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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.

Date of Patent:
Jun. 09, 1998

Filed:

Nov. 04, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:

Mary Anne Hardy, Leiderdorp, NL;

Charles V Hunt, Duncan, OK (US);

Steve C Harthun, Duncan, OK (US);

Assignee:
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
E21B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
166295 ; 1663051 ; 507216 ;
Abstract

High viscosity well treating fluids having low friction pressure loss when pumped through tubular goods and methods of treating wells using such treating fluids are provided. The treating fluids basically comprise an aqueous fluid, a graft copolymer of hydroxyalkylcellulose and vinyl phosphonic acid, a salt containing a divalent cation and a basic compound for crosslinking the graft copolymer and causing the resulting crosslinked aqueous gel to undergo syneresis.


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