Schlumberger has acquired Fluid Inclusion Technologies Inc. (FIT), a Tulsa, Oklahoma-based oil and gas service company specializing in laboratory analysis of trapped fluids in rock material, and advanced borehole gas analysis on drilling wells, according to a news release.
The expanded rock and fluids services and technologies enable integrated workflows from Schlumberger field and laboratory services. For example, customers can bring cuttings or rock samples to the Schlumberger Reservoir Laboratory and obtain full analytical information supported by Schlumberger domain knowledge and expertise, the release said. Services include integrated studies covering the type and origin of rocks and hydrocarbons, and comprehensive understanding of reservoir heterogeneities and gradients.
Through FIT, proprietary geochemical logging technology is being added to Schlumberger’s advanced mud gas logging portfolio, the release said.
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