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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 14, 2023
Filed:
May. 03, 2017
Applicant:
M-i L.l.c., Houston, TX (US);
Inventors:
Brandi Katherine Price Hoelscher, Houston, TX (US);
Cara Bovet, Houston, TX (US);
Albert Okhrimenko, Houston, TX (US);
Assignee:
SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION, Sugar Land, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
E21B 49/00 (2006.01); E21B 21/00 (2006.01); E21B 7/00 (2006.01); E21B 33/138 (2006.01); E21B 47/12 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
E21B 49/00 (2013.01); E21B 7/00 (2013.01); E21B 21/003 (2013.01); E21B 33/138 (2013.01); E21B 47/12 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method of performing a wellbore operation may include circulating an oil-based wellbore fluid having a conductive material therein within a wellbore, the oil-based wellbore fluid having a conductivity of at most 0.02 S/m when measured at 20 kHz; and forming a filtercake having a conductivity at least two orders of magnitude higher than the oil-based wellbore fluid on at least a portion of a wall of the wellbore.