- Patent Title: Oil-swellable, surface-treated elastomeric polymer and methods of using the same for controlling losses of non-aqueous wellbore treatment fluids to the subterranean formation
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Application No.: US15968251Application Date: 2018-05-01
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Publication No.: US10584548B2Publication Date: 2020-03-10
- Inventor: B. Raghava Reddy
- Applicant: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
- Applicant Address: SA Dhahran
- Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
- Current Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
- Current Assignee Address: SA Dhahran
- Agency: Bracewell LLP
- Agent Constance G. Rhebergen; Brian H. Tompkins
- Main IPC: C09K8/12
- IPC: C09K8/12 ; C09K8/512 ; C09K8/508 ; E21B21/00

Abstract:
An oil-swellable lost circulation material (LCM) formed from an elastomeric polymer and a crosslinker amine is provided. The LCM may be formed from elastomeric polymer particles, a crosslinker amine, an anti-agglomerating agent, and may also be formed using a cure accelerator. A mixture of the elastomeric polymer particles, the crosslinker amine, the anti-agglomerating agent, and in some mixtures the cure accelerator, may be hot rolled at a temperature of at least 120° F. for a duration. The resulting LCM may swell by absorbing about 20 to about 34 times its weight when introduced to a loss circulation zone in the presence of a non-aqueous fluid such as a drilling mud or component of a drilling mud.
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