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Scientists discover more efficient way of extracting oil from existing wells
Posted on 5/4/17 at 4:41 pm
Posted on 5/4/17 at 4:41 pm
Truck nut sales plummet
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IBM scientists recently discovered that a drop of oil doesn't look like a drop at all if it is small, to the scale of one billionth of a billionth of a liter, or attoliter. Rather, a nanoscale oil droplet looks more like a flat film against a solid surface. This discovery reveals that the simulation tools and techniques commonly employed by the oil industry do not take into account the increased energy required to extract these oil molecules. And it results in 60 percent or more of a well's oil being left behind, for example, in the nanoscale capillaries of shale reservoirs. In response, IBM Research-Brazil is developing nanoscience-enhanced oil flow simulations that could better-predict oil extraction from a reservoir.
The scientists based at IBM's Nano Lab in Rio de Janeiro, led by Dr. Mathias Steiner, Manager, Industrial Technology & Science, recently published this research in a Scientific Reports study, Adsorption energy as a metric for wettability at the nanoscale, explaining how the properties of liquid oil molecules behave in completely different and unexpected ways when in contact with a solid material, at the nanoscale. Everything the industry knows about how to extract oil, such as calculating the energy it takes for extraction, turns out to be different at the nanoscale. Steiner's team also published A Platform for Analysis of Nanoscale Liquids with an Array of Sensor Devices Based on Two-Dimensional Material, in Nano Letters, detailing the novel measurement method for revealing nanoscale drop properties.
"These nano-wetting discoveries are an important step to help oil and gas companies to recover more of the oil trapped in their reservoirs. Just a 1 percent production enhancement, using the results of this research, would mean nearly a million more barrels of additional oil available each day, worldwide. The next step is to use the results obtained in this study to calibrate flow simulations of oil in nano-capillaries and their networks," Steiner said.
Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2017-05-discovery-ibm-enable-efficient-oil.html#jCp
This post was edited on 5/4/17 at 4:43 pm
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Posted on 5/4/17 at 4:44 pm to Jim Rockford
Drill'r deep baws! YEE YEE!
Posted on 5/4/17 at 4:45 pm to Blitzed
Hmmm I don't see directional drilling in that second image.
Muh peak oil
Muh peak oil
Posted on 5/4/17 at 4:45 pm to Jim Rockford
increased efficiency in extraction is pretty much an axiom of the oil industry. It's also something the chicken littles of the save the planet movement always fail to understand
Posted on 5/4/17 at 4:46 pm to Jim Rockford
so they haven't figured it out yet?
Posted on 5/4/17 at 4:48 pm to jimbeam
Posted on 5/4/17 at 4:50 pm to Jim Rockford
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This discovery reveals that the simulation tools and techniques commonly employed by the oil industry do not take into account the increased energy required to extract these oil molecules.
Getting more oil out requires putting more energy in. You get more oil, but you spend more getting it. I don't see this crashing the price.
Posted on 5/4/17 at 4:50 pm to Jim Rockford
Somebody hang a set of truck nuts from the IBM Watson computer.
Posted on 5/4/17 at 4:51 pm to Jim Rockford
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Everything the industry knows about how to extract oil, such as calculating the energy it takes for extraction, turns out to be different at the nanoscale.
Posted on 5/4/17 at 4:51 pm to GetBackToWork
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Somebody hang a set of truck nuts from the IBM Watson computer.
Now that's funny!
Posted on 5/4/17 at 4:53 pm to Jim Rockford
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Truck nut sales plummet
$1.50 gas for the rest of us though
Posted on 5/4/17 at 4:54 pm to Brosef Stalin
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$1.50 gas for the rest of us though
OP doesn't understand what he posted
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Discovery from IBM could enable more efficient oil extraction from existing wells
thats the real title of the article
This post was edited on 5/4/17 at 4:55 pm
Posted on 5/4/17 at 4:57 pm to Jim Rockford
Actually that's one of the fundamental things you learn as a sophomore in PETE.
Posted on 5/4/17 at 5:00 pm to Jim Rockford
So, you don't understand what you posted? Interesting.
Posted on 5/4/17 at 5:02 pm to Nado Jenkins83
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Discovery from IBM could enable more efficient oil extraction from existing wells
So many science articles now are click bait for things that could exist but probably never will. The editors for these online websites have the data...people click that shite!
Posted on 5/4/17 at 5:03 pm to Blitzed
That meme is beyond stupid.
Posted on 5/4/17 at 5:04 pm to Jim Rockford
Cool stuff, but these ideas aren't new to the industry. Getting that "extra 1%" of oil would be great, but if it costs more than the 1% to get the 1%...then that's an old fashioned aint worth it situation
Posted on 5/4/17 at 5:07 pm to JasonHotWheelsStreet
That's why well stim work was big in quarter 4 of 2015 and the beginning of 2016...but it's just not profitable for companies right now.
Posted on 5/4/17 at 5:11 pm to Blitzed
quote:I'm sure the idiot who made that image has no idea that the parts that make that iPhone are made from oil and gas products.
Only about 45% of a drum of oil is used to make gasoline. The rest is used to make products you had no idea oil was responsible for.
This post was edited on 5/4/17 at 5:14 pm
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