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- Patent Title: Increasing formation strength through the use of temperature and temperature coupled particulate to increase near borehole hoop stress and fracture gradients
- Patent Title (中): 通过使用温度和温度耦合的颗粒来增加地层强度,以增加近井眼环压应力和断裂梯度
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Application No.: US14175603Application Date: 2014-02-07
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Publication No.: US09580967B2Publication Date: 2017-02-28
- Inventor: Robert Loran Galey , Lisa Shave Grant , Jeffrey Robert Scheibal , James Brett Wieseneck , Arthur Herman Hale , Mary Elizabeth Egan , Nor Janiah Japar , Arno Laurentius Michael Van Den Haak
- Applicant: SHELL OIL COMPANY
- Applicant Address: US TX Houston
- Assignee: SHELL OIL COMPANY
- Current Assignee: SHELL OIL COMPANY
- Current Assignee Address: US TX Houston
- Main IPC: E21B36/00
- IPC: E21B36/00 ; E21B7/14 ; E21B33/13 ; E21B43/10

Abstract:
A method of increasing near-wellbore rock strength so as to mitigate or remediate lost circulation events through increased hoop stress in the near-wellbore in a subsurface formation comprises a) cooling a near-wellbore region of the formation, b) allowing a lost circulation material to enter the cooled near-wellbore region; and c) heating the near-wellbore region.
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