Gel method for decreasing permeability around a wellbore
CA 2048771 A1 · Owner: Whittington, Lawrence Edward · Inventors: Whittington, Lawrence Edward; Naae, Douglas Gene
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
Open the CIPO recordAbstract From the Canadian patent
A WELLBORE, (D# 79,323-F), ABSTRACT OF THE INVENTION The invention is a method for decreasing formation permeability in an underground formation around a wellbore by injecting an aqueous fresh water solution comprising about 0.9% to about 3.0% by weight of hydroxy propyl cellulose having an average molecular weight greater than about 1,000,000 and about 0.4% to about 3.0% by weight of an alkali metal dodecyl sulfate in the ratio of about 3:1 to about 1:1.5 of cellulose to sulfate said formation must contain a connate brine having a salinity greater than about 20,000 ppm TDS, or an injected brine having a salinity greater than about 20,000 ppm TDS to mix and react with the aqueous solution …
Read the whole patent
Listed from its CIPO record in Patent Yard's archive of Canadian patents past their term. Its claims, description and drawings are in the CIPO record and on Google Patents, and the Claude kit works from them.
Why it's free to use
- Filed August 8, 1991. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended August 8, 2011.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by August 8, 2013.
- We check Canadian rights only. A patent in its family in another country could still be in force: check its family on Google Patents.
Timeline
Timeline From CIPO dates
Sources & verification
Official CIPO records
Everything on this page comes from the CIPO record linked above. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada.