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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 02, 2019
Filed:
Mar. 12, 2015
Applicant:
M-i L.l.c., Houston, TX (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
M-I L.L.C., Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
E21B 21/00 (2006.01); E21B 43/00 (2006.01); C09K 8/52 (2006.01); C09K 8/36 (2006.01); E21B 43/04 (2006.01); E21B 43/08 (2006.01); E21B 7/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C09K 8/52 (2013.01); C09K 8/36 (2013.01); E21B 7/00 (2013.01); E21B 21/00 (2013.01); E21B 43/04 (2013.01); E21B 43/08 (2013.01); E21B 43/088 (2013.01); Y10S 507/925 (2013.01);
Abstract
In a method of gravel packing a wellbore in a subterranean formation, the wellbore comprising a cased section and an uncased section, the method may include pumping into the wellbore a gravel pack composition comprising gravel and a carrier fluid comprising an invert emulsion fluid, where the invert emulsion fluid may comprise: an oleaginous external phase; a non-oleaginous internal phase, wherein a ratio of the oleaginous external phase and non-oleaginous internal phase is less than 50:50 and an emulsifier stabilizing the oleaginous external phase and the non-oleaginous internal phase.