Enhancing Hydrocarbon Recovery
nanoActiv® solutions are high-efficiency intervention additives and methods—maximizing hydrocarbon production rates. nanoActiv® solutions go further, work faster, and are effective longer, enabling higher volume hydrocarbon recovery.
The Mechanics of Nanotechnology
nanoActiv® solutions employ inorganic nano-sized particles in a colloidal particle dispersion, harnessing their power to penetrate porous media on a nanoscopic scale. nanoActiv® particles form a Brownian-motion, diffusion-driven mechanism known as disjoining pressure1—greatly facilitating and accelerating the mobility of gas, oil, and water, or mixtures thereof.
The dispersion of brine-resistant colloidal particles, when mixed into treating fluids, form orderly hexagonal arrays which act mechanically to exert a large spreading force. This pressure lifts and enables the removal of hydrocarbons, water, polymers, biofilm, scale, and asphaltenes from rock surfaces in oil and gas reservoirs, natural and induced fracture networks, tubular goods, production equipment, and storage facility surfaces.
1Wasan and Nikolov Nature, Vol. 423, 2003
Enhancing Hydrocarbon Recovery
nanoActiv® solutions are effective in a variety of production enhancement applications including:
nanoActiv® can also be formulated to enhance and enable the action of other oilfield chemistries such as surfactants, foamers, inhibitors, biocides, dispersants, friction reducers and polymers.
nanoActiv® particles under transmission electron microscope (TEM) at 200,000 × magnification.
nanoActiv® is made in the USA · Patented in the US and other countries