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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 27, 2021
Filed:
Apr. 04, 2017
Chevron U.s.a. Inc., San Ramon, CA (US);
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Lc / Ip, Los Alamos, NM (US);
Harvey E. Goodman, Houston, TX (US);
Robert Clifford Roback, Los Alamos, NM (US);
Robert D. Gilbertson, Los Alamos, NM (US);
Hakim Boukhalfa, Santa Fe, NM (US);
Scott W. Imbus, Houston, TX (US);
CHEVRON U.S.A. INC., San Ramon, CA (US);
Abstract
Embodiments of the disclosure include swellable smart gel sealants. In certain embodiments, the smart gel sealants reversibly swell when exposed to a certain trigger, such as temperature or pH. In specific embodiments, the smart gel is disposed within voids in a well and triggered to swell in order to seal the voids. One application of the smart gel sealant is to seal the casing of a well against the leakage of gas, such as CO.