Salt-tolerant, thermally-stable rheology modifier for oilfield drilling applications

Proceedings - SPE International Symposium on Oilfield Chemistry

Volumn 2, Issue , 2011, Pages 792-802

  Wang, Jianzhao ^a   Zheng, Jun ^a   Musa, Osama M ^a   Farrar, David ^a   Cockcroft, Bob ^a   Robinson, Alison ^a   Gibbison, Robert ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL SPECIALTY PRODUCTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELASTICITY; INFILL DRILLING; OIL FIELDS; OILFIELD CHEMISTRY; POLYMERS; SHEAR THINNING; STABILITY; SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS); THERMAL AGING; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY;

BASIC CHARACTERISTICS; RHEOLOGICAL PROFILES; RHEOLOGICAL PROPERTY; RHEOLOGY MODIFIERS; STABILITY PROPERTIES; SYNTHETIC POLYMERS; THICKENING EFFICIENCY; WATER BASED DRILLING FLUIDS;

DRILLING FLUIDS;

EID: 79960216979     PISSN: 10461779     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/141429-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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