Oceanit’s Houston office is the home of production scale-up and manufacturing for Scanite smart sensing cement. Scanite is created in a continuous production process, utilizing Oceanit’s uniform particle coating process.
Scanite: the future of digital well integrity monitoring
Scanite is a smart, acoustically-responsive cement technology that reduces cement job uncertainty with advanced diagnostic capabilities. Scanite represents a game-changer for the unified digital oil field and monitoring of well integrity.
Management
Scanite technology adds remarkable risk-reduction value by directly allowing operators to manage critical formation issues across zones.
Insight
Provides invaluable well integrity data by returning accurate monitoring and detection of cement stresses and functions with existing acoustic logging tools.
Intelligence
Immediate analysis and notification of cement integrity and bonding, contamination of placed cement, and mechanical stresses on the well.
A Game Changer
Delivering critical well integrity information not possible until now.
The Challenge
Improved sensing and data are required to realize the “Unified Digital Oil Field” of the future, but real-time well integrity information is not currently available today. Scanite changes this with, delivering easily read data using existing acoustic logging tools.
Deployment
Determine the integrity, contamination, and mechanical loading on the cement: improved determination of cement placement and providing discrimination between fluids and lightweight cement.
Production & Manufacturing
Oceanit's Houston facilities are equipped to produce pilot-scale volumes of Scanite close to our partners. This scale-up and manufacturing office is Oceanit's dedicated site for Energy sector projects and work, moving products from Mind to Market
Scanite Development
Scanite has undergone extensive laboratory modeling and simulation, vibration testing, and ultrasonic testing.
Acoustic Modeling
Scanite underwent extensive acoustic modeling and simulation in Oceanit's acoustic metamaterial labs.
Ultrasonic Testing
Laboratory vibration testing and ultrasonic testing was performed on several form factors of Scanite smart sensing cement.
Field Trials
Scanite was tested on a 42’ long cemented pipe with engineered voids using a monopole, full waveform triple sonic logging tool.
The Scanite Team
Oceanit's Scanite team are dedicated to working with our partners in the Energy Sector.
Vinod Veedu
Director of Strategic InitiativesVinod leads Oceanit's Houston office. He is an active researcher of nanocomposite materials, focused primarily on developing multifunctional nanostructures and hybrid platforms for diverse industry applications.
Jacob Pollock
Senior Scientist, Materials Technical LeadDr. Pollock is Oceanit’s Materials team Technical Lead. He has worked to produce advanced materials with applications ranging from medical devices to ship and building construction. He developed and commercialized innovative technologies based on nanoscale and polymeric materials across a range of diverse applications.
Sumil Thapa
Materials EngineerSumil leads Oceanit efforts for managed design and scale up of manufacturing processes for materials products in Houston. He has a background in Bio engineering and Chemical engineering and often heads field deployments for pilot scale jobs.
Questions about Scanite
Below is a list of frequently asked questions to help you understand how this works.
1. How can we get started?
Oceanit is continuing to refine the Scanite production process scale-up while continuing work on metamaterial and detector optimization. We are seeking partnerships and field trials. Get in touch if you are a O&G service company, operate existing wells or fields, are an acoustic tool developer, or have other target applications.
2. How does Scanite work?
When exposed to an acoustic frequency, Scanite exhibits a frequency response band gap behavior. Scanite is easily ‘read’ using existing acoustic logging tools. The band gap shift indicates mechanical loading level and possible absence of voids in the cement.
3. How can Scanite reduce reservoir uncertainty?
Enhanced detection of:
- Zonal isolation – safety and efficiency
- Channeling, micro-annulus, fractures
- Lightweight and foam cements
- Radial mapping, multi-annular inspection, P&A
- Geo-mechanical and well mechanics information
- Stress detection, pressure monitoring in cement
4. How does Scanite return well integrity intelligence?
Wireline logging tools:
- Monopole
- Dipole
- Array
- Scanning
- Ultrasonic
- Deep shear wave
- EMAT
Other:
- Fiber-optic DAS
- Smart balls/probes
5. What are some key findings on Scanite?
- Oceanit’s smart sensing cement provides improved cement-void contrast and stress detection.
- acoustic band gap effect and load dependence were demonstrated in lab, sub-scale, and pilot field studies
- Scanite has the potential to enhance well integrity diagnostics and provide insight into subsurface mechanics.
Questions?
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About Oceanit
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