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Patent No.:

US 12312906 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
May. 27, 2025

Filed:

Aug. 28, 2023

Methods, apparatus and systems for creating bismuth alloy plugs for abandoned wells

Applicant:

Schlumberger Technology Corporation, Sugar Land, TX (US);

Inventors:

Terizhandur S. Ramakrishnan, Boxborough, MA (US);

Quincy K. Elias, Hyde Park, MA (US);

Hua Zhang, Cambridge, MA (US);

Youssef Magdy Abdou Mohamed Elkady, Stanford, CA (US);

Yixuan Feng, Duluth, GA (US);

Assignee:

SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION, Sugar Land, TX (US);

Attorneys:

Michael L. Flynn

Jeffrey D. Frantz

Primary Examiner:

Catherine Loikith

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
E21B 33/13 (2006.01); C09K 8/42 (2006.01); C09K 8/46 (2006.01); C22C 12/00 (2006.01); E21B 29/12 (2006.01); E21B 33/12 (2006.01); E21B 33/134 (2006.01); E21B 33/138 (2006.01); E21B 33/14 (2006.01); G01N 33/2028 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
E21B 33/13 (2013.01); C09K 8/426 (2013.01); C09K 8/46 (2013.01); C22C 12/00 (2013.01); E21B 29/12 (2013.01); E21B 33/12 (2013.01); E21B 33/1208 (2013.01); E21B 33/134 (2013.01); E21B 33/138 (2013.01); E21B 33/143 (2013.01); G01N 33/2028 (2019.01);
Abstract

A wellbore is plugged using a bismuth alloy. In one embodiment, the bismuth alloy comprises an alloy of bismuth and tin. In another embodiment, the bismuth alloy comprises an alloy of bismuth and silver. The wellbore can be arranged so that a liquid bismuth alloy sets with an excess pressure of the plug relative to the borehole fluid pressure along a desired seal height distance. Other aspects are described and claimed.

Find Patent Forward Citations

Ramakrishnan, Terizhandur. (2025). Methods, apparatus and systems for creating bismuth alloy plugs for abandoned wells (U.S. Patent No. 12312906). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/12312906

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