Abstract: Methods of treating a subterranean formation penetrated by a well bore, by providing a treatment fluid comprising a blend including a first amount of particulates having a first average particle size between about 3 mm and 2 cm and a second amount of particulates having a second average size between about 1.6 and 20 times smaller than the first average particle size or a second amount of flakes having a second average size up to 10 times smaller than the first average particle size; by introducing the treatment fluid into the well bore; and by creating a plug with the treatment fluid.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 12, 2014
Date of Patent:
April 26, 2016
Assignee:
SCHLUMBERGER TECHONOLOGY CORPORATION
Inventors:
Dmitriy Ivanovich Potapenko, Alexey Alexandrovich Sova, Svetlana Nesterova, Olga Petrovna Alekseenko, Bruno Lecerf, Marina Nikolaevna Bulova, John Daniels