Saudi Arabian Oil Company

King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals

Alfaisal University

Mohammed Abdullah Bataweel

Ayman Mohammed Almohsin

Edreese Alsharaeh

Eyad Alali

Prasad Baburao Karadkar

Faheem Ahmed

Feng Liang

Leiming Li

Ayman Raja Al-Nakhli

Wengang Li

Norah W Aljuryyed

Haitham A Othman

Hejian Sun

Ayman Al-Mohsin

Md Amanullah

Rajendra Arunkumar Kalgaonkar

Ming Han

Tao Chen

Nisar Ullah

Xuan Zhang

Murtadha J AlTammar

Abdulrahman Abdulaziz Al-Mulhem

Khalid Mohammed Alruwaili

Qiwei Wang

Ime Bassey Obot

Jin Huang

Muhammad Mansha

Ahmad A Sorour

Mohamed Ahmed Nasr Eldin Mahmoud

Mustafa Alkhowaildi

Norah Abdullah Aljeaban

Abdulazeez Abdulraheem

Mumtaz Ahmad Quraishi

Jose I Rueda

Abdulmohsen A Al-Humam

Mohamed Ahmed Nasr El Din Mahmoud

Zeeshan Tariq

Ziyuan Qi

Amjed Mohammed Hassan

Manar A AlAhmari

Fahd Ibrahim AlGhunaimi

Arif Al-Zawwadi

Saad Hejji Al-Ruwayshid

A method includes providing a well extending underground from a surface, using radial drilling to drill a primary tunnel extending in an outwardly direction from the well at a first axial location along the well, installing a chemical storage assembly in the primary tunnel, and ejecting chemicals from the chemical storage assembly into the well.

Method for downhole chemical storage for well mitigation and reservoir treatments

Systems to produce a pond water, pond water compositions, and methods for using pond water compositions are provided. The system may include a rainwater collection system, a water purification system, a condensate collection system, and a mixing tank configured to receive and mix the various water sources to form a pond water. A system for forming a fracturing fluid is provided, wherein the system may include the system for producing a pond water, an additive feed system, and a mixer configured to receive and mix pond water from the mixing tank with one or more additives from the additive feed system to produce a frac fluid. A method of fracturing a well is also provided, which may include producing a pond water, mixing the pond water with one or more additives to form a frac fluid, and pumping the frac fluid downhole to fracture the well.

Pond water (gas plant discharge) based fracturing fluid

A system includes a well extending through an underground formation, a primary tunnel extending a length outwardly from the well at a first axial location along the well, a battery installed in the primary tunnel, recharging equipment connected to the battery, and electrically powered downhole equipment positioned in the well, wherein the downhole equipment is connected to the battery.

Method for downhole installation of batteries with recharging and energy harvesting systems in dedicated compartments

A method for constructing docking stations for downhole robots is disclosed. The method includes determining locations and respective dimensions along a sidewall of a wellbore for drilling tunnels, constructing, based on the locations and respective dimensions, the tunnels extending from the sidewall of the wellbore, installing a downhole robot docking station in a first where the downhole robot docking station is disposed external to the wellbore, installing a power source in a second tunnel where the power source is disposed external to the wellbore, and connecting the downhole robot docking station and the power source via an electrical connection disposed along at least the sidewall of the wellbore.

Method for creating multiple downhole smart docking stations for robot battery recharging and data transferring

Methods of preparing a crosslinked hydraulic fracturing fluid include combining a hydraulic fracturing fluid comprising a polyacrylamide polymer with a plurality of coated proppants. The plurality of coated proppants include a proppant particle and a resin proppant coating on the proppant particle. The resin proppant coating includes resin and a zirconium oxide crosslinker. The resin includes at least one of phenol, furan, epoxy, urethane, phenol-formaldehyde, polyester, vinyl ester, and urea aldehyde. Methods further include allowing the zirconium oxide crosslinker within the resin proppant coating to crosslink the polyacrylamide polymer within the hydraulic fracturing fluid at a pH of at least 10, thereby forming the crosslinked hydraulic fracturing fluid.

Methods of making hydraulic fracturing fluids and use thereof

A composition includes an ionic liquid monomer having the following structure: where n is an integer from 1 to 5 and the ionic liquid monomer has a melting point less than 100&#xb0; C. A method of making the ionic liquid includes providing a mixture comprising a sulfonic acid and a diamine in a solvent, and maintaining the mixture at a temperature ranging from 10 to 80&#xb0; C. for a time ranging from 1 to 10 hours to form an ionic liquid monomer having a melting point less than 100&#xb0; C. A method of making a polymer from the ionic liquid monomer is also provided.

