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Foreword Staying connected HSE (Health, Safety & Environment) Geosciences Drilling and wells Operating techniques Research and pilot applications A regional hub Key figures A crucial link in the energy chain
Totals E&P Scientific and Technical Center is located in Pau, southwestern Frances economic hub. The Centers nearly 2,000 persons represent some thirty different nationalities and encompass the full range of exploration and production expertise.
A unique purpose
End-to-end expertise
Built on a sprawling 27-hectare campus, the CSTJF is home to experts from every discipline of the exploration and production value chain. This proximity facilitates exchanges between geosciences, drilling and reservoir development specialists and the integration of these diverse fields of expertise all of which are vital to redefining feasibility in the oil and gas industry.
Global reach
Providing technical support to Totals E&P subsidiaries is one of the R&D centers key roles, because the CSTJF has to deploy the full weight of its innovative capabilities in the field, worldwide.
Foreword /
The Centre Scientifique et Technique Jean-Fger (CSTJF) technical center is the main platform for the scientific expertise and R&D activity of Total Exploration & Production. With state-of-the-art lab resources and powerful computing and telecommunications capabilities, the CSTJF is an industry-leading R&D center whose staff of 2,000 delivers a wide array of skills. This extensive, future-focused campus forges the keys that open up the most extreme frontiers of the worlds energy provinces. The CSTJF pumps its scientific and technical lifeblood into Totals E&P subsidiaries worldwide, providing ongoing support in identifying resources for the future and helping them to write new and exciting chapters in the adventure of the oil and gas industry. Named after the engineer who helped to discover the Lacq natural gas field, the CSTJF is located in Pau, southwestern France, the cradle of Totals operations in its home country. It plays a pivotal role in the regional economy and partners its sustainable growth.
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Staying connected /
Within the walls of the Alpha Building, home to Totals private worldwide telecommunications network, the supervision system operates 24/7. Ensuring the optimum reliability and availability of this highly strategic broadband network is critical, because it carries the communications that run constantly between the E&P subsidiaries and the Center in Pau. In addition to voice telephone traffic between the site and the rest of the world, the telecommunications infrastructure at the CSTJF handles video and audio communications from up to 21 videoconferences at a time and transmits an abundant flow of digital data around the world. The uninterrupted flow reflects the CSTJFs pivotal role in the day-to-day activities of the subsidiaries. It is supplemented by frequent meetings between operational personnel based around the world and their contacts at the Center. Each year, the globetrotting contacts head off on some 3,500 international assignments to provide on-site support to their counterparts at Total locations worldwide.
With a reach extending to the four corners of the Earth, the CSTJF also serves as a central point of contact and a training center for people of many different nationalities.
More than a hundred international management-level employees technicians and engineers recruited by Total subsidiaries around the world join the Centers teams each year. They come for a period of three or more years at strategic junctures in their careers, shaped by the international mobility inherent in the Groups global scale. Staff from partner national oil companies and representatives of Total E&P host countries also come to the Center for state-of-the-art training. A wide range of training and internship programs is available to meet the diverse needs of participants from all backgrounds. Most of these programs are targeted and short-term, but skills transfer can also take the form of customized programs lasting several months or take place within the framework of two-year stints that provide on-the-job training. Courses draw on the wealth of technological resources available at the Center. These span the full range of oil and gas industry expertise, such as exploration, appraisal of discoveries, design of complex borehole trajectories, deployment of innovative solutions to boost recovery factors, and managing industrial impact. They take advantage of the enormous computing power that places the CSTJF in the ranks of the worlds leading scientific data processing centers. The Center also boasts an impressive platform of high-tech laboratories and of course an unmatched concentration of world-class skills. The CSTJF is a crucible of expertise and a melting pot of cultures. Everyone shares the same ambition: producing more oil and gas more efficiently. That is why Totals stringent requirements concerning the safety of people and environmental protection are enforced here and on all sites.
