As global energy companies continue advancing decarbonization strategies, CCS projects require highly detailed subsurface characterization to verify reservoir integrity, seal capacity, injectivity, and long-term containment performance. Accurate understanding of these geological and petrophysical properties is essential to ensuring the safety, efficiency, and permanence of underground CO₂ storage operations.
Core Lab recently supported a carbon capture and storage (CCS) initiative in Brazil by deploying its proprietary NITRO℠ digital rock analysis technologies to evaluate critical reservoir properties and long-term CO₂ storage potential. Approximately 100 meters of core recovered from an injector well were analyzed using Core’s NITRO℠ digital rock analysis platform. The technology enabled rapid, high-resolution three-dimensional visualization of the reservoir while delivering early-time petrophysical insights that accelerated project understanding and decision-making.
“Acquiring Solintec in 2025 expanded Core Lab’s in-country geological laboratory capabilities across Brazil. By combining Solintec’s modern laboratory facilities with Core Lab’s advanced reservoir characterization technologies, clients benefit from faster turnaround, deeper geological insights, and enhanced support for complex projects including emerging energy transition initiatives.”
Christian eckart, core lab country manager
The integrated evaluation program focused on several key aspects of storage performance, including:
- Long-term storage performance and reservoir stability assessments
- Seal-rock integrity and containment capacity
- Reservoir geomechanical properties and stress behavior
- CO₂ rock–fluid interaction analysis
- Pore structure characterization and flow behavior
By combining advanced imaging, digital rock physics, and laboratory analysis workflows, Core Lab provided the operator with critical data to better understand subsurface storage behavior and support confident development planning for the CCS project.
The project also demonstrates the strength of Core Lab’s expanded regional capabilities following the 2025 acquisition of Solintec. With enhanced in-country expertise, laboratory infrastructure, and geological services throughout Brazil, Core Lab now offers one of the region’s most comprehensive integrated subsurface evaluation platforms — strengthening support for complex reservoir characterization, CCS, and energy transition projects across South America.