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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:
May. 12, 2009

Filed:

Mar. 20, 2006
Applicants:

Alejandro Pena, Houston, TX (US);

Golchehreh Salamat, Sugar Land, TX (US);

Lijun Lin, Stafford, TX (US);

Inventors:

Alejandro Pena, Houston, TX (US);

Golchehreh Salamat, Sugar Land, TX (US);

Lijun Lin, Stafford, TX (US);

Assignee:
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C09K 8/035 (2006.01); C09K 8/20 (2006.01); C09K 8/68 (2006.01); E21B 43/25 (2006.01); E21B 37/06 (2006.01); E21B 33/10 (2006.01); E21B 43/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

The present invention relates to novel aqueous wellbore treatment fluids containing a gas component, a heteropolysaccharide, an electrolyte, and a surfactant, wherein the fluids may further include an organoamino compound. The fluids exhibit good rheological properties at elevated temperatures. Methods of using fluids containing at least an aqueous medium, a gas component, a heteropolysaccharide and a surfactant for hydraulically fracturing, well cleanup and gravel packing operations, are also disclosed.


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