Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.

Atlantic Richfield Company

Halliburton Company

Other

Rickey Lynn Morgan

William J Caveny

Craig Wayne Roddy

Ronnie Glen Morgan

D Chad Brenneis

Jiten Chatterji

James Robert Benkley

Jeffery Dwane Karcher

B Raghava Reddy

Ronney R Koch

Johnny W Johnson

Crystal L Keys

Krishna M Ravi

Melissa G Allin

Lance Everett Brothers

Harold Grayson Walters

Dennis Willie Gray

Lewis R Norman

Karen Luke

Michael J Szymanski

Chad Brenneis

Mark R Savery

Richard F Vargo, Jr

John Gilbert Heaton

Garland W Davis

Paul Lewis Mendenall

Sudhir Mehta

Robert Massingill

Ron Morgan

Preston DePlacido

Ying Xu

David L Bolado

Larry Steven Eoff

Samuel Jason Lewis

Ashok K Santra

David D Onan

Sam Jason Lewis

Christopher Lynn Gordon

James B Terry

James W Estep

Sears T Dealy

David B Allison

Martin Dale Paulk

E Alan Coats

Richard R Jones

Danny K Mints

Carey John Naquin

Joseph K Maxson

Patrick Emmett Laursen

Ron James Crook

Michael R Spaulding

James A McGough

Richard C Jones

Martin Paulk

Preston Deplacido

Patrick Laursen

Engineering bead slurries may be useful in producing lightweight cement slurries for use in subterranean cementing operations. For example, a method may include engineering a bead slurry to have a shelf-life of about 1 month or greater by performing at least one of (1) calculating the shelf-life for the bead slurry and (2) calculating a minimum yield point required to prevent a lightweight bead of the bead slurry from floating or settling in the bead slurry; wherein the bead slurry comprises a gelled base fluid and a plurality of lightweight beads having a specific gravity of about 0.8 or less; producing the bead slurry; mixing the bead slurry and a cement slurry to yield a lightweight cement slurry; introducing the lightweight cement slurry into a wellbore penetrating a subterranean formation; and allowing the lightweight cement slurry to set therein.

Engineered bead slurries for use in lightweight cement slurries and methods relating thereto

Disclosed are spacer fluids and methods of use in subterranean formations. Embodiments may include use of consolidating spacer fluids in displacement of drilling fluids from a well bore annulus.

Consolidating spacer fluids and methods of use

Swellable spacer fluids can be useful in subterranean operations for sealing an annular space in a well bore, such as the annular space between a tubular and the subterranean formation or between two concentric tubulars, or for forming a seal inside a well bore in the subterranean formation. One embodiment of such methods involves providing a swellable fluid, wherein the swellable fluid comprises: an aqueous fluid, a crosslinking agent, and at least a plurality of swellable particles; and placing the swellable fluid in a subterranean formation, and allowing the spacer fluid to form a semi-solid crosslinked gel structure in the subterranean formation.

Swellable spacer fluids and associated methods

Methods and compositions are provided that relate to sealant compositions comprising cement kiln dust, tire-rubber particles, and water. An embodiment discloses a method comprising: providing a sealant composition comprising cement kiln dust, tire-rubber particles, and water; and allowing the sealant composition to set to form a hardened mass.

Sealant compositions comprising cement kiln dust and tire-rubber particles and method of use

Optically interacting electromagnetic radiation with a flowing atmospheric air composition and optically interacting the electromagnetic radiation with an integrated computational element ('ICE'), the ICE being configured to analyze for a contaminant in the flowing atmospheric air. A detector receives the electromagnetic radiation that has optically interacted with the flowing atmospheric air and the ICE and generates an output signal corresponding to a characteristic of the contaminant in the flowing atmospheric air.

Systems and methods for analyzing contaminants in flowing atmospheric air

Methods and compositions are provided that relate to weighted elastomers. The weighted elastomers may comprise an elastomer and a weighting agent attached to an outer surface of the elastomer. An embodiment includes a weighted elastomer comprising an elastomer, and a weighting agent attached to an outer surface of the elastomer. The weighted elastomer may have a specific gravity of at least about 1.1.

Weighted elastomers, cement compositions comprising weighted elastomers, and methods of use

Methods and compositions are provided that relate to weighted elastomers. The weighted elastomers may comprise an elastomer and a weighting agent attached to an outer surface of the elastomer. An embodiment includes a method comprising providing a fluid that comprises a weighted elastomer, wherein the weighted elastomer comprises an elastomer and a weighting agent attached to an outer surface of the elastomer; and introducing the fluid into a subterranean formation.

The present invention relates to acid-soluble cement compositions that comprise cement kiln dust ('CKD') and/or a natural pozzolan and associated methods of use. An embodiment includes a method of cementing comprising: placing an acid-soluble cement composition in a subterranean formation, wherein the acid-soluble cement composition comprises a hydraulic cement, a component selected from the group consisting of CKD, pumicite, and a combination thereof, and water; allowing the acid-soluble cement composition to set; and contacting the set acid-soluble cement composition with an acid to dissolve the set acid-soluble cement composition.

Acid-soluble cement compositions comprising cement kiln dust and/or a natural pozzolan and methods of use

Methods and compositions are provided that relate to weighted elastomers. The weighted elastomers may comprise an elastomer and a weighting agent attached to an outer surface of the elastomer. An embodiment includes a method of cementing that comprises providing a cement composition containing cement, water, and a weighted elastomer. In addition, the cement composition may be introduced into a subterranean formation and allowed to set therein.

A composition comprises: a treatment fluid comprising a lost-circulation material, wherein the lost-circulation material comprises a ceramic, and wherein the lost-circulation material has a median particle size in the range from about 0.001 millimeters to about 25.4 millimeters. According to another embodiment, a composition comprises: the treatment fluid comprising a lost-circulation material, wherein the lost-circulation material comprises a ceramic, and wherein the median particle size and the concentration of the lost-circulation material is selected such that the treatment fluid has a sealing pressure of at least 50 psi (0.3 MPa). A method of eliminating or reducing lost circulation from a well comprises: introducing the treatment fluid into at least a portion of the well.

Lost-circulation material made from a recycled ceramic

A method of servicing a wellbore in contact with a subterranean formation, comprising placing into a wellbore a composition comprising a calcium aluminate cement and a polyvalent cation-containing compound, and allowing the composition to set. A method of increasing the thickening time of a calcium aluminate cement comprising contacting the calcium aluminate cement with a polyvalent cation-containing compound. A method of adjusting the thickening time of a calcium aluminate cement comprising contacting the calcium aluminate cement with a polyvalent cation-containing compound and at least one other set modifier.

Wellbore servicing compositions and methods of using same

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