Nanotech solutions for the Oil & Gas industry

• Overview I
• Overview II (cont.)
• Exploration
• Reservoir Management
• Drilling
• Production
• Refining & Distribution

 Nanotech Solutions cont.

Nanotechnology provides solutions for:

Exploration

Nanosensors can provide solutions for:

• Less invasive methods of exploration, remote sensing
• Improved temperature and pressure ratings in deep wells and hostile environments, ability to extend applications to sub-basalt
• Improved imaging and computational techniques
• Improved monitoring during oil refining (Micronizing of nanoparticle diamond as well as chemical suspension)
• Improved instrumentation for gas adsorption, allowing allowing comprehensive physisorption, chemisorption, TPD/TPR/TPO and real time MS characterization using a wide range of gases and vapors
• Improved 1,2,3 and 4-D Seismic resolution
• Nanoscale description of interfacial structure and dynamics

Nanocatalysts can provide solutions for:

• Ability to traverse rock formations through native pore structures either by passive diffusion or by transport with injected fluids

Reservoir Management

Nanosensors can provide solutions for:

• Improved reservoir illumination and characterization, including improved signal-to-noise ratio of subsalt events, improved velocity-modeling accounting for anisotrophy
• Improved fluid-flow monitoring and fluid-type recognition (bulk diffusion, surface diffusion, vibrational motion, dielectric behavior, stress-strain, etc.)
• Improved drainage architectures
• Improved telemetry
• Real-time tracking of waterfronts
• Ability to identify bypassed zones



Nanomembranes (separations) can provide solutions for:

• Improved sand exclusion
• Improved mobility of injectant
• Controlled agglomeration of particles
• CO2 capture and storage (CCS)



Nanomaterials and Coatings can provide solutions for:

• Improved stability and pressure integrity
• Improved heat transfer efficiency
• Minimize damage to formation



Chemical Delivery Systems can provide solutions for:

• Improved understanding of condensate banking processes to predict well behavior
• Ability to modify dew point and change wettability of reservoir
• Increased sweeping efficiency, improved displacement of oil through small pore throats by reducing IFT
• Mobilization of high viscosity/heavy oil



Nanomaterials can provide solutions for:

• Reducing weight requirements and increased sturdiness of offshore platforms