"A material that reads its environment and responds accordingly."
In unconventional plays, the rock that traps the oil and the fractures meant to release it both work against recovery. Smart Proppant attacks all three failure modes at once.
Permeability near 0.05 mD means oil is locked in pore space that conventional injection simply cannot sweep.
Injected CO₂ races through natural fractures and breaks through, leaving the matrix untouched. Adding fractures cut recovery by 53%.
Once gas is in the formation, operators lose the ability to steer where it goes or how long it stays productive.
Across each huff-and-puff cycle, the nanoparticle system activates in sequence, stabilizing the foam, sealing thief fractures, and redirecting CO₂ into fresh rock.
Mg-FANPs delivered in supercritical CO₂ foam enter the fracture network.
Nanoparticles bridge foam lamellae, raising effective viscosity and resisting breakthrough.
The material reacts to reservoir chemistry: pH, pressure, and carbonate conditions.
Selective mobility control reduces flow through thief fractures and redirects pressure into the matrix.
CO₂ sweeps fresh rock cycle after cycle, with measurable incremental oil.
Modeled and simulation-validated in CMG under Middle Bakken conditions.
Smart Proppant presents a reactive nanomaterial platformed and engineered from fly ash and deployed in CO₂ foam to enhance oil recovery in the tight rock oil bearing matrix.
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