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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 12, 2019

Filed:

Sep. 19, 2013
Applicant:

Halliburton Energy Services, Inc., Houston, TX (US);

Inventors:
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C09K 8/68 (2006.01); C09K 8/52 (2006.01); C09K 8/88 (2006.01); C09K 8/90 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C09K 8/685 (2013.01); C09K 8/52 (2013.01); C09K 8/887 (2013.01); C09K 8/90 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method comprises obtaining or providing a treatment fluid comprising a gellable agent; an aqueous carrier fluid; at least one polymer comprising one or more ortho-dioxy arylene units; a crosslinking agent; and placing the treatment fluid in a subterranean formation. In some embodiments, the aqueous carrier fluid comprises produced and/or flowback water. In some embodiments, the aqueous carrier fluid comprises high total dissolved solids, including multivalent salts or both monovalent and multivalent salts.


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