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Knowledge
Transferring knowledge is one of the CSTJFs core functions. Each year, the Center opens its doors to numerous employees from Totals E&P headquarters and subsidiaries. They come not only to broaden and share their knowledge, but also to capitalize on the worldwide experience acquired by the Centers teams.
Sphere of knowledge
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Environmental protection is a priority and the focus of numerous research projects at the CSTJF.
This is an overriding concern of Totals operations at production sites around the world. From the outset, every project is designed to limit the impact of its operations on air, water and biodiversity an impact that is closely monitored. Total E&P is assertively committed to curbing greenhouse gas emissions, a crucial thrust of efforts to tackle climate change. Water, which is always produced with oil and gas, is managed sustainably through reinjection into the original reservoirs whenever possible, while any producted water discharged into the natural environment is treated to comply with very stringent standards. Thanks to the combined efforts of experts at the CSTJF and in the subsidiaries, Total reconciles production growth with profitability goals and the imperatives of human safety and environmental protection. These priorities are an integral part of the industrys responsibilities to current and future generations.
Geophysics, geology (itself a broad field encompassing more than 20 disciplines) and reservoir engineering all share the same goal discovering, understanding and characterizing reservoirs, complex geological structures that contain oil, gas and water. The ultimate goal is to generate detailed models of a reservoirs architecture and internal structure and the behavior of fluids during a fields producing life.
Geosciences /
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Outcrops are structurally similar to subsurface oil reservoirs, and have been brought to the surface by the Earths tectonic movements. Field studies are coupled with laboratory studies of samples taken from reservoirs to build a sedimentary model of oil fields.
The geosciences disciplines bring together the expertise of geophysicists, reservoir geologists and reservoir engineers.
Reservoir geologists focus on understanding and predicting the behavior of oil and gas basins over time and in space. Their job is to characterize the elements that form an oil system the source rock, the reservoirs in which the oil is trapped, and the cap rock that holds the oil in the reservoir. The foundation of the oil and gas industry, geology is a broad discipline subdivided into some twenty fields of specialization. These include organic geochemistry (the study of source rocks), sedimentology (the study of sedimentary processes that form reservoirs), structural geology (to understand the structure of oil basins and reservoirs) and biostratigraphy (the study of the microorganisms found in sediment). Geological expertise plays a role at every stage, from the acquisition of acreage to production of reserves. The work done by geologists, especially sedimentary modeling of traps to predict the volume of oil or gas in place, allows reservoir engineers to estimate the productivity of the fields discovered and to model fluid movement during production. It also helps reservoir architects to optimize the development plan for individual fields. The combination of theoretical knowledge, experience gained over the years from fieldwork, and characterization of samples of rocks and fluids taken during drilling contribute to numerical models made possible through the rapid growth in computing capacity. Samples provide valuable hard information when building these models, although their size is extremely limited compared to the overall scale of the field under investigation. In fact, the challenge addressed daily by reservoir geologists and engineers is comparable in complexity to modeling the Eiffel Tower based on a sample the size of a pinhead.
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Core samples are cylinders of rock removed during drilling and are the only visible elements of petroleum reservoirs. Every year, Totals subsidiaries ship new samples totaling a thousand meters in length to the CSTJF, where they are added to its large collection. The Center is equipped to extract a maximum amount of valuable data from them.
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The CSTJF receives samples for analysis from the around the world.
Its extensive collection of core samples taken during drilling is used to study the composition of reservoir rocks in minute detail. The geology laboratory is equipped with a CT scanner for three-dimensional imaging. At the same time, the physical properties of reservoir rock and their ability to contain and accommodate the flow of oil or gas are analyzed in petrophysics laboratories. The recombined fluids are studied under reservoir temperature and pressure conditions. Experiments that can last up to several months predict the effectiveness of various production processes on a microscopic scale. The aim is to understand how oil or gas will behave over the twenty-year (or longer) producing life of the reservoir.
