Oil & Gas Development

Optimizing Oil and Gas Development with Rock Volatiles Stratigraphy

Maximize the value of your oil and gas assets with Rock Volatiles Stratigraphy from Advanced Hydrocarbon Stratigraphy. Our RVS services offer critical data on reservoir characteristics, hydrocarbon types, and subsurface conditions, aiding in effective reservoir management and development planning. By integrating RVS with traditional well logging, we provide a comprehensive understanding of your resources, ensuring efficient and profitable extraction. Enhance your oil and gas development projects with our innovative stratigraphy solutions.

Key Advantages:

  • Reservoir Characterization: Detailed understanding of reservoir properties and hydrocarbon types.
  • Effective Resource Management: Enhanced planning and management of reservoir development.
  • Integrated Analysis: Comprehensive data by integrating RVS with traditional well logging.
  • Maximized Asset Value: Optimize extraction processes for higher profitability.
  • Informed Decision-Making: Reliable data for strategic development and operational decisions.

What is RSV?

Rock Volatiles Stratigraphy- RVS is a non-intrusive technique uses a novel cyro-trap mass spectrometry system developed by AHS to gently extract, identify, and quantify volatiles in geological materials.

Functions regardless of age of sample or mud system

Used for a variety of applications for detailed petroleum assessments (migration, seals, accumulations, compartments, resource quality, thermal maturity, rock properties, production allocation) and post-mortems (seal failure, resource fractionation, parent-child relationships, mapping previous drainage, over-pressure, tar) to operational decisions (perforations and landing zones)​

Lab-based analysis can be completed in 36 hours or less for operational decisions.  ​

Works on PDC/rock bit/cable tool cuttings, core, SWC, outcrop, muds, and produced fluids samples regardless of age and mud system.

1-1.5 g of rock sample is subjected to a gentle vacuum extraction at room temperature.

All compounds are measured at two different vacuum extraction conditions providing information on permeability and grain surface interactions.

The mechanical strength of the rock is also measured by uniaxial crushing.

Over 120 different direct measurements per sample provide a detailed description of the subsurface geochemistry.