Oil & Gas
Reservoir-condition HPHT testing on a chip: EOR screening, PVT analysis and production-risk assessment run tens of times faster than standard studies.
Conventional core flooding is slow — weeks per test — consumes large volumes of reservoir fluid and gives little visual insight into displacement mechanisms. Operators need a fast screening tool to select optimal EOR chemical formulations, characterize phase behavior and predict production-risk without committing up front to full-scale laboratory programs.
LABADVANCE HPHT microfluidic systems reproduce reservoir conditions — up to 800+ bar and 200 °C — on a chip. Dozens of screening tests run in the time of a single core experiment, displacement is observed at pore scale in real time, and fluid consumption is measured in microliters rather than milliliters. Rock-on-Chip micromodels replicate true formation pore geometry from CT-scan data.
Major Russian oil companies use LABADVANCE microfluidic testing to accelerate their laboratory research programs. In one project, 20+ surfactant formulations for a West Siberian field were screened in under two weeks instead of a six-month research cycle. LABADVANCE is the sole provider of such laboratory systems in Russia and the CIS.