Why Use Tracers? - Low Risk and High Reward

Inter-well Tracing
Tracers provide accurate data about injection travel time, direction and influences. They define reservoir anomalies, heterogeneity and interconnectiveness. The tracer front tells us how the water or gas is moving. Tracers identify by-passed hydrocarbons and areas of poor sweep efficiency.
This information can be used to better balance and optimize water injection, oil or gas production, define and place infield drilling programs or to indentify injectors which do not support production.

Mud Labelling
Reservoir parameters such as water saturation can be accurately determined using tracers in drilling muds when coring. Isotopes Canada can calculate, with extreme accuracy, hydrocarbon reserves.
Water saturation data for reservoirs obtained using well logs are far less accurate. Well logs derived data are often only within 10% of actual water saturation values.