Nanotechnology remains a relatively new innovation for the oil and gas industry. However,
many applications have now become an integral part of some of its key technological …

Wellbore stability in shale is a recurring crisis during oil and gas well drilling. The adsorption
of water and ions from drilling fluid by shale, which causes clay swelling, is the primary …

Nanoparticles (NPs) as a nanotechnologies unit have a huge potential for improving drilling
fluids. However, the role of NPs in this field is still in its infancy and consequently has …

Research on nanotechnology application in the oil and gas industry has been growing
rapidly in the past decade, as evidenced by the number of scientific articles published in the …

The present review provides recent trend of nanotechnology in the upstream oil sector
research. The experimental developments in laboratory for possible field applications have …

Viscosity of nanofluids can significantly affect pum** power, pressure drop, workability of
the nanofluid as well as its convective heat transfer coefficient. Experimental measurements …

Due to the exclusive size effect, magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs) exhibit unique chemical,
mechanical and considerably different magnetic properties compared with conventional …

Nanomaterials are engineered materials with at least one dimension in the range of 1–100
nm. Nanofluids—nanoscale colloidal suspensions containing various nanomaterials—have …

Indubitably, drilling fluid is the most crucial component of drilling operations. With the current
exploration of hydrocarbons in deep water horizons, unconventional formations, and …

Production from unconventional hydrocarbon resources, such as shale gas, shale oil,
deepwater and arctic reservoirs requires advanced drilling and extraction technologies …