Wellsite Core Handling
Full chain of custody and expert services
Maintain integrity with safer processing, cataloging, preservation, and stabilization.
Geomechanics Laboratory Services
Quantitatively assess reservoir properties that affect drilling and production performance
Optimize stimulation treatments, drilling performance, and production potential
Our geomechanics laboratory services lay the foundation for a complete understanding of the most effective stimulation treatments and the production potential of conventional and unconventional reservoirs.
Reservoir laboratory services
- Single- or multistage triaxial compression testing for determining the anisotropic shear strength envelope
- Uniaxial strain testing
- Brazilian or direct-pull testing for determining anisotropic tensile strength
- Thick-walled cylinder testing; hollow cylinder testing for determining sanding potential
- Brinell hardness testing for fluid sensitivity
- Continuous strength measurements along the core length to assess heterogeneity (scratch testing)
- Indentation testing
- Thermal conductivity, specific heat, and thermal expansion testing
Quantitatively assess reservoir properties that affect drilling and production performance
Tests reveal a variety of geomechanical properties, including
- unconfined compressive strength
- tensile strength
- compressibility
- fracture toughness
- thermal properties
- complete shear failure envelope, including compactant cap and static and dynamic elastic moduli.
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