Reservoir-on-a-Chip Technology Opens a New Window Into Oilfield Chemistry

摘要

With its ability to replicate little slivers of reservoir rocks,micro-fluidics is giving the oil and gas industry a new way to capture images of interactions between chemicals and hydrocarbons.The biggest advantage this emerging technology holds over more established research tools is that it can capture the images at all.”You actually see what it looks like when the oil,water,and chemistry all interact,and that means we are making direct measurements of the performance characteristics,”explained Stuart Kinnear,the chief executive officer of Interface Fluidics.