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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 27, 2021
Filed:
Jan. 12, 2018
Applicant:
Baker Hughes, Llc, Houston, TX (US);
Inventors:
D. V. Satyanarayana Gupta, The Woodlands, TX (US);
Harold Dean Brannon, Magnolia, TX (US);
Assignee:
Baker Hughes, LLC, Houston, TX (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
E21B 47/00 (2012.01); E21B 47/11 (2012.01); C09K 8/03 (2006.01); C09K 8/12 (2006.01); C09K 8/62 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
E21B 47/00 (2013.01); C09K 8/03 (2013.01); C09K 8/62 (2013.01); E21B 47/11 (2020.05); C09K 2208/30 (2013.01);
Abstract
Fluids produced from a fractured subterranean formation may be monitored by pumping into the well a fracturing fluid which contains a tracer. The method may be used to monitor produced hydrocarbons as well as produced water. The tracer may also be used in a sand control, frac pack or acid fracturing operation. The tracer is a component of a composite where it may be immobilized within a matrix (such as an emulsion) or porous particulate, onto a support or compressed with a binder into a solid particulate. The tracer may be slowly released from the composite.