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At Stim-Lab,
we pride ourselves in providing answers, not just data.
Our experts have extensive experience in all areas of completion and stimulation,
giving us the ability to fully evaluate your problem propose a meaningful testing
regime. In cases where the testing
does not meet our standard offerings, we can design and manufacture testing equipment
to give our customers answers to the question they are posing.
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American
Petroleum Institute Recommended Practices for:
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Testing
Sand Used in Hydraulic Fracturing Operations (API RP 56)
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Testing
Sand Used in Gravel Packing Operations (API RP 58)
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Testing
High-Strength Proppants used in Hydraulic Fracturing Operations (API RP 60)
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Standard
and Non-Darcy Fracture Conductivity Flow Analysis
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Formation
Damage Assessment
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Fluid Compatibility
and Critical Velocity Flood
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Drilling
Mud and Fracturing Fluid Damage Assessment and Removal
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Additive
Evaluation
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Matrix and
Fracture Acidizing
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Fracturing
Fluid Evaluations
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Laboratory
and Large Scale Rheological Studies
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Proppant
Transport Properties
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Dynamic
Leakoff
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Breaker
Evaluation
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Friction
Pressure
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Large Scale
Tool Testing and Evaluation
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Reservoir
Characterization
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Petrology
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Field and
Regional Studies
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Wellsite
Services
Research Consortia
Stim-Lab's research consortia offer the opportunity for companies
to participate in multi-client studies that investigate subjects of broad industry
interest. Every dollar you spend in support of one of our consortia will return
hundreds of dollars worth of research.
Producers, service companies and suppliers in these consortia study a variety of
issues including:
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Proppant
Conductivity and Fracture Cleanup Consortium
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develops
new methods to scientifically predict the cleanup of proppant packs within hydraulic
fractures. This data allows you to
select fluids, proppants and production methods to optimize production
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Matrix and
Fracture Acidizing Consortium
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investigates
parameters associated with fracture acidizing, matrix acidizing, and foam diversion
in vertical and horizontal wells. The
data obtained allows you to confidently select additives and treatment conditions
to optimize stimulation results.
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Screen Cleanup
and Performance Evaluation Consortium
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the only
consortium in the petroleum industry that evaluates the performance of screens under
a variety of downhole conditions using various large-scale flow cells.
The aim of the Screen Consortium is to develop criteria when a specific screen
is selected for a particular formation.
Consulting and Treatment
Simulation
Our consultants
have thousands of hours of experience designing stimulation treatments and handle
difficult cases on a daily basis. If
you are encountering a problem, chances are our experts have see something similar
and will assist you in prompt resolution.
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Stimulation
Consulting
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Treatment
Design
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Post Treatment
Analysis
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Field and
Regional Studies
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Training
Courses
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Proppant
Conductivity
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Formation
Damage
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Treatment
Design and Post Treatment Analysis
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Fracturing
Quality Control
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GOHFER Hydraulic
and Acid Fracturing Simulator
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The industry’s
only fully 3-D simulator with a fully coupled fluid/solids transport
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Designed
for use in the field as well as the laboratory
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Used extensively
in many regions of the world without requiring special tuning
History
Founded in 1985, STIM-LAB, Inc. has become a recognized leader in oil and gas well
completion testing and reservoir analysis. STIM-LAB operates two facilities including
offices and a research center in Duncan, Oklahoma, and STIM-LAB Formation Damage,
located in Aberdeen, Scotland.
Facilities
 The Duncan Research Center is housed in a modern,
fully equipped, 17,000 sq. ft. facility. Laboratory capabilities are in place to
evaluate a variety of properties for drilling fluids, cementing and stimulation
fluids under simulated reservoir conditions. In addition, our reservoir analysis
group offers a wide range of geological, petrophysical and engineering services
including log analysis, carbonate and clastic depositional environments, diagenesis,
area studies and exploitation procedures.
With the opening of STIM-LAB Formation Damage, advanced completion testing and research
services are available for North Sea and European operators.
Typical Studies
Typical engineering motivated studies include:
- Independent analysis of recommended completion fluids
- Testing of mud damage on reservoir samples
- Stepped flow rate testing to determine fines migration threshold
- Development of nondamaging or stimulating fluid formulation
- Determination of fracture conductivity with various proppant loads and types
- Visual large scale simulation of proppant transport and placement
- Examine cuttings for compatibility with completion fluids
- Describe waterflood susceptibility and flow units
- Scale analysis
- Formation specific acid reaction coefficients
Typical geological motivated studies include:
- Examine cuttings for mineralogy
- Explain log responses by lithologic characteristics
- Determine depositional and diagenetic controls on reservoir quality
- Relate logs to cores to extend log interpretation through the reservoir
- Identify and quantify porosity classes in reservoir
- Find statistical relationships between rock properties and log responses
- Measure FRF, m, n, a, CEC etc. for log analysis
Consortia
Completion research is a vital and ongoing effort at STIM-LAB. Five research consortia,
sponsored by STIM-LAB, study Proppant Conductivity, Rheology and Proppant Transport,
Acidizing, Screen Cleanup and Casing Cleanup. Consortium members jointly select
research topics and benefit from interaction and leveraging of efforts. As a result
of this research, STIM-LAB is constantly developing new and innovative completion
techniques, equipment and data.
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