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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 19, 2024
Filed:
Jun. 28, 2018
Halliburton Energy Services, Inc., Houston, TX (US);
Lee J. Hall, The Woodlands, TX (US);
Jonathan Walker, Lumberton, TX (US);
Jay Paul Deville, Spring, TX (US);
Halliburton Energy Services, Inc., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
Particulate additives that may be useful in mitigating fluid loss and/or as bridging agents or diverting agents in subterranean treatment fluids such as drilling fluids. In some embodiments, the particulate additives include a polymeric material and calcium carbonate disposed on at least a portion of the outer surface of the polymer core wherein the particulates have a particle size (d50) of from about 2 μm to about 1600 μm in diameter. In some embodiments, the methods include providing a treatment fluid that includes the base fluid and the particulate additives and introducing the treatment fluid into at least a portion of a subterranean formation.