Qatar Petroleum (QP), Total E&P Qatar and Q Analytica have signed a joint research and development agreement on petroleum profiling, a technology used to characterise the chemical composition of crude oil.
The joint research project will be implemented in three phases in accordance with the R&D strategy of QP in knowledge transfer and technologies development.
The main objective of the project is to analyse the opportunity in acquiring the techniques applied in biomedical research into oil and gas research fields.
The research work will be undertaken at the laboratories of QP and Total at the Qatar Science and Technology Park (QSTP).
Also known as “oil fingerprinting,” petroleum profiling is used to identify and quantify all components of crude oil and to study how these components affect the properties and reactivity of that specific crude oil. Although conventional techniques for petroleum profiling already exist, the research project of QP, Total and Q Analytica will study the possibility of acquiring the new technologies currently applied in the biomedical field. They will then use these in oil and gas operations to enhance the oil fingerprinting task, thus making it easier, faster and more sensitive.
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