Monitoring Injected Magnetic Nanoparticles Movement with Distributed Magnetic Sensor

Abstract

Abstract The hydrocarbon business employs nanoparticles for a number of purposes, most notably to increase oil and gas output (Sircar et.al., 2022). Nanoparticles, nanosensors, nanocomposites, coated nanoparticles, nanofluids, and many other forms of nanomaterials find usage in the petroleum industry. While this technique has found widespread application, the development of a robust approach for monitoring nanoparticles’ behavior at depth is still in its infancy. For waterflood IOR initiatives, where it is used as proactive tracer technology: 1) to distinguish injected fluid from background (Commer et. al., 2020), 2) to understand injected-water direction in reservoir (Eltoum et.al., 2021), fluid flood front, and updating/improving dynamic model, the use of nanoparticles combined with geophysical data monitoring will be a useful risk-mitigation strategy (Huang et.al., 2021).