William Marsh Rice University

The Lubrizol Corporation

Weatherford Technology Holdings, LLC

Chih-Chau Hwang

James Mitchell Tour

Desmond Schipper

Gedeng Ruan

Rajesh Kumar Saini

Clayton S Smith

Leonid Vigderman

Yilun Li

Kern L Smith

Duane Treybig

Mathew M Samuel

Almaz S Jalilov

Josiah Tour

Wei Lu

Michael Wong

Ovunc Mutlu

George J Hirasaki

Jian Huang

Clarence A Miller

Gautam Chandrakanth Kini

Kedar M Deshpande

Mohammad Reza Safariforoshani

Mason B Tomson

Amy Kan

Lu Wang

Systems and methods generate optimized formation fracturing operational parameters by iteratively optimizing bottom hole temperature design, perforation design, fracturing fluid pulse design, and proppant design based on formation properties, proppant properties, candidate selection, flow and geomechanical modeling, and engineering design, where the systems and methods as implemented on a digital processing unit.

Systems and methods for optimizing formation fracturing operations

Compositions include (1) aggregating compositions capable of forming deformable partial or complete coatings on formation surfaces, formation particle surfaces, downhole fluid solid surfaces, and/or proppant surfaces, where the coatings increase aggregation and/or agglomeration propensities of the particles and surfaces to form particles clusters or pillars having deformable coatings, and (2) aggregation stabilizing and/or strengthening compositions capable of altering properties of the coated clusters or pillars to form consolidated, stabilized, and/or strengthened clusters or pillars. Methods for stabilizing aggregated particle clusters or pillars include (1) treating the particles with an aggregating composition to form aggregated clusters or pillars and (2) treating the aggregated particle clusters or pillars with a stabilizing or strengthening composition to form consolidated, stabilized, and/or strengthened clusters or pillars.

Method to consolidate solid materials during subterranean treatment operations

In some embodiments, the present disclosure pertains to materials for use in COcapture in high pressure environments. In some embodiments, the materials include a porous carbon material containing a plurality of pores for use in a high pressure environment. Additional embodiments pertain to methods of utilizing the materials of the present disclosure to capture COfrom various environments. In some embodiments, the materials of the present disclosure selectively capture COover hydrocarbon species in the environment.

Porous carbon materials for CO2 separation in natural gas

Composite materials and methods of preparing C0capture include: (1) a porous solid support comprising a plurality of porous channels; and (2) a nucleophilic source associated with the porous channels of the porous solid support. The nucleophilic source is capable of converting the captured C0to poly(C0). Methods of capturing C0from an environment include associating the environment with the aforementioned composite materials to lead to the capture of C0from the environment. Such methods may also include a step of releasing the captured C0from the composite material. The associating step comprises a conversion of the captured C0to poly(C0) in the composite material. A releasing step may also include a depolymerization of the formed poly(C0).

Composites for carbon dioxide capture

In some embodiments, the present disclosure pertains to methods of capturing a gas from an environment by associating the environment (e.g., a pressurized environment) with a porous carbon material that comprises a plurality of pores and a plurality of nucleophilic moieties. In some embodiments, the associating results in sorption of gas components (e.g., COor HS) to the porous carbon materials. In some embodiments, the methods of the present disclosure also include a step of releasing captured gas components from porous carbon materials. In some embodiments, the releasing occurs without any heating steps by decreasing environmental pressure. In some embodiments, the methods of the present disclosure also include a step of disposing released gas components and reusing porous carbon materials. Additional embodiments of the present disclosure pertain to porous carbon materials that are used for gas capture.

Nucleophilic porous carbon materials for CO2 and H2S capture

Various embodiments of the present disclosure pertain to nanocomposites for detecting hydrocarbons in a geological structure. In some embodiments, the nanocomposites include: a core particle; a polymer associated with the core particle; a sulfur-based moiety associated with the polymer; and a releasable probe molecule associated with the core particle, where the releasable probe molecule is releasable from the core particle upon exposure to hydrocarbons. Additional embodiments of the present disclosure pertain to methods of detecting hydrocarbons in a geological structure by utilizing the nanocomposites of the present disclosure.

Nanocomposite oil sensors for downhole hydrocarbon detection

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