Method of inhibiting water penetration into oil- and gas-producing formations

US10995255B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Momentive Performance Materials GmbH · US

Inventors

• Mukesh Kumar · Tampa, US
• Kalman Koczo · Suffern, US
• Mark D. Leatherman · Elmsford, US
• Kostas Spyropoulos · Mies, CH

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 22, 2019
• Grant date: May 4, 2021
• Expiry date: Mar 3, 2039

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C08L83/04
• WIPO field: Basic materials chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

Water penetration into a siliceous subterranean hydrocarbon fluid-bearing formation is inhibited by introducing into the formation organosiloxane possessing at least one alkoxy group directly bonded to a silicon atom.