PAULSSON
Advanced Sensing Solutions
PAULSSON
MONITORS ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURES
INDUSTRIES
INTELLIGENT DATA FOR THE OIL & GAS AND GREEN ENERGY INDUSTRIES
The Paulsson team of experts understand all energy decisions are long-term and therefore must be based on timely, accurate and high-resolution data. Creating a sufficient amount of high-fidelity relevant high-value data is often the most difficult part of the decision making process, especially in the fields of energy.
COMMERCIAL FOCUS AREAS
CLEAN ENERGY (EGS, GREEN H2, UGS, CCUS)
Paulsson is pioneering all-optical distributed and point sensors for clean and green energy solutions:
• EGS - Enhanced Geothermal Systems - need Ultra High Temperature Sensors (UHTS™) to characterize sub-surface reservoirs and monitor supercritical steam.
• GH2™ - GREEN H2 - Characterize, monitor and safe-guard the underground reservoirs used for storing GH2™ generated by hydrolyzing water using energy from wind, solar, and geothermal power plants.
• UGS - Underground Gas Storage - Characterize, monitor and safe-guard UGS reservoirs, used for storing Methane and Hythane. The UGS industry today is a $500 billion industry projected to grow to $750 billion by 2026. The UGS industry today operates over 400 sites and 15,000 wells.
• CCUS - Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage -Characterize, monitor and safe-guard underground storage of CO2. The CCUS industry is projected to drill 14,000 wells in the United States by 2050.
ENHANCED HYDROCARBON RECOVERY (EOR)
Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) President, Alain Labastie, stated in 2011 “The current ultimate average recovery factor for oilfields, on a worldwide basis, is about 35%. This means that about two-thirds of the oil that has been discovered is left within the reservoir. We have under our feet, in well-known locations, enormous prospects for booking new reserves. Increasing the average ultimate recovery factor from 35% to 45% would bring about 1 trillion barrels of oil!”.
Increased recovery requires the use of high-resolution and accurate depth-imaging of oil and gas reservoirs using borehole seismic.
Borehole seismic is the Paulsson specialty!
By increasing the oil and gas recovery rate from existing reservoirs, we avoid the need for drilling many new wells, reducing the environmental impact from oil and gas development and production.
PUBLIC FOCUS AREAS
INFRASTRUCTURE
In addition to subsurface energy applications, Paulsson's team of experts apply advanced fiber optic sensors to monitor above ground public & commercial infrastructure such as pipelines, railways, bridges, and dams.
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GOVERNMENT AND UNIVERSITIES
Paulsson, Inc. has received a large number of competitive grants from Department of Energy (DOE), Department of Transportation (DOT - PHMSA), and California Energy Commission (CEC).
TECHNICAL LEADERSHIP
With these generous grants from the Federal and California State Governments, Paulsson has developed a number of distributed and point optical sensors, deployment methods and data processing technologies, which include:
• Fiber Optic Seismic Vector Sensors (FOSVS™)
• Fiber Optic Hydrophone Arrays (FOHA™)
•. Fiber Optic Pressure Sensor Arrays (FOPSA™)
• Enhanced Distributed Acoustic Sensors (EDAS™)
• Distributed Temperature Sensor Arrays (DTSA™)
• Distributed Strain Sensor Arrays (DSSA™)
• Large Borehole 3C Geophone Arrays (LB3CGA™)
- Up to 400 Levels
• Piezoelectric 3C Sensor Arrays (P3CZA™)
RESEARCH PARTNERS
• National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
• National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL)
• Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL)
• Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
• Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)
• Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)
• Battelle Memorial Institute (Battelle)
• UC San Diego (UCSD) - Scripps
• New Mexico Tech (NMT)
• University of Utah (UU)
• University of North Dakota - EERC (UNDEERC)
