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Introduction
Introduction
Nanotechnology
is striving to
help the oil and
gas industry
increase oil
recovery by
improving:
Chemicals used
in recovery of oil
Drilling Materials
Reservoir
Surveillance
Nanocoatings
Anti-wear coating
Nanovar
Produced by
Integran
Can be put on
most any
composite metal
Coatings custom
made for situation
and material being
applied to
Nanovar
Anti-corrosion
Anti-corrosion
Nanofluids - lubricants
Suspensions of nanoparticles in fluids
that enhance its properties
Main advantage in the oil and gas
field is the enhanced thermal
properties (performs well at high/low
temperatures, transfers heat well,
insulates well, etc)
Highly customizable to the desired
situation
Anti-fouling
Anti-fouling
Wrap-up
Still a lot of development occurring in
this field
Development slowed by competing
companies. No free flow of
information
Will be greatly important as we seek
harder to reach oil and gas reserves
Reservoir Surveillance
Purpose: To increase
knowledge about oil wells in
an attempt to recover more
oil from wells
Rice University is working
on nanoreporters
Made up of hundreds of
millions of carbon clusters
Each reporter is
approximately 30,000 times
smaller than a human hair
Reservoir Surveillance
Reservoir Surveillance
Reservoir Surveillance
Nanorobots
Nanorobots
Nanorobots
Te EXPEC ARC has recently produced
the first positive test of their resbots
They were able to pass the resbots
through a core sample and
successfully recover them
This is great first step in resbot
technology
Nanorobots
Conclusions
Great expectations and nearly
limitless possibilities
Too expensive to use in the present
Will be invaluable in the future
Can help delay peak oil
Questions
Works Cited
Group S4
Please prepare rebuttal
Danielle Miller
Scott Marwil
Joshua Moreno
General Comments
First of all, thanks to all the groups for the constructive
criticism.
Both Josh and Scott have learned from the
presentations and used the experience to develop their
speaking skills.
Timing
Our group presented this topic without Danielle. This
Slide Pictures
More pictures could have been used and a couple of
Research
Several comments arose about the amount of research
Group S1
REVIEW of Nanotechnology in the Oil and Gas
Industry
Presentation:
Nanotechnology in the Oil and Gas Industry
By Group 4
Slides (20/20)
Graphics (20/20)
Well designed
Overall (92/100)
Group S2
REVIEW of Nanotechnology in the Oil and Gas
Industry
Chris Heflin
Rachael Houk
Michael Jones
Positives
Very good at building slides with both
pictures and words. Graphs gave good
representation of the information.
Provided multiple applications of the
technologies available and delved into
each topic.
Spoke clearly and eloquently.
Negatives
The presentation was a bit brief. They
could elaborate more on each topic rather
than moving steadily through the slides.
Group S3
REVIEW of Nanotechnology in the Oil and Gas
Industry
Michael Koetting
James Kancewick
Bradford Lamb
Overall
Recommendations
Have more information/ slides about the
topics
Better time management
More pictures
Group S5
REVIEW of Nanotechnology in the Oil and Gas
Industry
Trevor Seidel
Laura Young
Presentation Review
The presentation needed more graphics
Some of the slides were just words
The oral presenters spoke clearly and
were easy to understand
Some of the slides were a little wordy and
detracted from the oral presentation
The topic was well developed and
interesting to the audience
Presentation Review
The team presented the information well
and understood the topic thoroughly
The oral presentation was good; they
spoke clearly and slowlyeasy to
understand
Group S6
REVIEW of Nanotechnology in the Oil and Gas
Industry
John Baumhardt
Daniel Arnold
Michael Trevathan
Michael Tran
Review
Professional slide layout and, except for a couple
graphics, the graphic text sizing was easy to read.
The presentation was very professional and the
interest/passion felt for the topic was evident
throughout the presentation.
The verbal presentation was quite good overall.
There was some reading straight off of the slides,
which was distracting.
For some of the topics, we felt, while the
nanotechnology research was interesting, the
shortcomings of the current industrial methods
were not explicitly established.
Critique of Information
We are afraid the actual drive for anti-corrosion
technology was missed in the presentation.
From a natural gas background, the anti-corrosion
section doesnt address the corrosion aspect of the
natural gas industry. In the industry, corrosion refers to
the degradation and destruction of pipelines internal
walls.
Whenever untreated natural gas (from a well) travels
through a pipe line microbes accumulate throughout the
pipeline, and some produce sulfur that corrodes the
pipeline.
Nanotechnology solutions are most likely focused on
internal pipeline corrosion rather than low impact sea
water, rust, and paint degradation.
Critique (continued)
We believe that our concerns with the
presentation are due to the incorporation of too
many subtopics.
There were so many applications discussed that
a clear/in-depth analysis couldnt possibly have
been performed for the background section of
every topic.
This topics were extremely interesting and the
nanotechnology information seemed very well
researched and established.