In these areas, IFP’s research programs are aimed at fulfilling three major objectives:

• 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.
   
• 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.
   
• Developing fields in extreme environments
  The development of new technologies for deep offshore production and sour gas treatment processes.