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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 time. We were there for one year. While I was in Houston, we visited Space Center...
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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 scale – providing phase behaviour information critical to...
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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 at Interface played a part in making a commercial product....
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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, the universal solvent has long made its way to the...
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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 the impact of oil spills is considered. While there are a variety of ways to...
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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 water-use reduction by 2025. However, the World Economic Forum reports the...
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Cutting-Edge Microfluidics for the Hydrogen Age
There is growing confidence that hydrogen is set to be the next big thing for the world’s energy landscape. Its market is expected to be worth $2.5 trillion by 2050. This has spurred much technological innovation, and Interface Fluidics is joining...
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Lab on a Chip Adds Fluid Testing to Oil and Gas Workflows
Oil and gas companies understandably devote a lot of attention to optimizing workflows to maximize value in their operations. Robust and ongoing fluid testing should be a part of this process. However, conventional tests can be so inconvenient that...
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The Journey of an Oil and Gas Startup
Every year more than a thousand start-ups are born, many with the potential to disrupt the oil and gas industry. And while over 63% of entrepreneurs start a business with a view towards change, 20% of new businesses fail in the first year and 50% in...
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