Methods and materials for controlled release of materials in a subterranean reservoir

Chasity Antoninette Norton; Ginger Denison Rothrock; Nicolas Daniel Huffman; Leah Johnson; Jeffrey Brent Mecham; Leah Johnson; Ginger Denison Rothrock; Chasity Antoninette Norton; Nicolas Daniel Huffman; Jeffrey Brent Mecham

Methods and materials for controlled release of materials in a subterranean reservoir

Johnson, L., Rothrock, G. D., Norton, C. A., Huffman, N. D., & Mecham, J. B. (2019). Methods and materials for controlled release of materials in a subterranean reservoir. (U.S. Patent No. 10,421,894). http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=10,421,894.PN.&OS=PN/10,421,894&RS=PN/10,421,894

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Abstract

The present disclosure relates to delivery and release systems, such as core-shell particles. An exemplary composition according to the disclosure can include a degradable polymeric shell surrounding a core that includes a crosslinker, which can encompass a metal, such as chromium. The core-shell particles can be provided with a gel-forming polymer, such as a polyacrylamide, into a subterranean reservoir having conditions such that the shell of the core-shell polymer degrades, and the so-released metal is effective to at least partially crosslink the gel-forming polymer to form a gel. The so-formed gel can be effective to control water flow through the subterranean reservoir, such as in relation to a waterflood of the reservoir.