MOLECULAR TRACERS AND MODIFIED PROPPANTS FOR MONITORING UNDERGROUND FLUID FLOWS
| Patent Number: | 10,871,066 |
| Issued: | 12/22/2020 |
| Official Filing: | View the Complete Patent |
| Abstract: | The present invention relates to modified proppants and methods of using the modified proppants that use metal ligand tracers to characterize subterranean fluid flow. The metal and ligands are best chosen to be a strongly-coordinating, chelating ligand with a functional group for the chosen flow environment. |
| Application Number: | 937,650/15 |
| Government Interests: | STATEMENT OF GOVERNMENT INTEREST This invention was made with Government support under Contract No. DE-NA0003525 awarded by the United States Department of Energy/National Nuclear Security Administration. The Government has certain rights in the invention. |