Services

Services and Consultancy

Most O&G companies understand the need to transform to achieve profitability and stay relevant during and after the energy transition.

Our Artificial Lift & Flow Assurance consulting team is dedicated to serving clients across several segments with our strong research capabilities to provide strategic commercial advice. We have worked with a range of major national and international O&G companies providing impartial third-party advice across a broad range of technical consultancy services to help clients deliver their energy projects at an acceptable minimum level of risk.

With increasing worldwide pressure on companies to show their contribution to the fight against climate change, the O&G industry also faces pressure in the coming years to consider their carbon footprint and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. In combining long-term project experience across upstream, with cutting-edge innovation and engineering consultancy in carbon-reducing initiatives, ALFA Research Group is perfectly positioned to support our clients across the industry in their energy transition journey.

Some of services

  • Verification, Validation, and Testing of Pumps, ESPs, valves and fittings.
  • Total acid number (TAN, ASTM D664) and Total basic Number (TBN, ASTM D4739) by automatic titration;
  • Water content (Potentiometric Karl Fisher, ASTM E203-16);
  • Microscopic images of colloidal dispersions and wax crystals under controlled temperature;
  • Wax content by low temperature centrifugation technique;
  • Classical pour point determination (ASTM D5853);
  • Bottle test for emulsion stability and emulsion breakers evaluation;
  • SARA compositional analysis (ASTM D6560 and D2007);
  • Rheological tests: viscosity, rheological behavior, yield stress, viscoelastic modules, surface/ interfacial shear rheology;
  • Wax appearance temperature (WAT) of waxy oils (ASTM D4419);
  • Heat (cp) capacity of fluids;
  • Surface/ interfacial tension and rheology by pendant drop tensiometry;
  • Ultralow surface/ interfacial tension and rheology by spinning drop tensiometry;
  • Simulated distillation of crude and complex oils up to C80
  • Zeta potential;
  • Mean size and Size distribution of fine dispersions (by Light scattering);
  • Refraction index of fluids;
  • Stability of oil foams and efficiency of inhibitors/ defoamers.