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Last year, PERM Inc also announced a new
Joint-Industry-Project to study the effects of
gases on thermal processes in oil sands and
carbonates. Dr.Kantzas says the world is in a
“new era in development of non-pristine oil-
sands and carbonates” – an era which is “in
need of new measurement techniques and
data.” That project is ongoing.
INNOVATE TO EXIST
Moving forward, Dr.Kantzas says PERM
will keep innovating, and keep adding to
their already long list of services and special-
ties.
“We have to innovate to exist,” he says. “Our
niche in the market is that we’re doing the
things that other people don’t do. We have
to be novel at all times.”
“The novelties now are in the testing, in
the digital core analysis, and it’s also in un-
derstanding how new technologies can be
implemented in reservoirs,” he continues.
“And we try to have new stuff continuously.
Of course, that’s easier said than done, and
for every success there are failures. But that’s
how progress is made.”
“For the next little while, we are experiment-
ing with new techniques that will allow us
to get better and more information out of
porous materials using imaging and non-