Abstract:
Methods of using nanohybrid-containing fluids in a well are provided. The methods include the steps of: (a) forming or providing a well fluid comprising a nanohybrid; and (b) introducing the well fluid into a well. The methods can be used in various applications, such as in drilling, completion, or intervention operations.
Abstract:
A method of servicing a wellbore, comprising placing a wellbore servicing fluid comprising a transiently functional additive into a wellbore, wherein the transiently functional additive is a Diels-Alder reaction product. A method of servicing a wellbore comprising placing into a wellbore a wellbore servicing fluid comprising the reaction product of furan and maleimide. A consolidation fluid comprising a resin and the reaction product of furan and maleimide.
Abstract:
A method for hydraulic fracturing of a subterranean formation includes injecting an oil-based fracturing fluid into the subterranean formation through a well. The method also includes injecting a second fracturing fluid, for example a water-based fracturing fluid, into the subterranean formation through the well after completion of the injection of the oil-based fracturing fluid.
Abstract:
Fluid loss materials including carboxymethylcellulose and zirconium-based crosslinkers may be employed as fluid loss materials in methods of treating subterranean formations. One method includes providing a treatment fluid including carboxymethylcellulose (CMC) and a crosslinker including zirconium, wherein the carboxymethylcellulose has a degree of substitution in a range of from about 0.5 to about 2.5, wherein the crosslinker including zirconium includes one selected from the group consisting of ammonium zirconium fluoride, zirconium 2-ethylhexanoate, zirconium acetate, zirconium neodecanoate, zirconium acetylacetonate, tetrakis(triethanolamine) zirconate, zirconium carbonate, ammonium zirconium carbonate, zirconyl ammonium carbonate, zirconium complex of hydroxyethyl glycine, zirconium malonate, zirconium propionate, zirconium lactate, zirconium acetate lactate, and zirconium tartrate, and placing the treatment fluid in a subterranean formation, wherein the treatment fluid controls fluid loss in a permeable portion of the subterranean formation penetrated by a wellbore.
Abstract:
A method of servicing a wellbore in a subterranean formation comprising preparing a wellbore servicing fluid comprising a snake-in-cage composition; and placing the wellbore servicing fluid into a wellbore wherein the snake dissociates from the cage and enters one or more permeable zones within the wellbore. A wellbore treatment composition comprising a snake disposed within a cage wherein the cage comprises a crosslinked polymer.
Abstract:
A subterranean zone surrounding a well bore is fractured with a fracturing fluid. Micro proppant of 200 mesh or smaller is pumped into far field fractures of the subterranean zone and props the far field fractures open.
Abstract:
The present invention involves alewives of highly aligned single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWNT), process for making the same and compositions thereof. The present invention provides a method for effectively making carbon alewives, which are discrete, acicular-shaped aggregates of aligned single-wall carbon nanotubes and resemble the Atlantic fish of the same name. Single-wall carbon nanotube alewives can be conveniently dispersed in materials such as polymers, ceramics, metals, metal oxides and liquids. The process for preparing the alewives comprises mixing single-wall carbon nanotubes with 100% sulfuric acid or a superacid, heating and stirring, and slowly introducing water into the single-wall carbon nanotube/acid mixture to form the alewives. The alewives can be recovered, washed and dried. The properties of the single-wall carbon nanotubes are retained in the alewives.
Abstract:
The present invention is directed to the creation of macroscopic materials and objects comprising aligned nanotube segments. The invention entails aligning single-wall carbon nanotube (SWNT) segments that are suspended in a fluid medium and then removing the aligned segments from suspension in a way that macroscopic, ordered assemblies of SWNT are formed. The invention is further directed to controlling the natural proclivity of nanotube segments to self assemble into ordered structures by modifying the environment of the nanotubes and the history of that environment prior to and during the process. The materials and objects are “macroscopic” in that they are large enough to be seen without the aid of a microscope or of the dimensions of such objects. These macroscopic, ordered SWNT materials and objects have the remarkable physical, electrical, and chemical properties that SWNT exhibit on the microscopic scale because they are comprised nanotubes, each of which is aligned in the same direction and in contact with its nearest neighbors. An ordered assembly of closest SWNT also serves as a template for growth of more and larger ordered assemblies. An ordered assembly further serves as a foundation for post processing treatments that modify the assembly internally to specifically enhance selected material properties such as shear strength, tensile strength, compressive strength, toughness, electrical conductivity, and thermal conductivity.
Abstract:
A composition of a treatment fluid and method for treating a zone of well. In an embodiment, the composition includes at least: (i) an aqueous phase; (ii) at least 5 ppm iron ion in the aqueous phase; (iii) a source of at least 5 ppm iodide ion to be dissolved in the aqueous phase; (iv) a water-soluble viscosity-increasing agent dissolved in the aqueous phase; and (v) a source of an oxidative breaker to be dissolved in the aqueous phase. In an embodiment, a method of treating a zone of a subterranean formation of a well includes at least the steps of: (a) forming a treatment fluid according to the composition; and (b) introducing the treatment fluid into the zone.
Abstract:
Treatment of a subterranean formation can be conducted with viscosified treatment fluids that comprise a multifunctional boronic acid crosslinking agent. Methods for treating a subterranean formation can comprise providing a treatment fluid that comprises an aqueous base fluid, a gelling agent, and a multifunctional boronic acid crosslinking agent that comprises a copolymer comprising at least one boronic acid monomer unit and at least one water-soluble monomer unit; and introducing the treatment fluid into a subterranean formation.