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US 4,288,582 AGranted
Aqueous drilling fluid additive, composition and process
AssigneeMilchem Incorporated
InventorsJames M. Lucas, Alphonse C. Perricone, Dorothy P. Enright
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Abstract
The invention relates to an aqueous drilling fluid composition, a filtration control agent for utilization in said aqueous drilling fluid, and a method of forming a filter cake on the wall of a well for the reduction of filtrate from said drilling fluid, which are effective at high temperatures and pressures, by utilization of a terpolymer of: (1) a monovalent alkali metal salt of acrylic acid; (2) an hydroxy alkyl acrylate; and (3) acrylamide.
Claims9
A solid, dry, particulate terpolymer consisting essentially of from about 5 to about 62 mole percent of alkali metal acrylate units;
- from about 2 to about 40 mole percent of hydroxyalkyl acrylate units selected from 2-hydroxyethyl acrylate, 2-hydroxypropyl acrylate and 2-hydroxybutyl acrylate units;
- and from about 31 to about 91 mole percent of acrylamide units;
- said terpolymer being suitable for use as a filtration control agent for aqueous based drilling fluids which will not adversely affect the rheological properties of an aqueous drilling fluid in which it is incorporated, which is comparatively insensitive to salt environments and concentrations, and which retains its effect as a filtration control agent even after exposure to increased temperatures as high as about 300.degree. F.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.