Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.

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Melissa C Weston

Jeremy A Holtsclaw

Thomas Donovan Welton

Paul Joseph Jones

Dipti Singh

Glenn S Penny

Tatyana V Khamatnurova

David Michael Loveless

Ingrid Fritsch

Nathan Carl Schultheiss

Joshua Daniel Hutcheson

Sai Kumar

Christena K Nash

Kartik Balachandran

Nathan Schultheiss

Foysal Z Khan

Robert Douglas Hillard

Sandra Prieto

Preston G Scrape

Timothy Muldoon

Adair Claycomb

Matthew D Gerner

Amy Powless

Methods and systems for removing a gel from wellbore equipment. An example method includes introducing a cleaning fluid into the wellbore equipment comprising the gel disposed therein or thereon. The cleaning fluid includes a brine having a total dissolved solids concentration of between about 30K ppm to about 300K ppm. The method further includes contacting the gel with the cleaning fluid in the wellbore equipment, and removing the gel and the cleaning fluid from the wellbore equipment.

Removal of gels formed from liquid friction-reducing fluids

A magnetohydrodynamic microfluidic system and a method of pumping a fluid using a magnetohydrodynamic system are disclosed. The method includes applying at least one of an electric current and an electric voltage to a first modified electrode and a second electrode to generate an ionic current between the first modified electrode and the second electrode and to cause a current carrying species to move to or from the modified electrode, applying a magnetic field perpendicular to an ionic current vector, the magnetic field and the ionic current combining to induce flow of the fluid in a direction perpendicular to the magnetic field and the ionic current vector, and maintaining fluid flow by recharging the modified electrode.

Magnetohydrodynamic microfluidic systems including modified electrodes and methods of using the same

Embodiments including methods comprising providing a treatment fluid comprising a first aqueous base fluid and a polymeric gelling agent, wherein the treatment fluid comprises a first surface tension; introducing a fluid mobility modifier into the treatment fluid, wherein the fluid mobility modifier comprises: a first surfactant selected from the group consisting of a non-ionic surfactant; a cationic surfactant; and any combination thereof, and a solvent-surfactant blend comprising a second aqueous base fluid, a second surfactant, a solvent, and a co-solvent, wherein the ratio of the first surfactant to the solvent-surfactant blend is in the range of between about 1:5 to about 5:1, wherein the fluid mobility modifier causes the treatment fluid to adopt a second surface tension that is less than the first surface tension; and introducing the treatment fluid into a subterranean formation.

Fluid mobility modifiers for increased production in subterranean formations

The present invention relates to environmentally friendly delayed crosslinking complexes that are useful in subterranean treatment fluids. One embodiment of the present invention provides a method of providing a treatment fluid having a first viscosity and includes: an aqueous base fluid, a viscosifying agent, a delayed crosslinking complex having: a metal and a ligand, the ligand having at least one hydroxyl group and at least one carboxylic acid group; and placing the treatment fluid in a subterranean formation. In some embodiments, the delayed crosslinking complex is compliant and/or the viscosifying agent is compliant.

Method for delayedly crosslinking environmentally friendly fluids

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Duncan, OK, United States of America

Melissa C Weston