Abstract: The present application relates to methods and systems for mitigating condensate banking. In some embodiments, the methods and systems involve altering the wettability of a rock formation in the vicinity of a wellbore for a gas condensate reservoir.

Abstract: Systems and methods of surface logging a well use a plurality of polymeric taggants distinguishable from each other. The systems and methods can include adding each of the plurality of polymeric taggants in a repeating sequence to a circulating drilling fluid while drilling the well and taking a sample drill cuttings carried by the circulating drilling fluid. The systems and methods can also include measuring concentrations of individual polymeric taggants attached to the drill cuttings in the sample and identifying a depth associated with the sample based on the measured concentrations of individual polymeric taggants and on the sequence.

Abstract: A technique of utilizing waste as an interwell tracer. The waste includes pharmaceutical, personal care product (PPCP) waste or nanoplastic (NP) waste, or both. The system and method includes injecting an injection fluid including water and the waste at an injection well into a subterranean formation, producing produced fluid including water at a production well from the subterranean formation, measuring concentration of the waste in the produced fluid, and comparing the concentration of the waste in the produced fluid with the concentration of the waste in the injection fluid.

Abstract: The disclosure features methods of analyzing a fluid extracted from a reservoir, the methods including introducing a first composition featuring a first complexing agent into a reservoir at a first location, extracting a fluid from the reservoir at a second location different from the first location, combining the fluid with a second composition featuring a concentration of a lanthanide ion to form a third composition featuring a concentration of a complex formed by the first complexing agent and the lanthanide ion, exposing a quantity of the complex to electromagnetic radiation for a first time period ending at a time t0, detecting fluorescence emission from the quantity of the complex for a second time period starting at a time t1>t0, where t1?t0 is greater than 2 microseconds, and determining information about a fluid flow path between the first location and the second location.

Abstract: The disclosure features methods of analyzing a fluid extracted from a reservoir, the methods including introducing a first composition featuring a first complexing agent into a reservoir at a first location, extracting a fluid from the reservoir at a second location different from the first location, combining the fluid with a second composition featuring a concentration of a lanthanide ion to form a third composition featuring a concentration of a complex formed by the first complexing agent and the lanthanide ion, exposing a quantity of the complex to electromagnetic radiation for a first time period ending at a time t0, detecting fluorescence emission from the quantity of the complex for a second time period starting at a time t1>t0, where t1?t0 is greater than 2 microseconds, and determining information about a fluid flow path between the first location and the second location.

Abstract: Analyzing a fluid extracted from a reservoir includes introducing a first composition featuring a first complexing agent into a reservoir at a first location, extracting a fluid from the reservoir at a second location different from the first location, combining the fluid with a second composition featuring a concentration of a lanthanide ion to form a third composition featuring a concentration of a complex formed by the first complexing agent and the lanthanide ion, exposing a quantity of the complex to electromagnetic radiation for a first time period ending at a time t0, detecting fluorescence emission from the quantity of the complex for a second time period starting at a time t1>t0, where t1-t0 is greater than 2 microseconds, and determining information about a fluid flow path between the first location and the second location.

Abstract: A treatment fluid system for reducing permeability of high permeability zones in a subterranean reservoir formation comprising a fluid composition comprising a nano-crosslinker, the nano-crosslinker comprising a nanomaterial, and a crosslinker, wherein the crosslinker comprises a chemical group selected from the group consisting of carbonyl, sulfhydryl, amine and imine, wherein the nano-crosslinker is produced by a method selected from the group consisting of pre-treating the nanomaterial with the crosslinker such that the crosslinker has been functionalized onto the nanomaterial, embedding the crosslinker on the nanoparticle, grafting the crosslinker onto the nanomaterial, and coating the crosslinker on the nanomaterial, a base polymer, and a base fluid, the base fluid operable to suspend the fluid composition, wherein the base fluid comprises water, wherein the treatment fluid system is operable to reduce permeability of a high permeability zone in the subterranean reservoir formation.

Abstract: A composition including a coated nanoparticle and an ion, wherein the coated nanoparticle includes a nanoparticle, a linker, and a stabilizing group; methods of making and using the composition; and systems including the composition. The linker includes an anchoring group, a spacer, and a terminal group. The anchoring group is covalently bound to the nanoparticle and at least one of the terminal groups is covalently bound to at least one stabilizing group. A composition including a crosslinked-coated nanoparticle and an ion, wherein the crosslinked-coated nanoparticle includes a nanoparticle and a coating that includes a linker, a crosslinker, and a stabilizing group; methods of making and using the composition; and systems including the composition.

Abstract: The disclosure features methods of analyzing a fluid extracted from a reservoir, the methods including introducing a first composition featuring a first complexing agent into a reservoir at a first location, extracting a fluid from the reservoir at a second location different from the first location, combining the fluid with a second composition featuring a concentration of a lanthanide ion to form a third composition featuring a concentration of a complex formed by the first complexing agent and the lanthanide ion, exposing a quantity of the complex to electromagnetic radiation for a first time period ending at a time t0, detecting fluorescence emission from the quantity of the complex for a second time period starting at a time t1>t0, where t1?t0 is greater than 2 microseconds, and determining information about a fluid flow path between the first location and the second location.

Abstract: Presented herein are methods and systems for mitigating condensate banking for example, by altering the wettability of a rock formation in the vicinity of a wellbore for a gas condensate reservoir.

