GPC INSTRUMENTATION PROCESS (GPC IP)
est une société d’ingénierie et de services, créé en 1998 à partir d’un noyau d’ingénieurs expérimentés dans l’exploration et l’exploitation des fluides du sous-sol (eau, hydrocarbures, géothermie) avec pour objectif la promotion de technologies de forage/complétion/production innovants.Son champ d’intervention couvre les domaines d’activité suivants :
- forage/complétion;
- ingénierie de réservoirs et évaluation de ressources et réserves;
- mesures électriques/essais de puits, simulations de réservoirs et gestion des ressources;
- suivi et maintenance des installations de production;
- réparations (« workovers ») de puits et complétions endommagés;
- service « coiled tubing»;
- traitement/abattement des effluents et rejets;
- inhibition chimique anti-corrosion/dépôts/biocides;
- études de faisabilité et montages financiers;
- études d’impact environnemental;
- aspects légaux et réglementaires.
Alongside engineering and services, GPC has developed specific R, D and D actions focused on:
Drilling/production technologies
- Jetting tools for removal of casings/completions scale damage and restoration of well productive/ injective capacities.
- Continuous resident downhole chemical injection and control lines.
- Development of coiled tubing concepts addressing well service cementing and slim hole directional drilling applications.
- Membrane volumetric pumping (“bubble pump”).
- Waste fluid handling/treatment lines (gas/liquid separation, solid filtering, waste water/drilling fluids cooling, gas abatement).
- Soft acidizing techniques.
Well completion
- Anti-corrosion well concept combining steel casings and fiberglass liners with a free annulus.
- Inflatable testing/completion/production packers.
In order to secure technically sound and cost effective project completion, the in-house structure has been kept purposely light and open to foreign scientific and industrial consultants and partners. This flexibility allows to concentrate on a given objective the required conceptual and industrial expertise and know-how, the financial back-up, seldom encountered in a single firm, in informal task forces/joint ventures leading, whenever needed, to turnkey proposals.
Patents
Seven patents (France, Europe, USA) held to date, addressing downhole chemical injection/control lines, anti-corrosion well concept, sliding nozzle jetting tool, multifunction wireline logging cable, external pressurisation inflatable packer, membrane volumetric (bubble) pump, waste fluid handling/treatment unit (pending).