Patents Examined by Silvania Runyan
  • Patent number: 9580642
    Abstract: A method for building a plug in a horizontal wellbore using a fluid pill containing a suspended well treatment composite. The well treatment composite contains a core comprising at least one deformable particulate and at least one dissolvable diverter. At least a portion of the surface of the core is coated with at least one viscosifying polymer and at least one crosslinking agent. The fluid pill is pumped into the wellbore at the end of a fracturing treatment and the fluid pill may be displaced by a displacement fluid. The fluid pill may be diverted to an area of lower permeability by disassociating the dissolvable diverter from the core. The disassociated diverter blocks an area of higher permeability. The sized particle distribution of the diverter is sufficient to at least partially block the penetration of fluid into the high permeability zone. In the lower permeability zone, a thickened gel is formed by the in-situ reaction of the viscosifying polymer and crosslinking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: Baker Hughes Incorporated
    Inventors: Harold Dean Brannon, Harold Gene Hudson, Scott Gregory Nelson, D. V. Satyanarayana Gupta