Zero-leakoff gel
AssigneeSaudi Arabian Oil Company
InventorsSaleh Haif Al-Mutairi, Ali Dahmal Al-Aamri, Khalid A. Al-Dossary, Mubarak Auodah AI-Dhufairi
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Abstract
A silicate gel composition that is useful for sealing the face of a fracture of a formation. A method of sealing a face of a fracture of a formation with the silicate gel composition and diverting an acid treatment fluid.
Claims6
A silicate gel composition useful for sealing the face of a fracture of a formation that is operable to form a sealing layer upon and adhere to the face on the formation and is operable to maintain a maximum differential pressure value of at least about 50 pounds-per-square-inch-differential (psid) across the sealing layer while upon the face of the formation.
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