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US 6,184,184 B2Granted
Encapsulated breaker for oil gel system
AssigneeFracmaster, LLC
InventorsJunad Amin, Satyanarayana Gupta
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Abstract
An encapsulated breaker for a fracturing fluid for use in fracturing subterranean formations comprising: a hydrocarbon base; neutralized alkyl phosphate esters completed with metallic cations, to form a gel, in said hydrocarbon base.
Claims5
A fracturing fluid including an encapsulated breaker for for use in fracturing subterranean formations comprising:
- (a) a hydrocarbon base;
- (b) acidified alkyl phosphate esters complexed with metallic cations, so as to form a gel;
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- (c) an oxide or peroxide breaker which is encapsulated in a porous encapsulant which is inert.
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