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Date of Patent:
Oct. 03, 2023

Filed:

Sep. 30, 2022
Applicant:

Halliburton Energy Services, Inc., Houston, TX (US);

Inventors:

Mahesh Vijay Biyani, Pune, IN;

Sunita S. Kadam, Pune, IN;

Sohini Bose, Houston, TX (US);

Alexandra Clare Morrison, Houston, TX (US);

Sudarshana Mukherjee, Pune, IN;

Hui Zhou, Houston, TX (US);

Assignee:
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
E21B 43/17 (2006.01); C09K 8/80 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
E21B 43/17 (2013.01); C09K 8/80 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method of drilling a wellbore penetrating a subterranean formation, the method includes: during drilling operations, circulating in the wellbore a first aqueous drilling fluid composition including a modified starch and a calcium carbonate wherein the calcium carbonate has a first predetermined particle size; during the circulating, measuring one or more parameters to create a set of measured parameters; and during the circulating, responsive to one or more parameters of the set of measured parameters, changing the calcium carbonate with another calcium carbonate of a different particle size to obtain a second aqueous drilling fluid composition, wherein the first and second predetermined particle sizes are, independently, a dparticle size of about 1.0 μm to about 150 μm.


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