Leading Laboratory & Sample Storage Facility for petroleum geological services in Brazil

Servicing the E&P industry for 3 decades

The Company

Solintec is a Brazilian company, controlled and managed by E&P professionals, with 3 decades of experience in the management of well samples and in the characterization of rocks and fluids.
Located about 30' from downtown Rio de Janeiro, Solintec's facilities include a Rock Storage Facility with more than 5,000 m2 of area and modern laboratories equipped to offer a wide portfolio of analytical services, with high quality standards and a certified Local Content of 100 %.
With a team of professionals highly qualified and a network of renowned specialists in the market, Solintec has conquered the position of service provider and preferred operating partner of most national and international oil companies in Brazil.
The only company in the field with complete ISO certification 9001 (Quality), 14001 (Environment), 45001 (Occupational health and safety) and 37001 (Compliance).






Management
Christian Eckardt (PhD, DSc) | Founder, President & CEO LinkedIn
Félix Gonçalves (MSc, PhD) | R&D and Business Development Director LinkedIn
Marcelo Henriques (MBA) | CIO & Head of Operations LinkedIn
Elisângela Anacleto (BSc) | Operation Manager LinkedIn
Renato Barcelos (BSc) | Laboratory Coordinator LinkedIn

Solintec on LinkedIn

Integrated management policy
SOLINTEC CONSULTORIA E SERVIÇOS DE GEOLOGIA LTDA., Operates providing support services to the oil and gas industry in Brazil, and aware of its social and environmental responsibilities, affirms commitment to improving the effectiveness of its services, processes and the integrated management system, through a commitment to meet the following items:

  • Provide quality processes and services that meet the needs of customers and stakeholders;
  • Ensure and guarantee compliance with legal, statutory, customer and other subscribed requirements, applicable to our business;
  • Continuously improve the performance of the integrated management system, through development, commitment to consult and get participation of employees with mutual benefits for interested parties;
  • Continuously improve processes, seeking to protect the environment, prevent pollution, prevent work incidents, eliminate hazards, reduce OSH risks, prevent bribes and improve the quality of services;
  • Establish the objectives of the integrated management system, continuously improving results;
  • Prohibit any form of bribery in all activities; Ensure compliance with the anti-bribery laws that apply to the organization; Critically analyze and achieve anti-bribery objectives; Encourage the raising of concerns based on good faith and a reasonable belief in trust, without fear of retaliation; Ensure the authority and independence of the compliance function - anti-bribery according to the job description; Ensure the consequences of non-compliance with the anti-bribery policy.

Ethical business conduct
Our performance is based on the highest ethical standards and guided by the following principles:

  • Avoid conflicts of interest in our relationships with customers, suppliers, competitors and partners.
  • Adopt fair business practices and maintain the commitments made to customers, suppliers, competitors and partners.
  • Strictly maintain the confidentiality of data and information from customers, suppliers and partners.
  • Ensuring the quality of human relationships in our workplaces and complying with regulations that seek to combat discrimination, bullying and harassment.

Core Analisys

With specialist professionals, specific equipment and recent installation of a multi-sensor core logger (Geotek MSCL-S) at Sample Screening Center in Rio de Janeiro Solintec offers a wide range of analytical and digital services for cores analisys, all performed to the highest quality standards, and with a certified Local Content of 100%.

Digitization & Data Management

Solintec employs the highest standards and best data management practices for all information generated from its thin section and core digitization services. These digital data can be accessed through specific proprietary software developed by Solintec itself.

Sample Storage & Logistics

In over two decades, Solintec has build a solid reputation for excellent operational support for E&P teams in Brazil, from wellsite services to sample storage and curation.

Rock & Fluid Characterization

An unparalleled combination of in-house and strategic network services allows Solintec to offer a wide range of analytical services for the characterization of source and reservoir rocks, oil and gas, all performed to the highest quality standards, and with a certified Local Content of 100%.

Consulting and R&D Projects

In addition to well-equipped laboratories, technicians with decades of hands-on experience, and a team of renown research scientists, Solintec boast a unique collection of proprietary subsurface samples (300+ wells, comprising core, cuttings, fluid samples, etc.), which allow for the performance of proprietary and spec studies, as well as customized R&D projects to the highest standards. As an ANP-registered company, access to legacy samples, through the official channels, is also granted.

Why Solintec?

  • Pioneering service outfit, with decades of hands-on experience in Brazil.
  • Company run by E&P professionals, for E&P professionals.
  • Modern Laboratory & Storage Facility in Rio; immediate access to subsurface samples.
  • Most comprehensive network of integrated geological services for E&P in Brazil.
  • Best of references; renown for providing top quality services at calculated costs.
  • Unique quality assurance for services provided; certified Local Content = 100%.
  • Company audited to attend to the industry's HSE standards, and open to unannounced HSE audits anytime.
  • Today the only service company in Brazil, to provide truely integrated geological services, from operational wellsite support, to the execution of R&D projects.

Clients:

Notícias

March 2021

SOLINTEC obtains triple ISO certification. Look here.

February 2021

SOLINTEC qualifies for triple ISO certification. Look here.

November 2020

SOLINTEC initiates operation of cutting-edge ZEISS thin section scanner. Look here.

November 2020

SOLINTEC launches fluid displacement services for IOR/EOR projects. Look here.

