Terves Introduces SmartCore™ Structural Chemical Delivery Product for Oil and Gas Completion and Production
Terves
Inc. (“Terves”)
is pleased to announce the launch of the Oil and Gas Industry’s first
intelligent frac ball and chemical pill product line, SmartCore™.
Terves’
patent-pending SmartCore
products utilize a dissolvable carrier, such as a frac
ball, frac
plug and/or other fracking tools, to deliver well control chemicals,
including dissolution accelerators, gel breakers, and wellbore cleanup
chemicals at a precise location and controlled release timing.
SmartCore
patent-pending technology enables independent control over wellbore
local chemistry. Using chemical additions, frac ball and dissolvable
frac plug removal times and byproduct solubility can be controlled,
while greatly reducing dissolution time variability and sensitivity to
chloride content or well temperature. Instead of 72-128 hours, 3.5”
diameter SmartCore
frac balls are completely dissolved with only a clear liquid as a
byproduct in 24-36 hours while meeting the same pressure ratings and
performance standards as Terves’ standard
solid dissolvable frac balls. When used with dissolvable frac plugs, SmartCore
frac balls can significantly reduce the volume of solid byproducts
(such as hydroxides).
“SmartCore
products were developed to address operator concerns over sand bridging
and hydroxide restrictions that can form under some wellbore conditions,
where inadequate clearance or fluid circulation occurs while using
dissolvable tools, and to accelerate and control removal times to bring
wells on-line faster. SmartCore
chemical delivery pills can also precisely deliver chemicals down the
wellbore for filter cake removal, acid treatments, gel breaking, and
other completion needs while maintaining completely benign fluid
conditions outside the target zone,” said Andrew Sherman, CEO of Terves.
SmartCore
Advantages:
-
Reduces or eliminates dissolution sensitivity to water source (brine,
freshwater, brackish water, temperature)
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Accelerates removal and ensures complete dissolution
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Can greatly reduce or eliminate formation of solid byproducts, such as
magnesium hydroxide
-
Can precisely deliver gel breakers and filter cake cleanup chemicals
to wellbore locations, and/or activate triggered dissolvable devices,
without exposing the wellbore outside the target zone to harsh
chemicals. The operator can specify timing or other (temperature,
chemical) trigger to control release.
“The SmartCore
product can deliver chemicals cost-effectively to any point along the
wellbore, and then release them in a highly controlled fashion. SmartCore
frac balls and chemical darts filled with salts, acid, wellbore cleanup,
or gel breaker chemicals are available today in a variety of sizes to
accelerate dissolution and ensure full dissolution of dissolvable
frac plugs and other tools,” continued Mr. Sherman.
About Terves
Terves
is the technology and cost leader in the development, manufacturing and
sale of Engineered
Response™ smart materials for the oil and gas industry. Terves’
intelligent
materials sense and respond to their local wellbore environment to
“do more,” such as dissolve,
change
dimensions, generate
force or heat, destroy chemicals or bacteria, bond
together, or solubilize and disperse based on change in time,
temperature, pressure, PH, electrostatic charge, or other change in the
local environment..
Terves
is the leading manufacturer of dissolvable
metals and dissolvable
elastomers that are used for making frac
balls, plugs,
slips,
seals
and several other components used in oil and gas well completion and
production; and have been used for completing tens of thousands of
stages in North America, Europe, South America, Asia and MENA regions. Terves’
product portfolio also includes highly-engineered
specialty proppants, expandable
materials, acoustic
imaging tools, thermites and structural reactive materials, net-shaped
ceramic-metallic (cermet) nanocomposites, and high
energy density supercapacitors. Terves
is a strong materials science research-based
and product-focused organization that works with oil
and gas majors, operators,
EPCs
and OEMs
to develop and commercialize compelling technologies, products and
capabilities for critical challenges in oil and gas exploration,
production and completion operations.
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