The CT scanner is just one of the high-tech instruments available at the CSTJF geological laboratory. Tomographic images of core samples are re-combined to yield three-dimensional images that pinpoint differences in density between the various components of the sample. This in turn gives a virtually direct indication of the volume of hydrocarbons contained in each sample, a key factor in reservoir characterization.
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Among the geosciences disciplines, geophysics has emerged as one of the CSTJFs areas of excellence.
Based on seismic technology, geophysics reveals the invisible the reservoir. Acoustic waves generated by vibrations on land or at sea are partially reflected by the various geological strata they encounter as they propagate through the subsurface. Logging the signals of these reflected waves at the surface yields an image of the geological layers. The data are then used to build a three-dimensional model of the contours and internal architecture of the oil traps. Through ongoing dialogue, geophysicists in the E&P subsidiaries and specialists at the CSTJF can recommend the most appropriate acquisition systems for offshore and onshore operations. In addition, the Centers team helps to build the most complex seismic images using innovative processing algorithms that require the extensive computing power available at the CSTJF.
Satellite images giving broad views of petroleum basins, seismic reflections revealing the chaotic contours and folds of the subsurface, and three-dimensional models of reservoirs with their geological structures and fluids these images have much to tell geoscientists who know how to interpret them. Although calculations are one key to understanding and managing reservoirs, the art of interpretation is what makes them accessible.
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Boasting a record computing power of 123 teraflops or 123 trillion floating-point operations per second the new high-performance computer acquired by the CSTJF in 2008 makes Total a global leader in scientific processing capacity. This capacity is rising steadily and is expected to reach 1 petaflop in the near future. It is primarily used to process the complex calculation codes developed by the CSTJF to enhance the resolution and reliability of subsurface seismic images.
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Mass storage
Every day, the volume of digital data at the CSTJF swells with the addition of thousands of bytes of data from computation, design and modeling applications. Backing up these data is critical and relies on an internal storage capacity of 2.5 trillion bytes, equivalent to a five-meter high stack of CD-ROMs. To ensure integrity and security in the event of a disaster or other major incident on site, the data is transferred to an offsite storage vault every week.
What do a supercomputer, a medical-type CT scanner and a small chamber pressurized to one metric ton per square centimeter have in common?
They are all part of the CSTJFs Geosciences platform. This hardware, along with other equipment, is used for studies conducted in Pau to assist the subsidiaries efforts to discover and appraise new oil and gas reservoirs. Buried as far as 8,000 meters beneath the Earths surface, in ultra-deep water or trapped in the chaotic geology of mountain ranges, yet-to-be-discovered oil and gas resources are spurring the industry to explore new and extreme frontiers, pushing technology to its furthest limits. Exactly how deep is a reservoir? How big is it? Does this gigantic sequence of sedimentary rock contain oil or gas? How much, and how much can be recovered? To help answer some of these questions, E&P subsidiaries call on the CSTJF. For the most complex scenarios, the full range of the Centers technological resources and advanced know-how are brought into play. The CSTJF and the subsidiaries have to pool their efforts to obtain reliable answers to these strategic questions.
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State-of-the-art technology
In the labs, experts in physics, chemistry and rock mechanics provide decisive input to prepare drilling programs. Although the basic principle of drilling is simple enough bore a hole until it reaches oil or gas drilling programs are industrial exploits that can take several years. Realizing them is a challenge that demands state-of-the-art technology.
Compagnie Franaise des Ptroles, the forerunner of todays Total and a shareholder in Iraq Petroleum Company, made its first oil strike in Kirkuk in 1927.
Totals Argentine subsidiary completed a two-year drilling program in Tierra del Fuego in 1999. One of the eleven wells drilled set a new world record for length, at 11,884 meters. Drilled from the shore, it descended more than 1,600 meters into the subsurface before continuing its horizontal trajectory to tap an offshore field lying more than 10 kilometers from the coast. Drilling is a high-tech undertaking, in which physics, chemistry, data processing, real-time analysis of downhole logging data (recorded during drilling) and sophisticated well-steering tools are vital to managing todays increasingly complex well trajectories.