Ionic liquid monomer for synthesis of friction reducer and methods thereof

A method of preparing a polymer-sand nanocomposite for water shutoff. The method includes applying a surface polymerization to sand particles. The surfaced polymerization formed by combining a polymerization initiator dissolved in a solvent with the sand particles to form a precursor sand mixture, combining a co-monomer and additional polymerization initiator in the presence of graphene, where the graphene is not functionalized, to form a precursor polymer mixture, and combining the precursor sand mixture and the precursor polymer mixture to form a sand-copolymer-graphene nanocomposite. The method further includes drying the sand-copolymer-graphene nanocomposite, preparing a polymer hydrogel, and combining the polymer hydrogel and the sand-copolymer-graphene nanocomposite to crosslink the components and form the polymer-sand nanocomposite. The associated method of forming a barrier to shut off or reduce unwanted production of water in a subterranean formation utilizing the polymer-sand nanocomposite is also provided.

Polymer-sand nanocomposite for water shutoff

A method, wellbore, and pill for treating a region of a subterranean formation adjacent a wellbore zone of the wellbore, including injecting a gellable treatment composition (e.g., as the pill) through the wellbore zone into the region of the subterranean formation adjacent the wellbore zone, allowing the gellable treatment composition to form nanoparticles in-situ in the region and gel in the region via heat provided by the region to prevent or reduce flow of an unwanted fluid from the region into the wellbore zone. The gellable treatment composition may include a zwitterionic gemini surfactant (ZGS).

Treatment of subterranean formations

A fracturing fluid composition includes an aqueous fluid, a proppant particle, and a date tree fiber. A method of treating a hydrocarbon-bearing formation is also provided. The method includes injecting a fracturing fluid in the hydrocarbon-bearing formation, where the fracturing fluid includes an aqueous fluid, a proppant particle, and a date tree fiber.

Composition and method of using date palm fibers in hydraulic fracturing

A composition for inhibiting corrosion in hydrocarbon wells includes a pyranopyrazole derivative. The pyranopyrazole derivative includes a pyrazole moiety, a dihydropyran moiety, and a phenyl moiety. The dihydropyran moiety is bound to the pyrazole moiety. The phenyl moiety is bound to the dihydropyran moiety. The composition can be flowed into a wellbore formed in a subterranean formation, thereby inhibiting corrosion in the wellbore.

Inhibiting corrosion in gas wells

Methods for treating a formation may include introducing components of a treatment solution into a wellbore such that the treatment solution contacts the formation to be treated, where the treatment solution may include urea, urease, a calcium ion source, one or more polysaccharides, a casein protein, a protease, an ionic compound, and a sugar, where the formation may have an amount of sand production before treatment and may be in fluid contact with the wellbore, and where an amount of sand production after treatment may be less than the amount of sand production before treatment. Consolidated sand structure compositions may include previously unconsolidated sand interlinked by inter-particle cementitious bonds comprising deposited calcium carbonate crystals, where the consolidated sand has a structural strength and the consolidated sand structure is porous to permit fluid flow through the composition.

Sand consolidation by enzyme mediated calcium carbonate precipitation

A method for stimulating a well includes mixing at least one thermochemical with fracturing fluid to create a fracturing fluid mixture, injecting the fracturing fluid mixture into the well, creating an exothermic reaction with the fracturing fluid mixture, generating a pressure pulse in the well from the exothermic reaction, and fracturing a formation around the well with pressure from the pressure pulse and a hydraulic pressure source.

Methods for wellbore formation using thermochemicals

Coated particles include a particulate substrate, a surface copolymer layer surrounding the particulate substrate, and a resin layer surrounding the surface copolymer layer. The surface copolymer layer includes a copolymer of at least two monomers chosen from styrene, methyl methacrylate, ethylene, propylene, butylene, imides, urethanes, sulfones, carbonates, and acrylamides. The resin layer includes a cured resin. Methods of preparing the coated particles include preparing a first mixture including at least one polymerizable material, an initiator, and optionally a solvent; contacting the first mixture to a particulate substrate to form a polymerization mixture; heating the polymerization mixture to cure the polymerizable material and form a polymer-coated particulate; preparing a second mixture including the polymer-coated substrate, an uncured resin, and a solvent; and adding a curing agent to the second mixture to cure the uncured resin and form the coated particle.

Surface polymerized proppants

Systems and methods for forming a permanent plug in a subterranean formation include providing a solution of colloidal silica and pumping the colloidal silica into a bore of a subterranean well so that the colloidal silica penetrates pores of the subterranean formation. The colloidal silica within the pores of the subterranean formation is dehydrated to form a glass-like material within the pores of the subterranean formation.

In-situ generation of glass-like materials inside subterranean formation

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Dhahran, Saudi Arabia

Mohammed Abdullah Bataweel