oa Detecting and Avoiding Tar While Drilling, Technique Developed by Saudi Aramco

The presentation will discuss Saudi Aramco’s proprietary pyrolytic technologies to quantitatively assess the volumes of oil, tar and pyrobitumen in oil reservoirs in real time to avoid drilling within unproductive/non-injective zones of tar mats and heavy oil. The technology uses temperature programmed pyrolysis with a flame ionization detection to measure the amount of hydrocarbons in powdered cuttings and core samples.