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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 22, 2022
Filed:
Dec. 11, 2018
Halliburton Energy Services, Inc., Houston, TX (US);
Nivika Rajendra Gupta, Maharastra, IN;
Bhau Anantha Kuchik, Maharastra, IN;
Jay Deville, Spring, TX (US);
Halliburton Energy Services, Inc., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
Compositions and methods for use in subterranean treatment fluids involving thermoassociative polymers are provided. In some embodiments, the methods include providing a treatment fluid that includes an aqueous base fluid, one or more thermoassociative polymers that include a water soluble polymeric backbone having one or more hydrophobic moieties attached to the polymer backbone, wherein the thermoassociative polymer exhibits thermoassociation at a first temperature T, and one or more tuning additives that changes the temperature at which at least one of the thermoassociative polymers exhibits thermoassociation from Tto a second temperature T'; and introducing the treatment fluid into a portion of a subterranean formation.