Gushor Inc. offers Lunch N Learn presentations on a variety of topics in the heavy oil, oil sands, and unconventional gas industries.  All presentations can be tailored and customized for a client's specific interest areas, should that be required.  If you wish to arrange to have Gushor Inc. come in and put on a Lunch N Learn presentation please contact Richard Stephens at rstephens@gushor.com or 404.210.7594.

 GUSHOR IN A NUTSHELL (1 Hour)

Introduction to Gushor Inc., which provides a general overview of what services Gushor can provide and why they are important to your particular business unit.  We touch briefly on Gushor history, Geoscience Solutions, Engineering Solutions, Technology Applications (lab and field plunging, Gvisc, ProxVisc, etc.), and Emerging areas.  This Lunch N Learn is geared towards companies and individuals who have not dealt with Gushor previously.  The presentation generally sets the stage for a second presentation geared towards a more focused area.

 BIODEGRADATION AND HEAVY OIL (1 Hour)

Introduction to the biodegradation of petroleum and the origin of heavy oil.  Discussion of analytical methods for heavy oils, the geochemistry of biodegradation and heavy oil formation, prediction of fluid properties, rates of degradation and modeling, applying the chemical toolbox to heavy oil field problems, and the impact of oil viscosity heterogeneity on the production characteristics of oil sand and heavy oil reservoirs.

  BRUTUS PRECONDITIONING (1 Hour)

Surprisingly, in many bitumen reservoirs, due to the high bitumen viscosity, mobile water is present in the oil column.  Mobile water can be used to deliver preconditioning reagents to a reservoir to cold or thermal recovery which can modify oil viscosity, solution gas content or emulsion formation to mention but a few.  Brutus in a potential game changing technology that can have a dramatic impact on cold and thermal recovery in the oil sands.

ORIGIN AND NATURE OF BIOGENIC GAS (1 Hour)

Introduction to the biogeochemical processes associated with the bacterial re-mineralization of labile organic matter.  How to distingish biogenic methane from thermally generated gas through their chemical and isotopic compositions and to determine its genetic pathway.  The presentation will discuss geological conditions favorable for biogenic gas formation and accumulation.  Origin and significance of secondary biogenic gas derived from reservoir oil, coal, and oil shale will also be covered in this presentation.