US 12,460,541 B2
Method of using a perforator device for the transfer of nanoparticle tracer additives into a formation and cluster level flow mapping
Talgat Shokanov, Houston, TX (US); John Oliver, Sugar Land, TX (US); and Quanxin Guo, Sugar Land, TX (US)
Assigned to QuantumPro, Inc., Houston, TX (US)
Filed by QuantumPro, Inc., Houston, TX (US)
Filed on Feb. 6, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/106,113.
Prior Publication US 2024/0263554 A1, Aug. 8, 2024
Int. Cl. E21B 43/11 (2006.01); E21B 43/117 (2006.01); E21B 47/11 (2012.01); E21B 49/08 (2006.01)
CPC E21B 47/11 (2020.05) [E21B 43/117 (2013.01); E21B 49/08 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of using a tracer additive in a wellbore, the method comprising:
using a perforator device configured with an at least one shaped charge disposed thereon;
associating a tracer additive with the at least one shaped charge;
sending the perforator device into the wellbore in manner whereby the perforator device arrives at a target formation in communication with the wellbore;
detonating the at least one shaped charge so that the tracer additive via an explosive jet stream discharged from the shaped charge is carried into contact with the target formation;
upon contacting the target formation with the tracer additive for an amount of time, returning a remnant fluid that includes at least a portion of the tracer additive to a surface;
taking a sample of the remnant fluid;
testing the sample in order to analyze the remnant fluid in order to provide a set of fluid data; and
integrating the set of fluid data with other wellbore data in order to determine a parameter associated with performance of the wellbore,
wherein the testing the sample step comprises using a fluorescence response-based analysis,
wherein the tracer additive has a first tracer composition, and
wherein the tracer additive is in a solid powder form having an average particle diameter of at least 0.01 μm to no more than 10 μm.