Reducing the permeability of a rock formation

Details Reducing the permeability of a rock formation Reducing the permeability of a rock formation

1987-12-14

1989-04-04

Suchfield, George A.

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Cementing, plugging or consolidating

166294, 523130, E21B 33138

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048177210

ABSTRACT:
Permeability of a highly permeable zone in a subterranean formation is reduced by injecting into the formation a polymerizable material which expands on polymerization, and thereafter effecting such polymerization.

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