Total’s senior international specialists from its Exploration & Production Scientific and Technical Centre in Pau, France, recently organised a technical training session at the Total Research Centre-Qatar (TRC-Q) for more than 40 employees from partner institutions in the oil and gas sector, and university teachers.
Arnaud Meyer, project leader in carbonate headquarters team and Richard Labourdette led the training on “Geological heterogeneities in carbonate reservoirs in the Middle East”.
They shared their collective 47 years of experience, and helped attendees understand the large and small scale geological characteristics of carbonate reservoirs. The purpose was to better represent the behaviour of a dynamic field, and this is all thanks to new technical developments in carbonate deposition, statigraphy and seismic imaging.
TRC-Q is one of the seven worldwide research and development centres of Total E&P, and has become a”hub for development” of new technologies, research and knowledge-sharing with Qatari partners.
“Knowledge-sharing is a key to success, and we are strongly committed to such scientific exchanges with our Qatari industrial and academic partners, for the benefit of all,” said Pierre Montaud, director, Total Research Centre-Qatar.
“How we work is by developing new ideas, testing them on producing fields, and analysing the results so they may be used in the oil and gas industry. In this way, Total supports the building of a knowledge-based economy in Qatar”, he said.
TRC-Q has taken over innovative research projects, especially in carbonate reservoirs as all of Qatar’s currently producing oil and gas reservoirs are carbonates. In 2015 alone they filed two new patents related to carbonates, on geochemistry and acid stimulation.
Total has had a continuous presence in Qatar for close to 80 years, and is the only international oil company active in all branches of Qatar’s oil and gas sector. This includes exploration and production, refining and petrochemicals, and the marketing of lubricants.