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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 14, 1987
Filed:
Dec. 06, 1985
Applicant:
Inventors:
Donald D Bruning, Houston, TX (US);
Donald R Weir, Borger, TX (US);
Assignee:
Phillips Petroleum Company, Bartlesville, OK (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C09K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
523130 ; 524127 ; 524206 ; 524424 ;
Abstract
A water permeability contrast correction process to improve the sweep efficiency of waterflooding which involves the sequential injection of (1) an optional aqueous preflush slug to adjust connate water salinity, (2) an aqueous thickened slug comprising a sequestered polyvalent metal cation such as aluminum citrate and a gelable polymeric viscosifier such as polyacrylamide, (3) carbon dioxide to decrease the pH of the polymer slug which triggers the delayed in-situ gelation of said thickened slug to preferentially decrease water permeability in highly permeable thief zones, and (4) an aqueous drive fluid.