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US 2012/0067566 A1Published application
Method for the Use of Nitrates and Nitrate Reducing Bacteria In Hydraulic Fracturing
AssigneeMulti-Chem Group, LLC
InventorsDaniel K. Durham, Michael L. Harless
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Abstract
A slick water fracturing fluid including a brine, an inorganic nitrate, a nitrogen reducing bacteria, a scale inhibitor selected from the group consisting of a polyacrylate polymer, a polyacrylate copolymer, a polyacrylate terpolymer, and mixtures thereof, and a friction reducer, wherein the friction reducer is a polyacrylamide.
Claims12
A method of controlling sulfides in a low porosity, low permeability subterranean formation, comprising:
- injecting an inorganic nitrate into the low permeability subterranean formation.
A slick water fracturing fluid comprising:
- a brine;
- an inorganic nitrate;
- a nitrogen reducing bacteria;
- a scale inhibitor selected from the group consisting of a polyacrylate polymer, a polyacrylate copolymer, a polyacrylate terpolymer, and mixtures thereof;
- and
- a friction reducer, wherein the friction reducer is a polyacrylamide.
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