Saudi Arabian Oil Company

Hassan Sakar Alqahtani

Murtadha J AlTammar

Khalid Mohammed M Alruwaili

Vera Solovyeva

Katherine Leigh Hull

Younane N Abousleiman

Dong Kyu Cha

Mohammed Al Otaibi

Khalid AlRuwaili

Rima Taqi Alfaraj

Justin Tate Abel

Ghassan Salem AlShehry

Elena Pankratova

Mohammed Khaled Al-arfaj

Ali Hussain Alghiryafi

Mohammed Abdullah Alotaibi

Treatment fluids may be used in hydrocarbon extraction operations. Example methods of use of treatment fluids including nanoparticles may include: introducing a treatment fluid into a subterranean formation including a clay, the treatment fluid including a plurality of metal oxide nanoparticles dispersed in an aqueous fluid; and interacting the metal oxide nanoparticles with the clay in the subterranean formation to at least partially inhibit entry of the clay into the treatment fluid.

Metal oxide nanoshale inhibitors for water-based drilling fluids

A well system includes a wellbore extending from a wellhead and penetrating a producible reservoir and a downhole assembly extendable into the wellbore and including a laser component operable to emit a laser beam into the producible reservoir to induce a first plurality of micro-fractures extending radially outward from the wellbore. The downhole assembly includes a stimulation tool that includes an acoustic component including one or more acoustic generators operable to generate and propagate acoustic waves into the producible reservoir and thereby induce a second plurality of micro-fractures extending radially outward from the wellbore, and one or more acoustic receivers operable to detect and receive reflected acoustic waves returned back from the producible reservoir. The downhole assembly includes a fluid sampling component operable to extract fluid samples from the wellbore at locations radially adjacent the producible reservoir wherein data related to the reflected acoustic waves and the fluid samples is analyzed to characterize the first and second pluralities of micro-fractures.

Enhanced deep micro-fracturing tool using laser beams and acoustic waves

A method of treating kerogen is provided. The method includes: generating a fracture network in a subterranean formation including kerogen by injecting a treatment fluid through a wellbore into the subterranean formation, the treatment fluid including water, an oxidant, and nanoparticles, the treatment fluid oxidizing a portion of the kerogen in the subterranean formation while generating the fracture network; and injecting carbon dioxide (CO) through the wellbore into the subterranean formation, the CO2 penetrating the subterranean formation through the facture network.

Hydraulic treatment of subterranean formations using oxidant, nanoparticles, and carbon dioxide

A method of synthesizing a mixed matrix membrane (MMM) film. The method includes: synthesizing a polymer including a polynorbornene or a polytricyclononene; synthesizing covalent-triazine frameworks (CTFs); preparing a polymer solution by dissolving the polymer in a first solvent; preparing a filler solution by dispersing the CTFs in a second solvent; adding the polymer solution to the filler solution while stirring the filler solution, forming a casting solution; pouring the casting solution into a membrane support; and drying the poured casting solution in the membrane support to form the MMM film including the CTFs.

Mixed matrix membranes containing covalent triazine frameworks

A system for carbon dioxide (CO) capture at a wellhead using a mixed matrix membranes (MMM). The MMM includes a polymer matrix and covalent triazine framework (CTF) fillers. The captured COstream may be reutilized through sequestration and utilization approaches. The bulk stream may be split into multiple streams for various applications. Some COmay be converted chemically into fuels, reaction intermediates, and productivity enhancement tools such as methanol, syngas, CO-foam, used in fracking fluids, and stimulant acids. The rest may be stored through direct injection into porous formations or reactive rocks such as basalt.

Wellhead carbon capture, utilization, and storage using mixed matrix membranes

Systems and methods for preparing a nanofluidic LCTEM cell are provided. An exemplary method includes coating a photoresist layer onto a top surface of a silicon nitride substrate; etching channels into the photoresist layer; depositing calcite into the etched channels; removing the photoresist; placing the cell on a holder; connecting a first end of an inlet line to the cell; connecting a second end of the inlet line to an ultrasound transducer configured to generate nanobubbles; and connecting an outlet line to the cell.

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Dammam, Saudi Arabia

Hassan Sakar Alqahtani