KAB NANO STIM Technology products have brought many performance enhancements to the chemicals used in oil and gas well drilling, cementing, stimulation, water shutoff, and enhanced oil recovery (EOR). The applications of nano-chemicals as they related to upstream oil and gas industry are provided and where the current state-of-the-art is in high-performance oil well completion, production enhancement, and reservoir management materials are evaluated.
KAB NANO STIM fluids developed by KAB Innovations (KABI) have been utilized as a solution for enhancing wells productivity that increases the production rate. This novel technology contains nanoparticles which are 3-10 nm in size and are able to penetrate deep in the reservoir where traditional particles do not reach. KAB NANO STIM chemicals have shown effectiveness in removing / inhibiting organic formation damage, tailored metal-oxide nanoparticles that don’t break down unlike surfactants, and long-term wettability alteration for improved hydrocarbon recovery.
KAB NANO STIM water shutoff conformance and control lead to better conformance in the reservoir as well as blocking the unwanted water production zones. It’s able to close the paths of least resistance in front of the water by reducing their permeability to prevent the water from coming to the wellbore through them. Also, they aid in forcing the water to mobilize and displace the oil in the reservoir. In other words, the aim is to block the open features and high permeability channels to force water to go toward the harder path to sweep oil from the matrix rock that results in higher overall economical returns than producing oil from fractures.
KAB NANO STIM products can significantly benefit enhanced oil recovery (EOR), with advantages such as wettability alternation, changes in fluid properties, improving the trapped oil mobility, enhancing the consolidation of sands and decreasing the interfacial tension (IFT). Nanomaterials are novel alternative methods to be applied as new EOR techniques and solve residual oil problems in heavy and semi-heavy oil reservoirs.
The problems associated with asphaltene deposition generate significant production loss and involve expensive corrective measures. The deposition of asphaltenes greatly reduces the productivity of the affected wells, and in some cases stops the well from flowing after a complete plugging of production column, it may also obstruct surface production facilities. There are different methods help on asphaltene removal, KAB NANO STIM Technology innovative solutions can help to overcome this problem on petrochemicals field.
Emulsions can create high-pressure drops in flow lines, lead to an increase in demulsifier use, and sometimes cause trips or upsets in wet-crude handling facilities. The problem is usually at its worst during the winter because of lower surface temperatures. These emulsions must be treated to remove the dispersed water and associated inorganic salts to meet crude specifications for transportation, storage, and export and to reduce corrosion and catalyst poisoning in downstream processing facilities. KAB NANO STIM Technology products/solutions can help to overcome this problem on petrochemicals field.
Various means for removing paraffin wax have been utilized. KAB NANO STIM chemicals has been used to contact the paraffin and form a dispersible material that is removed with an aqueous liquid and a surfactant. Other solvents and dispersants such as copolymer of a primary alcohol and ethylene oxide with sodium silicate and N-substituted succinimide ethers have been tried. KAB Innovation (KABI) has produced KAB NANO STIM Technology products to overcome this problem in oil & gas industries.
With KAB NANO STIM Technology, our unique formulation creates the ultimate drilling lubricant specifically designed to stay active longer while yielding measurable results. Industry leading “pipe on pipe” and formation adhesion chemistry. KAB NANO STIM Lubricant is reducing the coefficient of friction (CoF) by up to 98%. The extreme reduction of the CoF is through the creation of a Tribofilm, interactions between chemical components of the lubricant and the surface (pipe or formation), ultimately forming a very strong micro ball bearing effect on a molecular level. Our goal is to be the leading Premium Drilling and Coil Tubing Plug Drillout Lubricant / Pipe on Pipe technology in every application we invited in, delivering real and measurable results.
KAB NANO STIM Sand control has been utilized as a solution for unconsolidated sand production or proppant flowback in wells. This material produces in-situ metallic bonding oxidation reaction promoting grain-to-grain sand bonding in the near wellbore zone. KAB NANO STIM Sand Control has many features such as ability to work up to 1,220 °F, effective on a wide range of particles, doesn’t require high closure stresses, 100 % polymer / resin free, and compatible with the formation fluids.
KAB Innovations provides KAB NANO STIM Technology chemical treatments for removing the condensate banking using Nanochemicals & thermochemical solutions. The accumulation of liquid condensates around the production well can significantly impair the gas flow rate. Generally, these reservoirs have two disadvantages: First, a large volume of valuable condensate remains in the reservoir which cannot be removed. Second, the condensate bank decreases the effective permeability of the gas and well productivity. These Chemicals when injected in the wellbore, can react at downhole and generate in situ pressure and heat in certain conditions. with a reduction in a surface tension and IFT. The generated pressure can raise the gas reservoir pressure above the dew point curve, and the generated heat can change the phase of the liquid condensate to gas. These novel treatments show that they can remove the condensate damage for different types of tight sandstones.