Extended reserves
Pushing back the boundaries in oil and gas exploration and production
During the transitional phase ahead of us, satisfying energy requirements will require a sustained effort to bring new reserves into production, the first conventional petroleum substitute being petroleum with a high technological content.
In the coming decades, explorers and producers will therefore have to be even more innovative. The development and command of advanced technologies will lead to new discoveries, improvement of recovery rates and the development of unconventional resources, such as ultra-deep offshore, very deeply buried reservoirs, very sour gases together with tight gas and shale gas.
In these areas, IFP Energies nouvelles's research programs are aimed at fulfilling three major objectives:
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Increasing exploration success rates
Development of compositional geochemical models and conceptual models in structural and sedimentary geology, the simulation of the evolution of geological formations, and the qualitative and quantitative characterization of hydrocarbon reserves.
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Improving field recovery
Improvement of the description of fields and their simulation and increase in recovery rates through an improvement in reservoir simulation and monitoring technologies, but also through improved oil recovery (IOR) techniques.
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Developing fields in extreme environments
The development of new technologies for deep offshore production and sour gas treatment processes.
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