Advances of Nanotechnologies in Oil and Gas Industries

Yang, Jiang; Ji, Shengyue; Li, Ran; Qin, Wenlong; Lü, Yongjun

doi:10.1260/0144-5987.33.5.639

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“…(Kong and Ohadi, Abbreviations: Al-SPCA, aluminum cross-linked sulfonated polycarboxylic acid; ATMP, aminotris(methylenephosphonic acid); BHPMP, bis-hexamethylene triamine-penta(methylene phosphonic acid); CBNP, carbon-based NP; CNT, carbon nanotubes; CTAB, n-hexadecyl-trimethyl ammonium bromide; DLVO, Derjaguin-Landau-Verwey-Overbeek; DTPMP, diethylenetriamine pentakis (methylene phosphonic acid); MIC, minimum inhibitor concentration; NP, nanoparticle; PAA, polyacrylic acid; PAH, poly(allylamine hydrochloride); PPCA, phosphino-polycarboxylic acid; PBTCA, (2-phosphonobutane-1,2,4-tricarboxylic acid); PV, pore volume; RMNF, reverse micelle nanofluid; RSF, remaining synthesis fluid; SDBS, sodium dodecylbenzene sulfonate; SEM, scanning electron microscopy; SINC, scale inhibitor nanoparticle capsule; SINM, scale inhibitor nanomaterials; SPE, Society of Petroleum Engineers; XRD, X-ray diffraction. 2010; Kelland, 2014;Yang et al, 2015;Bera and Belhaj, 2016;Liu H. et al, 2016). For instance, Olayiwola and Dejam (2019) carried out a comprehensive review of the interaction between nanomaterials and low salinity water and surfactant for the goal of enhanced oil recovery in sandstone and carbonate fields.…”

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Review of Synthesis and Evaluation of Inhibitor Nanomaterials for Oilfield Mineral Scale Control

Zhang

2020

Front. Chem.

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Oilfield flow assurance is the subject to study the impact on the flow of production fluids due to physicochemical changes in the production system. Mineral scale deposition is among the top 3 water-related flow assurance challenges in petroleum industry, particularly for offshore and shale operations. Scale deposition can lead to serious operational risks and significant financial loss. The most commonly adopted strategy in oilfield scale control is the deployment of chemical inhibitors. Although conventional chemical inhibitors are effective in inhibiting scale threat, they have the drawbacks of short transport distance and limited squeeze lifetime due to their intrinsic chemical properties. In the past decade, as an alternative to conventional chemical inhibition, research efforts have been made to prepare functional nanomaterials with different chemical compositions to overcome the drawbacks of conventional chemical inhibitors. These synthesized nanomaterials can serve as delivery vehicles to deploy inhibitors into the target location in the production system. These nanomaterials are reported to have multiple advantages over the conventional inhibitors in terms of transportability, controlled release, and functionality, evidenced by a series of experimental studies. This review presents an overview of scale inhibitor nanomaterial development and the current methods to synthesize and to evaluate these nanomaterials in a systematic and comprehensive manner. This review focuses on the chemistry principles and methodologies underlying inhibitor nanomaterial synthesis and also the chemical instrument and strategies in evaluating the physiochemical properties of these materials in terms of inhibition effectiveness, transportability, and inhibitor return. The scale inhibitor nanomaterials (SINMs) presented in this review exemplify the continuous development in our capabilities in adopting novel nanotechnology in combating actual engineering challenges in petroleum industry.

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Review of Synthesis and Evaluation of Inhibitor Nanomaterials for Oilfield Mineral Scale Control

Zhang

2020

Front. Chem.

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“…The application of nanoparticles has proven to be beneficial in the upstream oil and gas industry (Yang et al 2015). Several applications like water flood displacement (Yuan and Moghanloo 2018;Bahraminejad et al 2019;Najimi et al 2019), fines fixation (Huang et al 2010b;Assef et al 2014;Yuan 2017;Zheng et al 2018), and enhanced oil recovery (Yousefvand and Jafari 2015;Bera and Belhaj 2016;Yuan and Wood 2018;Asl et al 2020) have been studied and experimented upon in this capacity.…”

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A novel approach for using silica nanoparticles in a proppant pack to fixate coal fines

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Hydraulic fracturing operations in coal seam gas reservoirs are highly prone to release coal fines. Coal fines inevitably cause mechanical pump failure and permeability damage as a result of their hydrophobicity, aggregation in the system and pore-throat blockage. One approach to affix these coal fines at their source, and to retard generation, is to introduce a nanoparticle-treated proppant pack. Thus, this research explores coal fines retention (known as adsorption) in a proppant pack using nanoparticles. In the study, the electrolytic environment, pH, flow rate, temperature and pressure were kept constant, while the variables were concentration of silica nanoparticles (0–0.1 wt%) and coal fines concentration (0.1–1 wt%). The objective was to identify silica nano-formulations that effectively fixate coal fine dispersions. Subsequently, the coal suspensions flowed through a glass-bead proppant pack treated with and without nanoparticles, and were then analysed via a particle counter. The quantitative results from particle counter analysis showed that the proppant pack with nanoparticle treatment strongly affected the fixation ability of coal fines. The proppant pack without nanoparticle treatment showed up to 30% adsorption and flowed through the proppant untreated, while proppant pack treated with nanoparticles showed up to 74% adsorption; hence, more exceptional affixation ability to the coal fines. Further, the results indicated that the zeta-potential of silica nanoparticles at higher salinity became unstable, i.e. approximately –20 mV; this low value helped the proppant pack treated with nanoparticles to attach coal fines to it. The ability of nanoparticles to adsorb coal fines is due to their highly active surface, and high specific surface area.

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“…Besides, cement is pumped into the wells to provide structural support for the steel casings and to secure the casings against corrosive fluids [1]. After setting, the cement sheath should possess mechanical properties sufficient to withstand the loads and provide structural sustenance and zonal isolation [2,3].…”

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Application of nanoparticles for strengthening wellbore cement-formation bonding

Maagi

2020

Oil Gas Sci. Technol. – Rev. IFP Energies nouvelles

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This study evaluates the wellbore shear bond strength of oil-well cement pastes containing nano-SiO2 and nano-TiO2 particles with an average of 20 ± 5 nm particle sizes. The nanoparticles were selected by weight of cement at proportions equivalent to 1, 2, 3 and 4%. The findings demonstrated that nanoparticles significantly increased the shear bond strength, and the strength increase was dependent on the nanoparticle types, dosage and curing period of the specimens. Due to effective pozzolanic activity, nano-SiO2 provided higher shear bond strength compared to nano-TiO2. The specimens containing 3% nano-SiO2 cured for 28 days displayed the utmost shear bond strength results (0.553 MPa). The optimal replacement dosage was 3% for all nanoparticles. The particle type did not affect the optimum nanoparticles replacement content. To examine the influence of nanoparticles on cement-formation bonding, a Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM), X-Ray Diffraction (XRD), and thermogravimetric technique were used.

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Advances of Nanotechnologies in Oil and Gas Industries

Cited by 33 publications

References 89 publications

Review of Synthesis and Evaluation of Inhibitor Nanomaterials for Oilfield Mineral Scale Control

Review of Synthesis and Evaluation of Inhibitor Nanomaterials for Oilfield Mineral Scale Control

A novel approach for using silica nanoparticles in a proppant pack to fixate coal fines

Application of nanoparticles for strengthening wellbore cement-formation bonding

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