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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 23, 2024
Filed:
Jan. 28, 2021
Applicant:
Uti Limited Partnership, Calgary, CA;
Inventors:
Elsayed Abdelfatah, Calgary, CA;
Steven Bryant, Calgary, CA;
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C09K 8/516 (2006.01); C09K 8/60 (2006.01); C09K 8/80 (2006.01); C09K 8/84 (2006.01); B82Y 40/00 (2011.01); B82Y 30/00 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C09K 8/516 (2013.01); C09K 8/602 (2013.01); C09K 8/845 (2013.01); B82Y 30/00 (2013.01); B82Y 40/00 (2013.01);
Abstract
Methods are disclosed for emplacing a gel-form material in a porous subterranean formation, such as a hydrocarbon reservoir. The material is formed by admixing solid nanoparticles with gelation supporting amounts of surfactants or ionic species, such as ionic species of the kind that form ionic liquids. The nanoparticle to ion ratio may be selected, in combination with selecting the components of the gel-form material, so that the rheological and gelation properties of the gel-form material are adapted for a particular use, for example forming a fluid flow barrier in a reservoir.