October 2020

SOLINTEC expands portfolio for sample preparation services. Look here.

October 2020

Cutting-edge digitization services now available from SOLINTEC in Brazil. Look here.

October 2020

SOLINTEC and GEOTEK launch jointly-operated core scanning services in Brazil. Look here.

September 2020

SOLINTEC inaugurates new Petrophysics Laboratory. Look here.

September 2020

SOLINTEC inaugurates a new Sample Screening Center for E&P assets acquired from Petrobras. Look here.

August 2020

Cutting-edge thin section scanning services now available from SOLINTEC in Brazil. Look here.

February 2020

Portal Petronotícia also highlights the development of FlowDiscovery technology and IBM's partnership with Solintec and the academy. Look here.

January 2020

Solintec is proud to serve as a strategic partner for IBM Research Brazil in the co-development of solutions for the application of FlowDiscovery, new technology that integrates cloud-based software and AI to simulate the advanced fluid recovery process in reservoir rocks.

December 2019

Solintec signs a contract with Maha Energy to provide storage, management and analysis services for well samples. With a performance focused on the production and advanced recovery of mature fields, Maha Energy operates on the onshore of the Recôncavo and Sergipe-Alagoas basins. Success in projects to revitalize mature fields necessarily requires a good knowledge of the characteristics of the reservoir. With its modern laboratories and experienced team of technicians and specialists, Solintec offers an extensive portfolio of core analysis services (RCA and SCAL), geological characterization of reservoirs and EOR studies, always performed with high quality standards and certified local content of 100%.

November 2019

olintec signs a contract with BW Offshore to provide storage, management and analysis services for well samples. BW offshore, recently recognized by ANP as an O&G operator in Brazil, acquired Campo de Maromba from Petrobras and Chevron. One of the practical consequences of the transaction is the transfer of the entire collection of wells in the field, currently held by Petrobras.

September 2019

Solintec enters into five-year agreement with Shell Brazil to provide analytical and sample management services for the company's pre-salt operations. This is yet another in a sequence of long-term contracts Solintec has signed with domestic (Ouro Preto) and foreign (Total, ExxonMobil) oil companies since the end of 2018. Solintec appreciates the market's recognition for over 3 decades of services provided to the local E&P industry, and reaffirms its continued commitment to the technical and operational excellence, that has made it the leader in integrated rock and fluid sample management and characterization services in Brazil.

August 2017

The Brazilian National Petroleum Agency ANP (Agência Nacional de Petróleo, Gás Natural e Biocombustíveis) formally recognizes Solintec as Data Acquisition Company (Empresa de Aquisição de Dados, EAD), as per regulamentation of ANP Resolution 11/2011. The habilitation adds to the previously-acquired status as ANP-CSOL Company (Cadastro de Solicitante), which guarantees access to Petrobras legacy samples, thus consolidating the company's efforts directed towards geological studies and R&D projects.

July 2017

Solintec inaugurates its new lecture theater and cycle of workshops, with topics relevant to the oil and gas industry in Brazil. The first event will be in cooperation with GSI at the end of August, and present geochemical evaluations of oils and petroleum systems from the Brazilian pre-salt.

January 2017

Solintec invests in additional laboratory infrastructure, offices and lecture theater in its Laboratory & Storage Facility in Rio de Janeiro. The new installations will house the equipment acquired from BakerHughes research laboratory in September of 2016, as well as provide the space required for new G&G projects and workshops.

September 2016

Solintec negotiates the acquisition of the main part of equipment from BakerHughes research laboratory located at UFRJ’s Technology Park in Rio de Janeiro. With the inclusion of advanced core preparation, petrophysics and petrographic services, such as Nuclear Magnetic Ressonance (NMR), advanced resistivity, capillary pressure and SEM/EDS, the equipment acquired will further diversify the company’s service portfolio offered to the oil and gas industry in Brazil.
Link: https://geofisicabrasil.com/noticias/173-press-release/8503-solintec-adquire-laboratorio-de-pesquisa-da-bakerhughes.html

October 2014

Solintec negotiates the acquisition of OGX’ Laboratory for Rock and Fluid Characterization. With the incorporation of the equipment acquired, to its already-existing laboratory infrastructure, the company will provide additional services, such as thin section production, petrography for siliciclastics and carbonates, routine core analysis, geochemistry and fluid characterization.

November 2010

Solintec inaugurates a brand-new Laboratory & Storage Facility in Olaria, Rio de Janeiro. From its new installations, the company will provide sample storage, logistics and curation services, as well as analytical services for rock and fluid characterization, previously (2000 – 2008) available from its base in Xerém, Duque de Caxias.

Contacts

Please let us know, if we can be of any assistance to your ongoing or planned operations, and schedule your visit to our Laboratory & Storage Facility: we will be happy to introduce our team, installations and activities.

Laboratory & Storage Facility | +55 21 3259.1914 | contato@solintec.com.br

Elisângela Anacleto | Operation Manager | elisangela@solintec.com.br

Marcelo Henriques | CIO & Head of Operations | marcelo@solintec.com.br

Félix Gonçalves | R&D and Business Development Director | felix@solintec.com.br

Christian B. Eckardt | President & CEO | cbe@solintec.com.br

Solintec provides the form below for you to send us a message with complaints, compliments or denouncement.