Compression
To study the mechanical properties of rock, this dedicated laboratory is equipped with sophisticated equipment that includes a 20-ton electromechanical press to compress unconsolidated rock and two 60- and 160-metric-ton hydraulic presses for tests on semi-consolidated and compact rock.
In the U.K. sector of the North Sea, Total drilled one of the very first stepout wells in a high-pressure/hightemperature environment. The 7,300-meter-long Glenelg well reached its target 5,600 meters beneath the seabed, with a reservoir temperature of 200C and pressure of 1,150 bar. This feat was only made possible through the complex studies performed by the CSTJFs drilling laboratories.
Drilling horizontal wells thousands of meters long that cross through one reservoir after another over their entire length
is just one of the technological challenges facing Totals experts. And this challenge is of an entirely different magnitude when the fields are deeply buried. Take, for example, the Elgin Field in the North Sea, where Total E&P UK had to work with high-temperature/ high-pressure gas and condensate discovered under more than 5,500 meters of rock. At these depths, temperature hovers around 200C and pressure exceeds 1,000 bar. One major difficulty lies in steering well trajectories without the help of downhole instrumentation, as electronic devices cannot operate under these physical conditions. Another is accessing the petroleum traps without triggering a blowout under pressure. In the Gulf of Guinea in the 1990s, Total E&P Angola embarked on a pioneering quest to drill in 1,500 meters of water. Drilling rigs evolved into floating vessels, their stability guaranteed by an ultra-sophisticated dynamic positioning system to centimeter-scale tolerance, even in rough seas.
In all cases, efficiency is the watchword when it comes to minimizing the time it takes to drill wells,
which can cost up to a million dollars per day. Whether it lasts less than a month or takes a year, every drilling assignment must juggle the need for speed and the imperative of risk management. An unstable wellbore or damage to the rock formation during drilling could jeopardize the well and its productivity. Thanks to its range of engineering and testing expertise and skills, the CSTJF is the partner of choice when subsidiaries encounter challenging situations. Borehole stability during drilling is a major topic of investigation at the Rock Mechanics Laboratory. There, strength tests are conducted on samples of the geological strata encountered in order to optimize even the riskiest well trajectories.
In pursuit of perfection
To limit the ever-increasing costs of drilling as much as possible, perfection is the key and the secret to optimizing drilling efficiency. Attaining this high standard requires in-depth knowledge of the rock encountered and its response to the drilling. This is one of the fundamental missions of the Rock Mechanics Laboratory.
Productivity
The reservoir/borehole interface is a strategic zone for well productivity. In certain configurations, well completions must include sand control systems to filter the sand produced along with the petroleum fluids so as not to jeopardize productivity or damage equipment. Laboratory studies guide the choice of the most appropriate sand control device based on the type and quantity of sand produced.
Made-to-measure
These drilling muds were developed for two Angolan fields located a few kilometers apart in the deepwater Gulf of Guinea. Despite the similarities in the subsurface layers encountered, the mud formulation, essential to smooth drilling operations, is specific to each one.
The operational subsidiaries and the CSTJF are in frequent contact throughout the life of a field. During the production phase, the Centers experts can apply their analysis and simulation resources to assess productivity and recommend physical and/or chemical solutions to enhance it.
Also known as muds, drilling fluids play a major role in borehole stability.
