How Enhanced Sidewall Coring Improves Field Development | Are You Ready to Rock?

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Sidewall coring helps us understand the reservoir rock and its fluid contents and is a faster, cost-effective alternative to conventional whole cores. It also avoids the ambiguity introduced by the depth uncertainty of drill cuttings.

Historically, sidewall coring in certain formations has been difficult to accomplish. But SureRock™ enhanced sidewall coring solution not only improves core recovery in reservoirs previously deemed impossible but also revolutionizes how we analyze those cores once recovered to surface and integrate findings to accelerate your field development plan. Using advanced technology and digital capabilities, SureRock solution enables you to understand your reservoir’s geology to maximize your reservoir’s performance.

The solution does the following:

- Enhances core recovery by 40% compared with conventional techniques—no matter the environment—including unconsolidated, hard and abrasive, and overbalanced wellbore conditions

- Improves efficiency by 60%

- Enables comprehensive geomechanics and digital special core analysis (SCAL) for dynamic reservoir properties.

Learn how our geomechanics laboratory services work with sidewall coring to improve well construction and production performance: https://www.slb.com/products-and-serv...

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