Latest figures show that after just seven years of full production, formate brines have helped deliver close to 90% of estimated recoverable reserves from Huldra and Tune, two North Sea HPHT gas condensate fields.

OMV has published two papers on the development and successful use of formate brines as reservoir drilling and completion fluids in the Miano and Sawan high-temperature gas fields located in the Sindh area of Pakistan.

In a concerted drive to increase its non-associated gas production, Saudi Aramco has engaged in a lengthy campaign of drilling slim-hole wells with long horizontal sections through Khuff and Pre-Khuff gas reservoirs.

DensiCalc is a newly updated density calculator from Cabot Specialty Fluids that converts surface density to equivalent brine density, calculates average density of wellbore fluid and the hydrostatic pressure generated for any given cesium/potassium brine.

Researchers at a leading research institution, the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in the U.S., have brought new insight to understanding formate brine stability under hydrothermal conditions.

New tool developed by Gaia Consulting of Finland uncovers hidden costs of well completion and workover brines.

With record-fast HPHT completion, exceptional well control and noteworthy productivity levels, StatoilHydro is setting new standards with Kvitebjørn, its North Sea gas/condensate field.

A question asked for the last 12 years has finally been answered. Why do formate brines produce such positive gas permeability results under HPHT conditions in the field, but not in the lab?