Method for treating well bore within a subterranean formation
AssigneeSchlumberger Technology Corporation
InventorsBruce A. MacKay, Philip F. Sullivan, Nicolas Droger, Ralph M. D'Angelo, Douglas E. Miller
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Abstract
The invention discloses a method of creating a polymerized composition in a well bore: providing a polymerizable composition made of a polymerization initiator and a monomer polymerizable by frontal polymerization; introducing the polymerizable composition into the wellbore; exposing the polymerizable composition to a trigger to activate the frontal polymerization; and creating the polymerized composition.
Claims33
A method of creating a polymerized composition in a well bore, comprising:
- a. providing a polymerizable composition made of a polymerization initiator and a monomer polymerizable by frontal polymerization;
- b. introducing the polymerizable composition into the wellbore;
- c. exposing the polymerizable composition to a trigger to activate the frontal polymerization;
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- d. creating the polymerized composition.
A method, comprising:
- a. providing a polymerizable composition made of a polymerization initiator and a monomer polymerizable by frontal polymerization;
- b. introducing the polymerizable composition into a wellbore;
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- c. exposing the polymerizable composition to a trigger to activate the frontal polymerization.
A method of consolidating an unconsolidated zone within a subterranean formation in a well bore, comprising:
- a. providing a polymerizable composition made of a polymerization initiator and a monomer polymerizable by frontal polymerization;
- b. providing a downhole tool able to generate a trigger;
- c. introducing the downhole tool into the wellbore in the vicinity of the unconsolidated zone;
- d. introducing the polymerizable composition into the wellbore;
- e. exposing the polymerizable composition to the trigger to activate the frontal polymerization;
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- f. leaving a solid polymerized composition in the unconsolidated zone.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.