Devices and methods for oil field specialty chemical development and testing

Abstract

Technologies for specialty chemical development and testing include devices and methods for receiving a test description. The test description is indicative of test parameters for a test of a chemical formulation, which may be an oil field specialty chemical. The devices and methods may include searching a database of historical test results based on similarity to the test parameters to generate multiple candidate chemical formulations. The devices and methods may cluster the candidate chemical formulations with an unsupervised machine learning algorithm to select a representative chemical formulation for each cluster. The devices and methods may include training a predictor based on test results using a supervised machine learning algorithm. Multiple virtual formulations may be generated and performances of each virtual formulation may be predicted with the predictor. Other embodiments are described and claimed.