Exploration and Production Technology Center
EPTC
With specialized laboratories and cutting-edge technologies, EPTC addresses key areas such as drilling, flow assurance, and enhanced recovery. This allows the identification and mitigation of operational and natural risks, ensuring the continuity and efficiency of its operations.
EPTC®
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Researches, develops technologies and provides industrial application services for onshore and offshore fields.
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Has five world-class laboratories.
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Designs specific tests for the oil industry.
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Methodologies for analysis and design of infrastructure in shallow waters.
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Evaluation of products, tools or technologies under operating conditions.
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Validates analytical or numerical models with experimental test results.
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Evaluation of flow assurance chemicals.
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High Pressure Loop (LAP) experimental circuit, which simulates operating conditions in oil facilities with real fluids such as crude oil, gas and brine at different industrial scales.
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Evaluation of technologies and quality control for drilling fluids and petroleum cements.
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Free-free resonant column tests to obtain the dynamic properties of rock cores.
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Application of virtual reality for an immersive tour of the SEN Battery.
EPTC
Exploration and Production Technology Center
Our Laboratories
Technology Qualification Laboratory (TQL)
First in Latin America with facilities to design, test and evaluate process and flow measurement equipment.
Flow Assurance Laboratory (FAL)
First of its kind in Latin America and among the top five worldwide with capabilities to characterise the thermodynamic, physicochemical and transport properties of hydrocarbons under dynamic and static conditions.
Laboratory for Numerical Simulation of Meta-Oceanic and Hydrodynamic Phenomena (LNSMHP)
Supercomputing laboratory offering comprehensive solutions.
Drilling, Completion and Cementing Fluids Laboratory (DCCFL)
The first of its kind in Mexico to offer comprehensive solutions and technologies related to control and cementing fluids.
Geotechnical and Soil-Structure Interaction Laboratory (GSSIL)
The only one in Mexico that integrates state-of-the-art equipment for the static and dynamic characterisation of soils with centrifuge equipment.
Exploration and Production Solutions
Exploration
We develop and apply technologies to identify and locate hydrocarbon resources, assess their potential, and reduce the risk of exploratory drilling.
Production
We develop technologies that enable the maintenance and increase of hydrocarbon production.
Well tools and systems
We develop technologies to improve the exploitation of oil fields.
EPTC
High-tech centre that provides solutions during the planning, design and operation of hydrocarbon production systems.
