GALEX TECHNOLOGIES
GALEX ENERGY CORPORATION owns a number of proprietary technologies with proven potential for commercial application in various sectors of the petroleum and other industries, including:
- Upstream, midstream and downstream petroleum operations
- Power generation and energy efficiency
- Solid mineral extraction and mining
- Water supply, irrigation, and fresh water production
- Construction technologies and manufacturing/processing of construction materials
Our technologies have been applied to the following common problems and oil field practices:
| Problem | Galex technology solution |
| Heavy and highly viscous oil; natural bitumen. Low production efficiency. Low oil recovery factor (RF). | Increased well production and overall oil recovery resulted in reduced oil viscosity and enhanced in-situ capillary-force driven flow. Achieved through a combination of cumulative wave impacts and specially tailored field practices. No excessive energy required. Low-cost treatment. |
| Bituminous sands, bituminous shale oil reservoirs. Mining is very expensive, often sub-economic, and may result in extensive environmental damage. | Application of an environmentally friendly and cost-effective HC extraction method produced in-situ HC liquefaction, gasification and vaporization. |
| Residual oil reserves at old, marginally profitable fields | Recovery of “dead oil”, increased production and improved RF through a combination of impulse and cumulative wave treatment and specially tailored field practices. |
| Tight rock. Granular or porous. Low production efficiency. Low oil recovery factor (ORF). | Improved well productivity and RF through in-situ reservoir properties management. Achieved via cumulative impulse wave treatment along with specially tailored field practices. |
| Inadequate reservoir energy. Tectonic traps. Dramatic decline in well productivity. Low oil recovery factor. | Increased oil production and RF through in-situ cumulative wave application and thermal treatment, along with specially tailored field practices. |
| High watercut. Elevated production costs. Low oil recovery factor. | Increased oil production and RF via a controlled reduction in watercut. Effect was achieved due to oil saturation management technology. |
| Scattered HC accumulations, including shale oil and gas. Dramatic decline in well productivity, e.g. after hydraulic fracturing | Full and sustainable production recovery without major well workover and/or fracturing. Achieved by dilatant rock decompression along with specially tailored field practices. |
| Viscosity-related oil transport problems | Enhanced product fluidity throughout the pipeline. |
| Low- quality produced oil | Upgraded downhole oil quality. |
| Predominance of heavy fractions in refinery feedstock | Increased yield of light products in distillation columns |
| Poor extraction of metals during in-situ leaching (ISL) | Increased permeability of ore bodies and adjacent rock. Reduced leaching time. Improved recovery factor. |
| Heap leach production | Reduced leaching time. Improved recovery factor. |
