Fritz Industries, Inc.

Fmc Corporation

Charles R George

Steven B Laramay

Rebecca G Udarbe

Henry A Pfeffer

Kim Hancock-Grossi

An aqueous fluid having a viscosity greater than the viscosity of water is contacted with a water soluble material for a time and at a temperature sufficient to reduce the viscosity of the aqueous fluid to a value which is less than about 10 percent of the initial viscosity of the aqueous fluid. The water soluble material is an alkali metal peroxide or a combination of an alkali metal peroxide and a transition metal-containing compound.

Reducing the viscosity of an aqueous fluid

This invention provides a composition for and a method of using the composition to reduce the loss of liquid from aqueous compositions employed while rotary drilling. The composition of this invention comprises a polymeric material selected from homopolymers, random copolymers and random terpolymers, each of which includes a vinylamide morpholine derivative in the recipe for making the polymeric material.

Method of and additive for controlling fluid loss from a drilling fluid

This invention discloses a polymer composition, a cement slurry containing said polymer composition and a method of using the cement slurry to cement a borehole penetrating a subsurface earth formation wherein the polymer composition is made by polymerizing a vinylamide morpholine derivative with a styrene sulfonic acid salt in the presence of a humate. The polymer composition operates to reduce fluid loss from the cement slurry to the subsurface formation.

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Mexquite, TX, United States of America

Charles R George