SCOPE has comprehensive research facilities. Examine the facilities available below.

• Fully equipped PVT laboratory for the study of fluid properties, minimum miscibility pressure, and heavy fraction characterisation.
• Restored-state wettability determination, pendant drop apparatus formeasurement of interfacial tension and spreading coefficients at reservoirconditions.
• Core flooding facilities, gravity stable gas flooding facilities.
• High-pressure glass micromodel flooding and flow visualisation facilities.
• Beckman L8-M rock ultracentrifuge equipped for high pressure, high temperature displacement experiments.
• Multicomponent apparatus for measuring mixed gas adsorption/disorption isotherms on coal.
• In-situ conditions apparatus for simultaneous measurement of porosity and permeability of coal and tight rock.
• Full range of CMG compositional and black-oil reservoir simulation software. CMG compositional and PVT software. Inhouse coalbed gas simulation software and phase behavior software. FEKETE well test analysis software.
• Silicon Graphics INDIGO2/IRIS workstations, direct access to University supercomputing facilities.
• Dynamic filtration apparatus to study formation damage of reservoir rock under simulated reservoir conditions.
• Mud lab consisting of FAN50 viscometer, high temperature high pressurefilter press, chemical analysis and API test equipment.
• API standard cement testing laboratories.
• Equipment to study petrophysical and mineralogical properties of reservoir rocks.
• Core preparation and cleaning laboratories.
• Laboratory scale drilling rig to study drilling parameters under bottom hole conditions.
• Liquid and gas pulse permeameter to study permeability of tight rocks (in the range of n-Darcy)
• Laboratory to study mud induced stresses in shales.
• BHA design capability for directional control in drilling deviated and horizontal wells.
• Drilling mud design capability for a range of drilling conditions: drilling through shales, hot wells, high pressure wells, etc.
• Design and optimisation capability of oil well tubular goods.
• Capability to design chemical treatments for prevention and removal of formation damage.
• Summagraphics Microgrid II. In house software used for digitising well logs, volumetric analysis of pay zones and calculating areal extent of reservoirs.
• Summa Sketch II. Plus graphics tablet for small scale accurate tracing of pictures, maps, drawings and photos
• In house software for the interpretation of well logs
• HP Draft Pro colour plotter for draft size (A1) maps and diagrams
• State of the art geological modelling software STRATAMODEL
• Pseudo 3D fracture simulation model STIMPLAN.