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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 28, 2017
Filed:
Feb. 07, 2014
Shell Oil Company, Houston, TX (US);
Robert Loran Galey, The Woodlands, TX (US);
Lisa Shave Grant, New Orleans, LA (US);
Jeffrey Robert Scheibal, Mandeville, LA (US);
James Brett Wieseneck, Mandeville, LA (US);
Arthur Herman Hale, Houston, TX (US);
Mary Elizabeth Egan, New Orleans, LA (US);
Nor Janiah Japar, Mandeville, LA (US);
Arno Laurentius Michael Van Den Haak, Houston, TX (US);
SHELL OIL COMPANY, Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A method of increasing near-wellbore rock strength so as to mitigate or remediate lost circulation events through increased hoop stress in the near-wellbore in a subsurface formation comprises a) cooling a near-wellbore region of the formation, b) allowing a lost circulation material to enter the cooled near-wellbore region; and c) heating the near-wellbore region.