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22 May 2015 Oil industry first field trial of inter-well reservoir nanoagent tracers
Mazen Y. Kanj, Dmitry V. Kosynkin
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Proceedings Volume 9467, Micro- and Nanotechnology Sensors, Systems, and Applications VII; 94671D (2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2179249
Event: SPIE Defense + Security, 2015, Baltimore, MD, United States
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This short manuscript highlights the industry's first proven reservoir nanoagents' design and demonstrates a successful multi-well field trial using these agents. Our fundamental nanoparticles tracer template, A-Dots or Arab-D Dots, is intentionally geared towards the harsh but prolific Arab-D carbonate reservoir environment of 100+°C temperature, 150,000+ppm salinity, and an abundant presence of divalent ions in the connate water. Preliminary analyses confirmed nanoparticles' breakthrough at a producer nearly 500m from the injector at the reservoir level; thus, proving the tracer nanoparticles' mobility and transport capability. This is considered industry-first and a breakthrough achievement complementing earlier accomplishments in regard to the nanoagents' reservoir stability with the first successful single well test and ease of scale up with the synthesis of one metric ton of this material. The importance of this accomplishment is not in how sophisticated is the sensing functionalities of this design but rather in its stability, mobility, scalability, and field application potentials. This renders the concept of having active, reactive, and even communicative, in-situ reservoir nanoagents for underground sensing and intervention a well anticipated near-future reality.
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Mazen Y. Kanj and Dmitry V. Kosynkin "Oil industry first field trial of inter-well reservoir nanoagent tracers", Proc. SPIE 9467, Micro- and Nanotechnology Sensors, Systems, and Applications VII, 94671D (22 May 2015); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2179249
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KEYWORDS
Nanoparticles
Carbonates
Industrial chemicals
Nanotechnology
Particles
Chemistry
Active remote sensing
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