Terves Launches Oil and Gas Industry’s First Truly-Dissolvable Elastomer for Completion Tools
Terves
Inc. (“Terves”)
is pleased to announce the launch of Oil and Gas Industry’s first
truly-dissolvable family of elastomers, ElementUM™. ElementUM
is a family of patent-pending high-performance, moldable and machinable
elastomer that is designed to fragment and dissolve to tiny particles
after exposure to downhole brine and fluids. Unlike competing
dissolvable elastomers, polymers, and rubbers that primarily degrade
(lose hardness) without losing weight, forming a slime or jelly that
could plug when mixed with sand; ElementUM
loses (dissolves) about ~80% of its weight over a period of days in
standard well conditions and disintegrates leaving ~20% of very fine
filler particles.
“When our customers started asking us for Dissolvable
Elastomer products to complement our industry-leading TervAlloy
family of dissolvable
metal products, we actively started seeking suppliers that could
provide the industry with a dissolvable rubber solution that would meet
our customer’s needs. We discovered that there was no existing product
available that worked well and was available at a reasonable price. All
the products that our customers tested merely lost their hardness
forming a cake or jelly like material without actually dissolving or
producing controlled particles that could be easily flushed from the
well” said Mr. Andrew Sherman, CEO, Terves. Furthermore, mechanical
properties were not close to conventional polyurethane or EPDM rubbers,
and low- and high-temperature versions did not exist. “Once we realized
that there is no fully acceptable solution available, we researched
patents for freedom to operate and then initiated development efforts
using our extensive materials science and chemistry competencies to
design a suitable material. We had the first-generation product ready
within 4 months, which worked as well as or better than the existing
products with a more attractive price point, but still did not fully
satisfy plug designers. We continued with development efforts, modifying
formulations and completing extensive testing and qualification,
resulting in two high strength, truly dissolvable elastomers. The Elementum
Dissolvable Elastomer products have gone through extensive internal
and customer testing and are rated for up to 10,000psi pressure and 90ºC
temperature. These products have been scaled to production, and we are
now accepting commercial orders for the ElementUM
Dissolvable Elastomer products that can be used for making custom
sealing elements for Frac Plugs, Gaskets, Seals, O-rings, and other
components” continued Mr. Sherman.
TervAlloy
is the most widely used Dissolvable
Metal in the industry, and Terves expects that ElementUM
would be the default choice for the oil and gas industry that is in need
of a Dissolvable
Elastomer product that truly dissolves. With the widest product
offering of Dissolvable
Metals for every conceivable field condition, coupled with the
recently launched ElementUM
Dissolvable Elastomers and soon to be launched high-hardness,
higher-pressure rating Dissolvable
Metal Matrix Composites – Terves will continue to be the technology,
value and market leader for interventionless tooling.
Click
here to learn more about Elementum Dissolvable Elastomers.
*TervAlloy
is protected by Issued
Patent #US9757796 B2 which covers wrought magnesium dissolvable
alloys.
About Terves
Terves
is the technology and cost leader in the development, manufacturing and
sale of Engineered
Response materials for the oil and gas industry. Terves’
Engineered
Response materials respond to their environment to “do something
specific”, such as dissolve,
change
dimensions, generate
force or heat, destroy chemicals or bacteria, and/or other specific
actions based on change in time, temperature, pressure and/or other
triggering agents.
Terves
is the leading manufacturer of dissolvable
metals and dissolvable
polymers 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 research-based
and product-focused organization that works with oil
and gas majors, operators,
EPCs
and OEMs
to commercialize existing products and develop new compelling products
for some of the most critical challenges in oil and gas exploration,
production and completion.
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