Great Lakes Chemical Corporation

Other

Bj Services Company, U.s.a.

Robert L Horton

Daniel Patrick Vollmer

Paul H Javora

James A Brandt

This invention relates to a wellbore treatment fluid and a method of enhancing wellbore treatment fluids to increase efficiency and productivity of wells. More specifically this invention provides methods for enhancing the thermal stability of wellbore treatment fluids such as drill-in, completion, work-over, packer, well treating, testing, spacer, or hole abandonment fluids. The methods include providing a wellbore treatment fluid that includes a polyol selected from glycerol, glycols and polyglycols as well as a polysaccharide viscosifier. The fluid prepared for use in this invention find particularly advantageous use as a completion fluid and as a fluid loss pill. However, the fluid can include a wide variety of additional agents to modify the physical and chemical properties of the wellbore treatment fluid.

Wellbore treatment and completion fluids and methods of using the same

Methods for enhancing wellbore treatment fluids

This invention relates to novel compositions and methods whereby a carboxylate based brine solution is used in drilling and/or well bore treating operations to inhibit corrosion of fluid handling equipment. In one embodiment of the invention the carboxylate based brine solution consists of a carboxylate salt dissolved in water. This brine solution is used to prepare halide-free drilling fluids. Use of halide-free drilling fluids inhibits corrosion stainless steel surfaces of fluid handling equipment. In an alternative embodiment of the present invention a mixed salt brine containing a carboxylate salt and a halide salt is provided for use in a drilling and/or well bore treating operations.

Carboxylate-based well bore treatment fluids

Advantageous aqueous mixed salt systems viscosified with water-soluble or water-dispersable polymers which are superior to corresponding single salt systems of similar densities are provided. The mixed salt systems comprise water; a water-soluble or water-dispersable polymer capable of viscosifying an aqueous medium; one or more cations including a member selected from the group consisting of lithium, sodium, potassium, cesium, magnesium, calcium, zinc, or mixtures thereof; and one or more anions including a member selected from the group consisting of chloride, bromide, iodide, formate, nitrate, acetate, cyanate, thiocyanate, a zinc complex anion or mixtures thereof; there being present either at least two cations or at least two anions. Inventive viscosified mixed salt systems display--under such stressing factors as aging, heat, mechanical agitation, and shear--greater stability compared to the single salt systems of similar densities. Also provided are methods for making viscosified mixed salt systems and methods for advantageously using the same as drilling, drill-in, completion, hydraulic fracturing, work-over, packer, well treating, testing, spacer, or hole abandonment fluids.

High density, viscosified, aqueous compositions having superior

The present invention provides compositions useful for viscosifying aqueous fluids, methods for making them and methods for using them. In one aspect of the invention, inventive compositions comprise a prehydrating alcohol having at least two hydroxyl groups and having a molecular weight of from about 60 to about 600; an inorganic salt; and a polymer. In a preferred aspect of the invention, the viscosifier composition additionally comprises a solvent having a molecular weight of from about 75 to about 1000. According to another aspect of the invention, inventive compositions comprise a prehydrating alcohol; an inorganic salt; and a polymer; and the composition is essentially free from water. Inventive compositions find advantageous use in viscosifying fluids utilized in subterranean drilling activities such as, for example, drilling, drill-in, completion, hydraulic fracturing, work-over, packer, well treating, testing, spacer, or hole abandonment fluids.

Viscosification of high density brines

A continuous method of in situ steam generation for steamflooding which comprises injecting a mixture of hydrocarbons to serve as fuel for in situ combustion and water to be converted into steam by the hot formation into an upper zone of the formation, while simultaneously injecting into the lower zone an oxidant causing at least a portion of the oxidant to contact and combust with the injected hydrocarbons.

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Lafayette, LA, United States of America

Robert L Horton