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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 17, 2022
Filed:
May. 23, 2019
Multi-chem Group, Llc, Houston, TX (US);
Loan Vo, Houston, TX (US);
Deepak S. Monteiro, Houston, TX (US);
Qiang Lan, The Woodlands, TX (US);
Philippe Prince, Pearland, TX (US);
Halliburton Energy Services, Inc., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
Dual cation hydrate inhibitor compositions and methods of using such compositions to, for example, inhibit the formation of gas hydrate agglomerates are provided. In some embodiments, such methods include introducing a hydrate inhibitor composition into a fluid, wherein the hydrate inhibitor composition includes at least one compound having the structural formula: wherein each of R, R, and Ris independently a Cto Chydrocarbon chain, wherein Ris selected from the group consisting of hydrogen and any Cto Chydrocarbon chain, wherein each of Rand Ris independently selected from the group consisting of hydrogen and a Cto Chydrocarbon chain, wherein Xand Yare counter anions, and wherein each of a and b is independently an integer from 1 to 10.