Design and development of nano-based on-site detection and measurement technology for optimizing drilling and fracking of low permeability hydrocarbon reservoirs

STS示踪剂服务有限公司正在寻求一种解决方案，提供现场和即时分析的返排液的压裂和注水在石油和天然气开采过程中。目前，分析示踪剂的工业方法在实验室测试中需要在样品收集、分析和接收实验室结果之间大约3-10个工作日的时间差。在此期间，压裂和注水不能停止，这导致这些昂贵操作的次优实施。开发用于现场和即时分析返排流体的示踪剂和分析方法具有显著降低成本和提高压裂和注水操作效率的潜力，这一赠款将支持开发示踪剂和简单的分析方法，使已确定的示踪剂能够当1份示踪剂与100万份水混合时，在现场始终检测到50 ppb至500 ppb。

STS Tracer Services Ltd is seeking a solution that provides on-site and immediate analysis of the flowbackfluid for fracking and water flooding during oil and gas extraction processes. Currently, industry methods foranalysing tracers in-lab testing requires about 3-10 business day time-lag between the collection of sample,analysis and receiving lab results. During this time, fracking and water flooding cannot be stopped which leadsto sub-optimal implementation of these costly operations.Development of a tracer and analysis method for on-site and immediate analysis of the flowback fluid has thepotential to significantly reduce cost and improve efficiency of fracking and water flooding operations, leadingto higher oil and gas recoveries than the current practice.This grant will support the development of tracing agents and simple analytical method that would allow theidentified tracing agent to be consistently detected on-site within 50 ppb to 500 ppb when 1 part tracing agentis mixed with 1 million parts of water.