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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 12, 2019
Filed:
Jun. 06, 2017
Lubrizol Oilfield Solutions, Inc., Wickliffe, OH (US);
Raynard Veldman, Houston, TX (US);
Sarkis R. Kakadjian, Houston, TX (US);
Frank Zamora, Houston, TX (US);
The Lubrizol Corporation, Wickliffe, OH (US);
Abstract
Methods of fracturing a formation including using a fracturing fluid including an aggregating composition including heterocyclic aromatic amines, substituted heterocyclic aromatic amines, poly vinyl heterocyclic aromatic amines, co-polymers of vinyl heterocyclic aromatic amine and non amine polymerizable monomers (ethylenically unsaturated mononers and diene monomers), or mixtures or combinations thereof in the absence of phosphate esters or amine-phosphate reaction products during fracturing operations to alter self-aggregating properties and/or aggregation propensities of the particles, surfaces, and/or materials in or entrained in the fluid.