Abstract: A method for reducing condensate in a subsurface formation is disclosed. The method includes introducing a reactive mixture including an aqueous solution, urea, dopamine, a silica nanoparticle precursor, a silane grafting compound, and an alcohol compound into the subsurface formation. The method also includes allowing generation of ammonia through thermal decomposition of the urea and allowing the silica nanoparticle precursor to hydrolyze, thereby forming silica nanoparticles. The method further includes allowing the silane grafting compound to graft onto the silica nanoparticles, thereby forming functionalized silica nanoparticles. The method also includes allowing polymerization of the dopamine, thereby forming polydopamine. The method also includes allowing the functionalized silica nanoparticles to attach to the subsurface formation via the polydopamine, thereby reducing condensate in the subsurface formation.

Abstract: A treatment fluid system for reducing permeability of high permeability zones in a subterranean reservoir formation comprising a fluid composition comprising a nano-crosslinker, the nano-crosslinker comprising a nanomaterial, and a crosslinker, wherein the crosslinker comprises a chemical group selected from the group consisting of carbonyl, sulfhydryl, amine and imine, wherein the nano-crosslinker is produced by a method selected from the group consisting of pre-treating the nanomaterial with the crosslinker such that the crosslinker has been functionalized onto the nanomaterial, embedding the crosslinker on the nanoparticle, grafting the crosslinker onto the nanomaterial, and coating the crosslinker on the nanomaterial, a base polymer, and a base fluid, the base fluid operable to suspend the fluid composition, wherein the base fluid comprises water, wherein the treatment fluid system is operable to reduce permeability of a high permeability zone in the subterranean reservoir formation.

Abstract: Systems and methods for analyzing groundwater samples with multiple organic tracer species from a petroleum containing reservoir include obtaining the sample, isolating an aqueous fraction of the groundwater sample, separating the aqueous fraction into a plurality of components, where each component corresponds to a different one of the organic tracer species, combining each of the separated components with at least one lanthanide element to form a plurality of component solutions, where a ratio of the at least one lanthanide element to the separated component in each component solution is 5:1 or greater, and analyzing each component solution to determine a relative amount of each organic tracer species in the groundwater sample.

Abstract: Devices for chemical analysis include a first separation element formed on the substrate, the first separation element having a wicking surface that separates water from hydrocarbons in a fluid sample, a hydrophobic barrier at least partially surrounding the first separation element, a second separation element fluidically connected the first separation element, the second separation element configured to trap salts and organic matter present in the fluid sample, and a detection element fluidically connected to the second separation element, the detection element having a surface that binds with one or more analytes that may be present in the fluid sample and thereby emits a signal that is capable of being optically detected by a detector. Methods include providing such a device for chemical analysis, placing the fluid sample on the first separation element, and detecting the signal emitted by the detection element.

Abstract: Systems and methods of surface logging a well using a plurality of polymeric taggants distinguishable from each other include adding each of the plurality of polymeric taggants to a circulating drilling fluid while drilling the well in a repeating sequence and taking a sample drill cuttings carried by the circulating drilling fluid.

Abstract: A system and method for flow synthesis of polymer nanoparticles in a continuous flow reactor having a channel. The polymer nanoparticles are synthesized from monomer in the presence of an initiator.

Abstract: A composition including a coated nanoparticle including a nanoparticle and a cross-linked carbohydrate-based coating and an ion selected from the group consisting of Li+, Na+, K+, Rb+, Cs+, Be2+, Mg2+, Ca2+, Sr2+, Ba2+, and mixtures thereof; methods of making and using the composition; and systems including the composition.

Abstract: A method for surface logging a well uses a plurality of polymeric taggants distinguishable from each other. The method includes selecting the polymeric taggants that have ceiling temperatures that do not interfere with pyrograms from source rock decomposition and adding each of the plurality of polymeric taggants to a circulating drilling fluid in a sequence while drilling the well. A sample of drill cuttings carried by the circulating drilling fluid is then taken. The method also includes measuring, using pyrolysis-gas chromatographymass spectrometry, concentrations of individual polymeric taggants attached to the drill cuttings in the sample and analyzing, using pyrolysis-gas chromatographymass spectrometry, properties of the drill cuttings. A depth associated with the sample is identified based, at least in part, on the measured concentrations of individual polymeric taggants and on the sequence.

Abstract: A fracturing fluid system for increasing hydrocarbon production in a subterranean reservoir formation comprising a fluid composition and a base fluid, the fluid composition comprising a nano-crosslinker, and a base polymer; and the base fluid operable to suspend the fluid composition, the base fluid comprising water; wherein the fluid composition and the base fluid are combined to produce the fracturing fluid system, wherein the fracturing fluid system is operable to stimulate the subterranean reservoir formation. In certain embodiments, the nano-crosslinker is an amine-containing nano-crosslinker and the base polymer is an acrylamide-based polymer. In certain embodiments, the fracturing fluid systems comprise proppants for enhancing hydraulic fracturing stimulation in a subterranean hydrocarbon reservoir.

Abstract: A composition including a coated nanoparticle and an ion, wherein the coated nanoparticle includes a nanoparticle, a linker, and a stabilizing group; methods of making and using the composition; and systems including the composition. The linker includes an anchoring group, a spacer, and a terminal group. The anchoring group is covalently bound to the nanoparticle and at least one of the terminal groups is covalently bound to at least one stabilizing group. A composition including a crosslinked-coated nanoparticle and an ion, wherein the crosslinked-coated nanoparticle includes a nanoparticle and a coating that includes a linker, a crosslinker, and a stabilizing group; methods of making and using the composition; and systems including the composition.