Issues and Foresight
All about oil
Oil is a fossil energy and a resource that is limited on a global scale. What is oil made of? How is it extracted? What is it used for? A review of the fundamentals What is oil made of? How is oil
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News
23 September 2019
Equinor to sign a framework agreement for advanced R&D services with IFPEN in the area of energy transition
Equinor has just signed a Framework Agreement with IFPEN for a period of four years (with two options to renew, for a total of four additional years). The Framework Agreement covers provision of advanced R&D services in oil & gas technologies, renewable energies and low carbon solutions.
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Events
17 June 2019
Chemical EOR Key Success Factors Workshop
The workshop is a forum for sharing and discussing ideas on the technical and industrial challenges for field implementation of chemical EOR. Its scope covers early feasibility assessments, case studies and feedbacks from field trials.
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News
21 May 2019
Launch of gasification operations at Bionext’s Dunkirk site
Issues and Foresight
All about natural gas
Like oil, natural gas is a fossil energy that is also the result of the decomposition of organic materials on the ocean bed. One of the specific characteristics of the gas chain concerns transport, an
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Our strengths
Reservoir Our strengths Over a number of years, IFPEN has built up globally recognized expertise in areas such as: multiphase phenomena and fluid/rock interactions, geomechanical aspects, reactive
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Our solutions
Reservoir Our solutions IFPEN develops innovative solutions and software for reservoir modeling, including matrix/fracture characterization and modeling, as well as reservoir simulation. COMPLEX
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Our strengths
Petrochemicals Our strengths Recognized expertise in the field of catalysis: 2005 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Yves Chauvin ; 2014 Irène Joliot-Curie Prize / Woman Scientist of the Year, Hélène Olivier
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Our solutions
Petrochemicals our solutions IFPEN’s research is aimed at developing new catalysts, adsorbents and petrochemical intermediate production processes, and improving the performance of existing
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Our strengths
Basin Our strengths Two subsidiaries dedicated to the industrial development of software: Beicip-Franlab Beicip-Franlab conducts technical and economic studies for the oil and gas industry and markets
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Our solutions
Basin Our solutions In the field of basin modeling, IFPEN develops equipment and advanced software solutions and services for industry. Our integrated exploration approach ranges from geochemistry
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Our solutions
Offshore drilling and production Our solutions IFPEN develops solutions to produce offshore oil and gas fields and optimize oil and gas flows from the reservoir through to treatment facilities .
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Petrochemicals
PETROCHEMICALS OVERVIEW AND CHALLENGES Petrochemical processes are designed to convert oil and natural gas cuts into base chemicals (the major intermediates) for the chemicals industry, such as