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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 19, 2021
Filed:
May. 04, 2016
Flotek Chemistry, Llc, Houston, TX (US);
Glenn S. Penny, Houston, TX (US);
Keith Ingram Dismuke, Germantown, TN (US);
Richard Nelson Fox, Jersey Village, TX (US);
Andrei Zelenev, Spring, TX (US);
Randal M. Hill, The Woodlands, TX (US);
Flotek Chemistry, LLC, Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A well treatment additive includes a siloxane surfactant, a solvent and an aqueous phase. The solvent is preferably a terpene hydrocarbon. Also disclosed is a method for using the well treatment additive to form and enhance the properties of terpene solvent based additives useful for the treatment of oil and gas wells. Methods of using the novel well treatment additives include using the additives in a variety of well treatment processes including, but not limited to, acidizing operations, hydraulic fracturing operations, well remediation operations and water removal operations.