Amide branched aromatic gelling agent breakers
AssigneeSynoil Fluids Holdings Inc.
InventorsShaun T. Mesher, Chris Collett
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Abstract
Breakers for gelling agents are disclosed, for example pyromellitamide gelling agents. The breakers include sulfonic acids in one example.
Claims26
A method of breaking a gel, the gel comprising base fluid and gelling agent, each gelling agent having a pair of amide groups distributed about an aromatic core, each of the amide groups having one or more organic groups, the method comprising modifying the molecular structure of the gelling agent by using a breaker to cleave or make a covalent bond in the gelling agent.
A method of breaking a gel, the method comprising converting pairs of amide groups into imide groups.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.