Kill fluid for oil field operations
CA 2016418 C · Owner: Marathon Oil Company · Inventors: Sydansk, Robert D.
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
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A flowing crosslinked polymer gel is employed as a kill fluid or as an additive to a kill fluid in a process for preventing the intrusion of formation fluid into a wellbore while minimizing wellbore fluid leakoff in the formation during conventional oil field operations in the wellbore. The gel comprises an a carboxylate-containing polymer and a chromic carboxylate crosslinking agent.
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- Filed May 9, 1990 and granted February 22, 1994. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended May 9, 2010.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by May 9, 2012.
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