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Date of Patent:
Nov. 26, 2024

Filed:

Jan. 10, 2022
Applicant:

Saudi Arabian Oil Company, Dhahran, SA;

Inventors:

Abdulaziz S. Al-Qasim, Dammam, SA;

Ali A. Al-Yousef, Dhahran, SA;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
E21B 43/16 (2006.01); B01D 53/14 (2006.01); B01D 53/62 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
E21B 43/164 (2013.01); B01D 53/1475 (2013.01); B01D 53/62 (2013.01); B01D 2251/404 (2013.01); B01D 2257/504 (2013.01);
Abstract

Methods of enhancing productivity of a subterranean wellbore may include introducing a carbonated mixture comprising water and carbonate anions to a target zone of the subterranean wellbore; introducing basaltic particles to the target zone of the subterranean wellbore; contacting the basaltic particles with the carbonated mixture; dissolving at least a part of the basaltic particles with the carbonated mixture to release divalent cations including calcium cations, magnesium cations and ferrous cations; reacting, in the target zone of the subterranean wellbore, the divalent cations with the carbonate anions in the carbonated mixture to produce carbonate minerals; providing stimulus to the basaltic particles and the carbonated mixture to promote the dissolving and the reacting; depositing at least a part of the carbonate minerals to fractures of the target zone; and monitoring the reacting of the divalent cations with the carbonated anions and depositing.


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