Injected under pressure at the bottom of the hole, they circulate constantly, bringing the drill cuttings to the surface. Mud density is controlled to ensure balanced pressure between the hole and the formation. If the mud is too heavy, it could be forced into the rock, damaging the reservoir and potentially jeopardizing the stability of the borehole. If it is too light, fluid (either water or hydrocarbons) may seep from the surrounding formation into the well bore. This is where the expertise of the chemists at the Mud and Cement Laboratory comes into play. Their task is to find the right balance and most effective formulation for the drilling mud. For their part, the experts from the Productivity Laboratory will select specific additives to minimize damage or restore the productivity of reservoir zones, particularly the tiny networks of fractures that allow oil and gas to flow through the rock and into the well when it is brought on stream. Unlike the early Kirkuk project, drilling is no longer a task for a single person. It requires the combined know-how of an integrated team of specialists.
Decades
Producing a reservoir is a complex, dynamic process lasting many years, in which enormous volumes of fluids of varying viscosity and corrosiveness are set in motion using a variety of technologies. The major themes addressed by operations specialists include forestalling the inevitable decline in production over the years, preventing the deterioration of production facilities and adapting extraction processes to the physical and chemical changes taking place in the reservoirs.
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Many factors, such as carbon dioxide, hydrogen sulfide, bacteria and suspended solids in the fluids produced, can cause corrosion and pose a major threat to the integrity of installations. Corrosion management comprises prevention and equipment inspection and maintenance, which are entrusted to experts in materials and physical chemistry.
An oil accumulation is not an underground lake that can simply be pumped to bring its contents to the surface.
Oil and natural gas are trapped in porous, permeable rock formations, called reservoirs, that resemble pumice. Recovering the resources involves draining the pores, and only a small percentage of the reserves in place (10 to 35% for crude oil) can feasibly be extracted. The exact amount depends on the rocks properties and on the ability of the fluid to flow and pass through it. Enhancing the recovery factor by even a few percentage points has a tremendous impact on reserve replacement and is a core challenge for all the disciplines involved in oil and gas production.
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The CSTJF has developed a wide range of proprietary gas sweetening solutions based on amine chemistry. One of these, the MDEA process, is used for corrosion control in the 105-kilometer pipeline that carries moderately sour gas from Irans offshore South Pars field to the onshore gas treatment plant.
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Hydrate loop
Resembling ice plugs, hydrates form in hydrocarbons in the presence of water and gas under specific pressure and temperature conditions. They constitute a serious physicochemical risk. The CSTJFs hydrate loop, where hydrocarbons flow at controlled temperature and pressure, is used to study and quantify the specific risks for each field, then to test preventive solutions.
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As the main R&D hub for Total E&P the CSTJF is also , entrusted with overcoming the technological hurdles that hinder access to frontier resources. This R&D strategy reflects Totals impressive innovation capabilities. The Group has operations in major sedimentary basins worldwide.
Surging oil prices serve as a reminder that oil and gas are finite resources
and that the age of easy oil is over. While resources are far from depleted, fast-growing energy demand is spurring operators to explore increasingly challenging and uncharted territory. Opening the way to these new areas is a key mission of the CSTJF, which is one of the few centers in the world capable of redefining feasibility. As the R&D nerve center for Total E&P and a pivotal player in the extensive network established with research and academic communities in France and worldwide, the CSTJF is present in every field strategic to the future of the energy industry. One of these is extra-heavy oil, whose recoverable reserves are thought to be roughly equal to conventional reserves. In this area, the decisive issue is recovery. Because these resources are viscous to the point of being solid and virtually immobile, conventional production methods are unsuitable. Extracting them requires thermal recovery processes, such as injecting massive amounts of steam into the reservoirs.
When Girassol came on stream in the Gulf of Guinea offshore Angola in 2001, it was the largest oil field development ever carried out in 1,400 meters of water. Deepwater development continues to advance today in Angola, the Gulf of Mexico, Congo and here, in Nigeria, with the drilling program for the Akpo deepwater project.
A technological first
Subsea processing to separate gas from crude oil and water on the seabed is the major innovation of the Pazflor project now in development in Angolas deep offshore. The project brings new prospects for cost-effective development of challenging resources, especially heavy or viscous oil in deepwater reservoirs.
