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Well Testing · RVF Malinois

Well testing with measurement equipment built in-house

RVF's Well Testing division performs production testing and certification of oil wells with conventional and multiphase portable units, wireless data acquisition and real-time monitoring with RVF Malinois, our proprietary software.

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What the service includes

RVF supplies the complete well testing package: equipment, personnel, operations and production certification under a single contractual responsibility. Scopes executed under contracts such as "Well testing with a portable measurement unit".

Test separators

High-pressure horizontal two-phase test separators, ANSI 300 and ANSI 600, with associated measurement equipment.

Pressure control

Choke manifolds, safety valves and emergency shutdown units with a 10,000 psi working pressure.

Multiphase measurement

EMMAD units designed and built by RVF for measurement without separation.

Gas measurement

EMGAD units designed and built by RVF to AGA standards.

Fluid handling

Storage and calibration tanks, heaters and vertical gas flares of up to 14 meters.

Data cabin and laboratory

On-site acquisition, validation and fluid analysis center, where the client monitors the test alongside the RVF engineer.

RVF Well Testing unit HEMMAD-001 in field operations

RVF Well Testing unit HEMMAD-001 in field operations

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Conventional well testing with a separator

In the conventional configuration, the horizontal test separator is the heart of the operation: it separates the oil, water and gas phases and allows individual measurement of each one, pressurized sampling and controlled delivery of gas to the flare or the plant. RVF operates test separators with capacities of up to 18,000 barrels per day in liquid phase and 70 MMscfd of gas.

Test separator 48" × 10' 42" × 10' 30" × 10'
Working pressure 1,440 psig 2,000 psig 1,440 psig
Max. liquid-phase flow rate 18,000 BPD 14,400 BPD 9,000 BPD
Max. gas flow rate 70 MMscfd 65 MMscfd 35 MMscfd
Water cut 0–100 % 0–100 % 0–100 %

The package is completed with 10,000 psi choke manifolds and safety valves, data headers for monitoring and chemical injection, pressure-rated rigid piping, and tanks from 100 to 500 barrels.

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Test separator with high-pressure signage under a dramatic sky

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Designed and built by RVF

Measurement units designed and built by RVF

EMMAD — RVF's multiphase fluid measurement unit for data acquisition and analysis — measures and separates the well's phases without a conventional separator: a Coriolis meter, a cone flow meter, a water-cut analyzer, a flow computer and a vertical cyclonic separator, mounted on a portable structure designed for the most demanding access routes.

EMGAD, its counterpart for gas wells, measures flow, temperature and pressure to AGA 1, 2 and 3 standards, built in accordance with API 650 and API 620. Both units are born in RVF's engineering and built in our shops, with a primary Acquisition Unit developed in-house and Hart/Modbus communication. It is vertical integration applied to measurement: the team that runs the test also designed and built the instrument.

EMGAD and EMMAD units under fabrication at the RVF shop in Ciudad Ojeda

EMGAD and EMMAD units under fabrication at the RVF shop in Ciudad Ojeda

EMGAD unit designed and built by RVF

EMGAD unit designed and built by RVF

Close-up of the EMMAD: vertical scrubber, meters and transmitters

EMMAD · designed and built by RVF

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RVF Malinois

Well testing monitoring and documentation software · Developed in-house by RVF

The digital layer of the well testing service

From separator to report: traceable measurement in real time.

RVF Malinois is the software developed by RVF to digitalize its well testing operations. It turns field instrument signals into operational information: live readings of pressure, temperature, flow and water cut, a digital twin of the measurement unit, production trends and a history of every test. The operation is documented end to end — from separator to report — with traceability at every stage of the measurement, and the client follows it through a dedicated read-only portal. Designed to run in the field on a local server, with no dependence on external connectivity, and ready to incorporate advanced analytics on the data it already captures.

Live operational monitoring

Pressure, temperature and flow continuously updated from field instruments; water cut presented according to its source — manual sample or confirmed instrument — and always labeled as such. Well status, official gas line, location conditions and unit health in a single console.

RVF Malinois · Live Operations Overview with unit HEMMAD-001 measuring well LL-0453

Real-time operations console

Digital twin of the measurement unit

A live representation of the HEMMAD-001 unit: three-phase separator with phase fractions, liquid level, full instrumentation, operating conditions and engineering references. Data organized to diagnose well behavior and support production decisions.

RVF Malinois · Process view with the digital twin of the three-phase separator

Digital twin of the three-phase separator

Measurement auditability

Complete traceability of the official measurement: recorded stages — setup, stabilization, official measurement —, operator logbook, alarm management under ISA-18.2 prioritization in the operations console, and exportable reports for documentation and audit.

RVF Malinois · Alarm Center with no active alarms and 2 historical alarms managed

Alarm center · ISA-18.2 prioritization

Two views, one source of data

RVF operations console

The operations engineer's tool: full telemetry, the digital twin, alarm management, unit configuration and the test logbook.

Client portal · read-only

Your test, on your screen: latest readings, trends and operation information, in English or Spanish. No controls, no noise — the data you need to decide.

Field instruments at the well and separator Acquisition gateway instrument readout RVF Malinois local server on location RVF console & client portal web visualization Corporate cloud synchronization · next phase

Built for the field. Malinois runs on a local server at the location: it acquires, processes and stores data right at the well, with no dependence on external connectivity. Synchronization with the corporate cloud is planned as the platform's next phase.

Every test feeds a structured history per well — the foundation on which RVF is building the platform's next phases: early detection of operational deviations and advanced production analytics.

RVF Malinois is the digital backbone of the well testing service: the test is measured, documented and traceable end to end, and the client follows it alongside the RVF engineer throughout the operation.

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When it applies

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Characterization of production fluids from the formations.

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Initial, extended and permanent tests across the different artificial lift systems.

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Exploratory well testing.

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Post-intervention clean-ups.

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Production optimization campaigns.

RVF crew connecting test lines at sunset

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Certification with on-site analysis

Centrifuge tube with a crude oil sample next to the laboratory cabin

Every RVF well testing unit operates with a combined laboratory and acquisition cabin: water and sediment cut, API gravity, gas specific gravity, H₂S, CO₂ and salinity, measured on site with calibrated instruments. Data is validated where it is produced — not days later.

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Need to certify the production of your wells?

Tell us the scope of the test. We reply with a technical proposal and the exact equipment to run it.

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