Schlumberger Technology Corporation

Vladimir Sergeevich Bugrin

Diankui Fu

Elena Nikolaevna Tarasova

Dmitry Ivanovich Potapenko

Vadim Kamil'evich Khlestkin

A method of treating a geologic formation including injecting into a wellbore a high viscosity composition which comprises a base fluid wherein the base fluid has an initial viscosity of 100 cP or greater and which exhibits a decrease in viscosity upon exposure to a viscosity reducing agent, and fibers wherein the fibers exhibit flocking upon a decrease in the viscosity of the base fluid, and injecting into the wellbore a viscosity reducing agent wherein the viscosity reducing agent is injected into the wellbore with or separately from the high viscosity composition is provided.

Method to enhance fiber bridging

Methods for controlling fluid flow through one or more pathways in one or more rock formations penetrated by a borehole in a subterranean well, comprise injecting into or adjacent to the formation a treatment fluid comprising at least one polysaccharide polymer; at least one crosslinker; and fibers, or a mixture of fibers and particles. The fluids are pumped into the well through a tubular body that comprises at least one flow restriction. Shearing of the treatment fluid as it passes through the flow restriction causes the viscosity to decrease, allowing the fibers to form masses that migrate to formation-rock openings such as pores, cracks, fissures and vugs. As a result, the fibrous masses are useful for curing lost circulation, providing fluid-loss control and as diverting agents.

Growing community of inventors

Moscow, Russia

Vladimir Sergeevich Bugrin