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Date of Patent:
Feb. 28, 2012

Filed:

Oct. 06, 2005
Applicants:

Ralph Edmund Harris, Guildford, GB;

Ian Donald Mckay, Guildford, GB;

Inventors:

Ralph Edmund Harris, Guildford, GB;

Ian Donald McKay, Guildford, GB;

Assignee:

Cleansorb Limited, Guilford, Surrey, GB;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C09K 8/74 (2006.01); C09K 8/16 (2006.01); E21B 33/13 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

An underground formation is consolidated by (a) incorporating into a treatment fluid (i) at least one chemical substance which is capable of undergoing a chemical change that alters the physico-chemical environment of the treatment fluid and which is a bicarbonate or a compound that generates a phosphate, phosphoric acid, sulphate, sulphuric acid, hydrogen sulphide, S, carbon dioxide, bicarbonate, base or acid; and, optionally, (ii) at least one additional chemical substance selected from salts and complexes of metals having a valency of 2 or higher; introducing the treatment fluid into the formation; and allowing the chemical substance (i), alone or in combination with the optional chemical substance (ii), to undergo a chemical change that alters the physico-chemical environment of the treatment fluid such that a consolidating mineral is deposited in the underground formation.


Find Patent Forward Citations

Harris, Ralph. (2012). Process for treating an underground formation (U.S. Patent No. 8124571). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/8124571

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