Established
Supported by extensive, independently reproduced literature and industrial practice. May be taken into pilot projects after technical review.
Mature hydrocarbon reservoirs retain substantial capillary- and structurally-trapped volumes even after decades of production. SEVARIS develops the scientific foundations of an adaptive systems architecture that combines established methods field by field and operates them within explicit safety limits — as a research programme, not as a finished industrial system.
The decline of a mature field describes commercial performance under the given operating conditions — not the volume actually remaining. The causes are falling reservoir pressure, preferential flow channels, early water breakthrough, capillary-trapped residual oil and unswept dead volumes. They concern mobility, not necessarily quantity.
At the same time, none of the established tertiary recovery methods — thermal, chemical or by gas injection — has provided a general answer to the geological heterogeneity of natural reservoirs. Each method addresses a particular mobilisation mechanism; none works equally across all reservoir types.
From this follows the guiding proposition: not another single method, but the field-specific and continuously adapted combination of established methods within a common digital control architecture offers the greatest potential.
And what does not follow. That the combination works is a working proposition, not a result. It must be demonstrated field by field through laboratory work, simulation and pilot.
This description follows the scientific version of the undertaking. Its governing principle is the separation of what is established from what is plausible and from what is mere hypothesis. We maintain that separation in public communication as well.
Supported by extensive, independently reproduced literature and industrial practice. May be taken into pilot projects after technical review.
Consistent with established knowledge but not validated for the specific field. Requires documented laboratory or simulation evidence before any field application.
Without a sound experimental or theoretical basis in the literature reviewed. May not be presented as a viable system component — not even to investors.
What that means in practice. Components at level E 3 are not described on this site. They are the subject of fundamental feasibility studies whose outcome is open — including the possibility that they prove untenable.
The following description sets out the task each component performs and how its evidence base is to be classified. The specific interconnection and the processes from whose interaction the overall system arises are not the subject of this description.
Every operating strategy remains permanently below the reservoir-specific fracture pressure demonstrated for the field. Optimisation methods may neither exceed nor alter that limit.
Hydraulic fracturing is not part of the concept. This is not a restriction in the individual case but a determination of the programme.
Pattern recognition, anomaly reporting and scenario comparison within limits set in advance. Safety-critical decisions do not rest on data-driven optimisation.
The protective functions are designed separately from any optimisation method and follow the requirements of functional safety under IEC 61511 and the ISA 84 series, with hazard analysis, defined safety integrity levels and independent verification.
The undertaking touches on seventeen scientific and technical disciplines. No individual and no uniformly composed team holds them at the required depth. In the literature, failures of technically ambitious undertakings regularly stem from too little external technical scrutiny, not from too much.
A mandated scientific board drawn from seventeen disciplines — from reservoir engineering, geology and geomechanics through interfacial and polymer chemistry, high-frequency engineering, sensing and control engineering to safety science, environmental science and law.
The disciplines of geomechanics and functional safety hold an independent veto against any operating strategy that endangers the pressure limits or the safety architecture.
No scientific, intellectual-property or investor-facing statement concerning components at level E 3 without the express clearance of the responsible discipline.
Transition between development stages occurs only after documented review — from laboratory validation through hazard analysis to assessment on the basis of pilot data rather than simulation assumptions.
Proprietor of the brand and the associated know-how, Herisau, Switzerland. It directs the research programme, maintains the methodology and grants licences.
An independently constituted body with rights of review, clearance and veto. Members disclose economic and institutional ties; success fees tied to a particular assessment are excluded.
Reservoir operators, service providers and research institutions contribute in their respective roles. They are independent undertakings; their technologies and permits belong to them.
Write to us stating the field type, country, production history and the occasion of your enquiry. We work without a contact form and without a telephone hotline.
This description sets out SEVARIS at a functional level. The specific interconnection of the components and the processes from whose interaction the overall system arises are not the subject of this description; they constitute protected know-how and the subject matter of intended applications for industrial property rights. Disclosure takes place only upon conclusion of a confidentiality agreement and after the priority date has been secured.
All assessments made to date rest on published literature, not on the company’s own experiments, simulations or field trials. Statements about additionally recoverable volumes are not the subject of this site; in the absence of validated pilot data they could, under the systematics of the applicable evaluation guidelines, at most be classified as contingent resources and not as reserves.
Electrical and electromagnetic equipment in the well and plant environment is subject to explosion protection requirements. Electromagnetic transmission and power systems may, depending on their specification, qualify as dual-use goods under export control law; that assessment precedes any cross-border cooperation.
SEVARIS™ is a brand of IMS New Technologies AG.
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