The PERL

The PERL is internationally renowned for its scientific expertise in three crucial areas for the Total group: management of the environmental impacts of its industrial activities, gas separation – including CO₂ capture – and the physical-chemistry of interactions between hydrocarbons, water and solids.

The platform has three complementary sites, giving it the facilities required to perform research work from the laboratory right up to large-scale testing:
 

• Its laboratories benefit from the innovative momentum of the Lacq basin and the proximity of the community of researchers belonging to the research entities of neighboring industrial groups and start-ups.
• The Pilot Rivers give it access to a test site that is representative of the Gave de Pau ecosystem, one of the tributaries of the Adour, a river of the Aquitaine basin.
• The Lacq Platform for Pilots offers a vast space where large-scale experiments involving substantial volumes of dangerous fluids and gases can be carried out in complete safety on a Seveso-3 industrial site.

The PERL leverages its multi-scale resources and cross-disciplinary know-how on behalf of numerous R&D programs targeting innovations for subsurface and surface applications, making it the spearhead of the Group in the search for innovative solutions to fight climate change and protect the environment.
 

Catherine Leroi
General Manager of the PERL