Uti Limited Partnership

Dorf Ketal Chemicals Fze

Elsayed Abdelfatah

Steven Bryant

Clay Purdy

Markus Weissenberger

Stig Magnor Nordaa

The present invention discloses a novel aqueous composition for use in removing petroleum-contaminated barium sulfate scale from a surface contaminated with such, said composition comprising: a chelating agent and a counterion component selected from the group consisting of: LiDTPA; NaDTPA; KDTPA; CsDTPA; NaEDTA; KEDTA; TEAHDTPA; and TBAHDTPA; a scale removal enhancer; a non-ionic surfactant; and a hydrotrope. There is also disclosed methods to use such compositions.

Composition useful in sulfate scale removal

Methods are disclosed for emplacing a gel-form material in a porous subterranean formation, such as a hydrocarbon reservoir. The material is formed by admixing solid nanoparticles with gelation supporting amounts of surfactants or ionic species, such as ionic species of the kind that form ionic liquids. The nanoparticle to ion ratio may be selected, in combination with selecting the components of the gel-form material, so that the rheological and gelation properties of the gel-form material are adapted for a particular use, for example forming a fluid flow barrier in a reservoir.

Reservoir emplacement of rheologically tuned and timed nanoparticle emulsions

Methods are disclosed for dispersing nanoparticles in solvents, involving the use of a cationic species and an anionic species, where at least one of the ionic species is soluble in the nonpolar solvent and the other ionic species has a relatively strong affinity for the surface of the nanoparticles. The cationic species and the anionic species together form a cluster of ion pairs shielding the nanoparticles and enhancing their dispersibility in the nonpolar solvent.

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