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Beicip-Franlab
Activities and markets
Created by the 1992 merger of two companies founded by IFP, in 1967 and 1960, Beicip-Franlab provides global solutions in oil and gas Exploration-Production.
Its activities, almost all of them international, are organized around two main themes:
- "consulting": Beicip-Franlab performs studies to characterize basins and model petroleum deposits.
- "software": the company publishes and markets software, generally developed in association with IFP, for use in Exploration-Production studies.
Highlights of 2007
Both sides of Beicip-Franlab’s business – consultancy and software – continued to develop in 2007, with a growth in turnover of almost 20% in comparison with 2006, following close on the heels of a 30% increase in 2006 over 2005. Beicip-Franlab’s international presence was further reinforced with the creation of two subsidiaries in 2007, in Brazil and Mexico.
Notable reservoir study contracts include service contracts concerning various giant carbonaceous fields in the Middle East for Saudi Aramco (Saudi Arabia), Kuwait Oil Company (Kuwait) or Qatar Petroleum (Qatar) and the continuation of studies for major fields in Algeria (Hassi Messaoud and the Berkine basin, in particular), in Libya, Mexico (Cantarell) and Venezuela. Exploration studies, which increased, were conducted in various offshore sedimentary basins (Angola, Brazil, Congo, Ivory Coast, Gulf of Mexico, North Sea) or onshore ones (Algeria, Mexico, Pakistan, Sudan, Venezuela) for international or national companies. Reserve audit/certification or unitization studies were conducted in various regions of the world. Multi-year framework agreements were signed with a variety of companies (including ADNOC, BP, ExxonMobil, KOC, Sonangol, Total).
In the software field, the first commercial versions of the new-generation PumaFlow and CondorFlow (reservoir simulation) and FracaFlow (fractured field modeling) software products were released, while the new-generation TemisFlow basin-modeling project was launched. These projects, which are based on the OpenFlow platform, are supported by around a dozen national and international oil companies. Some of the most noteworthy sales of the year concern agreements with Russian companies (DMNG, Gazpromneft, GazpromneftCentre Shpilman, Rosneft, Tatneft), with KOC, PDVSA, Petronas and Total, and the start of marketing of Dionisos stratigraphic modeling software (Chevron, DMNG, Eni, ExxonMobil, Petrobras, Petronas, RepsolYPF, Saudi Aramco, Shell).
Contacts
BEICIP-FRANLAB
232, Avenue Napoléon Bonaparte
P.O. BOX 213
92502 Rueil-Malmaison
France
Tel.: +33 (0)1 47 08 80 00
Fax: +33 (0)1 47 08 41 85
www.beicip.com
info@beicip.fr
BEICIP Inc.
1880 S. Dairy Ashford,
Suite 630
Houston, TX 77077
USA
Tel.: +1 (281) 293 8550 ext 14
Fax: +1 (281) 293 8294
www.beicip-inc.com
info@beicip-inc.com
IFP Middle East Consulting
Manama Centre – Part 2
Entrance 2, Suite 401
PO.Box 10813,
Manama Diplomatic Area
Kingdom of Bahrain
Tel.: +973 17 21 11 50
Fax: +973 17 21 11 72
ifpetrol@batelco.com.bh