The CSTJFs teams have also mastered the technological challenges of developing ultra-deep offshore resources, which lie in more than 1,500 meters of water.
The extremely harsh temperature and pressure conditions that prevail at these depths mean that the technological challenges of this new frontier are on par with the conquest of space. However, although man has walked on the moon, the ocean floor is destined to remain beyond his reach. At these depths, production systems can only be installed by remote-controlled robots equipped with onboard electronics to maintain permanent, real-time links with a floating command center on the surface. Access to sour gas, another valuable resource for the future, is contingent on the development of new sweetening processes. Nearly 40% of the worlds gas reserves contain acid species carbon dioxide (CO2) or hydrogen sulfide (H2S) in concentrations too high to be processed by conventional means, for both financial and environmental reasons. At the forefront of research in this area, the CSTJF is also focusing on reducing greenhouse gas emissions, particularly CO2. Venting the acid component to the atmosphere once it has been separated from the methane is not an option, leaving open the question of what can be done with it. Furthermore, with combustion being an unavoidable part of oil production, ways have to be found to avoid the emission of tons of additional CO2 per year. One of the most promising solutions is CO2 capture and geological storage (CCS), a challenge being met in Pau with a pilot project unmatched in the world. Designed to demonstrate the commercial feasibility of CCS technology, the unit will store 150,000 metric tons of CO2 in a depleted reservoir near the Lacq natural gas field.
Extra-heavy oil
The CSTJFs research on recovering and upgrading extra-heavy oil has been applied in the gigantic Petro Cedeo project, which in 2002 marked the start of large-scale production of these non-conventional crudes in Venezuela. The bitumen is converted to a light synthetic crude using a pioneering upgrader unit.
Total is a partner in the Dolphin project to produce gas from the huge North Field offshore Qatar. The Group is strongly committed to all promising gas monetization technologies, from production to marketing, with a particular strategic focus on liquefied natural gas.
Deeply buried reservoirs lying as much as 4,000 meters beneath the surface are another priority avenue of investigation.
Although traditionally regarded as unsuitable for production because they are usually highly compacted by the geological layers stacked thousands of meters above them, these reservoirs sometimes retain their production potential. Understanding the geological processes that allowed their preservation is imperative for selecting the right targets. This brief overview would not be complete without a mention of the complex issue of so-called tight gas reservoirs, whose low porosity and permeability hinder the migration of the gas they contain. Accordingly, a dedicated R&D program includes work on innovative seismic monitoring methods and developing technologies to create artificial pathways by fracturing the rock to enable the gas to flow. Like all of the Centers other R&D programs, this one has the stated ambition of expanding the worlds oil and gas supply in a sustainable, environmentally-safe manner.
With the Sprex technology, the CSTJF has once again demonstrated its continuous innovation capabilities in the field of sour gas. The process is specifically designed to sweeten extremely sour gas resources in the Middle East, as yet untapped due to the lack of a viable technology. Sprex is the key component of an environmentally sound gas treatment chain.
Breakthrough technology
Continuous innovation
Advances in seismic imaging now allow geophysicists to see things that were invisible barely a decade ago. For example, new calculation codes for seismic depth imaging developed by the CSTJF have shed light on salt structures impervious to more conventional imaging. This is just one of many examples of innovative power at work.
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In 1951, exploratory drilling led to the discovery of the giant Lacq natural gas field. This and ensuing discoveries met up to 90% of Frances natural gas demand and helped shape the economic and industrial destiny of this region of southwestern France. With the establishment of the CSTJF as well as many of Totals partners and contractors in Pau, the city and the region have emerged as a hub for the oil, gas and related industries. Between gas production, chemicals manufacturing, gas storage and distribution, Total accounts for more than 3,000 direct jobs at its facilities in Pau and Lacq. In addition to the CSTJF personnel , the regions workforce includes employees of Total E&P France (TEPF), the subsidiary that operates the Lacq gas field; Total Petrochemicals, whose Mont-Lacq site is home to Totals petrochemicals R&D; and Total Infrastructures Gaz France (TIGF), also based in Pau. TIGF specializes in natural gas storage and transmission, manages a pipeline system serving fourteen dpartements in southwestern France, and operates two underground gas storage facilities in Lussagnet and Izaute, which together account for nearly 25% of French capacity. It also manages the interconnectors with the Spanish pipeline network.
