{"id":2097,"date":"2014-01-28T08:30:39","date_gmt":"2014-01-28T13:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.acceleratingscience.com\/?p=2097"},"modified":"2026-01-06T15:19:49","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T15:19:49","slug":"portable-xrf-analyzers-increase-efficiency-in-oil-and-gas-exploration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thermofisher.com\/blog\/mining\/portable-xrf-analyzers-increase-efficiency-in-oil-and-gas-exploration\/","title":{"rendered":"Portable XRF Analyzers Increase Efficiency in Oil and Gas Exploration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"attachment_2100\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/admin.acceleratingscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/oilgasupstream.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2100\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2100\" alt=\"Elemental chemistry gives clues to the rock properties that could affect oil &amp; gas accumulation\" src=\"http:\/\/admin.acceleratingscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/oilgasupstream-300x238.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"238\" srcset=\"https:\/\/admin.acceleratingscience.com\/mining\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2014\/01\/oilgasupstream-300x238.jpg 300w, https:\/\/admin.acceleratingscience.com\/mining\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2014\/01\/oilgasupstream-400x318.jpg 400w, https:\/\/admin.acceleratingscience.com\/mining\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2014\/01\/oilgasupstream.jpg 422w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2100\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elemental chemistry gives clues to the rock properties that\u00a0could affect oil &amp; gas accumulation<\/p><\/div>  Oil and gas exploration and production (E&amp;P) involves many challenging processes. Oil and gas deposits are difficult to find, and drilling in the wrong spot is expensive and time consuming. With substantial capital investments at stake, geologists need efficient, streamlined technologies to figure out where these elusive deposits are and which ones will prove the most productive and profitable.  The key to identifying the best drilling targets is to conduct sample analyses of drill cuttings, outcrops, piston-core sediment, and oil and gas cores. These sample types are common in E&amp;P operations and provide valuable information about the mineral composition of the rock and whether or not it has properties favorable to oil and gas production.  The data produced by this sample chemical analysis serves five critical functions in E&amp;P: <\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><strong>Inferring Mineralogy:<\/strong> Bulk chemical analysis is used to infer the mineralogy of the rock.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><strong>Inferring Lithology (Mud Logging):<\/strong> The elemental composition and ratios of light elements found in the analysis tells whether you\u2019re drilling through limestone, dolomite, sandstone, siltstone, or shale.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><strong>Chemostratigraphy:<\/strong> Chemostratigraphy is the study of the variation of chemistry within sedimentary sequences. Key chemostratigraphic markers can be used to steer the well bore in real time or confirm the well bore path. Trace elements analyzed by portable XRF can be good markers for this type of investigation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><strong>Reservoir Characterization:<\/strong> Various physical characteristics of the reservoir (such as porosity, permeability, and fracture population can be inferred from chemical composition.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><strong>Oil and Gas Productivity:<\/strong> A determination of whether or not the strata will produce oil and gas.<\/p>\n<p> Quickly gaining an understanding of these qualities is critical to making decisions about whether to stop or continue drilling, where to focus on the grid, and when to take a proper sample for laboratory analysis. However, traditional mining sample analysis often involves a costly and time-consuming process of sending samples to off-site laboratories and waiting days, or even months, for critical data. On-site mobile laboratories have sometimes proven difficult to maintain and the related analytical equipment is often inadequate in terms of ruggedness, ease-of-use, and portability.  Portable <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niton.com\/en\/portable-xrf-technology\/how-xrf-works\">XRF technology<\/a> is improving efficiency in E&amp;P operations by providing rapid sample analysis in the field, in real time. They provide a cost-effective alternative to expensive, permanent, on-site labs or costly and untimely sample dispatch to off-site laboratories. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niton.com\/en\/niton-analyzers-products\/xl2\">Portable X-ray Fluorescence (XRF) instruments<\/a> are not used to directly analyze hydrocarbon fluids, but they can analyze major and trace elements of host rocks.\u00a0These assay data are very important in interpretation of the hydrocarbon potential of the strata and can be used to evaluate a drill site according to the criteria mentioned above.  <em>Read the application note about the use of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niton.com\/docs\/literature\/Upstream_Exploration_Production_with_the_Thermo_Scientific_Niton_XL3t_900_GOLDD.pdf?sfvrsn=2\">XRF technology to analyze a variety of sample types common in the upstream E&amp;P industry<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil and gas exploration and production (E&amp;P) involves many challenging processes. Oil and gas deposits are difficult to find, and drilling in the wrong spot is expensive and time consuming. With substantial capital investments at stake, geologists need efficient, streamlined technologies to figure out where these elusive deposits are and which ones will prove 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