonds. A
The petrophysical analysis of core plugs and sidewall-rock samples is key to providing rock properties that are essential to reservoir performance forecasting, reservoir management, material balance calculation and multiphase flow simulation. These properties include absolute permeability, porosity, relative permeability, capillary pressure and the electrical resistivity of the rock, among others,
Last week, ANP published the monthly oil and natural gas production results for February 2020. During the month, 3.783 million barrels of oil equivalent per day were produced, including 2.972 million bbl/d of oil and 129 million m³ per day of natural gas. Oil production decreased 6.2% MoM but increased
We are currently modifying the way we present the Rock Geochemical data in the Brazil Geodatabase. Today, there are more than 100,000 analyzed rock samples from 544 selected wells, with around 130 wells covering the Santos and Campos basins. The total organic carbon, rock-eval pyrolysis and vitrinite reflectance methods allow us to obtain total organic carbon (TOC), potential yield (S2), hydrogen index (HI), free
BPS already has the largest knowledge-driven Geodatabase of Brazilian basins on the planet, and we plan to double its size over the next twelve months. We are currently working on processing 32 new oils in our laboratories around the globe, as well as a dozen new products, technical notes and studies
It seems like the perfect storm. We all know the challenges that have hit the world and our industry so dramatically over recent months. And the impacts are greater than anyone could have imagined, probably generating lasting effects for months, or even years to come. But right now, the important
TGS CEO Kristian Johansen and BPS Exploration and Production Director Sidnei Rostirolla. Photo: Renato Wrobel. Last Tuesday (21), we had the pleasure of hosting more than 60 industry leaders from various oil majors at our offices in Copacabana to present our all-new 3D Petroleum Systems Modeling and Resource Assessment Study of the Deep
With the approval of important structural reforms and the government’s intention to completely overhaul the O&G agenda, Brazil’s business environment for E&P is set to take off. We expect regulatory improvements related to the pre-salt and environmental licensing, as well as increased exploration efforts, a stronger focus on the decommissioning and
Last week, we had the pleasure of attending and presenting at the first EAGE workshop on pre-salt reservoirs in Rio de Janeiro. BPS Exploration and Production Director Sidnei Rostirolla presented our recent geopressure study of the pre-salt province of the Santos and Campos basins, leading a talk on the relationship between pressure compartments, reservoir-pods, generation kitchens
Our tables and graphs show the basic petrophysical properties (absolute permeability, effective porosity, rock density, and confining pressure) for a huge amount of data generated from laboratory analysis of side-rock samples and core plugs
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