Instytut Nafty i Gazu - Państwowy Instytut Badawczy

Petrophysical laboratory measurements

• density, porosity, pore space parameters and gas permeability analysis;
• estimation of absolute permeability index;
• macro- and micro-fractures measurements in thin sections and cubics;
• petrographic investigations of polished thin sections-mineral composition, diagenetic processes, image analysis of pore distribution and pore space geometry.

Geochemical laboratory analysis:

• evaluation of maceral composition and vitrinite reflectance;
• Rock-Eval pyrolysis of cores and cuttings (determination of TOC); free hydrocarbons content, residual coal; hydrocarbons potential);
• elementary analysis of hydrocarbons and kerogene (calculation of C,H,N,S; H/C and O/C ratio);
• hemical and physicochemical investigations of natural gases;
• "Head space" and occluded gas investigations;
• investigations of rock extracts (Column Chromatography - SARA); GC and GC/MS of saturated and aromatic fractions •Biomarker Analysis ;
• investigations of oil (physical and chemical properties; GC analyses of crude oil; GC/MS analyses of saturated and aromatic fractions; correlation oil/oil and oil/source rock).

Reservoir and basin scale studies:

• Well log data interpretation (petrophysics, source rock evaluation, fractures)
• 3D structural, facies and petrophysical properties modeling with well and seismic data
• Development of geomechanical models
• Volumetric calculations for hydrocarbon reserves and resources, uncertainty modeling

• Petroleum Sedimentology: facies- and sequence stratigraphy analysis of cores, outcrops, well log and seismic data

   - interpretation of sedimentary environments, sequence stratigraphy framework and depo-tectonic setting

   - prediction of sand-body geometry, size, orientation and distribution at the basin scale

• 4D Petroleum systems modeling studies

   - reconstruction of structural, thermal and properties evolution of sedimentary basins in geological time-scale

   -  prediction of generation and expulsion timing and yield

   -  prognosis of migration pathways and oil and gas accumulations

   - resources assessment, uncertainty, ranking of exploration areas

• Multidisciplinary team of geologists, geophysicists, petrophysicists, sedimentologists, geochemists
• Integrated software platform: Petrel, PetroMod, Techlog, Interactive Petrophysics, ProGeo, Petrel Reservoir Geomechanics (Visage)