Breakthrough detection for lithium bearing reservoirs
AssigneeSchlumberger Technology Corporation
InventorsRod William Shampine, Roger A. Daar, JR.
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Abstract
Aspects of the present disclosure provide a method for extracting minerals from a reservoir zone. The method includes extracting a fluid from the reservoir zone, the fluid including mineral brine and the mineral brine including the minerals, extracting the minerals from the mineral brine and producing a depleted effluent, injecting one or more tracers into the depleted effluent, injecting the depleted effluent with the one or more tracers into the reservoir zone, and monitoring the fluid for the one or more tracers.
Claims20
A method for extracting minerals from a reservoir zone comprising:
- extracting a fluid from the reservoir zone, the fluid comprising mineral brine and the mineral brine comprising the minerals;
- extracting the minerals from the mineral brine and producing a depleted effluent;
- injecting one or more tracers into the depleted effluent;
- injecting the depleted effluent with the one or more tracers into the reservoir zone;
- and
- monitoring the fluid for the one or more tracers.
A method for extracting minerals from one or more extraction reservoir zones, comprising:
- extracting fluid from the one or more extraction reservoir zones, the fluid comprising mineral brine and the mineral brine comprising the minerals;
- extracting the minerals from the mineral brine and producing a depleted effluent;
- injecting one or more tracers into the depleted effluent;
- injecting the depleted effluent with the one or more tracers into one or more injection reservoir zones;
- and
- monitoring at least one of the one or more injection reservoir zones and the one or more extraction reservoir zones for the one or more tracers.
A direct mineral extraction (DME) system, comprising:
- a DME plant configured to:
- selectively extract a mineral from a fluid comprising mineral brine;
- and
- output a depleted effluent;
- a tracer injection system configured to inject one or more tracers into the depleted effluent;
- and
- a monitoring system configured to detect the one or more tracers in the fluid.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.