As the founder of a major chemicals hub, Total has been acting on a commitment made many years ago to prepare for the post-gas industrial redeployment of Lacq, now that the reservoir is nearing depletion. By promoting the establishment of fine chemicals companies through Socit Barnaise de Gestion Industrielle (SOBEGI, set up by Total in 1975), and supporting small business startups (via Total Dveloppement Rgional, a spin-off of SOFREA, initially set up by Elf in Pau in 1978), it has already helped to create 5,000 jobs in the Lacq region. The CSTJF is a pillar of the regions economic and social fabric, and a prominent partner of the scientific community in southwestern France, through its diversified, extensive R&D activities. The Pau metropolitan area has earned a special place in petroleum research thanks to the French Petroleum Institute (IFP) and the laboratories of a local school, Universit de Pau et des Pays de lAdour, which collaborate within the framework of IPRA, a multidisciplinary institute of applied research for the oil and gas industry. At the national level, the CSTJF is involved in some sixty R&D contracts with researchers at universities in Pau, Montpellier, Marseille, Provence, Toulon and Bordeaux, top engineering schools and various institutes and laboratories. Research spans a wide variety of topics. In addition, Total is funding two units based at the Universit de Pau et des Pays de lAdour that have introduced a new type of collaboration between the CSTJF and academic research. Founded in 2002, the Organisme Ptrolier de Recherche Applique en Gophysique (OPERA) specializes in new processing algorithms for seismic imaging, while the Centre Huile Lourde Ouvert et Exprmental (CHLOE), set up in 2007, focuses on evaluating and improving various processes to recover extra-heavy oil.
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In addition to being a driving force in Paus economy, Total participates actively in community life through its culture- and sports-related corporate philanthropy initiatives. A partner of the training center for the Pau rugby team and a sponsor of the Grand Prix de Pau, Total also supports outreach programs run by the citys orchestra on behalf of young audiences and contributes to the preservation of Paus heritage in cooperation with the Heritage Foundation.
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Key figures /
27 hectares 30 buildings 85,000 sq. m of floor area, consisting of: 60,000 sq. m of offices 18,000 sq. m of laboratory space in four dedicated buildings 1,900 sq. m dedicated to supercomputers 21 videoconference rooms 40 GWh/year of power consumption 1,850 employees 550 service providers on site permanently or on short-term assignments 35 nationalities represented 150 teraflops of global computing power, a capacity of 150 trillion floating-point operations per second 600 scientific and technical workstations 300 Linux or Unix servers 500 technical PCs 6.2 MVA of uninterruptible power supply 20 gigabits per second of capacity for the local telecommunications network 1,250 sites connected to the worldwide private telecommunications network 200 visitors per day on business 100 foreign delegations hosted per year 2,000 airplane tickets for France and abroad issued every month
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Located in the heart of the Barn region in southwestern France, the birthplace of the French oil and gas industry, the CSTJF is among a handful of industrial centers worldwide capable of devising costeffective, environmentallysound technologies that will keep the taps open indefinitely.
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Creative concept and layout: Photo credits: Michal Banert, Laurent Baratier, Pierre Bessard, Patrick Boulen, Marco Dufour, Guy Jeffroy/Flash Press, Gilles Leimdorfer/Rapho, Peter Livermore, ric Miller/RA, Marc Roussel Graphic design: Jean-Pascal Donnot Total December 2008.