On-Chip Oil Swelling Measurement for Gas Injection
Why Gas Injection? With main reservoirs being depleted over several decades of primary and secondary production stages, tertiary recovery or enhanced oil recovery (EOR) methods seem to be the most…
Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro Acquires Interface Fluidics’ SapphireLab for Advanced Fluid Analysis
May 3, 2024CALGARY, Alberta – The Laboratory of Microhydrodynamics and Flow in Porous Media (LMMP/PUC-Rio) from Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC Rio) has recently acquired SapphireLab, Interface…
Flowback to the Future: Optimizing Frac Chemistry Amid Uncertain Produced Water Chemistry
IntroductionFrom 2000 to 2014, the volume of water typically used for fracing an oil well in the United States increased from 177,000 gallons to over 4 million gallons. This surge…
School of Hardnocks To Fluids Matter
In 2015, I found myself standing at a crossroads, wrestling with a challenging decision. My friend Tom was trying to convince me to leave the well-trodden career path I was…
From Dorm Room to PVT On A Chip, Interface Fluidics Founder’s Story
1992: When I was three years old, I moved to Houston Texas where my dad was specializing in microsurgery at MD Anderson Cancer Center. I was three years old at the…
Crude Oil Fluorescence: An Application of Image Processing
Interface Fluidics use of imaging sets us apart from other reservoir-fluid testing companies. This arsenal of physical and digital systems opens a window to how fluids behave at the pore…
Developing a Portable Lab: Engineering Perspectives
When Interface Fluidics started working on SapphireLab, we knew it wasn’t going to be an easy road. From mobilizing our portable lab units to engineering the hardware, every single person…
Formation Water Reinjection: How Damage Impacts Reservoirs
Almost 20 years after the advent of fracking, produced water management remains a challenge costing oil and gas tens of billions of dollars per year. And with mounting environmental regulations,…
A New Tool for Flow Assurance and Measuring Wax Deposition
Flow assurance in general, and wax deposition in particular, is a problem as old as the petroleum industry itself. It is estimated to cost around $330 billion per year when…
Advanced Technology in Hydrocarbon Extraction
The oil and gas sector’s digitization presents an opportunity to the tune of $2.5 trillion of value – and over a billion tonnes of emissions and 800 million gallons of…
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